Comments by "Ash Roskell" (@ashroskell) on "Rebel HQ" channel.

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  20. I read that book. And I despair. Here is a prime example. Two men, a politician and a senior cop, disagreeing over, “defunding the police.” Neither man knows what the term means, nor realises that they both want precisely the same thing. Either out of deliberate obtuseness, conspiracy, or sheer ignorance, they have not got a definition of the term to hand. Ask either one of them, “Would you prefer a well funded, well equipped, well staffed police force to solve crimes, prevent crimes and catch criminals? Or are you happy to see the expanded use of the police as psychiatric nurses, social workers, corporate goon body guards and bailiffs for the banks, collecting debts and turning poor people out of their homes?” They would BOTH give the same answer! They BOTH want, “defunding,” but . . . Do they? . . . They’re either the dumbest people to be put in charge of anything, or corporate stooges, right? What other possibility is there? Even the name, “defunding,” sounds like the opposite of what it means, and was SO BOUND to trigger unthinking people, who never look sh*t up! Talk about ASKING to be misunderstood? Reform will have to come from the ground up, with better terms to define the debate. I’ve never, in all my years, seen such an obvious misunderstanding getting so much fuel from such egregiously idiotic, “leaders,” in such an obviously callous exploitation of ignorance. It’s problem that America does NOT WANT to solve. Too much MONEY to be lost . . . And little honor to be found.
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  27. That’s kind of missing the point though. Everyone’s aware that the color of your skin changes your life opportunities and it changes the individual’s expectations of justice and equity. To analyse how that works, from cradle to the grave, is a noble endeavour, so long as it is done with earnest, honest integrity and intent. Once it is given a, “name,” it becomes a straw man, for people to attack, because they don’t understand it. And you can guarantee that anyone who is, “against CRT,” is speaking from a position of ignorance: 100% of the time. So, to get bogged down in its origin story, is as misguided as arguing over who started The Beer Hall Putsch on the beaches of Normandy on D Day. No one is teaching it. It’s not on the curriculum. Academics argue that it should, “inform,” teaching methods, and is something that educators should know about when teaching; in the same way that people are taught to be aware of racism, sexism and oppression in general. It’s not a thesis. It’s not a formal discipline. It’s an idea about awareness. As ever, the GOP are mischaracterising something, for the sake of creating a shadow to box with. Because they dare not deal with ANY policy in a substantive manner. To do so could only lead to the revelation that they not only NEVER serve the public good, but that they are the CAUSE of the public’s harm. So, with respect. Learn what it is and pay more attention to the content of the, “thing,” than when and where it manifested? I could tell you a lot about Copenhagen, Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein, but that wouldn’t tell you anything about Physics, or the Copenhagen Interpretation. See what I mean?
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