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[–]zyxzevn[S] 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Still, the technocratic power-mongers in government ask me: "Why do you need rights?"

[–]JasonCarswell 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Profound and heavy, with an edge.

[–]Canbot 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Let's also consider the possibility that there is no knife and Malcom's narrative of oppression ,or anyone else with this perspective, is not historically accurate or complete. This then becomes the quote of someone who is completely unreasonable. (I am not arguing that slavery did not exist)

Take for example the people calling for Reparations. A figure as high as 17 Trillion dollars. Demanded from people who were never slave owners, and paid to people who were never slaves. And once the payment is made the response is "oh you have not even begun to pay me back".

So for this quote to have any validity you have to assume that not only is the speaker 100% right about their analysis of the situation but is also totally honest and not just spinning their unreasonable demands into something that sounds more reasonable.

This is something that would be said by someone who is never satisfied and any further appeasement of their demands is futile and ill advised.

It is also technically inaccurate as any road to recovery would require the knife to be removed, and therefore the process of removing the knife is in fact progress towards that end.

[–]zyxzevn[S] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

I did not post this about slavery or white-shaming. I think you missed my "point".

I posted this because emotional, economical, and physical wounds are made everyday by the actions of people.
But people without a soul will not even acknowledge, that their knife-stab would have hurt anyone. Because they do not feel. And still they hold on to it, because they seem to enjoy the pain.

Like the federal reserve or the pentagon or whoever, institution or criminal.
These things need to be talked about, so the knifes can be removed from their hands.

[–]Canbot 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

If there are actual wrongs they need to be specified so they can be addressed. Talking in metaphors about being "wounded" doesn't make sense.

I hate it when people fall for this stuff. They get rounded up with vague platitudes, and hyped up and made emotional. Then the "shepherd" introduces thier semi relavant agenda and uses the herd as a weapon.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I agree this happens a lot but this is Saidit. It's better than that.

[–]Tigerbitecrazy 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You cant be serious.....

[–]whistlepig 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Agreed. To put it another way:

It is like fine art. It is said the goal is to keep it vague so people can see in it what they want.

While this can also make for a successful meme in that it gains popularity, it isn't very useful at propagating a specific message opposed to a general emotion.

[–]Yep1619 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

He was killed by his own because he would not accept the narrative that kept people down. Pretty much all of us today- every color of the rainbow, don't matter. Except for the powers that be.

[–]BorrowedLadder 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

This is a good post and a good quote. Then I read the comments and remember the down side of free speech is how many comfortable racists and bootlickers are just floating around on the internet

[–]Questionable 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You seem highly offended that other people can have thoughts that did not form in your own mind. You also didn't reply to anyone in particular, giving no context to your remarks. Or to say, you entered a forum thread, and called everyone here a racist. There are 7.5 billion people on this earth, and you can't even tolerate the opinions of six of them in a single thread? Do you not find your own lack of self control concerning?

[–]Hellothereawesome 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Jealous "Christians" Malcolm, jealous "Christians".

[–]nsoc 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

if i rob you 6 inched it's not as bad as 9.

[–]Canbot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

That is not the argument. If you steal 9 dollars and pay back 6 dollars that is progress towards restitution.

However, these hyperbolic metaphors just get everyone who has ever felt wronged in any way what so ever riled up into a mob. Everyone thinks they are on the same page yet everyone has a different interpretation of what it actually means. That is how you get a bunch of people to fight for something they don't really believe in by attaching it to a single grand point that sounds right so long as you don't really think about it.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yes, the ever present "I stand for (whatever)" when in fact the truth is "I stand AGAINST (an opposite)". Such as commies stating they are for the common man when in fact they simply hate the rich.