Vote for Trump = Racist!

Let's try this with basketball.

Say there are ten players, and each player has their own basket somewhere around the edge of the court. The players each play for themselves, trying to get the ball into their basket as many times as they can, and maybe also trying to prevent other players from getting the ball into their own baskets.

Then say five of the players agree among themselves that they are going to have only one basket and work together as a team to try to get the ball into that basket, and to prevent the other players from getting the ball into their own respective baskets. And, because they are playing as a team, they feel that each time their team gets the ball into their team's basket, it means as much to each team member as it does for the individual players when they get the ball into their own basket.

At the end of a period of play, who do you think will have the most points? The five players who are playing individually, or the five players who are playing as a team?

Lay out the assumptions under which that is the case.

It's crazy that when I read this I honestly wasn't sure if you were talking about the left or the right.  

Then I saw it was you posting so I *assumed* you mean the right.

And yet ... I know you're a bit more informed than the average leftist ... so I'm still not sure.

Queshank

We could do all kinds of stuff if wishes were horses.

But they're not, and the reality is that blacks are playing as a team against whites, and whites are playing as individuals and so they keep losing.

We can try to convince whites to play on the black team against whites, and in many cases that is working and has happened, so that whites end up playing on a team against their own individual interests.

Or we can try to convince blacks to play individually or to switch to the white team. I don't think we'll have much luck at that. The wind is blowing much more the other direction, so that blacks are becoming more and more team-like.

The way I see it, the only way forward is for whites to admit which way the wind is blowing and start playing as team white.

It's not my ideal, but it's what we are faced with because the other side is playing a team sport and show no sign of stopping.

It wouldn't be the first time in history for blacks to score a win. They've been scoring wins continually for decades. It just doesn't show up in current statistics because the blacks are unable to turn their wins to account. After desegregating schools, anti-discrimination laws, affirmative action, etc., blacks are still twice as unemployed and making only 60% the white incomes, the same as they were 70 years ago. And after 70 more years of policy whack-a-mole, how do you think things will be? Probably about the same? Meanwhile, for whites, the schools have gone bad, whites are chased from neighborhood to neighborhood, and they are affirmatively discriminated against in education and hiring. It's win after win for the blacks and loss after loss for the whites. And it's not going to stop.

That's the silliest thing you've said in a long time.

I tend to sneer at the 1619 project but it is clear some sort of history lesson is in order.