The True Black Tragedy: Minimum Wage
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Gary Childress
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I don't know. I think he's trying to link the minimum wage to whatever pathological behaviors in individuals in the black community. I guess the assumption is that poverty and deprivation cause or propagate "pathological" behavior. And he's linking that poverty and deprivation to the perceived way the market works with respect to minimum wage. Of course I suppose one has to wonder, if there is no racism present, then why are we to assume that minimum wage should have any worse effect on black youths than white youths entering the job market for the first time. In a sense I guess it presupposes that black youths are somehow innately inferior to white youths in ability to perform entry level jobs.
So in a sense I guess Williams says what white supremacists want to hear, that blacks are inherently inferior from the get go. I suppose that makes him a "tool".
Gary Childress
Student for and of life
I've heard "pathology" used in a social psychology context, not just physical diseases. People refer to killers as "pathological".
Gary Childress
Student for and of life
I don't know if it means mental health or not in the case of killers who are described as "pathological". I don't think crime itself is necessarily a mental illness on the same par as schizophrenia or something. I Googled the definition of "pathology" and it seems to imply disease as you say. But like I say I've heard of socially deviant behavior described as "pathological" before also. Unless the person(s) I heard it from were using the term incorrectly.
In that case, they were using "pathological" to mean any deviation from a healthy or normal structure or function, i.e. abnormal or malformed. Whether or not that is correct is for a different person to say. Pathos is the Greek word for 'suffering', hence other words such as "telepathy" and "empathy".
Yeah and in Australia it's 17 dollars an hour.
Domen
Misico dux Vandalorum
And all Australian Aborigines flourish economically.
Formaldehyde
Both Fair And Balanced
I'm sure many would claim that libertarian economist is an oxymoron. And this one seems to think he is Clayton Grisby to boot.
Liberalism is a pathology. Didn't you know?
As well as suggesting that all blacks have to do to succeed is to accept even less so they can eventually learn skills that are of value to their owners.
Perhaps he should try to pass for white.So in a sense I guess Williams says what white supremacists want to hear, that blacks are inherently inferior from the get go. I suppose that makes him a "tool".
Domen
Misico dux Vandalorum
NO.
Nobody should try to pass for hwhite:
Link to video.
Treason to hwhiteness is loyalty to humanity. Vivat Rachel Dolezal!
And by the way, I'm Polish / Slavic - not hwhite.
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Or - even better - I'm a race on my own. So don't try to abolish me.
Domen
Misico dux Vandalorum
Slavic people are not hwhite.
The majority of non-blacks in the USA are either Anglo-Saxons or Saxon-Saxons (i.e. Germans).
So hwhiteness = Germanness.
The majority of non-blacks in the USA are either Anglo-Saxons or Saxon-Saxons (i.e. Germans).
So hwhiteness = Germanness.
Senethro
Overlord
I'm slightly afraid to ask this question Domen, but what is the special meaning of hwhiteness as opposed to whiteness?
Domen
Misico dux Vandalorum
It is just how some people pronounce white. They say "hwhite".
I like how it sounds, so I started adding this "h". I don't mean anything special by it.
White people = hwhite people, just like this guy below, for example:
I like how it sounds, so I started adding this "h". I don't mean anything special by it.
White people = hwhite people, just like this guy below, for example:
Senethro
Overlord
Yes, having a persecution complex while being favoured by the system is pretty much the hwhitest thing.
MagisterCultuum
Great Sage
There should not be any minimum wage There should be a Basic Income or better yet Citizen's Dividend to redistribute the value of the economic rent of controlling access to Land (including all scarce natural resources, but especially the positional value of certain geometric spaces).
What really kept blacks down economically was being unable to step onto the lower rungs of the real estate latter before a population boom led to land prices rising much faster than inflation. Their surplus earnings were mostly eaten up by rental payments to their landlords, and so could not be invested in either legitimate capital or capitalized privileges.
Such economic problems do make it harder to jump through the traditional hoops around marriage contracts and wedding ceremonies, even when the couples feel an equal commitment to each other and to their children.
Such hardships can also push lifeforms towards the wrong end of the r/K reproductive strategy.
The big thing that broke up black families though had more to do with the often racistly disproportional enforcement of drug laws.
The effects of the minimum wage are often greatly exaggerated by many on the political right, but they are still predominantly bad. It is true that minimum wage laws were originally championed by racist leaders of traditionally white labor unions, although I'm not sure that is particularly relevant today.
What really kept blacks down economically was being unable to step onto the lower rungs of the real estate latter before a population boom led to land prices rising much faster than inflation. Their surplus earnings were mostly eaten up by rental payments to their landlords, and so could not be invested in either legitimate capital or capitalized privileges.
Such economic problems do make it harder to jump through the traditional hoops around marriage contracts and wedding ceremonies, even when the couples feel an equal commitment to each other and to their children.
Such hardships can also push lifeforms towards the wrong end of the r/K reproductive strategy.
The big thing that broke up black families though had more to do with the often racistly disproportional enforcement of drug laws.
The effects of the minimum wage are often greatly exaggerated by many on the political right, but they are still predominantly bad. It is true that minimum wage laws were originally championed by racist leaders of traditionally white labor unions, although I'm not sure that is particularly relevant today.
Domen
Misico dux Vandalorum
I have sent you a PM which explains that I am not.
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OK, so you are not convinced by my explanation, bhavv.
Just an observation: this chart shows that black fathers who live with their kids are just as involved as white fathers are (or more), but it does in no way refute what the column says: that most black kids are raised by single mothers.First, he mentions Daniel Moynihan's sociology report from the 1960s. But it doesn't stop there. He tries to extrapolate it to a dystopian present where things are far worse.
According to the CDC, it is just so much utter nonsense:
The chart would allow a reality where black fathers are actually 10 times less involved than white ones, because nearly none of them live with their kids.
Just a hyperbolic example of course, I have no idea what the actual statistics are like.
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