Ok. Are these videos making things up? Because usually it's just showing the exact source with context and reacting. The Sally Boynton Brown's speech is available in it's entirety, the more you see of it the worse it gets. It's not taken out of context. I went to a university you know, I saw this stuff forming. I actually got one of my professors to break down into a screaming fit because I refused to accept his moral relativism around female genital mutilation and loving communism. If I was 10 years younger I'd have cell phone video of it.
The point I'm trying to make here isn't that these videos are fake. It's that you are only remembering the stories that confirm your own biases. I am a liberal but I do not violently protest, I don't punch national socialists, I don't think communism is a realistic economic system, I don't believe in banning guns, I don't make ironically tribal jokes against white people, and I don't
really talk or care that much about identity politics.
Now ask yourself: In your mind, do I actually balance out an 'extreme liberal' by having moderate views on these issues? Or is the score still the same?
No doubt, but you've lost control of university administration, the mainstream news media, Hollywood, and the democratic party.
As far as I know, the story about segregated housing applied only to Cal State, which then proceeded to backtrack entirely after the enormous backlash. This is more confirmation bias; the problem here extends to an extremely small minority of schools.
Sounds like a lot less than half the country. The only reason it's even that high is because: 1. The newspeak name "affirmative action" doesn't even describe what it is. If you called it "race testing" or "segregated admissions", support would plummet. 2. There's an implicit threat that if you don't agree you're a tribal. 3. White guilt perpetuated by the media.
You aren't even making a valid complaint against the methodology. Gallup is probably one of the most reputable pollsters for public opinion in the country, and there's no way they would administer a poll asking about affirmative action without giving the respondents the necessary context to actually understand the question. They have a vested interest in not publishing bullstuff data, so I'm just guessing that there are indeed people across the political spectrum that like the idea of affirmative action. I'm not saying it's a good thing; just that you're casting it as this 'liberal problem' when the evidence shows plenty of other people buy into it too.
This right here is the problem. This isn't some far flung extremist view, it's the mainstream, it's you. Everyone on the left thinks this and it's the most tribal bullstuff I've ever heard. The homeless guy getting the stuff kicked out of him at a BLM protest is not "in power" just because his skin is white. White people do not get billions of free dollars just because they have vaguely the same skin color as Donald Annoying Orange. You can't just group people together by skin color and say they're all the same without being a tribal. It's bullstuff that you get to say this and go home feeling like the good guy. At least the trolls on /pol/ know they're being tribal.
You didn't bring up a homeless guy getting the stuff kicked out of him; you brought up a political organizer who made an uncouth remark about her job fighting against white conservative Republicans. I agree in principle that she shouldn't have phrased it that way, but jumping from 'DNC head making stuffty comment' to 'homeless person getting beaten half to death' is exaggeration and sensationalism in the first degree.
I don't believe in the SJW-mantra that racism is
only racism when it's against a group not in power, but I do believe that choosing to ignore black issues because of a handful of black rioters is an equally reasonable definition for racism.
