Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General)

Even though Republicans hold majorities in both chambers of the Michigan Legislature, don’t look for Ms. Whitmer to be hitting the unemployment line any time soon.

Michigan House Speaker Lee Chatfield said Wednesday that impeachment efforts against Ms. Whitmer will go nowhere.

“It’s no secret that I disagree with a lot of what this governor has done. I’ve even taken the governor to court and won, because of how she dealt with COVID-19,” he told WWMT the day before the articles were introduced.

“But Republicans are not the party that impeaches someone because we disagree with them,” he said.

Progressives in San Francisco now rising up against asian meritocracy and STEM, claiming asian parents further asian supremacy by making their children work to hard, demoralizing black and latino children when asian parents objected to lottery based intake system at their school.

Twitter source showing BLM protester interrupting parent demo

Dont work hard in school now, thats racist.

Trump starts PEACEFUL transition of power: Source

Never listen to progressive hype ;)

Primarily, there is a tendency to lump Asian-American ethnic groups together and use the success of some groups, particularly East and South Asians — Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Indians — to represent the success of all groups. But the data reveals that other Asian groups are less financially successful, such as Laotian Americans and Hmong Americans, who, according the Center for American Progress, have a 39 and 54 percent child poverty rate relative to a national average of about 22 percent.

Homogenizing Asian Americans is a political tactic used to praise them as a way to shame other people of color, and perpetuates the idea that all Asian Americans oppose affirmative action when some also find these attacks troublesome.

It is a relationship of convenience. While the Justice Department may claim to care about fairness in investigating the supposed anti-Asian discrimination of affirmative action programs, white people do not always appreciate the place of Asian Americans in their supposed meritocracy. As their representation in the country’s top colleges increased, supposedly based on merit rather than affirmative action, white people used a variety of racist nicknames to express their displeasure with the possibility of being displaced by Asian Americans. The University of California Irvine became “University of Chinese Immigrants.” The Massachusetts Institute of Technology became “Made in Taiwan.” And the University of California Los Angeles became “University of Caucasians Living Among Asians.”

This reflects a complex web of racism that simultaneously serves to rhetorically lift Asian Americans over black Americans and Latinos while ensuring that they don’t rise too high above their station as minorities. This is evident in their overrepresentation at universities and in lower-level positions in the workplace but their vast underrepresentation in higher-level positions, a phenomenon dubbed the “bamboo ceiling.”

In combination, this history reveals the true disingenuousness of the Justice Department’s implicit claims that Asian Americans bolster the case against affirmative action. Instead, they are likely pawns in a larger agenda.

“Today, Asian-Americans are among the most prosperous, well-educated, and successful ethnic groups in America. What gives? It couldn’t possibly be that they maintained solid two-parent family structures, had social networks that looked after one another, placed enormous emphasis on education and hard work, and thereby turned false, negative stereotypes into true, positive ones, could it? It couldn’t be that all whites are not racists or that the American dream still lives?”

Sullivan’s piece, rife with generalizations about a group as vastly diverse as Asian-Americans, rightfully raised hackles. Not only inaccurate, his piece spreads the idea that Asian-Americans as a group are monolithic, even though parsing data by ethnicity reveals a host of disparities; for example, Bhutanese-Americans have far higher rates of poverty than other Asian populations, like Japanese-Americans. And at the root of Sullivan’s pernicious argument is the idea that black failure and Asian success cannot be explained by inequities and racism, and that they are one and the same; this allows a segment of white America to avoid any responsibility for addressing racism or the damage it continues to inflict.

“Sullivan’s comments showcase a classic and tenacious conservative strategy,” Janelle Wong, the director of Asian American Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park, said in an email. This strategy, she said, involves “1) ignoring the role that selective recruitment of highly educated Asian immigrants has played in Asian American success followed by 2) making a flawed comparison between Asian Americans and other groups, particularly Black Americans, to argue that racism, including more than two centuries of black enslavement, can be overcome by hard work and strong family values.”

 
Regarding the whole “White people alive today must apologise for slavery in the past” strawman:
 

There are so many white people that just do not grasp that no one really wants us to “apologize for slavery”, the issue is that white people still benefit from slavery while black people still suffer from it.

For literal centuries, black people were enslaved, meaning they had no economic prospects whatsoever, no means of building up generational wealth.

And then, for decades after that, they were kept out of lucrative jobs, positions of power, education, richer neighborhoods, etc. This again made it near impossible for them to build generational wealth. And in the event that some black people did manage to rise above their station and accumulate wealth, guess what happened.

Then throw in the overpolicing, stuff like the war on drugs that was actually just a pretext to keep arresting black people. Why? Because of this little loophole built into the thirteenth amendment:

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

Basically, black people have been consistently denied opportunities to accumulate wealth and kept in ghettos that, due to the forced poverty, became riddled with crime and drugs, and then they were arrested in disproportionate numbers to keep the slavery machine going.

Now the reason I keep mentioning generational wealth is that it’s a major indicator of how well you’re going to do in life. If your parents own property and have a lot of money saved up, they can leave that stuff to you so you can build on it and leave it to your children and so on. You can also use that wealth to give your children a better education, giving them a chance at a lucrative career and making them less likely to become involved in crime.

So do you really think that centuries of denial of opportunities to build wealth has no impact on black people today? The Civil Rights Act was passed in the 60s. That’s in living memory. There are lots of people living today who grew up during segregation. What are the chances that they were able to accumulate enough wealth to give their children a better life? Keep in mind that racism didn’t suddenly stop being a thing at that point either. It was still affecting black people’s opportunities, even if not through direct legal means.

So that’s what happened to the descendants of slaves. Meanwhile, what do you think happened to the slaver owners? Why, they kept their wealth, of course. The kept their wealth and property and passed it down through the generations to today’s rich white kids who literally directly benefit from slavery.

But it’s not just them. Even if you didn’t benefit directly from slavery, you still benefited from your ancestors not being enslaved and having opportunities that black people didn’t have. We’re all privileged in that way.

@Dustcan
You are forgetting Kobe Bryant.

 
Ben Garrison already knocked it out of the park with this image, no need for anything else  

1. Trump isn’t a declared candidate in the state of Georgia. All it’s gonna do is produce null ballots that won’t count for the Republican candidates.  
2. The runoff is scheduled for January 5, three weeks after the Electoral College vote.  
   It’s not gonna work, you’re panicking over nothing (reminds me of another user of this thread from a while ago oh, it’s you again).