Sticking Points

William B. Allen, a black Floridian, history teacher and conservative political thinker has stated that it is unfair to judge Florida's new school curriculum, regarding black history without reading it.

He states that it emphasizes the resilience of slave community in Florida and the U.S. in the face of adversity. I'm not sure how he describes the nature of that "adversity", but apparently that is irrelevant.

I agree you should know what you are criticizing before you criticize it, but how many times do we have to establish that slavery was evil before we can take it for granted?

Max Naumann received his law degree from the University of Berlin. As a Jew in pre-war Germany, he founded the Association of German National Jews, an organization that advocated Nazism as something that would be good for the German Jewish population, and worked with Hitler's ministers toward that end.

It took five minutes to look up the historical parallels between these two men and the nature of their message.

So if a Jew could say that Nazism could be a good thing, and a black American can say that teaching slavery wasn't all that bad for early African Americans is correct, well... I guess maybe we should all rethink our position on these two historical atrocities...

Right wingers decry the American labor force, saying "No one wants to work anymore".

Right wingers decry immigrants, saying "They're taking American jobs".

I love how Jason Aldean takes the same tack as most right-wingers in defending his new song at his latest concert.

Somebody accused me of something. I can't say what it is because that would make me look woke, but I'm here to tell ya' that I didn't do it!

It's just like Tommy Tuberville refusing to say the words "white nationalist" while discussing his bigoted remarks on camera.

It's a clue when those who promote a position with dog whistles and secret codes pretend they don't know what it meant.

Wasn't the term "Nazi" short for the National Socialist party in pre-WWII Germany?

Doesn't that mean that when right-wingers say there are "very fine people on both sides" that they are in effect saying the there are some very fine socialists?

On this point, we have common ground: The socialists who desire a government that lifts all people up and does what it can to improve the living standards for everyone are very fine people.

Those who favor using the power of government to safeguard hate and bigotry for the validation of prejudice among a tyrannical minority... well...

Not very fine people.

Not even remotely fine.

The difference between the right and the left is not methodology. That's a red herring. It is simply who that methodology is supposed to benefit that is the sticking point.

 “What really gets me about this is that it’s saying ‘if you don’t believe you can physically overpower me, you aren’t allowed to publicly disagree with me.’ What does that say to the people in your life who aren’t big strong boys? They just have to shut up?” - Jason Isbell

He was replying to a classic "Why don't you say that to my face?!" response to his criticism of "Try That in a Small Town".

It got me thinking about the "might makes right" attitude that has been an obstacle to human progress since the beginning and will continue to be as long as humans survive on this planet (questionable as that timeline is, but I digress).