Diversity on Broadway — Page 25

No. We did NOT just loop back to "all lives matter", did we? Seriously. Did we learn nothing from the kid with the pizza analogy? You know the one, where the father gives six of his kids a slice of pizza and the seventh child doesn't get one because there is no more pizza and so he says to the father, "I deserve a piece of pizza!" and the father responds, "EVERY ONE DESERVES A PIECE OF PIZZA" and leaves the room? Did we not learn anything from that parable?

More importantly, how many people here made it to adulthood without learning critical thinking skills? Now, clearly, Davey thinks the crowd sourced knowledge base, Wikipedia, is accurate, at least when the listing agrees with his regressive politics, but what about everybody else? Was critical thinking not a skill that was covered at any point in our educations?

Updated On: 11/6/15 at 11:11 PM

A failure of a lot of things. Any day now I am expecting one of these folks who never learned critical analysis to say, "That woman complaining about men making more money than women is SEXIST!!!! EVERYBODY deserves more money!!"

FindingNamo said: "A failure of a lot of things. Any day now I am expecting one of these folks who never learned critical analysis to say, "That woman complaining about men making more money than women is SEXIST!!!! EVERYBODY deserves more money!!"

It depends on the attitute of the woman. Is she going into any meeting, situation, discussion like a negative victim who is not worth as much as men? Then she actually doesn't deserve more money. Why would others believe she is worth as much if she doesn't? BUT if her focus is on equality, and she showing the world that she is nothing less than any men and shows it with a positive attitude then that is the beginning of change and exactly what she will get back.

It's called critical analysis towards yourself. The hardest thing to learn. A better world starts with yourself, not by changing others first.

That's where America's educational system has failed. In Europe we have had similar situations (with the Jews and Hitler, etc, a very sensitive yet similar subject, separate seats in busses, gaschambers etc), and therefore the first person who sings about f*cking Jews in a videoclip, or suggests "Jew awards" will be prosecuted. Also Jews were determined to show they are worth just as much as everyone else and are now seen that way. Society just does not accept that victim role anymore, because we understand the consequences of that. It will provoke the opposite of what you want.

Same goes for gays, who show they can be anything, even though they are sentenced to death in certain countries in 2015. And for black people. Did you ever realize that only wthe ones with the right attitude will achieve change? Barack Obama for example. And a very, very, very long list of others who understand it too, in spite of the educational system. Luckily. Stay away from the victim role as far as you can. Sometimes, people are too dumb to understand (Nicki Minaj), and therefore she gets a lot of counteraction from the world. To make sure we will see black people not as normal people. But I'm afraid she is too brainwashed to comprehend this. She can scream white bitch and black bitch for the rest of her life, and I hope it does her any good. But clearly the amount of hits or success has not increased her self esteem, so that's not the solution.

Updated On: 11/7/15 at 04:39 AM

It actually shocks me that anyone who goes to the theatre could be so socially obtuse and hateful.

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Yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyep.

hork said: "If you're black and you think black people are inferior to other races, you're racist."

Thanks hork. That's what I was trying to say. And that kind of racism has consequences.

If you believe you are inferior, others will believe that too. You get what you give. Reciprocity.

Updated On: 11/7/15 at 02:24 PM

Showface said: "or that a particular racial group is inferior to the others."

And that can't be your own race because?

The reality is that there is a constant presentation of "how inferior we are". People will take that on and start to handle out of pity. The exact opposite of what you would want.

Dave, there are much better theorists and thinkers about race than you and this stuff you're inventing is not shared by any of them. I like your passive language though, and the way it keeps you from being personally implicated! Very transparent:

there is a constant presentation of "how inferior we are".

No there isn't. And putting quotation marks around your racist idea doesn't make it any more true than it already isn't.

Updated On: 11/7/15 at 03:54 PM

What a fascinating life you must lead! Why, I would bet you barely even encounter any black people in real life, let alone all day, every day. Your fantasies, however, are quite revealing.