Tim Wise on the Presidential Candidates

[PhiGam]

Originally Posted by CrackerBarrel

Partisan blabbering is being able to write a long boring article of nothing but personal attacks but still feel smug about how you take the high ground because you must be right, you're a liberal and no one with a brain could possibly see things differently than you.


ETA: And at some point the left might realize that implying that the reason they lose elections is because the electorate is too stupid to realize what's going on doesn't exactly endear themselves to voters going into the next election, whether the charges are true or not.

Luckily they're (liberals) too stubborn to realize it and too lazy to get off their asses and vote.

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by PhiGam

Luckily they're (liberals) too stubborn to realize it and too lazy to get off their asses and vote.

Oh, I don't know. That's not what I expect to see this year. I think liberals are pretty mobilized, go back and look at the primary turn outs.

[BabyPiNK_FL]

Wow, that is a very powerful piece. I too have noticed some of the same things and sat back and wondered when someone in the media was going to speak up about the issue on a much larger scale.

I remember the first time I ever read about the "Invisible Knapsack" and other similar issues in my Women's Studies courses. It pointed out some of the terrible issues that minorities and women deal with on a daily basis. It was the first time I had ever had to focus on those issues, but ever since they were pointed out to me, I see examples each and every day.

As for those of you out there with the SAME response in every thread, can you please make your own threads too instead or try contribute more articles instead of just putting out the same stuff over and over again? You have a right to your opinion and to state it, but you're really clogging up the threads ssaying the same thing over and over without really contributing anything but repeats.

[KSigkid]

Originally Posted by BabyPiNK_FL

Wow, that is a very powerful piece. I too have noticed some of the same things and sat back and wondered when someone in the media was going to speak up about the issue on a much larger scale.

I remember the first time I ever read about the "Invisible Knapsack" and other similar issues in my Women's Studies courses. It pointed out some of the terrible issues that minorities and women deal with on a daily basis. It was the first time I had ever had to focus on those issues, but ever since they were pointed out to me, I see examples each and every day.

As for those of you out there with the SAME response in every thread, can you please make your own threads too instead or try contribute more articles instead of just putting out the same stuff over and over again? You have a right to your opinion and to state it, but you're really clogging up the threads ssaying the same thing over and over without really contributing anything but repeats.

I can understand your point that a piece like this needs to be written, but my problem is with the quality. In my mind, he did a very poor job in writing the piece. It comes off as more of an anti-Republican, anti-Conservative piece than a meaningful piece on white privilege and its effect on the election.

[nittanyalum]

Originally Posted by BabyPiNK_FL

As for those of you out there with the SAME response in every thread, can you please make your own threads too instead or try contribute more articles instead of just putting out the same stuff over and over again? You have a right to your opinion and to state it, but you're really clogging up the threads ssaying the same thing over and over without really contributing anything but repeats.

God no kidding, co-co-co-sign.

To the first responders (all white conservatives, be noted), did you see who the article is written by? Do you know who Tim Wise is? Why did you even click in if you weren't prepared to read exactly what you did?

I personally thought it was a well-written piece (again, knowing the author and his context going into it), and think it may be thought-provoking for a number of people. Obviously, not the first-responder-group, I doubt there is much that will penetrate your rigid wall o'beliefs, and I'm quite sure you're not the audience he was writing for.

Thanks for posting it, preciousjeni.

[KSigkid]

Originally Posted by nittanyalum

God no kidding, co-co-co-sign.

To the first responders (all white conservatives, be noted), did you see who the article is written by? Do you know who Tim Wise is? Why did you even click in if you weren't prepared to read exactly what you did?

I personally thought it was a well-written piece (again, knowing the author and his context going into it), and think it may be thought-provoking for a number of people. Obviously, not the first-responder-group, I doubt there is much that will penetrate your rigid wall o'beliefs, and I'm quite sure you're not the audience he was writing for.

Thanks for posting it, preciousjeni.

I know who Tim Wise is - I remember first hearing about him with his anti-apartheid groups, and the whole thing down at Tulane. And, to be fair, my "wall o'beliefs" can be broken down, so to speak, by interesting and thought-provoking discussion.

I understand that white privilege exists, and that I have been a beneficiary of it (whether directly or indirectly). I just don't think Wise expressed himself all that well, and I think the piece could have been written a lot better (especially because he has written and spoken so extensively on the topic).