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    Default A Peek at America before 1950 and the Assault by the Left

    Picture a neighborhood composed of low and middle income families, each with two parents, no homeless people, no street drugs, safe to walk the streets at night. Is this the figment of an overactive imagination? Well, it is in fact a peek at a neighborhood in New York City where the son of immigrant parents read The New York Times every morning in high school, before orchestra rehearsal. Me. The principal, strongly authoritarian and well loved, opened a weekly assembly of highly diverse youngsters by reading a psalm from the Bible. Tough-as-nails, yet tenderhearted teachers passed on a tradition of excellence in thought, expression, and civility while preparing us for a wide range of careers in a free and independent America.

    This typical school of 1940s New York City had higher standards and grade profile than any counterpart today and operated on a budget far smaller in equivalent dollars than any current public school budget. In these “backward” times, the schools were free of substance abuse problems, sexual promiscuity, and identity problems. There was an abiding respect for the authority of teachers and parents and for the dignity of every person regardless of race, religion, or ethnicity. There were clubs in my school for religion, for foreign languages (including Latin). A Reporters’ Club recorded significant events for the school paper. There were toy drives for a local hospital . . . The list of extracurricular engagements was long.

    I think it’s revealing that dictionaries in these “retrograde” times did not prefix definitions of words referring to high moral standards, such as virtue, with the phrase “regarded as.” It did not have to be stated that opinion or “point of view” is not a valid basis for morality.


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    Quote Originally Posted by volsrock View Post
    Picture a neighborhood composed of low and middle income families, each with two parents, no homeless people, no street drugs, safe to walk the streets at night. Is this the figment of an overactive imagination? Well, it is in fact a peek at a neighborhood in New York City where the son of immigrant parents read The New York Times every morning in high school, before orchestra rehearsal. Me. The principal, strongly authoritarian and well loved, opened a weekly assembly of highly diverse youngsters by reading a psalm from the Bible. Tough-as-nails, yet tenderhearted teachers passed on a tradition of excellence in thought, expression, and civility while preparing us for a wide range of careers in a free and independent America.

    This typical school of 1940s New York City had higher standards and grade profile than any counterpart today and operated on a budget far smaller in equivalent dollars than any current public school budget. In these “backward” times, the schools were free of substance abuse problems, sexual promiscuity, and identity problems. There was an abiding respect for the authority of teachers and parents and for the dignity of every person regardless of race, religion, or ethnicity. There were clubs in my school for religion, for foreign languages (including Latin). A Reporters’ Club recorded significant events for the school paper. There were toy drives for a local hospital . . . The list of extracurricular engagements was long.

    I think it’s revealing that dictionaries in these “retrograde” times did not prefix definitions of words referring to high moral standards, such as virtue, with the phrase “regarded as.” It did not have to be stated that opinion or “point of view” is not a valid basis for morality.


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    In the 1950s, people could leave their house and go to bed without having to lock their doors.

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    Quote Originally Posted by volsrock View Post
    Picture a neighborhood composed of low and middle income families, each with two parents, no homeless people, no street drugs, safe to walk the streets at night. Is this the figment of an overactive imagination? Well, it is in fact a peek at a neighborhood in New York City where the son of immigrant parents read The New York Times every morning in high school, before orchestra rehearsal. Me. The principal, strongly authoritarian and well loved, opened a weekly assembly of highly diverse youngsters by reading a psalm from the Bible. Tough-as-nails, yet tenderhearted teachers passed on a tradition of excellence in thought, expression, and civility while preparing us for a wide range of careers in a free and independent America.

    This typical school of 1940s New York City had higher standards and grade profile than any counterpart today and operated on a budget far smaller in equivalent dollars than any current public school budget. In these “backward” times, the schools were free of substance abuse problems, sexual promiscuity, and identity problems. There was an abiding respect for the authority of teachers and parents and for the dignity of every person regardless of race, religion, or ethnicity. There were clubs in my school for religion, for foreign languages (including Latin). A Reporters’ Club recorded significant events for the school paper. There were toy drives for a local hospital . . . The list of extracurricular engagements was long.

    I think it’s revealing that dictionaries in these “retrograde” times did not prefix definitions of words referring to high moral standards, such as virtue, with the phrase “regarded as.” It did not have to be stated that opinion or “point of view” is not a valid basis for morality.


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    Go ahead and picture pre-1950 in Selma. Or Jackson. Or Montgomery. Got lynchings?

    Fucking moron

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    Quote Originally Posted by domer76 View Post
    Go ahead and picture pre-1950 in Selma. Or Jackson. Or Montgomery. Got lynchings?

    Fucking moron
    The problem is that if mother nature was perfect there would be spontaneous abortions of fetuses that were not up to par psychologically and intellectually and we would nor be populated and bombarded with such massive stupidity, sociopothy and idiocy. Can you imagine how delightful it would be if only smart, aware, forward thinking and empathetic folks populated the planet. Just wow!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cinnabar View Post
    The problem is that if mother nature was perfect there would be spontaneous abortions of fetuses that were not up to par psychologically and intellectually and we would nor be populated and bombarded with such massive stupidity, sociopothy and idiocy. Can you imagine how delightful it would be if only smart, aware, forward thinking and empathetic folks populated the planet. Just wow!
    We need all types and intelligence levels. But the massive and willful ignorance of some just astounds me. Couple that with the racist shitstains and you may have a valid point!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cinnabar View Post
    The problem is that if mother nature was perfect there would be spontaneous abortions of fetuses that were not up to par psychologically and intellectually and we would nor be populated and bombarded with such massive stupidity, sociopothy and idiocy. Can you imagine how delightful it would be if only smart, aware, forward thinking and empathetic folks populated the planet. Just wow!
    What's forward thinking about wanting to be dependent upon the government?

    What's forward thinking about wanting to kill what your choice to spread your legs produced because it's not what you intended?

    What's empathetic about not expecting people to feed, clothe, house, etc. those for which they hold a responsibility to do so?

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    Quote Originally Posted by domer76 View Post
    We need all types and intelligence levels. But the massive and willful ignorance of some just astounds me. Couple that with the racist shitstains and you may have a valid point!

    You should stop being so massively and willfully ignorant, boy.

    You still can't explain why you thought Obama being black meant he was qualified.

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    Quote Originally Posted by domer76 View Post
    We need all types and intelligence levels. But the massive and willful ignorance of some just astounds me. Couple that with the racist shitstains and you may have a valid point!
    I disagree. The planet is in the state it is in now due to the sociopathy of the greedy SOB's and the stupidity of their supporters.
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    Murder rates have been lower recently than even in the 1950's. That is more amazing because a lot of 1950's murders did not make it into the official statistics.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cinnabar View Post
    The problem is that if mother nature was perfect there would be spontaneous abortions of fetuses that were not up to par psychologically and intellectually and we would nor be populated and bombarded with such massive stupidity, sociopothy and idiocy. Can you imagine how delightful it would be if only smart, aware, forward thinking and empathetic folks populated the planet. Just wow!
    People aren't really born stupid. Add in societies bs, parental prejudices, mind rotting entertainment, and schooling or lack thereof. Stupid is taught and learned.

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    Thread fail. No one cares about an open racist glorifying pre-1960's. Go eat some humble pie, America's shame boy. Take your link and flush it before you do. Gutter news is supposed to go into the sewer.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Crocodile View Post
    Thread fail. No one cares about an open racist glorifying pre-1960's.
    You are free to speak your mind thanks to the men who fought in the wars before 1950! Especially WW2


    Oh..and post ONE racist statement by me!

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    Quote Originally Posted by domer76 View Post
    Go ahead and picture pre-1950 in Selma. Or Jackson. Or Montgomery. Got lynchings?

    Fucking moron
    Lisps the midget from the whitest place in America. Shut the fuck up.

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    Yes, your brief nostalgic look back at the America of the 1950's is instructive.

    I think that by the 1960's , the left, in particular, neo-Marxists like the Critical Theorist, Herbert Marcuse, and his colleagues had started to succeed in strongly influencing education, mainly at the college level. After that in the 1970's, Continental Postmodern theory (which was also grounded in Marxism) also began to infiltrate the the liberal arts?humanities/Language faculties in American universities. From the 1980's through to today, Postmodernist theory has consolidated its position in the American academy and done untold damage to the curriculum and learning in every subject area except the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) fields. It is a perverted philosophical system that denies the existence of truth and morality, is hostile to Enlightenment rationality, denies the existence of the individual person, seeks to destroy the capitalist American patriarchy, is egalitarian in the way socialism is, and so on.


    That's one way the left has degenerated American youth.


    Next, the left began to push ideologies like: multiculturalism, the idea that diversity is a social strength; Identity Politics; Political Correctness; radical and Socialist Feminism, and in 1965, the killer punch that has now doomed America, namely Democrat President Lyndon Banes Johnson's "Naturalisation and Immigration Act". The piece of legislation (also known as the "Hart Cellar Act" opened America's borders to millions of Third World peasants: Hispanic, Latino, African, Cuban, Guatemalan, Arabs Muslims, etc. It was part of LBJ's socialist, moral crusade to save the poverty stricken and oppressed masses of humanity. Unfortunately, so many millions of immigrants (legal and foreign aliens) poured into the US that by the year 2042, the US Census Bureau calculated that native White (European) Americans will no longer constitute the majority of the American population. Moreover the trend will continue over the ensuing decades until White American identity, culture, traditions, Religion (Christianity), social mores/manners and institutions finally perish amidst a Black, Mexican, Salvadoran, Asian polyglot, racial/ ethnic dog breakfast. The process is actually already well underway in California, which is now becoming more of a revolting, Third World "S**T-Hole" (as the 45th POTUS would say) with every passing week !


    Trump is a White Nationalist, (NOT a racist) he is sympathetic to some of the core principles of "Alt-Right" (Alternative Right) political ideology. He is doing his utmost to stem the tide of immigration and get some big programs for the mass deportation of illegal immigrants, "DACA" Latinos, and criminal immigrants rolling. He has already chalked up some important successes .like the recently extended travel bans from violent Muslim -Majority states) but I'm sure you're aware of this and the numerous other measures he has already passed. You have to hand it to Trump, he works hard and really gets things done - I don't know where he gets all of his energy from, he's got the determination and stamina of a top-rank, Olympic marathon runner; or better, a professional boxer. His opponents keeps throwing punches at him below the belt, but he stands his ground, takes the hits and when they get him angry he lets loose with the big hay-makers - always boxing clever. He's got the raw guts of a George Foreman and the sassy confidence of a Muhammad Ali (the"Louisville Lip") dancing circles around the Dimocrats like Schiff, Schumer, Pelosi Nadler and the rest of the 2nd -raters. They 're just not in the Don's class.


    It saddens me greatly to see America struggling with the colossal burden of social damage that the political left has inflicted in your country since the 1960's. (I was actually born in America, but have spent most of my life since the age of five in Australia and England). I have always admired America as the leader and defender of the free world. America became the great, powerful, Republic that it is because the Founding Fathers were such intelligent and wise men. They viewed American national identity in racial/ethnic terms and sought to preserve the nation's predominantly White (European) IDENTITY. (Citizenship, they stipulated was to be available only to "free, White men...of good moral character"). America identity was both GENETIC heritage and CULTURAL inheritance. I see the two as being interwoven. By cultural inheritance I am referring to the achievements of Western culture, which is the world's superior culture, having developed the world's most advanced science and technology, most admirable architectures, most brilliant literary works, most beautiful pieces of artwork, preference for rational argument/debate, brilliant works of philosophy dating back to classical antiquity, music fugues by Handel and Beethoven, the Christian religion, Neil Armstrong walking on the moon in 1969, the brilliant and courageous theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, tradition of bold and daring exploration in the achievements of men like James Cook and Edmund Hillary and so on.


    Finally and very briefly, I say to any native White (European) Americans reading this...


    America was, until the last generation, a White (European) country, it was designed specifically for yourselves and your posterity. It is your creation and your inheritance, and it belongs to YOU. Don't surrender it without a fight !


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    Quote Originally Posted by Crocodile View Post
    People aren't really born stupid. Add in societies bs, parental prejudices, mind rotting entertainment, and schooling or lack thereof. Stupid is taught and learned.
    Of course environment plays a role, but a weak and malleable mind never figures out the truth on its own. Many people have the mental acumen to overcome the stupidity they have been taught unless they have been locked in a dungeon for their entire lives.
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    This is why our separation in all but name is necessary.


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