Fauci ignorantly asserts racism contributes to higher corona death rate among blacks

[Smyrna]

If a body mass index can be considered racial, then the virus is racist.

Isn’t it weird that eating an abundance of food, is now the PC label of poverty?

[FloridaYankee]

@zantax

Odd, after I made a decision to escape poverty, it took around five years to do it.

Nice meaningless anecdote.

[zantax]

@FloridaYankee

@zantax

Odd, after I made a decision to escape poverty, it took around five years to do it.

Nice meaningless anecdote.

How is it meaningless? The path I took out of poverty is available to everyone.

[Smyrna]

@FloridaYankee

Nice meaningless anecdote.

No…we are born to the two people that created us. The difference from that point on is what leads to the greatest probability of economic success…or failure. If you want to truly identify the largest contributing factor to economic failure, it’s the guidance given by the parents. The biggest problem is not an external one…it’s an internal one.

[gooddad409]

@zantax

@NuffSaid

@zantax

@johnwk2

@Sknyluv

Healthy equity is a real thing.

Huh?

JWK

They are not “liberals” or “progressives”. The Democrat Party Leadership is infested with notoriously evil communists and socialists who delude, lure and addict our nations needy with free government cheese used to buy votes which keeps the needy and underprivileged enslaved and dependent.

You know, lib academics. They are poor, because racism, not because they made bad choices, therefore any health disparity of outcome is also because they are poor and there you have it, they are unhealthy not because they chose not to exercise and eat badly. But because racists.

So the only reason people are poor is because of bad choices? That’s it?
Sounds like you solved that socioeconomic conundrum.

No, not all, just most.

Exactly. Most.

[gooddad409]

@zantax

@FloridaYankee

@zantax

Odd, after I made a decision to escape poverty, it took around five years to do it.

Nice meaningless anecdote.

How is it meaningless? The path I took out of poverty is available to everyone.

It is available. I suspect it is “meaningless” because it doesn’t fit the rhetoric or talking pts.

[FloridaYankee]

@zantax

@FloridaYankee

@zantax

Odd, after I made a decision to escape poverty, it took around five years to do it.

Nice meaningless anecdote.

How is it meaningless? The path I took out of poverty is available to everyone.

Because a lot of people are not aware of that fact or think it’s a lie. They need to be reached somehow, through mentoring or whatever it takes. They literally just don’t know how to lift themselves out of their situation. Not just blacks, but millions of poor people everywhere.

[FloridaYankee]

@Smyrna

@FloridaYankee

Nice meaningless anecdote.

No…we are born to the two people that created us. The difference from that point on is what leads to the greatest probability of economic success…or failure. If you want to truly identify the largest contributing factor to economic failure, it’s the guidance given by the parents. The biggest problem is not an external one…it’s an internal one.

I don’t disagree. Like I said, they just don’t know what to do to lift themselves out of a bad situation.

[FloridaYankee]

@Smyrna

@FloridaYankee

Nice meaningless anecdote.

No…we are born to the two people that created us. The difference from that point on is what leads to the greatest probability of economic success…or failure. If you want to truly identify the largest contributing factor to economic failure, it’s the guidance given by the parents. The biggest problem is not an external one…it’s an internal one.

HOWEVER. How they got there in the first place is quite often an external one and goes back to pre CRA days.

[zantax]

@FloridaYankee

@zantax

@FloridaYankee

@zantax

Odd, after I made a decision to escape poverty, it took around five years to do it.

Nice meaningless anecdote.

How is it meaningless? The path I took out of poverty is available to everyone.

Because a lot of people are not aware of that fact or think it’s a lie. They need to be reached somehow, through mentoring or whatever it takes. They literally just don’t know how to lift themselves out of their situation. Not just blacks, but millions of poor people everywhere.

Finding a library isn’t that challenging. The information is also readily available online.

[Smyrna]

@FloridaYankee

I don’t disagree. Like I said, they just don’t know what to do to lift themselves out of a bad situation.

I disagree. Life’s a bitch and so we have choices to make…are we going to build our house out of straw, sticks or bricks? This applies to all important decisions. Getting an education is a big one but since many in public schools have never learned self discipline…what did the schools choose to do? They built their house out of straw and removed the ability of a teacher being able to discipline the student. The reason they went that route is due to the parent siding with the child…and once again…we circle back around to…the parents. You’ll find this pattern repeating itself over and over. Now think back to your own self and what would have happened to you, if the school informed your parents about your bad behavior. I’d have said, please beat me but don’t call my parents. How about you?

[FloridaYankee]

@zantax

@FloridaYankee

@zantax

@FloridaYankee

@zantax

Odd, after I made a decision to escape poverty, it took around five years to do it.

Nice meaningless anecdote.

How is it meaningless? The path I took out of poverty is available to everyone.

Because a lot of people are not aware of that fact or think it’s a lie. They need to be reached somehow, through mentoring or whatever it takes. They literally just don’t know how to lift themselves out of their situation. Not just blacks, but millions of poor people everywhere.

Finding a library isn’t that challenging. The information is also readily available online.

Yup, the old bootstraps BS. If you lived in poverty for a time you should know better than most how woefully uninformed people can be, as well as ill equipped to improve their station in life. You probably had a mentor to look up to for example. Someone in your life who helped you believe you could do it.

[FloridaYankee]

@Smyrna

@FloridaYankee

I don’t disagree. Like I said, they just don’t know what to do to lift themselves out of a bad situation.

I disagree. Life’s a bitch and so we have choices to make…are we going to build our house out of straw, sticks or bricks? This applies to all important decisions. Getting an education is a big one but since many in public schools have never learned self discipline…what did the schools choose to do? They built their house out of straw and removed the ability of a teacher being able to discipline the student. The reason they went that route is due to the parent siding with the child…and once again…we circle back around to…the parents. You’ll find this pattern repeating itself over and over. Now think back to your own self and what would have happened to you, if the school informed your parents about your bad behavior. I’d have said, please beat me but don’t call my parents. How about you?

I already agreed with you that parenting is perhaps the biggest issue of all.

[markdido]

@FloridaYankee

@zantax

@FloridaYankee

@zantax

Odd, after I made a decision to escape poverty, it took around five years to do it.

Nice meaningless anecdote.

How is it meaningless? The path I took out of poverty is available to everyone.

Because a lot of people are not aware of that fact or think it’s a lie. They need to be reached somehow, through mentoring or whatever it takes. They literally just don’t know how to lift themselves out of their situation. Not just blacks, but millions of poor people everywhere.

Then we’re teaching them the wrong things in school.

[FloridaYankee]

@markdido

@FloridaYankee

@zantax

@FloridaYankee

@zantax

Odd, after I made a decision to escape poverty, it took around five years to do it.

Nice meaningless anecdote.

How is it meaningless? The path I took out of poverty is available to everyone.

Because a lot of people are not aware of that fact or think it’s a lie. They need to be reached somehow, through mentoring or whatever it takes. They literally just don’t know how to lift themselves out of their situation. Not just blacks, but millions of poor people everywhere.

Then we’re teaching them the wrong things in school.

Some schools, sure. Mostly underperforming inner city schools. Suburban and rural schools are generally doing a decent job. If you take out the relatively few underperforming ■■■■ hole schools, the stats bear this out. Parenting is a much more critical issue.

[zantax]

@markdido

@FloridaYankee

@zantax

@FloridaYankee

@zantax

Odd, after I made a decision to escape poverty, it took around five years to do it.

Nice meaningless anecdote.

How is it meaningless? The path I took out of poverty is available to everyone.

Because a lot of people are not aware of that fact or think it’s a lie. They need to be reached somehow, through mentoring or whatever it takes. They literally just don’t know how to lift themselves out of their situation. Not just blacks, but millions of poor people everywhere.

Then we’re teaching them the wrong things in school.

It was certainly taught to me when I went to public school. Have they stopped teaching people to stay in school and stay off drugs? Have they stopped teaching contraception?

[Smyrna]

@FloridaYankee

I already agreed with you that parenting is perhaps the biggest issue of all.

The social programs designed to be a helping hand, have actually helped create this new phenomenon. Maybe this should be reexamined?

Personally…I’d recommend something along a bonus for the family when a child on public assistance gets good grades. I’d like to motivate good behavior vs just financing and encouraging poor behavior.

[zantax]

@FloridaYankee

@zantax

@FloridaYankee

@zantax

@FloridaYankee

@zantax

Odd, after I made a decision to escape poverty, it took around five years to do it.

Nice meaningless anecdote.

How is it meaningless? The path I took out of poverty is available to everyone.

Because a lot of people are not aware of that fact or think it’s a lie. They need to be reached somehow, through mentoring or whatever it takes. They literally just don’t know how to lift themselves out of their situation. Not just blacks, but millions of poor people everywhere.

Finding a library isn’t that challenging. The information is also readily available online.

Yup, the old bootstraps BS. If you lived in poverty for a time you should know better than most how woefully uninformed people can be, as well as ill equipped to improve their station in life. You probably had a mentor to look up to for example. Someone in your life who helped you believe you could do it.

No, all I had were a few brain cells to rub together and a problem. The problem being, not making enough money. It didn’t take a rocket scientist Or a mentor to find out how millions of other people solved the same problem.

What I learned from my poverty stricken peers was that sitting on the couch in the evening drinking beer and complaining about being poor never lifted any of them out of poverty.

[FloridaYankee]

@Smyrna

@FloridaYankee

I already agreed with you that parenting is perhaps the biggest issue of all.

The social programs designed to be a helping hand, have actually helped create this new phenomenon. Maybe this should be reexamined?

Personally…I’d recommend something along a bonus for the family when a child on public assistance gets good grades. I’d like to motivate good behavior vs just financing and encouraging poor behavior.

Yes to some extent, yes, and yes.

[Smyrna]

@FloridaYankee

Yes to some extent, yes, and yes.

We’re making headway my friend. Keep it up and you’ll get an invite to come sit on the Yeti.

…that’s where I keep my l’il bong where after the day is done, I go sit and…contemplate.