Posted on 07/08/2009 8:09:25 AM PDT by Major Matt Mason
Speaking at this week’s Personal Democracy Forum in New York, boyd said that even among people with access to the Net, long-held social divisions of race, class, and income are starting to play out online, particularly among teens now starting to choose which social network they prefer, MySpace or Facebook. “Social media don’t eradicate social divisions,” says boyd, an expert in NextGen behaviors for Microsoft and a senior fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society. “[Social media are] making the old social divisions obvious in totally new ways.”
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Liberals like to enforce their viewpoints at the force of a gun. They refuse to let people act as they please.
folks group with like minded folks
often that means similar race, origin etc....but not always
people need to get over this...the goal was never to hodgepodge the culture and DNA base
it was to hope folks could respect one another and be civil and give Constitutional rights to those who had been denied...regardless of race...the black race ...there was not much other minority race here to speak of then in question aside from a handful of latinos and orientals under the radar
after that great notion took off in the early 60s, it all got out of hand and has resulted in a culture that in my view is worse than it replaced....one that has certainly made us weaker and contrived beyond our nature
From my first days it college (over 20 years ago), it was evident that present day segregation is mainly a factor of choice by blacks; both to group together and to exclude whites.
I never witnessed blacks being ostricized by whites, but I did witness the opposite.
Funny enough, there appeared to be no divisions between whites and Asians at all (except of exchange students). And the very few black exchange students tended to hang with their white dorm buddies.
A-fricking-men...people are different. It’s OK to recognize the cultural and social differences as long as you do so with the respect that they’re due.
Interesting reading - I sent it on to my daughters - both professional young women with both accounts for their input - my personal take is pretty much as outlined in the article minus the racial overtones. MySpace is pretty immature and Facebook is a little more mature.
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. It comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday. - John Wayne
Equality is nothing but an utopic illusion. Equality does not exist, and never will. Trying to “enforce” equality is what Communism tried to do, and we saw the results of that goal.
People are not equal. Even if you took everything away from them and forced them to be economically equal, you still don't have equality. It is dangerous for people to try and impose equality on a society. It is these “do gooders,” that will be the death of America.
Have a few conversations with African exchange students or recent immigrants. You may find that very often their views on contemporary “African-American” political & cultural leaders would be labeled “racist” if espoused by a white person.
The real issue in the US is not genetic race, but between very different sub-cultures. If you embrace the culture labeled “African-American”, you will be considered enlightened and liberal (in the classic sense of the word). However, if you object to actions and attitudes of certain individuals who happen to have darker skin and (possibly) negro features then you will be labeled “racist”.
One indication that this is a clash of cultures rather than races is in the often reported incidents of hard working black students being accused of “acting white”.
“Do gooders” are really “evil doers”. They hide behind a false front. Evil must enter wearing a disguise.
Sociologists are the ultimate Snoopscorns as they taxed themselves with the task of studying all the variety of food in the buffet line and then began to scoop the length of the line and stuff their mouths by the handfuls to chew it up and digest it.
As no one would touch what comes out the other end of this process so we should not take too much from their other notions of egality through aggregation.
Generally they are harmless yet they often get the ear of a sympathetic powermaster and the game is on.
You need to re-phrase that a bit, equality is a enigmatic and needs some definition for this arguement. "Equality of outcome" is a utopic illusion. "Equality in opportunity", as in the outcome rest solely upon your abilities, is a noble cause.
“People are not equal.”
I’m not sure the lefites are even after equality. They seem to resent that anyone DARES distinguish themselves from others. We aren’t all the same & never will be. And we will mostly tend to stay with groups that are more like ourselves. They just can’t deal with those facts!
So my Youngest responded:
What they barely touched on is that a lot of people are leaving Myspace for Facebook because of the privacy/safety issue. On Myspace, you can just browse through profiles of people in your area and so your mailbox is filled with e-mails from creepy guys you have never met saying “nice smile, I can show you a good time” and such. On Facebook, you can’t randomly view people’s profiles, you have to specifically search for a person’s name and become friends with the person first. Facebook was originally created specifically for students, and you had to provide a valid school e-mail address before they would let you join. You hear on the news all the time about little highschool girls flying to Iran or wherever to meet some guy that e-mailed them on Myspace, it’s a virtual feeding ground for sexual predators. You never hear of that happening with Facebook.
Yep. Well said.
Although the left pretends to want equality, they view themselves as morally and intellectually superior to everyone not of their ilk. It is easy to say you want equality when you are attending an Ivy League school. They claim to want equal rights, equal education, equal pay, equal housing, etc. It is similar to the egalitarianism of the French Revolution. They believe that it is not just for some to have more than others. Everyone must be economically or materially equal. It would be immoral for someone to have more than another. It is immoral to be rich.
The Founding fathers of this republic never bought into egalitarianism. Ever since Abraham Lincoln, egalitarianism had become the new ethical standard.
your mailbox is filled with e-mails from creepy guys you have never met saying “nice smile, I can show you a good time” and such.
LOL, I get emails from young hotties offering to show me their photo albums. If I ever responded with more than a spam report to the Mods, I would tell them to take their prostitution business over to Craig's List.
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