White people should have been filing lawsuits (and voting accordingly) way back in the 70s before this one-sided **** got out of hand
“Equal opportunity” means just that
“No person” means just that
“Affirmative action” “Diversity” and “inclusion” means quotas and discrimination against Whites, Christians, Jews, Males, heterosexuals, guys wearing pants, not dresses
And now look at all this nonsense. And that’s putting it politely
They did. Repeatedly.
The Supreme Court upheld racism against whites and Asians.
Or, they looked the other way.
There have been several Supreme Court cases.
“White people should have been filing lawsuits (and voting accordingly) way back in the 70s before this one-sided **** got out of hand”
I agree with your statement. However even agreeing with what you write, in its present form, invites emotional accusations of “white racism”. Not that you are not right. You are. And in the name of true equality under the law I would venture a bet that even Martin Luther King (republican) would agree with you.
-IF- we were applying the constitution to the application of law there should be no need for ‘group rights’.
The individual is the smallest minority. And the Constitution is about protecting the rights of the INDIVIDUAL.
BUT
You also touch on another lost but very important point: This whole leftist movement starting in the 1960’s that has changed our lives to the point that we have to tap dance around people’s feelings (WHICH ARE NOT CONSTITUTIONAL PROTECTED) orientated at it’s beginning with peer pressure and wanting to not be left out. Then starting in the 1990’s it graduated into virtue signaling.
It requires ignorance of the meaning of the constitution.
It requires feelings over objective ration.
At it’s core, I feel it also evil.
...way back in the 70s before...
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We were discussing this aspect this morning. If you brought this up 45 years ago, most people in the West would have looked at you blankly, having no idea of critical theory, let alone Marcuse, Gramsci, et al, unless they were philosophy majors. That was where it was hiding out and no one was the wiser.
At Thanksgiving, 20-odd years ago, the daughter of a friend was telling me how ashamed she was for being white (as the family friend who was an artist, daughter assumed my ideology). She picked up the *struggle session* habit at the Newman Center. We were sitting half a long table away from her parents and there was a lot of conversation. Parents were conservative Catholics of the let’s-all-get-along variety. Mom was a teacher, Dad an MD, daughter attended large state university.
Fast forward a few months. I was speaking with the Mom and mentioned the teaching of white guilt. Mom heatedly denied anyone was teaching this, anywhere. I could tell daughter had not mentioned this to her parents and I backed off. Mom was taking it quite personally, as a teacher.
Daughter went on to law school, became a *conflict resolution* lawyer and is, to this day, a huge SJW. Her familial relationships are strained.
So, critical theory had metastasized from the philosophy department to Catholic student spaces and no one was the wiser.
Here we are, 2020, and everyone is getting a close look and an education in radical philosophy and learning how it impacts every department of the university, then became ingrained in public education, the business world and government agencies.
No one can claim ignorance today.Now is the time to begin filing those lawsuits. You would have had a hard time even discussing it in the 70s.