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Diversity Hype Leaves Residue Of Resentment
Townhall.com ^
| May 3, 2010
| The great THOMAS SOWELL
Posted on 05/03/2010 5:02:45 PM PDT by Kaslin
Recent stories out of both Philadelphia and San Francisco tell of black students beating up Asian-American students. This is especially painful for those who expected that the election of Barack Obama would mark the beginning of a post-racial America.
While Obama's winning the majority of the votes in overwhelmingly white states suggests that many Americans are ready to move beyond race, it is painfully clear that others are not.
Those who explain racial antagonisms on some rationalistic basis will have a hard time demonstrating how Asian-Americans have made blacks worse off. Certainly none of the historic wrongs done to blacks was done by the small Asian-American population that, for most of its history in this country, has not had enough clout to prevent itself from being discriminated against.
While ugly racial or ethnic conflicts can seldom be explained by rational economic or other self-interest, they have been too common to be just inexplicable oddities whether in America or in other countries around the world, and whether today or in centuries past.
Resentments and hostility toward people with higher achievements are one of the most widespread of human failings. Resentments of achievements are more deadly than envy of wealth.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: sowell; thomassowell
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posted on
05/03/2010 5:02:45 PM PDT
by
Kaslin
To: Kaslin
Resentments and hostility toward people with higher achievements are one of the most widespread of human failings. Resentments of achievements are more deadly than envy of wealth.Interesting too that Obama had achieved basically nothin prior to running to president. Yes he finished his book and a damn good thing or else he would have had absolutely NOTHING to prop his empty ass up.
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posted on
05/03/2010 5:05:24 PM PDT
by
GOP Poet
(Obama is an OLYMPIC failure.)
To: All
I just got back from the WalMart in Hemet, It looked like South Central with all the gang bangers & wannabe’s.
To: jazusamo
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posted on
05/03/2010 5:08:54 PM PDT
by
Kaslin
(Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
To: Kaslin
Race pimps like Obama have no desire to create a post-racial world - they want their people to stay angry & everyone else to cower, while they themselves prosper.
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posted on
05/03/2010 5:10:04 PM PDT
by
skeeter
To: skeeter
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posted on
05/03/2010 5:13:21 PM PDT
by
Kaslin
(Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
To: GOP Poet
Don't forget the Nobel Prize he got for something he might do in the future
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posted on
05/03/2010 5:16:33 PM PDT
by
Kaslin
(Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
To: Kaslin; abigail2; Amalie; American Quilter; arthurus; awelliott; Bahbah; bamahead; Battle Axe; ...
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posted on
05/03/2010 5:24:06 PM PDT
by
jazusamo
(But there really is no free lunch, except in the world of political rhetoric,.: Thomas Sowell)
To: GOP Poet
Oh yeah! great reminder! I forgot! Now that event right there pretty much sums it all up full circle with what I quoted in the article. They resent real achievement and reward achievement that has never happened and never will.
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posted on
05/03/2010 5:27:16 PM PDT
by
GOP Poet
(Obama is an OLYMPIC failure.)
To: GOP Poet
“Resentments and hostility toward people with higher achievements are one of the most widespread of human failings. Resentments of achievements are more deadly than envy of wealth.”
Cain and Abel come to mind.
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posted on
05/03/2010 5:55:00 PM PDT
by
Travis McGee
(---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
To: GOP Poet
Resentments and hostility toward people with higher achievements are one of the most widespread of human failings. Resentments of achievements are more deadly than envy of wealth. Achievements are a reflection on others who may have had similar, and sometimes better, chances but who did not make the most of their chances. Achievements are like a slap across the face to those who are not achieving, and many people react with the same kind of anger that such an insult would provoke.
To: jazusamo
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posted on
05/03/2010 6:13:02 PM PDT
by
Kaslin
(Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
To: Kaslin; b9
People who call differences "inequities" and achievements "privilege" leave social havoc in their wake, while feeling noble about siding with the less fortunate. It would never occur to them that they have any responsibility for the harm done to both blacks and Asian-Americans. I know I'm thinking right when Sowell comes out with something like this. The Judeo-Christian ethic recognizes envy, avarice, and pride ("feeling noble") as among a potent handful of moral failings. The West and America's abandonment of that ethic has led to dire consequences. In America today, those destructive traits are nearly celebrated as "human" when they should be rejected as stupid and bad. The wisdom of the Bible knows no bounds. I pray for a return to what one of the Founders called "the Christian system."
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posted on
05/03/2010 6:14:14 PM PDT
by
Finny
("Raise hell. Vote smart." -- Ted Nugent.)
To: Kaslin
>"Resentments and hostility toward people with higher achievements are one of the most widespread of human failings. Resentments of achievements are more deadly than envy of wealth."This goes waaaaay back to Cain and Abel.
Envy is a deadly sin.
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posted on
05/03/2010 6:28:19 PM PDT
by
rawcatslyentist
(And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, John 1:14)
To: jazusamo
Thanks for the ping jaz. Another one right out of the ballpark. He’s so right on.
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posted on
05/03/2010 7:35:46 PM PDT
by
rockinqsranch
(Dems, Libs, Socialists...Call 'em What you Will, They ALL have Fairies Living In Their Trees.)
To: Kaslin
Resentments of achievements are more deadly than envy of wealth. You better know it.
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posted on
05/03/2010 8:19:20 PM PDT
by
rdb3
(The mouth is the exhaust pipe of the heart.)
To: Kaslin
We are now watching the grand daddy of all beat ups. Obama is trying to beat up the entire American culture.
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posted on
05/03/2010 9:48:59 PM PDT
by
oldbrowser
(The audacity of incompetence)
To: Travis McGee
Yep, there is a reason why the final commandment is about coveting. We see what happens when it is given full rein.
To: Finny
Thanks for the great Thomas “Soul” ping.
NV ... such a pathetic waste.
Those who achieve are nothing special.
It’s just “natural talent” doncha know. s/
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posted on
05/04/2010 12:38:42 AM PDT
by
b9
(P rinciples A uthenticity L eadership I ntegrity N ational pride)
To: Kaslin
Those who explain racial antagonisms on some rationalistic basis will have a hard time demonstrating how Asian-Americans have made blacks worse off. Lazy ALWAYS hates being compared to Hard-Working.
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posted on
05/04/2010 4:22:59 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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