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sheshe2

(83,898 posts)
Wed Jun 13, 2018, 05:55 PM Jun 2018

When morals go missing.

We all know by now that Donald trump is an immoral person. He is a man who would rather stroke the ego of a killer and a human rights abuser than the leader of a friendly nation, because said egomaniacal madman strokes his ego in return.

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You see, racism is a moral corruption built on an intellectual fallacy and exists as a construction invented for the very purpose of violence. So, when people demonstrate that they subscribe to theories of racism, they have shown their hand, and I am immediately roused by the euphoric understanding that they are compromised, diminished and assailable.

Instead of reducing me, their racism reduces them. That is the ironic, poetic justice of it.
Of course, one only has to think about it for a moment to find the enormous hole in the logic that racism morally weakens the object of the sickness rather than the possessor of the sickness.

Although it doesn’t hurt my feelings, it does enrage me when racists are granted power in society to allow their idiocy to have a negative impact on other people, whether that be culturally, psychologically and spiritually, or materially and physically.

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They were always with us folks, they just feel a little more comfortable now.


Read More: http://field-negro.blogspot.com/2018/06/when-morals-go-missing.html

This is a very good read. I had to jump around to highlight some points. So much more here.

They were always with us folks, they just feel a little more comfortable now.

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When morals go missing. (Original Post) sheshe2 Jun 2018 OP
Of course they were always with us Cary Jun 2018 #1
And so proud of it, Cary. sheshe2 Jun 2018 #2
I know. I'm so disgusted. Cary Jun 2018 #3
I moved last month. Today registered to vote in my new town. sheshe2 Jun 2018 #4
We can't convert them brer cat Jun 2018 #7
Formerly they wore white robes, and hoods, guillaumeb Jun 2018 #5
You summed them up perfectly, guill. sheshe2 Jun 2018 #6
"We have no right to sit silently by while the inevitable seeds are sown for Atticus Jun 2018 #8

Cary

(11,746 posts)
3. I know. I'm so disgusted.
Wed Jun 13, 2018, 06:02 PM
Jun 2018

But I am resolved to do my part in November. I can help take some of the f**kers out of office.

guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)
5. Formerly they wore white robes, and hoods,
Wed Jun 13, 2018, 06:22 PM
Jun 2018

and only came out at night, and now they proudly march in Charlottesville, and run for political office as Nazis in Illinois, and wear the red MAGA hat proudly.

Atticus

(15,124 posts)
8. "We have no right to sit silently by while the inevitable seeds are sown for
Wed Jun 13, 2018, 08:00 PM
Jun 2018

a harvest of disaster to our children, black and white." -------W.E.B. Du Bois, "The Souls Of Black Folk".

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