It really sucks to be in that situation, we know and most have been there a time or 2. That said the amount of clearing that would be required to prevent this would send the eco-freaks into a tizzy if it was proposed much less done.

Yes damn straight i wish i had been born a POC of color! When i was looking in HS at grants and loans there were page after page for POC, didnt see shit there for white folks. That left the private sector, again i would have an instant foot in the door in any place i chose to apply at cause the Co. would get tax breaks to boost me..no i had to BS my way into jobs. So no you aint gonna change my mind on that.

As for your friend, well yeah police DO have a bias and again that is being addressed everyday as time goes on, ACAB as far as im concerned tbh.

No i deleted that comment..which you left off the last part of btw, because i am trying to be a bit nicer to.. others in general and rise above my instincts to just lash out.

We all see things from our own perspective, no matter what lies you tell yourself. The power station attacks have been talked about in right wing militia groups since the mid 90's when i first ran across them. The neo nazi's have always been chanting BS like that..where have you been for the last 30 years? You are right in there are many who do want to hang on to the hate, but its a very small vocal minority of white people overall that feel that way.

No i am only 50 yo not 200 so no head start. my family has been dirt poor for like 3 generations..wrong skin color so there were no programs to boost them ahead in life. We all had to work for our shit.

It is not a problem in the sense that there are now laws against it, society IS moving on. not only that but you can see in nearly every aspect of society policies that elevate POC over white people to the point where it is now almost a handicap in applying for positions in education and the labor force if you are white.

Painting an entire demographic as too stupid to know what is in their own minds and hearts is what statements like this do. IDC if your mad that im pushing back, no i dont feel attacked, i just think this crap is not needed and actually counterproductive to progress.

If we were being honest about its history then we would be calling out Christianity and Islam, not the demographic at the end of the slave trade. Probably Capitalism too as we still have quasi legal slavery in the form of prison labor. Hell the bottom earners of all colors are in a form of economic slavery as we have the choice to work or die since you cant even live off the land anymore.

Raising Everyone out of poverty, not just BIPOC is the right answer.

I am assigning nothing more than an honest look at the messaging without any sense of guilt on behalf of those who came before me. The language is pretty clear from an objective point of view.

I freely acknowledge that at one time in our nation there was systemic racism, as recently as the first couple decades of my life. Using the mistakes and flaws of the past as a cudgel though is NOT the way forward. We can never make the past right but we can go forward together, i refuse to walk with those who demonize me for not being able to choose the shell i was born into.

A world view that endeavors to address the historical disparity between demographics and those within power structures. Often will go above and far beyond needed solutions in favor of almost punitive reparations for events long in the past. This inevitably leads to backlash as the formerly oppressed/marginalized demographics are elevated and others with the same needs are ignored.

Your choice of Oblivious implies ignorance, for some it might even be accurate. For most it is mere indifference and that seems to offend woke society at large. These kind of statements are meant to invoke shame in white people and to make them look like monsters if they dont. It is in the way that every statement is carefully crafted and worded to be just innocent enough to be missed. They build a framework that can lead to only one conclusion no matter how much evidence leads to other explanations.

My guess is the opening statement here:

" Highlight the fact that we as Vermonters are not fully aware of the systemic racism that is present in our majority “white” society "

That is pretty much calling all white people racists, and if you dont think you are then you are just too stupid to see it. Gee i wonder why people are a bit miffed,lol.

Well idk what i saw up back a couple years ago. all i know is that i watched 3 doe mosy across the hillside and then about 15 minutes later this..animal that moved with a feline gait and stood about 3 1/2' at the shoulder was trotting along in their wake.

Im thinking it was Some kind of ML, had paw prints the size of my palm,lol.

My whiteness? LMFAO my dude im a transhumanist..the color of the shell dont matter a bit to me.

I think if you did a schoolwide..hell even a state wide ban on sports for 1,2,3 years that MIGHT be enough to drive home the point that this stuff is Extra-curricular and not really relevant to actual education. Put it back on the communities that support student athletics to be held accountable as a whole..see how fast this stuff gets nipped when everybody pays for the ignorant actions of a few.

You couldnt pay me enough to live there,lol.

( edit..well you could but it would be at least a 7 digit to the left of the decimal sum,lmao!)

Yeah we could really use a super long border with a nation that was desperate for resources to drive down our labor costs up here for sure!

Says every profiteering POS in the state.

I have a suspicion that Critical Theory as it is applied to the black experience in America has a lot to do with the writers perspective. I see a lot of articles with the same kind of general tone in them, citing the same set of works from that..field..whatever it is.

CR in itself i guess is just a tool to shift ones perspective but it was built around economic models IRRC so trying to bend it to other *(edit, just a typo,no i didnt get religion. ) *disciplines seems.. a stretch at best, which might be why the whole article seemed off to me.

Didnt the guy who supposedly lives there say something about taking care of the poor/homeless? Seems a waste to let all those building go un-used for most of the week.

If a person takes an animal using these methods due to need of some resource it provides or to protect some other resource they have i can reluctantly accept the need for it. We dont live in that world any more, anything you can get from any trappable animal technology and society has produced a replacement for often superior to what you may have made yourself.

No what we are discussing here and you are advocating for is the use of these methods to take animals for nothing more than recreation, for 'sport'. You take pleasure from this despite knowing that you are inflicting torment on said creatures. According to the DSM that is one of the PRIME signs of having ASPD. I cant believe that im am the person to have to tell you that torturing animals for joy is a bad thing,lol.

I loathe Nice people in traffic. Like yeah i appreciate what you are trying to do but jfc just worry about yourself and GTFO my way!

Spare me the sermon on conservation, IDC and you would be wasting your energy. Not ever going to have a bit of respect for those sick SOB's who use this barbaric practice in this day and age. I could almost understand before we had the technology we have now and had to depend on the natural world for food and clothing but now? now you just want an excuse to torture animals.

Sick! That is the only word..printable that is , that i can use for you types.

yeah they are SO worthy of respect for making an animal suffer in pain for hours or days even until the person gets around to checking the trap for any victims.

Trappers are *Edit: a special kind of heartless and empathically challenged human appearing creatures and should be subject to their own devices. it is a skill set that has little use in todays world.

These parodies are worse than the real things.

The same things i do for fun any other time of the year. Game, surf the internet, build the occasional pile of brush and set it on fire. Not really an outdoors person anymore.

Dude.. gtfoh with that not seeing beyond your town bs, we live in the information age and i dont need to waste time or money traveling to learn about the greater world. that is so 19th century thinking, lol.

I know, im terrible for not wanting to wreck the developed economies of the world; that i dare to think humanity should ,yes do what we can to move away from FF, *also adapt to the changing planet instead of foolishly trying to lock it into one static climatic state forever.

> you’re a woodchuck so yeah.

Hell yeah i am and you aint gonna shame for it, lmfao.

Sure people will die, they are dying in this bs LSC society we got going on rn too and while we could change how society works to fix it we are doing F-all about it in any meaningful ways. IDC and wont be shamed for not caring about coastal communities. Food? meh we will see but new areas will open up as old ones become unviable. Crops have and will change and we can do a lot with genes to help adjust as things change.

>But hey it makes you more comfortable and that’s what really matters right?

As a matter of fact yes, cheaper to live day to day too! I would love nothing more than to be able to afford to build a net zero home here on the small bit of land i got, cant get a loan but hey NETO will come and dump 3k into my POS trailer,lol. Cant really go green until i get something on a foundation here but even then it wont be to save the planet, it will be to be free from paying for energy i(we) need to live a modern life.