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Snowflowxxl said:
I graduated last year and was in the interview/application phase for a while when looking for a job. Let me tell you, white privilege is definitely nothing a thing in that process. If anything it’s the opposite.
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With this white privilege thing blowing up you would think the civil rights movement 5 decades ago was a complete failure. What the hell did MLK march for? All of the social programs meant to help black people and equal opportunity must have failed because here we are in 2020 talking about white privilege. At some point either the excuses need to end or some folks need to admit that they have been taken advantage of by their so called "leadership".
 
I'm the first one in my family to graduate from college and it took me 6 years to get a 4 year degree and 3 years to get a master's degree all because I was working while I was in school. After that I started a business. Because of my education and starting a business I had to put everything in life on hold. Nothing came easy just because I was white. But I chose to better myself and take the time necessary to do so.
 
Everybody wants color not to matter, but all anybody can talk about is color.

And dropping the Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben brands is stupid.

We will get what we deserve because we have lost any good sense that we ever had.
 
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frazdaddy said:
It's almost like a "Perfect Storm" Start with a very sharply divided country, add an extremely controversial leader sprinkle it with a worldwide pandemic, collapse the economy, create a situation where we need to address a couple of hundred years of social injustice during all of this, oh and heck lets have an election while we are at it. When, we come out of this we will be the strongest nation on the planet.

The prospect of the next 120 days makes me very happy I am in the middle of nowhere on a farm with no neighbors.
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I forgot to add, and do all this without sports....smh
 
Rain Cold said:
Everybody wants color not to matter, but all anyody can talk about is color.

And dropping the Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben brands is stupid.

We will get what we deserve because we have lost any good sense that we ever had.
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I've got one! Saw on Facebook today that wearing masks for any length of time causes brain damage and eventually death. But... don't doctors, nurses, and OR employees....
 
Went well for Dukakis too

A Gallup general election poll released July 26, 1988 gave Dukakis a 17-point lead over George H.W. Bush, the Republican nominee.

In fact, Gallup polls from May into August had Dukakis ahead against Bush, the sitting vice president, by comfortable margins.
 
White privilege is a thing , it’s not saying that because you are white you don’t have to work hard . It doesn’t null your hard work . It is a thing though solely based on the fact white people are the majority in this nation and western aka white nations are the centers of science , wealth, and power. To a degree an Arab in a majority Arab country has Arab privilege . African in African etc.

You grow up white it’s easier to fit in you have more people who look like you and by extent more people to network with. Your name is easy to pronounce , your considered generally safe in this nation. There’s more that goes along with it as well.

What if a black person with dreads and a name like Chaquan applies for a job? Let’s be real because I do it too, imma look at that guy and have my doubts on his character because in this society someone like that has a higher chance of being “ dangerous “ and “ unsafe”. But is that true to every black guy with dreads named Chaquan? Think about all the people named Tyrone, Chaquan, Laquisha etc who seem to fit the mold of a stereotype and as a result miss out . Is it fair to the Chaquans who work hard , have college degrees , and are law abiding citizens?

I will also agree white privilege has become an insult, a word used to take away from the achievements and hard work of white people. That’s the problem , the left wants to point out a problem or symptom of society and demonize somebody , as a result the right which is reactionary by definition resists . We are truly stuck y’all, knee deep in mud.
 
Brent said:
Went well for Dukakis too

A Gallup general election poll released July 26, 1988 gave Dukakis a 17-point lead over George H.W. Bush, the Republican nominee.

In fact, Gallup polls from May into August had Dukakis ahead against Bush, the sitting vice president, by comfortable margins.
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I swear I thought we covered this like 12 pages ago.
 
Brent said:
Went well for Dukakis too

A Gallup general election poll released July 26, 1988 gave Dukakis a 17-point lead over George H.W. Bush, the Republican nominee.

In fact, Gallup polls from May into August had Dukakis ahead against Bush, the sitting vice president, by comfortable margins.
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I wonder if those polls were taken before he did this..

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Every time I see it, it actually looks cringier.
 
GaWx said:
Yep, Trump creeping back up. I think it is the safety/law and order/police issue that may be bringing Trump back. So predictable.
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And it’s very possible Trump loses the national vote by 4-6 points and still wins the electoral college. Actually pretty likely when they get done counting the votes in Cali weeks later from the ballots in the trunk of automobiles.
 
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Remember when all Trump could do was hammer away at Clinton about emails ( and rightfully so )...though I suspect we see a lot of people who demanded Hillary's head for that, stay strangely quiet when Ivanka does the same exact thing...



 
Politico Agrees That Polls Are Underestimating Trump Just Like In 2016
By Ashe Schow
Jun 18th, 2020 DailyWire.com
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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump casts his vote on Election Day at PS 59 November 8, 2016 in New York City.
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We all recall that in 2016, polls consistently showed former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton with a comfortable to commanding lead over then-candidate Donald Trump. On election day, however, Trump crushed Clinton in the Electoral College.
Polls again show Trump losing to presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden. Trump has taken to reminding people about what happened four years ago, saying the polls are underestimating him. Now Politico appears to agree.









While the outlet contends that pollsters aren’t “deliberately skewing their surveys against the president and his party,” but says they “are still grappling with the problems that plagued those polls four years ago.” The problem is particularly concerning with polls in battleground states, Politico reported.
“In fact, most pollsters believe that, on balance, state polls are overstating the scale of Biden’s advantage. That was precisely the problem in 2016: The national polls were largely accurate, to within the margin of error. But there were too few state polls, and many of those that were conducted failed to collect accurate data, especially from white voters without college degrees in key swing states,” the outlet reported. “And those issues haven’t been fixed.”
Courtney Kennedy, director of research at the Pew Research Center, told Politico that concerns from 2016 are still valid.

“I would say that most, if not all, of the concerns that we expressed still hold — some to a lesser degree,” said Courtney Kennedy, who also helped write about the issues the polling industry faced in 2016. “But I think some of the fundamental, structural challenges that came to a head in 2016 are still in place in 2020.”
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Biden’s current lead over Trump is so large — over 8 percentage points in the national RealClearPolitics polling average, and an average advantage of 3 points or greater in Arizona, Florida, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — that a 2016-level polling error wouldn’t matter. A lead that large would probably guarantee Trump would be denied a second term, and even a polling miss on par with 2016 wouldn’t be enough to overcome it.
But that doesn’t mean the president’s standing is quite as dire as it looks on paper — the problem that pollsters identified in 2016 remains. Not enough surveys are being conducted in the battleground states, and those that exist are failing to account for a key political dynamic of modern politics, especially in the Trump era: the rapid movement of lower-income white voters to Republicans and upscale whites to Democrats.
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