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Important thread incoming. 1/_. “Joe Biden has shown this week that some of his ambitions are more radical. On immigration, he is way to Obama’s left, proposing a mass amnesty of millions of illegal immigrants, a complete moratorium on deportations, $ immediate revocation...
2/. “of the bogus emergency order that allowed Trump to bypass Congress $ spend money building his wall... but w/o very significant addition of border controls as a deterrent, this sends a signal to millions in Central to South America to get here as soon as possible......
3/. “ Biden could find that the unity he preaches will not survive such an open-borders policy, or another crisis at the border. He is doubling down on the policies that made a Trump presidency possible. In every major democracy, mass immigration has empowered the far right....
4/. “Instead of easing white panic about changing demographics, Biden intensified it.
Biden also signaled (by executive order) a sharp departure from liberalism in his approach to civil rights. The vast majority of Americans support laws that protect minorities from....
Biden also signaled (by executive order) a sharp departure from liberalism in his approach to civil rights. The vast majority of Americans support laws that protect minorities from....
5/. “discrimination, so that every American can have equality of opportunity, without their own talents being held back by prejudice. But Biden’s speech & executive orders come from a very different place. They replace...equality in favor of “equity.”....
6/. “In critical theory, ‘equality’ means that citizen A & citizen B are treated equally, while ‘equity’ means adjusting shares in order to make citizen A and B equal.” Here’s how Biden defines “equity”: “the consistent & systematic fair, just, and impartial treatment of all....
7/. “individuals, including ppl who belong to underserved communities that have been denied...such as Black, Latino, & Native American pl, Asians & other POC; members of religious minorities; LGBTQ+ persons; disabled ppl; ppl who live in rural areas; & ppl adversely affected by..
8/. “persistent poverty or inequality.”
In simple English, equity means giving the the named identity groups a specific advantage in treatment by the federal gov. over other groups — in order to make up for historic injustice & “systemic” oppression. Without “equity”....
In simple English, equity means giving the the named identity groups a specific advantage in treatment by the federal gov. over other groups — in order to make up for historic injustice & “systemic” oppression. Without “equity”....
9/. “there can be no real “equality of opportunity.” Equity therefore comes 1st. Until equity is reached, equality is postponed...
Helping regions & ppl that have experienced greater discrimination in the past is a good thing. But u could achieve this if you simply focused....
Helping regions & ppl that have experienced greater discrimination in the past is a good thing. But u could achieve this if you simply focused....
10/. “On relieving poverty....u could invest in schools, reform policing, environmental clean-ups, grow the economy.... & thereby help the needy in precisely these groups. But that would not reflect critical theory’s insistence that race & identity trump class, & that America....
11/. “itself is inherently, a “white supremacist” country. Biden just endorsed that w/ gusto. The paradox, is that to achieve “equity” u must 1st remove equality for ppl who were born in the wrong identity group. Equity means treating ppl unequally so that groups are equal....
12/. “Biden is enforcing the Ibram X. Kendi view that “the only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination.” & he’s enforcing it across the entire government & any institution the government funds. To show he’s serious, he’s appointed Susan Rice to enforce equity....
13/. “in a “whole-of-government” approach. America is no longer about individual freedom; it’s about identity group power, and its constant management by government. END
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