GRCC Diversity Lecture: Matt Taibbi

[@BlaineGamble]

best reporter in America

[@vitamindminormusicalwander6630]

Very good overview of wealth inequality and the consequences (economically, socially, and politically). Public perception on these issues is very disturbing. Thanks for your diligent work, sir!

[@raym9739]

Keep up the good work Matt. It's unfortunate how many people are in the dark about these issues. Certainly corporate controlled main stream media wants it that way and is succeeding. Hopefully more people like you will speak out and some momentum can take effect that will lead to real change.

[@rd264]

Matt ends up warning about how the US is following 2 sets of laws--one for the poor and one for the rich. He compares the US today to the Soviet Union where the same dysfunction was in play: the people just got used to it, they didnt like it of course but they accepted it and were shocked when the Soviet Union ended and they seemed to wake up but I wonder if they dont have the same old problem today---widespread and notorious corporate crimes and corruption goes scot free while the little guy goes to jail.

[@natedoherty3462]

Matt's an O.G.

[@sophiawardbrewer7274]

Very good lecture.

[@jakimson1994]

very good talk and very good questions.

[@jeromedanielson4422]

He nailed it with "no one is surprised,because that's the way it is." I'm going to take it further by saying, minorities going to jail for crime further solidifies white people's racial beliefs about minorities,furthered by white people's unjustified belief that they are innocent and "pure".

[@mellowtron214]

Hi, 4 year late ambassador for white people here. Not sure what you’re thing is with “white people” but I’ll give it a try. Firstly, “white people” don’t think or believe anything. There is no prevailing racial identitarian narrative amongst white westerners. Whites have no racial consciousness if you will. We have polling data that shows 1. White people see their race as being the *least relevant* to their identity compared to all other racial groups (blacks see their race as most relevant) and 2. Whites are the ONLY demographic of all other races who show an *out group bias* which we can almost certainly pin on a kind of mythos of white guilt, white oppressor status, and faux-white supremacy. This data shows, in part, that western white people do NOT see whites as superior, if anything they see “whiteness” and whites as a group as being either irrelevant or, for whole swaths of white folks, they see being white as being morally inferior and negative. As for the perception of minorities as committing crimes, or being more criminal, to put it bluntly, *minorities, specifically black folks, are the single most criminal and violent demographic in America.* This is a basic fact, which has nothing to do with the perception from white forks. We also have polling that shows whites under estimate the criminality of minorities, not vice versa as you’re suggesting. Aka, white people think white people are worse (more criminal) than they are and non-whites are better (less criminal) than they are. Black folks make up 14% of the USA population, but they commit around 55% of all murders, similar stats for other kinds of violent crimes. BUT, the group committing these crimes are not black women, not black children or elderly black folks, no, it’s *young black men ages 14-45, which makes up about 4% of America, that are MURDERING, ROBBING AND ASSAULTING MORE AMERICANS THAN THE OTHER 96% of Americans COMBINED.* I have looked deep in to this, because I was once a supporter of Black Lives Matter and I wanted to know the data thinking it would support my presupposed beliefs about racism, white supremacy, and black victimhood. Nothing has turned me further from that belief, than basic raw facts. Here’s another fact for you, last year and every year before that which I cared to look up data for, *black Americans murdered over 2x more whites, than whites murdered blacks.* Black folks are 14% of America, and whites are around 65%. So on the basis of numbers alone you’d expect black folks to be committing significantly LESS murder of other groups, than whites. But, blacks kill about 9x more whites than whites kill blacks per capita. Young Black men committ so much murder that they are the ONLY demographic of all other ages, race, and genders, who’s *leading cause of preventable death is BEING MURDERED BY OTHER BLACK MEN.* Black folks commit disproportionate rates of hate crimes, again 14% committing around 30% of hate crimes. And the white 65% are committing disproportionately LESS hate crimes per capita at something like 55%. Blacks are significantly more likely to rape or sexually assault a white than vice versa, over 10x more likely. I read FBI and DOJ stats on sexual crimes and I did not find a SINGLE CATEGORY where black Americans didn’t commit over 14%. I think the range was from 22%-75% depending on the specific kind of crime. Which is insane. Again, especially when you factor in the fact that the demographic committing most of these crimes is young black men, ages 14-45 which is about 3-4% of America’s population. 3% Committing 75% of prostitution/sexual slavery. If we are talking “white collar crime” then sure, whites commit significantly more of that than blacks, however, Jews (which make up about 2% of America’s population) commit insane rates of white collar crime. I mean, take the whole MeToo quagmire, something like 75% of the men accused of sexual crimes were/are Jewish. In a country that is 2% Jewish. It’s not hard to argue that being a victim of a white collar crime is better than being raped or murdered. None of this is to say that white folks are pure and innocent, but that this all depends on what vector, what lens you’re using to judge these groups. If it’s violence, rape, assault, robbery, bigotry, hate crimes, murder, inter-racial violence, sexual slavery, bigoted attitudes towards women and lgbt folks... shit like this.. then the data shows without a shred of doubt that whites are less violent and more likely to be the VICTIM not the perpetrator than blacks. If it’s white collar crimes, then sure, whites commit more of that than blacks. But mathematically, you would expect whites to be doing literally EVERYTHING more than everyone else in America, since whites are a majority of the country. Doesn’t make it right, but it doesn’t make whites unique in any way. And it only makes the facts where black folks commit more crimes than whites, that much more jarring and disturbing. And mind blowing that people try and make the inverse argument when there is a mountain of data going against this frail white guilted narrative. But saying whites do x y or z more than blacks in America is akin to saying black Nigerians do more of x y or z than whites in Nigeria. There are simply more blacks in Nigeria than whites. If you extrapolate out to the whole world, or all of human history, that fairs even better for whites. While whites did engage in all kinds of barbarism, just like every other group on earth, whites were almost always the first group to stop that barbarism. Take slavery, whites invented the abolishment of slavery. Whites didn’t invent slavery, but they did more to end it globally than everyone else combined. But this anti-white narrative which frames whites as uniquely evil in world history, is purely ignorant of the wider context in which whites existed. For American blacks and whites to feel such heightened emotions about slavery, when America was amongst the first countries in world history to abolish slavery, in a world where countries like India and China and Qatar have larger slave populations RIGHT NOW than America did across the 400 years of slavery.... when we know countries like *Mauritania didn’t criminalize slavery until 2007* It becomes painfully obvious the emotionalist maneuvering going on here. There is great political and social and economic gains to be had pretending that you’re an ally or a victim, and there is little to no gain, almost entirely downsides to presenting reality and the facts as they really are. Hope that helps. Go look at the data and come back to me on that whole “white people” thing you’ve got going.

[@vitamindminormusicalwander6630]

@@mellowtron214 I assume he means racist whites..

[@matthewreed2614]

maybe you should say what a grcc is

[@markphillips4682]

He talks like "WALTER WHITE JUNIOR " in "BREAKING BAD"