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Warren DeMontague

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3. Certainly everyone has room for improvement.

Reply to Erich Bloodaxe BSN (Reply #2)

Mon Mar 30, 2015, 08:50 PM

Mar 2015

That said I tend to think that the demographics of this place lead to some exceedingly silly sorts of generation-bashing arguments put forth, as well as a lot of head-scratching when it comes to contemporary culture.

On the bright side, this is one of the few places left on the intertubes where a Gen X gray-hair such as myself can still be lectured at like a young whippersnapper. Makes me nostalgic, it does.

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White Millenials are products of a failed lesson in colorblindness [View all] gollygee Mar 2015 OP

Millenials are en masse responsible for both Obama victories AND the sea change in US public opinion Warren DeMontague Mar 2015 #1

I don't think this is a 'get off my lawn' post. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Mar 2015 #2

Certainly everyone has room for improvement. Warren DeMontague Mar 2015 #3

if you read the third paragraph gollygee Mar 2015 #4

Well someone must have done something right Warren DeMontague Mar 2015 #5

that's true gollygee Mar 2015 #6

Fair nuff. Warren DeMontague Mar 2015 #7

Some of them seem to have a fairly sound grasp of things. Nye Bevan Mar 2015 #8

Yes, that is mentioned in the article gollygee Mar 2015 #9

It's a step. jeff47 Mar 2015 #10

I don't think it is gollygee Mar 2015 #11

It won't make more people who will fight to fix it. But it makes less people jeff47 Mar 2015 #12

So much racism is structural gollygee Mar 2015 #13

That fight meets resistance. Reducing the resistance makes the fight easier. jeff47 Mar 2015 #14

I'm not sure that people who think they're colorblind are more likely to become allies gollygee Mar 2015 #15

Sure, it's not going to "poof" into place quickly but it's still easier than converting a racist jeff47 Mar 2015 #16

Nobody is actually colorblind gollygee Mar 2015 #19

The article doesn't back that up. jeff47 Mar 2015 #21

"and pray that it will disappear on its own." Xithras Mar 2015 #17

Racism continues from generation to generation gollygee Mar 2015 #18

Hogwash- Baby with the bathwater. WestCoastLib Mar 2015 #20

Broad-brush is broad. FSogol Mar 2015 #22