Reply #97: Really? Just in this thread alone, you've said ... [View All]

[TahitiNut]

"I also know many poor whites that are too proud to accept public assistance and resent those that do."

"I also know poor whites that don't know what or if assistance is available to them."

'But their problems just get brushed aside by unfeeling selfish people who only have their own interests and greed at heart."


Your argument seems to be one of convenience, a position that your own posts contradict. While I generally agree that we're not mind-readers, I also believe it's reasonable to induce a belief from a person's behavior backed by what they say. When the press reports what Smirk "believes" merely because he claims it and ignores his behavior that's contradictory to such proclaimed beliefs or finds no behavior to support the veracity of such claims, I see complicity rather than journalism.

For example, you've proclaimed a belief, but your posts contradict that proclamation. I would, therefore, not presume to cite your proclaimed belief as fact. Make sense?

In the case of people (whites), including my own (bigoted) late father and one of his brothers (also now deceased), their behavior matched their stated preferences. Their candor was probably attributable to the notion that the color of my skin and my last name made me "trustworthy" - a "member of the bigot's club" - a position I've found myself placed in on many occasions. It's really tragic and bizarre how often white bigots have seemed to assume I share their attitudes.


I've said before that the infectious disease of bigotry is spread, in large part, by those who have an economic interest in the perpetuation of this plague. It is not, therefore, surprising that one of the symptoms of this disease is the relegation of their own ambition to a subordinate position to the fever of the bigotry.