Comments by "Rusty Shackleford" (@POCKET-SAND) on "Explaining America’s Nine Nations part 1" video.

I'm from rural Pennsylvania. The f*** is an erotic cake?
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It kind of it
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You obviously have no idea what CRT actually is.
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@StirFryLP Then as a teacher, you of all people should know CRT has no place in schools.
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The unions made the cost of production too expensive, prompting companies to outsource. What he said is true, most lower-class Socialist-minded people have a weak understanding of how economics works. It was the post-war economic prosperity of the late 40s and 50s that largely created the modern middle class. And unions in Pennsylvania are super corrupt.
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@andzzz2 No, the post-war years brought about the prosperity of the 1950s, unions had virtually nothing to do with it. WWII pretty much severely crippled, if not outright destroyed, all the the world's industrial economies (Europe, U.S.S.R., and Japan) except for the U.S. So the U.S. basically had a monopoly on all industries for 15 years while the rest of the world rebuilt itself. That's why the economy was great during the late 40s, 50s, and early 60s, American industries had virtually no international competition. Wealth isn't necessarily created by workers, that's just a Marxist talking point. You can easily create wealth through investments that don't involve anybody performing physical activity. Additionally, when banks give out loans, they are creating wealth, as people still have their money in the bank and others are receiving funds in order to start a business or make a large purchase. Deindustrialization largely happened because companies found it cheaper to produce things elsewhere, largely because labor unions made the cost of production much more expensive. The root cause of the decline wasn't necessarily the fact that labor unions are corrupt, it was that labor unions made the cost of production more expensive. And the standard of living hasn't necessarily declined and even if it did, correlation doesn't equate to causation.
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Legally, the slaves in the North could not have been freed earlier because the North was not in rebellion like the South was.
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In my experience, foreigners are arrogant and self-righteous regarding America and believe they know more than they really do.
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@hansgustavson2271 The belief that racism is found in anything and everything and that racism is the defining characteristic of America. It has little to no basis in history.
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As another Pennsylvanian, I can confirm his explanation of PA unions is accurate.
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Very productive comment.
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It kind of is. Race doesn't matter, and people should be taught it doesn't matter.
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@nickczekaj7668 So, you're telling me you believe race matters?
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@nickczekaj7668 I ask because if you believe race matters, that would make you a racist. All people are equal, simple as.
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@nickczekaj7668 Racism requires an inherent belief that race is significant (and also that it exists in the first place in humans, which it technically doesn't biologically). Someone who is of the opinion that race is insignificant and meaningless (which it is) cannot be racist since people don't make discriminatory judgements on matters they find insignificant, like choosing to hire one guy over another based solely on the colors of the ties they wore during their interviews.
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@nickczekaj7668 You fail to understand that race is insignificant. It has no bearing on one's worth whatsoever. All of history's racists believed that is was significant though. It's the believe that race is significant that leads to racism. By teaching children the truth: that race is meaningless, we ensure the best chances that they will not grow to become racists themselves, as I explained before people who couldn't care less about race simply can't be racists. It's the people that care about about race that become racists. All instances of racism throughout history were fueled by that believe at the core. Continuing to teach that belief (that race is significant) is a recipe for disaster. There is a very thin line between racism and "racial consciousness." As for religion, religious people do not believe it to be a "social construct," but simple truth, not that I think religion has much relevance to race.
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He gets the part about American "Black culture" originating in Southern England from Dr. Thomas Sowell, an accomplished economist. Sowell wrote of how black Americans get virtually all of their culture from England, as evidenced by the fact that we see very little practices in Africa that relate to practices seen in the U.S. by black Americans. Sowell noted that poor white colonists who originally came from certain parts of England followed a very similar culture, and that slaves had a lot of interaction with this culture. Recommend this video if you have the time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FT4NQ9D0M6w
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@kevinlewis9369 Sowell looks at the subject from an economic point-of-view. In other works, he often makes comparisons between the New England settlers and those of the South. Despite both being mostly British in origin, the New Englanders were much more innovative and industrious, largely due to their culture. Likewise, we know that contemporary black American culture inherits little from old African cultures that the ancestors of slaves originally came from because few of those practices can be seen in Africa. Additionally, "black culture" originates from the South which then spread Northward during the Great Migration of southern blacks to cities throughout the country. Black Americans that were already living in North before the Great Migration lacked this culture.
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@kevinlewis9369 Yes because it simply does not. Many Africans themselves point this out when they visit the United States, how different the "American Black" culture from from the Black cultures of Africa. There's very little that survived from the original African culture that first slaves would have brought over. More of it did survive in the populations of slaves sent to the Caribbean and South America, as there was a lot less influence by European cultures onto these slave populations. However, the black cultures of these areas are not the same as the American black culture so we run into the same problem. Again, Sowell analyzed the subject from an economic lens, which is how he came to that conclusion. Economically, the North had a much more innovative work culture than the Southern "Cracker Culture." The contemporary black culture in America is heavily influenced by this old Southern culture, which Sowell believes to be a significant reason why black Americans perform worse off than most other ethnicities in the U.S., even against other minority groups that have not been in the country as long as they have, like Asians.
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@kevinlewis9369 Again, that does not explain why the cultures of slaves in the South differed so drastically from the cultures of slaves elsewhere in the Americas, both in and out of United States. Surely not all of them could have been equally influenced by African culture given the differences between them and heavy intermixing of various African ethnicities within each group. I agree, conclusions should not be made purely on the writings of a single person, but I've reading the reviews of this book (I cannot find a full pdf online) and nearly all of them are explaining that the book is an analysis of black nationalist thought and culture in the United States. I think this is a pretty significant distinction that should be made considering nationalism is not always based on truth. Many black nationalists of the 1960s and 70s, for example, subscribed to many distorted theories and myths about their own people, both about slaves in the U.S. and about Africans before that. This is not an attempt to discredit the book, just an observation on many of the reviews and abstracts written on it.
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And the reason they moved the industry elsewhere was because the corrupt unions made it difficult to do business here. I'm from Pennsylvania, and union bosses are some of the scumiest people I've ever met.
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If you genuinely believe that, you must be extremely left wing.
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@mrsmiley4842 Yeap, leftist confirmed.
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a) Trump won most of the rust belt, becoming the first Republican since Reagan to win Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin. b) Trump did or attempted to do almost everything he said he'd do while he campaigned, he had a much higher degree of honesty regarding his planned policies than most establishment politicians. c) Those Quaker a**holes are the reason Pennsylvania was caught with its pants down in the French and Indian War. Their stupid pacifism prevented the state from developing a militia system akin to Virginia's or New England's. Quite fanatical I'd say to have a war in your backyard and still try to stop your state from doing something about it. d) who doesn't? e) As a Pennsylvanian, I can tell you that PA unions are corrupt as f*ck and are a big reason why this state went down the sh*tter. The businesses went overseas because it was cheaper, and what exactly made it cheaper? No unions. f) I point to the Democratic Party, the party of slavers and Klansmen, epitomized by "You ain't black" Biden, still thinking his party owns black people.
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Pennsylvania unions are corrupt as f*ck.
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