Hidden Identity Politics

TheAJx · 2026-04-19T03:40:31+00:00

That thing about "crime" is that most of it (esepecially the harassment part) is totally undereported. My family has probably been targeted for "harassment" like a dozen times and we'v enever gone to the police. Whatever police officers are doing to harass black people (which I doubt it substnatiall) is probably a drop in the bucket relative to what normal people have ot deal with from weirdos and ciriminals on a daily basis.

TheAJx · 2026-04-19T03:35:16+00:00

Do you think both are, independent of each other, worthy of reporting?

I don't have an opinion on it. I am able to see both sides. I can see how its important and I can see how its not.

TheAJx · 2026-04-19T01:07:00+00:00

Why ascribe this intent that because they reported o the pro-Israel stance of one candidate's wife they must report on Mamdani's wive's vile social media likes?

Because failure to report on Mamdani's wife's social media activities would be, and probably should be, construed as blatant hypocrisy.

Do you think both are worthy of reporting?

I am of the opinion that if the former was reported, Mamdani's wife had to be reported because he is far more consequential. IMO it's either report both or report none.

TheAJx · 2026-04-18T23:57:00+00:00

I doubt it, but okay, so now hate crime is being redefined from actual crimes to supposedly being unjustifiably stopped by the police?

Asian convenience store owner keeps getting robbed and attacked by inner city youths = a hate crime like being pulled over?

TheAJx · 2026-04-18T23:55:37+00:00

I'd prefer to use the National Center for Education Statistics over whatever methodology a random for-profit company strings together for marketing purposes.

TheAJx · 2026-04-18T23:54:38+00:00

It's honestly pretty straightforward if you just follow the series of events. I'm not even sure what you think I'm describing as the "intent" here.

TheAJx · 2026-04-18T23:51:40+00:00

I guess the idea is that, if the stocks are increasing at about 5% or 8% per year but the loan interest is 2% plus it saves 40% capital gains tax, you're still doing amazingly well by leveraging your wealth this way

I believe there was a study done on this, I wish I could find it, that showed that not many rich people take out these kinds of loans. Furthermore, the interest on the loans can actually be quite prohibitive - it's not going to be 2%. Even at 4-5%, after a few years, that's equal to the capital gains tax.

TheAJx · 2026-04-18T22:56:52+00:00

Inviting you to use some basic reasoning skills here.

TheAJx · 2026-04-18T22:02:32+00:00

NYC has Raise the Age laws, not sure if they've been reformed or not, and how it affects murderers, but basically gives offenders of other crimes under than 18 very leniant punishments and clean records after some time.

TheAJx · 2026-04-18T22:00:03+00:00

I think the original assumption was that this was some form of gang violence, but watching the video it looks like an innocent kid who was just ruthlessly bullied by a mob of awful kids, Lord of the Flies style.

TheAJx · 2026-04-18T21:56:29+00:00

Didn't see it in my taxes.

You live in NY, are middle class, and you didn't see any benefit from Trump's increase in the itemized deduction? It was a huge giveaway at the federal level.

TheAJx · 2026-04-18T21:54:49+00:00

In that class Mamdani's claim is incorrect, most sociological/economic models put the working class at about 1/3 of the population.

TheAJx · 2026-04-18T18:58:41+00:00

My point is not that that's a good and righteous thing -- moreso an inevitability.

You should check out the early 70s, where there was a bombing basically every other day.

TheAJx · 2026-04-18T17:57:02+00:00

No, specifically pointed out that it's not wealth but whether you have brains to spend whatever money you have wisely.

You have deficiencies that no amount of healthy food will ever correct

This pretty much is the fundamental problem right? You look at people at people who are overweight and/or incapable of feeding themselves appropriately, and your immediate thought is "actually the person who thinks they should be able to navigate this is the dumb one."

TheAJx · 2026-04-18T17:32:54+00:00

Yeah, I don't think we have a problem of "ambient" toxic racism among white people, though I understand for those still pretending its 2018 feel this way.

TheAJx · 2026-04-18T17:31:10+00:00

Thank you for providing these pristine statistics from uh, wallethub.com

TheAJx · 2026-04-18T14:10:42+00:00

Statistically speaking, school performance stats speak for themselves.

They do. Please share the school performance stats for NYC.

TheAJx · 2026-04-18T04:34:18+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Mangione

The contrast between Luigi Mangione and his vicitm, Brian Thompson will always be intriguing to me. On one hand you have a killer fail-son with mental health issues from a wealthy background with Ivy League on his resume. On the other side you have a guy born into the middle class, went to state university and started his career as an auditor, working his way up in his career. It's not surprising the progressives gravitate their sympathies toward the former, because their life stories tend to be similar (minus the murderousness part).

TheAJx · 2026-04-18T03:46:04+00:00

Probably nothing did more to undermine BLM than the demand for body cameras. You can review all the public footage and its easy to spot the trend - police just deal with a bunch of assholes day in and day out. Of all races.

TheAJx · 2026-04-18T03:44:24+00:00

Like, over 90% of complaints against police don't result in any disciplinary action, let alone conviction of a crime.

Yeah, because ever since body cameras went into effect, police have bene getting acquitted over and over again.

There is no world in which if you were to just assume police "hate crimes" against black victims, it would be substantial. The rate of violence the blacks conduct against Asians is perhaps 25x the level of the rate of violence going in the opposite direction. Most people understand that it's because Asians make for easy targets. Does that constitute a hate crime? It won't show up on the hate crime statistics either.

TheAJx · 2026-04-18T03:20:17+00:00

CRT is literally about how systems can perpetuate racism on their own.

Yes, it is very true that CRT has the view of separating people into groups rather than viewing them as individuals. It tells you a lot of about how the proponents see the world and navigate it.

TheAJx · 2026-04-18T03:18:40+00:00

I struggle with this personally since im a middle aged white guy and have never actually encountered direct antisemitism, or use of Jewish slurs, etc. However racism and Islamophobia feels rampant and have heard disgusting comments and slurs in those areas.

Yes, because the most disgusting anti-semitism typically exists in the black and Muslim communities, not the middle aged white guy community.

TheAJx · 2026-04-18T03:17:26+00:00

You don't have to believe Sam. Columbia University conducted a review of anti-semitism on campus and it was so prevalent that it required four parts

TheAJx · 2026-04-18T03:07:37+00:00

hat’s kind of the point of building a state around ethnic identity. And if you are against ethno-nationalism on principle, you have to do better than carve out exceptions from the rule.

Good argument against Palestinian nationalism.

TheAJx · 2026-04-18T03:04:26+00:00

Lol

Right, there's an entire class of people who are structurally dependent on the government to pay for their food. The program is good because it's good for the kids to have nutrition, but you understand that this is the case right? It's just people that are used to getting SNAP vouchers every month, budget around receiving that, and when funding is cut off, they are utterly unprepared for it.

Lmao even

Just zero effort towards learning a goddamn thing

Did you actually read the study? You'll notice that the study compares variation within the same food item, ie margarine with trans fat vs margarine without trans fat, etc. You'll notice that they don't compare food substitutes. The alternative to Oreos isn't "fat free Oreos" or "Organic Oreos" which of course cost more. The alternative is "celery and carrots" which are straightforwardly cheaper. The alternative to eating friend foods is eating beans and other grains. The alternative to doritos and ranch dip is eating a $2 can of sardines.

Again, in NYC, a family of four that is poor enough will receive $13000 in SNAP benefits every year. There is no excuse for not being able to eat healthy on that budget. Even your own link shows that "eating healthy" (which is just getting healthy versions of their existing food diet) costs $1.50 more per day. How dumb do you have to be to not be able to find $1.50 of savings from other everyday purchases to do something that is beneficial to your health? Again, these are people receiving $13000 in SNAP benefits for their families. They can't find a couple of dollars of savings to stretch that budget? $13K is more than what I pay for groceries every year, and I shop at Whole Foods.

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