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‘The Greens will benefit from this.’
Only if a lot of 16 & 17 year-olds turn-out to vote, which I can’t see happening. Has giving 18-20 year-olds the vote had a significant impact on election results? I doubt it.
Giving 16 & 17 year-olds the vote is something we certainly shouldn’t be against, but shouldn’t exactly campaign for, either. After all, more than enough working people (& their dependents) have the vote – in order to overthrow capitalism.
In your Eyes – Peter Gabriel
This song is from the famous scene in the teen-romance film: Say Anything.
– Citizen of the World
I believe the expression you’re looking for is: if the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem has to look like a nail.
“but they are not hitting the candies of the Piñatas”
That made my day. Thanks, Citizen of the World. 🙂
I was originally going to do that, but decided to come on here instead because I didn’t want to make a big deal out of it.
If PJS doesn’t want to reply on here, then I will write to the ‘Standard. Though, it would have to be for July’s ‘Standard because it’s a bit too late now to write a letter (& for PJS to write a reply) for the June edition.
In the first quote – PJS states what Critical Race Theory argues, but doesn’t argue against it. The sentence: ‘As things stand, the system will always promote whites over more talented ethnic candidates,’ is presented as a fact – not as a group of people’s opinion.
As for the second quote, poor white people won’t see positive discrimination in favour of other poor people as an attack on their ‘rights’ – they will see it as being unfair.
The author doesn’t actually write that he supports positive discrimination, however, he heavily implies that he does in these quotes:
‘Critical race theory [. . .] argues that disadvantaged groups will never get a fair shake unless a little positive discrimination is introduced into the mix. As things stand, the system will always promote whites over more talented ethnic candidates.’
‘To [economically disadvantaged whites], any positive discrimination in favour of other disadvantaged groups, together with talk of ‘white privilege’, will seem like a wholesale liberal attack on their ‘rights’. Populists like Trump are experts in exploiting such concerns.’
