Today in Fascism

Hüsker Dü said:
At the the Arizona rally

WHAT MR. TRUMP SAID
“The left is now rationing lifesaving therapeutics based on race, discriminating against and denigrating, just denigrating, white people to determine who lives and who dies. If you’re white, you don’t get the vaccine, or if you’re white, you don’t get therapeutics.”

trump, the great white hope
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The left gave him the issue, complete with gift wrap and a bow.

Unless it is sickle cell anemia, considering race while rationing medicine is going to look bad.

If your goal is to help Trump motivate his base, this is a great way to do it.
 
dad4 said:
The left gave him the issue, complete with gift wrap and a bow.

Unless it is sickle cell anemia, considering race while rationing medicine is going to look bad.

If your goal is to help Trump motivate his base, this is a great way to do it.
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His base believes everything he says, so it's not too difficult a task.

On the other hand --

www.opb.org

FACT CHECK: Trump seeds race animus with COVID falsehood

Donald Trump is making unsupported claims that white people are being denied COVID-19 vaccines and treatments because of their race.
www.opb.org
 
espola said:
His base believes everything he says, so it's not too difficult a task.

On the other hand --

www.opb.org

FACT CHECK: Trump seeds race animus with COVID falsehood

Donald Trump is making unsupported claims that white people are being denied COVID-19 vaccines and treatments because of their race.
www.opb.org
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Is there any evidence that covid affects people differently based on skin color, independently of income, SES, and access to health care?

If the real link is to the race-neutral criteria, then use those instead. Using race is lazy and divisive.
 
dad4 said:
Is there any evidence that covid affects people differently based on skin color, independently of income, SES, and access to health care?

If the real link is to the race-neutral criteria, then use those instead. Using race is lazy and divisive.
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Didn't read the article?

"nonwhite race or Hispanic ethnicity “should be considered a risk factor” because long-standing health and social inequities make people of color more likely to get severely ill or die from the virus."
 
espola said:
Didn't read the article?

"nonwhite race or Hispanic ethnicity “should be considered a risk factor” because long-standing health and social inequities make people of color more likely to get severely ill or die from the virus."
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Good morning, how is my little liar this morning?
 
espola said:
Didn't read the article?

"nonwhite race or Hispanic ethnicity “should be considered a risk factor” because long-standing health and social inequities make people of color more likely to get severely ill or die from the virus."
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I read it.

They are using race as a proxy for social inequities. This is lazy thinking. If we care about low income health care, there are better ways to show it. For example, increase federal funding for primary care clinics in low income census tracts. Pay for it by capping the state income tax deduction.

Adding a racial checkbox creates more racial divisions at a time when we need fewer.
 
dad4 said:
I read it.

They are using race as a proxy for social inequities. This is lazy thinking. If we care about low income health care, there are better ways to show it. For example, increase federal funding for primary care clinics in low income census tracts. Pay for it by capping the state income tax deduction.

Adding a racial checkbox creates more racial divisions at a time when we need fewer.
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Saying that it is anti-white racism is lazy thinking.
 
espola said:
Saying that it is anti-white racism is lazy thinking.
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When did I say that?

My point is not that the policy is anti-white racism. My point is that the policy creates anti-black racism.

There are race-neutral policies which would achieve the same goals.
 
dad4 said:
When did I say that?

My point is not that the policy is anti-white racism. My point is that the policy creates anti-black racism.

There are race-neutral policies which would achieve the same goals.
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So we need to dumb everything down even the perception of health policy? Because the constantly aggrieved, victimized and downtrodden white folk aren’t able read up on anything, they just know what they are told?
 
Hüsker Dü said:
So we need to dumb everything down even the perception of health policy? Because the constantly aggrieved, victimized and downtrodden white folk aren’t able read up on anything, they just know what they are told?
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The more you mock poor whites, the more Trump voters you create.

Keep at it. Who needs the Senate anyway, right?
 
One year into the Biden Presidency & the left is still clinging to the past.
Amusing. Pathetically amusing.
 
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dad4 said:
The more you mock poor whites, the more Trump voters you create.

Keep at it. Who needs the Senate anyway, right?
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In here? Lol! I have long enjoyed the gravitas some feel this space and our petty discussions hold. We are talking to each other, no one else is listening . . . except maybe Dom.
 
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