I Am Not Politically Correct

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“[We are] paying the price for breakdown of the country's bourgeois culture......the [1950s] culture laid out the script we all were supposed to follow: Get married before you have children and strive to stay married for their sake. Get the education you need for gainful employment, work hard, and avoid idleness. Go the extra mile for your employer or client. Be a patriot, ready to serve the country. Be neighborly, civic-minded, and charitable. Avoid coarse language in public. Be respectful of authority. Eschew substance abuse and crime." [b]~ Amy Wax[/b], law professor @ University of Pennsylvania and [b]Lawrence Alexander[/b], law professor @ University of San Diego School of Law, in [i]“Paying the Price for Breakdown of the Country's Bourgeois Culture”[/i] [c=#BF0000]http://bit.ly/2waF3Id [/c]

Of course the professors have now been identified as racists and white supremacists who are promoting hate and bigotry. But, not a single person has attacked the veracity of the claims they made in their article.[c=#BF0000] http://bit.ly/2eHLGu0 [/c]

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vss1234 · 36-40, M

it is a sad affair when simple logical ways of living, which are optional, are misconstrued into becoming a diktat. The powerful always want ways to repress the commons, to quell the public dissidence, and what better way to do so than using so called role models of how to live.

the american dream is a tool to keep the majority in check, keep a carrot dangling in front of the people, so that they ignore the real world around...

But, lets face it. We too like being ordered around. We too fantasise about we being the bringers of public justice. but at the end of the day, all like Napoleons and Alexandars of the world, but not within their home

beckychandler · F

@vss1234 But how helpful is it to just concede defeat? There are various things each family can do to disentangle (we do) and there are some that do more extreme (and quite wonderful) things like this:[c=#BF0000] https://t.co/rCGPlmUZMa[/c]

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CesareBorgia

@beckychandler Considering Christianity has inspired hate of other religions, intolerance and as history has proven has go so far as to commit genocide, murder, rape, pillaging, plundering, refusal to compromise. Anything that puts forth a belief in something that cannot be proven is more important than what can be proven is dangerous. People who are able to believe in something that cannot be proven, so fervently that they close their mind to the physical evidence and proof scare me. These are the very people that end up being fanatics.

If you attempt to tie religious beliefs into an argument about why society is how it is today, I am going to refute it with a passion. Considering that the Christian religions have far more violent fanatical followers, far more extremists than any other religion on Earth. Considering that the influence in part has caused us to travel thousands of miles from home to annihilate people of other religions, and instill constitutional governments based on Christian beliefs. Considering how Christian Religious would have us pray in public schools while ignoring all other faiths that are guaranteed equality under our US Constitution. Considering so many things that Christians would rather just ignore instead while also promoting their own beliefs I have a hard time listening to anything a so called Christian might offer as any solution to societies problems.

If I were Satan, if Satan existed, I would make sure I did one thing, that being promoting the Christian religions, as they have committed more evil against humans than any other religion, and most likely any other entity, group, country etc. Jews were murdered by the millions because they were not Christians, the intolerance of Christians towards Jews has caused many settlements outside of what happened in WWII to be obliterated. So please, if you want to have a discussion about the problems our society suffers today, do not present Christianity as a solution, it is certainly a huge giant part of the very problem we are talking about. It disgusts me that you would present this garbage as a means of fixing our society. I would never trust someone that could only consider themselves a good person by their ability to believe without proof, have faith. Nor would I trust a person that needs the guidance of an imaginary friend in order to be good. I choose my own morals, and live by them. If you need someone else to tell you what your morals should be, how easy then to simply not follow them? In fact, if you are forgiven your sins, how easy then might it be to commit sin knowing you will be forgiven.

Nope, you are absolutely incorrect in your assertions and I would suggest attempting to do your own thinking rather than reposting the rhetoric of your religion or what you have been told.

beckychandler · F

@CesareBorgia You write an awful lot --but most of it is just angry venting comprised of chains of tired old ideas. I don't think you are going to persuade many people that way. But perhaps venting your spleen is therapeutic for you.