That coulda been good, but it failed on the last frame. Better punchlines to land the point were available.
Also... "DEI"? Kinda misleading, worsened the effect of fail on this.
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Why'd you title it dei?
It stands for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. Short form for the framework of programs that provide equity to all people in work, life, whatever. Relevant because those programs are being challenged and gutted in a number of different countries.
MLK's "by content of character", echoes in my mind, seeing that [mis]characterisation of DEI, in line with how it promotes itself, misaligned from how it's practised. DEI shot itself in the foot. DEI has set back egalitarianism and equity and healthy progress and good sense, by totalitarianistically and dogmatically judging by skin colour and feigning moral superiority for doing so. Orwellian as fuck. Utterly inconsistent, worsening its racist iniquitousness. Better to mend it, than double down on its divisive poison pretence. ... I have a dream...
Oh ok I thought you were saying the comic was dei and I was like, wut
Why is he climbing on top of a horizontal Donald Trump?
To be fair, some of the censorship is words like "raped", "young", and "children". Not in that exact order of course...
This comic seems out dated. Right now a lot more people are in a similar situation, regardless of ethnicity. The only ones at the top are those of the upper class.
Then there are the racists who are all below like everyone else, but in their unintelligence turn against their fellows.
The only ones at the top right now are the rich cunts who profit from ethnic and cultural divides.
Put it this way: you as a working class white person may need one box to see the game, but a working class black person needs two boxes (because they need to overcome poverty and systemic racism, while you only need to overcome poverty)
Nobody is denying the struggle of the working class, but working class white people (specifically cis men) need to recognize that other working class groups are also struggling the same struggle but dealing with additional issues of racism, misogyny, trans/homophobia, etc. at the same time.
Eh, while I can't judge how much flat out direct racism there still is (though, individual rather than systemic in that case) affirmative action has always seemed like a lazy shortcut to me that's better than nothing but only works because of the correlation that black people in the US tend to be poor (reason: see OP). A black kid born into a wealthy household still gets an easier life than a white kid born into a trailer park. Doing it properly would mean helping those of lower socioeconomic status (which will also mostly help minorities) rather than going purely off correlating factors.
Getting arrested for being black is still a thing. The world hasn’t finished blending all Nazis in a bloody soup. There are black communities down south where they ended up forming their own armed militia just to keep community members safe from racism.
STOP FUCKING SAYING RACISM IS GONE. This is just the violent shit you directly see. You can’t even prove the little ones, that deny someone a job, or a loan, or healthcare. To say nothing of denying them votes through gerrymandering.
Due support where needed, is a good thing, for sure.
But it strikes me that in this it's too easy to fall far short of where we can be.
... Boxes to see over a fence?
Y'know they have spaceships that can do zero inertia propulsion right? For over a century! Yet here we are quibbling over who gets how many boxes. Lets aim a little higher, huh?
It's not just the likes of the TR-3B, that have been out in the open for us to see for at least 11 years now. Far in advance of that, for peaceful use. Zero point energy powered, can do zero inertia propulsion (that's all the stuff like instant acceleration, high speed right angle turns, stopping instantly, etc), can print another of itself instantly, safe enough for a 2 year old to fly home safely in, can sustain human life indefinitely, and more.
Equity, and/or equality, in a secluded subset of us all, kept in manufactured scarcity, is a cunning way to keep us divided and conquered, keeping us down and ignorant. Keeping us being slaughtered in pointless resource wars.
Lets mend this lost century[1] properly.
Lets sublimate.
Sublimate past whoever picking whoever decides how to apportion the pittance. ... Because that's been used to commit genocides (of which I'm a survivor), in the name of equity. Beware the name-changer deceivers with their orwellian corruption of language, and totalitarian psyop ploys, and killing us with our loving compassion and managed ignorance.
Consider these two quotes together, and who said them...
“We already have the means to travel among the stars, but these technologies are locked up in black projects and it would take an act of God to ever get them out to benefit humanity… anything you can imagine we already know how to do.” — Ben Rich, former Head of the Lockheed Skunk Works
“It is easier for us to pay a private contractor to re-invent something so it will come out at a lower classification level, than to try to declassify it.” – Bennett Hart, then Deputy Director of the National Reconnaissance Organization
... while we cultivate bickering about how many boxes we get, when we could blast far past that into abundance for each and all.
and also
"The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as ONE. Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money we spend on weapons and defense each year, and instead spend it feeding, clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would many times over, not one human being excluded, and we can explore space together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace." -- Bill Hicks.
[1: ... it's more like 2 centuries now. 175 years since the Sonora Aero Club had some of its marvellous flying things drawn by Charles Dellschau (that were the precursors to being made capable of surviving the vacuum of space, already electro-magnetically propulsed with inertial dampening). It's not just the man made foo-fighters of the 1930s and 1940s. This goes back further.]
You should spend some time in the company of a human today.
a lot more people are in a similar situation
There's been a massive increase in white people being pulled over and arrested for no reason?
ICE is snatching white folks now?
Shit, I missed a lot of changes I guess.
"class struggle" doesn't give you the excuse to downplay and minimize the real systematic oppression of colored people and the fact that they have it way worse even if "everyone is struggling" they have extra barriers to overcome.
"people of color" please. Otherwise spot on.
100%. well said.
It's always been a class struggle, racism and lack of education etc.. have been tools to divide the workers.
Wait that's what they mean by reverse racism? Christ
Reverse racism is just racism. Not sure what the point or value of the extra semantics are.
