Why are Asian-Americans so successful in America?

Jesus Christ, dick, you truly are a piece of work. So the same guy who earlier in this thread was giving us posts like this:

is now posting this:

First it's "we have to do better by them, it's our fault and our duty...", but now it's "you know, does it really even matter..." Well, hell, then why have you been ranting and bleating N-words at us for 40-something pages? Why'd you try so obsessively to make it the focus of this thread when that's really not even what the topic was about?

And, btw, if someone else had posted your most recent post about 20 pages back when you were still in your full raving mode, I'm guessin you would've given a response implying they were a bad person and/or racist for thinking it was just fine for blacks to be stuck at the bottom. Might've even tossed an N-word at em to boot.

 

Oh, piss off.

Yes, I think we have to "do better by them."

But I'm acknowledging that maybe everyone else doesn't feel the same way, hence the divide. Believe it or not, I'm pretty open-minded to people's thoughts and arguments. If someone wants to explain to me why they don't think this should even matter, I'm game to listen. Always have been, about anything.

What am I supposed to do? If I'm rigid, you get pissy about it. If I earnestly seek alternative opinions and express an interest in taking them seriously, you get pissy about that, too.

 

Dick, just be happy on this glorious 10th anniversary.

 

Ugly people are at a disadvantage. Should we do better by them?
Overweight people are at a disadvantage. Should we do better by them?
Less intelligent people are at a disadvantage. Should we do better by them?

Where do we draw the line? And should there even be a line?

 

I am not sure I understand this, but I have a better understanding of why rich people hate the government.

 

There's no doubt a lot of people aren't bothered by it.

"Fuck you, I got mine" is very much alive and well in this country, and transcends racial barriers.

 

It has nothing to do with investment per se. If I make the same amount of money as Joe and Jill, pay taxes on it, decide to spend the untaxed part on lottery tickets, hit it huge for millions, I still will be paying additional taxes on my lottery winnings, even though I used my already-taxed salary to pay for it instead of saving.

And why is it the way it is? Look at history. Why did the income tax first begin, and why it was increased for the wealthiest. It was done because a large amount of hungry people were getting angry at the Rockefellers and Fricks for not only accumulating vast amounts of wealth, but by paying off cops to kill them when they protested that they wanted a few cents more an hour. And the government was trying to show the masses that they were trying to be somewhat fair so that socialists wouldn't get voted in office en masse and tear down the entire capitalist system.

 

Even the dyed-in-the-wool progressives on SJ.com subscribe to some version of "Fuck you, I got mine!."

Check your privilege!!

 

That's true, if you're one of those stupid companies that, you know, actually pays taxes. Many don't.

Merck received a net TAX CREDIT in the second quarter of 2014 . . . even as its income rose 52 percent to $1.9 billion during the quarter. Really feel for those poor "double taxed" folks over there.

 

"What if Reconstruction hadn't failed?"

There is little reason to doubt that if the United States had started the process of rewriting the script on race relations during the late 19th century, instead of delaying it to the 1950s and 1960s, many problems that have their origins in the country’s troubled racial history might be closer to resolution. As Justice Thurgood Marshall noted in 1978 in the affirmative action case, The Regents of University of California v. Bakke, America has been dealing with the tragedy of Reconstruction’s failure and its aftermath for decades now. It appears that the country will likely be doing so for the foreseeable future.

What If Reconstruction Hadn't Failed?

 

I have a problem with this concept. I am spitballing, but I am guessing the average (white/latino/asian or any other classification above black americans on the pecking order) don't really think about blacks. They are just working day to day, trying to get by. Its Mazlow's hierarchy of needs. They are just making sure their mortgage gets paid, and their children aren't falling behind. They don't have time to worry about the black situation as well.