"While I think I can understand these as attempts to compensate and encourage the black side of the chasm, I also see it as widening the divide in its exclusion of the those of us on the white side." The difference of course between segregation and BET is that one was enforced by an oppressive set of Jim Crow laws (and by white separatist terrorists with tacit approval from the political establishment) and the other is an entertainment channel designed to appeal to black Americans, but whose 'exclusivity' is enforced by, well, preference.
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Matt W
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"Now I note that some Collectivists (Hillary, most notably) are again calling themselves Progressives. I suppose they are running out of labels with which to mislead people." Contemporary liberal politicians are only "Collectivists" according to the pseudo-ideology and intellectual quackery of Objectivism. Clinton most certainly supports such Liberal institutions as international free trade, a market based economy, rights-based restrictions on the power of government, protection of private property, rule of law, and checks and balances among governmental powers. Liberalism has always acknowledged that there are certain functions that are too expensive, too unprofitable, or too specialized for the private sector to …
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scorp, I won't dignify your Clinton Chronicles litany with a response. The quotes you pulled are either meaningless without context, or only objectionable to an Objectivist. The real point of the multiple-choice format is merely a low-brow attempt to smear Clinton via negative association. Do you have any substantive critiques?
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Clinton is not associated with her own quotes? Well, that is certainly a novel interpretation. Especially since she has said essentially the same thing in different contexts over a period of years. And the contexts are quite accessible if you care to look them up. I distinctly remember at least two of them from news coverage at the time. I don't care to look them up; I'm not trying to critique Clinton's policies. If you wish to provide a substantive critique, it's your responsibility to provide context for these remarks, which I note, you still haven't done. The negative association I …
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scorp, You still have failed to offer any substantive critique of Clinton's policies. So far, you've said "Hillary is a Collectivist", "Hillary is a criminal", and "Hillary is about on par with Stalin." The free-market quote is from an interview done for Sojourners magazine and was specifically in reference to national health care. For reasons I've already stated, the free-market has failed in this area, and asserting this does not contradict any principle of modern democratic liberalism. The expansion of rights language from just property to universal enfranchisement, education, and collective bargaining represent one historical trajectory of liberal though since the …
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