Not completely. But he was young and attractive and not our usual old crusty white guy. For Whitelandians he was "well spoken" enough with no baggy pants. And being black was not a detriment for one brief period of time in America. That shit snapped back quickly in 2016.
I know. Alberta probably their most conservative province is no more conservative politically than MA or VT.
It was once said that if the Democrats were perpetually in power in the US and could pass their whole agenda, we would be a lot like Canada. Is that really such a bad thing?
Cult of personality generally doesn't make sense to those on the outside. There sure isn't anything rational about it.
A few months of hardcore cold to freeze ponds for hockey would be awesome. I'm probably 100-150 miles too far south to get that
Watching people in Atlanta try to drive in the snow for 4 months every year would make it worthwhile.
Pharma CEO gets time for being a drug pusher: The founder of an Arizona pharmaceutical company was ordered Thursday to spend 5½ years in prison for orchestrating a bribery and kickback scheme prosecutors said helped fuel the opioid crisis. John Kapoor, 76, the former chairman of Insys Therapeutics, was sentenced in Boston's federal court after a jury found him guilty of racketeering conspiracy last May. The 10-week trial revealed sensational details about the company's marketing tactics, including testimony that a sales executive once gave a lap dance to a doctor the company was wooing. Kapoor was also ordered to pay a $250,000 fine. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...ec-gets-5-years-pushing-opioid-spray-n1121721
Great thing this administration is really tackling the opioid crisis with all their renown professionalism and attention to detail: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/...ew-trumps-opioid-emergency-declaration-103298 For nine days, the nation's opioid crisis was no longer considered a "public health emergency" after the Trump administration failed to renew a two-year-old declaration that expired last week. An HHS spokesperson on Thursday night said that the lapse had been corrected. "This was a clerical error," the spokesperson said. "The public health emergency for opioids has been renewed." --------------------------------------------------------- Trump, who has promised to end the nation's opioid epidemic, has repeatedly touted his decision to declare an emergency. He also has made the opioid fight a central part of his administration's agenda. "The opioid crisis" is one of five key priorities listed on the White House homepage — along with "economy," "national security," "budget" and "immigration" — and the dedicated page on the opioid response cites Trump's decision to declare an emergency. However, officials and public health experts say that the emergency declaration's effect on the opioid crisis has been minimal. Many of Trump's significant steps to fight the epidemic — including guidance for states to expand addiction treatment and a CDC awareness campaign — were accomplished outside of the emergency status.
I'm kind of on the fence there. Protecting one's White privilege is kinda rational, IMO. Especially if you know deep down you can't stay ahead of (or even in the middle of) the pack without it.
But it's generally unconscious rather than rational, these people don't even believe white privilege is a thing.
The problem with being a relatively conscious, introspective person is that it's hard to put yourself in the shoes of people who just aren't. And while I think you're right about quite a few of them, I think in the majority there's just a whole lot of denial going on in order to keep them feeling like they're good people.
Privilege implies something unearned or undeserved.Very,very few people believe that they are undeserving of what they have.So few in fact,that it is described as impostor syndrome. And even you think you didn't earn it,that doesn't translate to renouncing your advantages and handing them to others in the name of virtue.The last guy who talked aboutthat,well,he went through some things.
Yes and no. When one understands their place in society, and how it relates to others in the same society, that can lead to dismissing others who have not gone through the same introspection. By contrast. if one deliberately tries to understand others who are not as conscious and introspective, then it is possible. Absolutely. I've come to think of those who deny White Privilege as being akin to the addicts who say they can stop if they want. Many are comfortable with life as they know it. and are afraid of changing life as they know it.
Intellectual Dark Web enthusiast Jordan Peterson got hooked on benzos and had to flee to Russia for rehab. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...zo-valium-xanex-russia-mikhaila-a9324871.html
"Had to." Dude lives in Canada, but is bitching about US hospitals "misdiagnosing him," so he "had to" go to a hospital in Russia? Wut? Did you....try Canadian hospitals? Mention that you've been taking shitloads of benzos? This article was weird. Where does The Independent rank as far as reliability and bias for UK media? My knowledge of UK newspapers is limited to knowing that The Daily Mail is trash...