jpmcglone
Joined 12 years ago
Joined 12 years ago
There's nothing wrong with Unions, but there is something wrong with government-backed unions.
Let people collectivize if they'd like. Collective bargaining is fine, and you aren't living in a free country if you can't collectively bargain -- but collective bargaining shouldn't mean you automatically get government as an ally.
The battle between Union and Company should be between Union and Company.
I don't think the left-wing advocacy is altruistic. If it was altruistic, it would promote altruism. It, instead, promotes redistribution of wealth.
Do you think redistribution of wealth is altruistic? How so?
The basketball team being all black isn't racism and it isn't due to racism.
If I saw a basketball team (in the NBA) of all white people, I would suspect racism, but it's important to point out that the outcome (an all white NBA team) is NOT racist in itself. Even if it is likely due to racism.
So, I think we should stop calling the outcomes 'racist' and say what we mean: "I suspect this outcome is due to racism"
I think that will make the whole conversation a lot easier to have.
I don't think its advantageous to certain political entities, however, if we have this conversation. There is one party in particular that I think relies on people to believe that their problems are outside of their control, so that maybe they'll outsource the problem solving to the government.
Maybe I have it pinned all wrong, but I will never know if we can't talk about racism and outcomes of what may or may not be racism as two separate things.
The left thinks of racism in terms of outcome and the right thinks of racism in terms of intent.
We could benefit from better language around these concepts, and honest dialogue about them too.
We need better words.