Lurker > averagejoel

Leave landlord crusade for Shab please.

How is it not an inherent part of that? Because they have the option of hiring someone else to do the labour?

Management involves all the paperwork, the handling all those workers, complying with federal standards, etc etc etc. Just because they don't do the physical work doesn't mean they aren't working.

Management is 100% a job.

It can be and it can't be. I'm sure some manage to put in comparable hours per week in property maintenance, while some are simply supplying the space and have others to do the maintenance (or are shitty ones who do no maintenance).

By that logic, being in project management, budgeting, accounting, risk management, etc., isn't actual labor either. You really going to invalidate tons of jobs like that?

I really don't understand CE's irrational hate for landlords.

it's possible for gay people to be homophobic, but Elton John seems like one of the most publicly self-accepting gay dudes out there, with much love for the community

She looks familiar

Doesn't matter how hot.

Also I don't see how repeating over and over that people are primarily meant to define themselves through a racial lens could possibly do anything but that.

If you emphasize race over individuality, particularly to children, particularly if you create a narrative of oppressors/victims it's going to create separation.

Underlining was the wrong word, more like "encouraging/emphasizing" racial divisions.

Some of the high school students then echoed his objections. Im so exhausted with being reduced to my race, a girl said. The first step of antiracism is to racialize every single dimension of my identity. Another girl added: Fighting indoctrination with indoctrination can be dangerous.

So there was literally nothing bad about the article, but because of how I bolded it, you object?

I'm guessing you want to call the article "white nationalist propaganda" but you realize that would make you look silly so your only tactic is attacking the messenger, even when I share it verbatim.

A school or organization where whites are doing better is not by definition white supremacist.

I never said it wasn't. I've argued though that CRT-lite's emphasis on underlining racial divisions and encouraging segregation exacerbates, not heals the problem.

Is The New York Times white nationalist propaganda to you?

What will you satisfy you then?

No, because there are plenty of businesses, no matter which type of business you're looking for, that treat their workers fine. If that is a concern to you you don't have to shop at Walmart or Amazon, etc. And in the near future we have the strong possibility of workers that are typically treated poorly (such as retail workers and restaurant workers) being replaced by AI.

The way Walmart treats its workers is considered in its share valuation tho. In fact if you think that Walmart's business model isn't sustainable because all the employees could just walk out one day, them don't invest in them.

So you're calling financial markets pyramid schemes in other words?

Ok... I don't agree with you, but if the economy ever collapsed, having a job wouldn't even matter. So you're better off assuming it won't collapse and hoping you don't get unlucky.

I'd say it's harder to find an enjoyable job where you are treated well and make great pay and benefits.

I'm sure he has a team of investors who are doing him right.

If he invested all his money in a relatively safe ETF or mutual fund I'm sure he could be a billionaire within a decade or two. For the average person who could become a millionaire, it would take multiple generations before reaching billionaire status is realistically possible. But it is possible and it's the easiest way by far.

The reason why most people aren't interested in this is because it's a Get Rich Slow method, but unlike Get Rich Quick methods it is mathematically proven. You can try some different numbers here:

https://dqydj.com/etf-return-calculator/

Look, it upsets me to no end that people use the term "literally" when they mean figuratively. But I've made my peace that some people do that, and I understand what they mean when they say it. Unlike that scenario, with CRT there isn't another word that people have in common usage that refers to these classroom teachings.

I'll grant it's imperfect, but it's functional and it's undeniably caught on to refer to these things. So until an effective alternative comes out, I think it's best to just make peace with the meaning of how people are currently using the term so the nuts and bolts of the discussion can be had.

So you and I aren't even that far off then, we both agree that teachings like these can be a problem and possibly not something we should be teaching children, we just disagree on the prevalence.

I do know what it says. I've seen interviews from him, and summaries with direct quotes.

I don't, I hear stories from many sources and have seen official documents released from schools.

Do you think no schools are in the name of Kendi-esque "anti-racism" doing exercises and teaching lessons specifically based around dividing people based on race? Or do you just think such things are good?

I disagree, because "Critical Race Theory" doesn't have a inherent negative connotation like communism did in those days, and thus labeling the classroom teachings which are derived from people like Kendi (who got their ideas from CRT), isn't a "trick" but just an organic term evolution.

If anything Kendi calling his particular ideology "anti-racism" is much more of a bad faith gaslight. Because many will weaponize it and act like opposing Kendi's perspective by definition makes you racist.

"Anti 'Anti-Racist'? By definition that's racist!" As if the contents of Kendi's arguments are irrelevant to that calculations.

1. that you don't actually know what kids are being taught in schools
2. that you don't know anything about Kendi's work

Some of the stuff they do in classrooms is entirely different than "pointing out racism" it actually encourages racial divisions. It is either bad faith or bad reading comprehension to just pretend all of these divisive things are in service of racial or human harmony.

I dont know why people are giving you shit about this. If you pay any attention to the look how not woke I am people, this is exactly how they use the term. They may or may not have an inkling of what critical race theory actually is, but Kendi and DiAngelo are exactly who they have in mind, not Kimberle Crenshaw. Its amusing to watch progressives and conservatives go after each other about CRT because they have entirely different ideas of what the term means.

Wow, somebody doesn't like being corrected.

These days that term is used to refer not only to the original texts but the ideas and books that are descendants of those texts. Books like "White Fragility" and "How to be an Anti-Racist" are "CRT" in common language, and the ideas they push, particularly when taught as factual truth in classrooms are what most people mean when they say "CRT in schools".

Is CRT just remembering that black people exist?

all you need is to calculate 1+1.
so, it should be: "after being isekai'd, which situation would you rather be in ?"

You know how people keep saying part of our society's issue is that they try to make everything political?

Progressive as people who are trying to make things better.

The service is that as tenant you don't have to do any repairs/yard work/ shoveling. It is a landlords obligation to either do all that stuff themselves or pay someone to do it.

And yeah rent might be around the same as a mortgage, but you forget you would now be paying property tax in addition as well as home insurance and any utilities that would have been part of your rent. This on top of now having to deal with your own repairs/upkeep costs/yard work/etc. Owning a home is by far more expensive of the two, the difference being you can sell the home and hope to get more then you paid.

Star Wars Original Trilogy. Mark Hamill. Face it, young Mark Hamill was an atrocious actor.

Its kind of like billionaire hate. There are plenty of legitimate reasons to hate the system, but it generally seems to be the uninformed mobbing at their heels.

Could we solve World Hunger if we tried really hard?

Uh yes, it is. As the landlord you are legally required to keep the house/apartment in working livable condition. If something breaks you can either pay someone to fix it or you can do it yourself. If you are notified and you refuse to have something fixed your tenant, by law, does not need to pay you until it is fixed.

those people don't think you have to do those things

Who would be giving out support if everyone stayed at home? Plus you would need hospital workers to still work, as well as emergency services, grocery store employees, and medical manufacturing. Not to mention some semblance of the court system as you can't just leave people locked up for weeks.

This was never going to be eliminated considering by the time people were showing symptoms they had already been spreading it around for days.