re: Does Ted Cruz believe any criticism of Israel is antisemitism?

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Well, I am more than happy to oblige in helping you humiliate yourself!

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You just sort of dance around points.

A lack of personal responsibility leads to an oppressor/oppressed political ideology.

That ideology has nothing to do with how people view a foreign country.

Not only that but the danger of having the world turned against you the way it has been over the past 40-50 years. White people are 6-7% of the population and propaganda is telling everyone to hate them. The balance of non violence is being eroded and the consequences would be catastrophic.

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And yet, he was violently assassinated because he was a white, Christian male. They literally hate us, and we’re rapidly becoming a minority in a country that OUR ancestors established.
It’s not victimhood to notice that there are more black on white crime, television propaganda and discrimination in hidings/college admissions against our European descended brethren, than the other way around.
It’s reality. Accept it.

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He was right about personal responsibility though and the dangers of going through life viewing yourself as a victim.

Pointing out problems is great. Believing that you aren't going to be allowed to fix them is terrible.

You want to stop crime, you can elect politicians to stop crime.
You want to stop illegal immigration, you can elect pols to stop it.
You want to fix college admissions, you can elect pols to fix it.

Victimhood ideology says that you have no agency, no way to fix your problems... something I think most of you believe. That ideology has never worked, never created anything of worth and will only lead to pain.

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A lack of personal responsibility leads to an oppressor/oppressed political ideology.

That ideology has nothing to do with how people view a foreign country.

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hurr durr…hurr dur…hurr durr…

I never stated there was NO solution, so that’s where you’re propping up a straw man. I believe there is one, but it’s definitely not casting my vote for the UniParty that doesn’t give a shite about me.

You see, the problem with Thomas Sowell is that he blames black ghetto culture on poor Irish “rednecks”. Almost like they were “noble savages” before being tainted by “trashy, poor white culture”.
Has the dude never studied Africa and its failure to even establish a basic civilization throughout history?

Poverty will always be a problem insofar as criminality goes, but the difference in our case is that the Marxists have convinced the blacks that it is a racial issue and in turn are marshaling them against us. They use race as a class struggle stand in where whites are the “bourgeois” and the other races are “proletariat”.

To ignore this fact as a white man is fatal. You can’t hope for peace and prosperity when a war is being waged against you.

Except for that one irrelevant middle eastern country of 9 million people.

I used to be one of those that liked to poke fun at the "it's the joooooos" types. Then I started looking into the roots of most of the nefarious shite in this world......

Your entire stupid point of picking yourself up by the bootstraps is a logical fallacy with your belief in funding Israel.

Don't spin it. I don't think you even know what you believe

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If you have any beliefs at all. But simply repeat talking points like this that make absolutely no sense.

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You see, the problem with Thomas Sowell is that he blames black ghetto culture on poor Irish “rednecks”. Almost like they were “noble savages” before being tainted by “trashy, poor white culture”.

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I think it is a reductionist argument to claim Sowell “blames” whites for the problems plaguing much of the poor urban black ghetto. IMO, it may be more correct to say that Sowell posits that black ghetto culture shares many traits with Scots-Irish* culture that defined much of Southern Culture: a distrust of authority, intense peer group loyalty, and a cultural disposition to settle disputes with violence.

Sowell further argues how welfare culture — introduced in the 20th century — unintentionally fostered dependency and disrupted family structures within African American communities. Sowell has indeed extensively documented how the Welfare State has increased poverty levels in the black community rather than alleviating them.

James Webb likewise argued in Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America that under the right social circumstances, the clannish loyalty which characterizes Scots-Irish culture can be channeled into noble means such as taming the fierce Appalachian wilderness or fighting with honor and distinction in America’s wars. J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy further demonstrates that though many poor whites in Appalachia have a predilection for releasing stress through substance abuse, under the right environment, these shared cultural traits can be directed towards constructive cultural outcomes.

With these other examples in mind and taken in whole, I think the arguments made by Sowell, Webb and Vance ultimately boil down to an argument of nature vs. nurture. All three authors emphasize the significant role of cultural and social frameworks in shaping behaviors and value, highlighting how environmental factors — such as family structures, community loyalty, and historical legacies — impact both individual and shared group behaviors.

* A footnote: though Scots-Irish culture shares some cultural and historical roots with the Irish people, the term “Scotch-Irish” refers to descendants of the Scots who originated from the northern regions of Ireland (Ulster) during the 17th century. While acknowledging exceptions exist and at the risk of oversimplifying, the Scots-Irish were largely Protestant and settled in the rural south whereas the Irish were largely Catholic and settled in the urban north.