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In reply to the discussion: (I'll regret this) starting around 1970, black wages started to rise and white wages started to fall [View all]treestar
(82,383 posts)93. This is the result of your going ad hominem rather that sticking to the issue
you decided to attack the poster rather than the post.
Logical fallacy. Recursion living in India has zero to do with the issue.
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(I'll regret this) starting around 1970, black wages started to rise and white wages started to fall [View all]
Recursion
Feb 2016
OP
Most won't get it. I really know what you are saying...and so does Bernie. nt
Jitter65
Feb 2016
#184
I think I could get behind that. Could make it a hell of a lot harder for discrimination to happen.
Bubzer
Feb 2016
#140
for that matter white males' wages and incomes have gone down, while everyone else's have gone up
think
Feb 2016
#9
Look at how much CEO pay escalated under Bill Clinton compared to their average workers of all races
Uncle Joe
Feb 2016
#11
Obviously you don't, "look at the big picture" how much black wealth was lost due to Clinton's
Uncle Joe
Feb 2016
#16
Glass Steagel had little to do with unrestricted commodities!!! Its like blaming drunk driver deaths
uponit7771
Feb 2016
#65
The diminishing of and eventual removal of Glass Steagall legalized drinking while driving.
Uncle Joe
Feb 2016
#134
OK, that's pretty close... but the CFMA legalized being DRUNK while driving because it took off
uponit7771
Feb 2016
#135
So does Bernie, he wants to break up the monopolized banks which have become even larger and thus
Uncle Joe
Feb 2016
#141
The "Big Banks" weren't involved, they stood by and said little but it wasn't BOA it was GS
uponit7771
Feb 2016
#142
The diminishing and removal of Glass Steagall was a multiplier of the crisis which wiped out a
Uncle Joe
Feb 2016
#146
CFMA allowed for unlimited leveraging, they didn't need Steagal to do that.. CFMA had worse effect
uponit7771
Feb 2016
#149
What you posted has nothing to do with the positive sound effect of Glass Steagall
Uncle Joe
Feb 2016
#136
Isn't it necessary to look at a particular demographic's income relative to other incomes
LanternWaste
Feb 2016
#144
Ya funny the title of your post says Black Incomes started to rise and White incomes fell
CentralMass
Feb 2016
#59
That is simply not true. Nearly everybody in the lower and middle classes is poorer today.
Live and Learn
Feb 2016
#17
In buying power? Hardly. Perhpas you could point us to where you are getting your false stats. nt
Live and Learn
Feb 2016
#21
Just saying something is true doesn't make it true. The stats speak the truth.
Live and Learn
Feb 2016
#30
The key term is 'over the last 40 years'. As long as it's framed over 40 years he is correct
think
Feb 2016
#36
I addressed that part of it below. The fact is that he is trying to give false impressions of the
Live and Learn
Feb 2016
#38
Why do this? Everyone's wages have stagnated. Nice can of gasoline you have there...
myrna minx
Feb 2016
#19
It is absolutely not true that "everyone's" wages and incomes have stagnated in the past 40 years
Recursion
Feb 2016
#20
Post links or else this is nothing more than speculation on your part. n/t
Stand and Fight
Feb 2016
#22
How did I attempt to malign it? It was a simple observation made and one that might explain your
Live and Learn
Feb 2016
#35
What fucking "assumptions" do you think I have picked up over the past 2 years?
Recursion
Feb 2016
#37
Simply what you stated, that minority and women's wages are increasing and white mens are decreasing
Live and Learn
Feb 2016
#40
Those aren't assumptions, those are facts, and I knew them before I went here
Recursion
Feb 2016
#42
Do you know what insinuation means? Because your post is guilty of insinuating falsehoods.
Live and Learn
Feb 2016
#44
Well then, your OP is simply silly and irrelevant to anything in GDP. How does this reflect on the
Live and Learn
Feb 2016
#54
Wages & income equality have fallen for minorities in the past ten years. Do you dispute that?
think
Feb 2016
#81
I love the modern DU. Catch a jury of the "right" people and you can say fuck you to anyone
CBGLuthier
Feb 2016
#100
Of course the 70's were better for minorities thanks to the 60's civil rights movements and
Live and Learn
Feb 2016
#32
White people's incomes have not fallen. Black people have not closed the wage gap, it has increased.
DemocraticWing
Feb 2016
#55
The person who associates his campaign with someone who calls Obama "n-word-izzed"? tia
uponit7771
Feb 2016
#66
Yes, but I don't know about spelling out the word... I don't know if its against TOS
uponit7771
Feb 2016
#139
well I intended no offense but I did want to put the entire comment in which he used the word
azurnoir
Feb 2016
#158
were you offended West's words that Obama had not done enough for the Black community?
azurnoir
Feb 2016
#163
Yes, its more unfair bashing of Obama to gen favor among the establishment and that's how Sanders
uponit7771
Feb 2016
#164
saying that Obama hasn't done enough for the Black community will gain favor with the establishment?
azurnoir
Feb 2016
#166
Cause among the marginalized it sounds like West is full of crap, he's not saying that in front
uponit7771
Feb 2016
#168
so you feel that Obama has done enough for the Black community and already had at the time of Wests
azurnoir
Feb 2016
#169
Yes, I sure do.. being president and being an upstanding moral person that has done more to break
uponit7771
Feb 2016
#170
West was about institutionalized racism and despite all the words I've seen here about that
azurnoir
Feb 2016
#171
Strawman, ... your question was has Obama done enough I said sure... I don't see how
uponit7771
Feb 2016
#174
my question concerned Wests comments which pertained to institutionalized racism
azurnoir
Feb 2016
#175
West called Obama "n-word-izzed" because he said Obama was afraid to talk about White Supremcy
uponit7771
Feb 2016
#181
The past three decades have seen the largest decreases in global inequality in human history
Recursion
Feb 2016
#92
By definition they stayed the same since this is real (inflation-adjusted) income
Recursion
Feb 2016
#185
A Decade of Flat Wages: The Key Barrier to Shared Prosperity and a Rising Middle Class
Bluenorthwest
Feb 2016
#98
I am referring to how nonsensical the 98 percent white and male discontent are conflated
Armstead
Feb 2016
#120
You may be in the wrong thread? I certainly don't think "only white males" support Sanders
Recursion
Feb 2016
#122
so tell us do you have to post this kind of stuff 7 more times to be fully vested?
azurnoir
Feb 2016
#109
I do think so, though I think most don't realize that is the actual outcome they are cheering for
Recursion
Feb 2016
#111
Seems to me that white males are overrepresented in the "1%". Their wages/salaries have skyrocketed.
cherokeeprogressive
Feb 2016
#104
Mom working, dad working, kids working, still not making as much as one person did 30 years ago
Cheese Sandwich
Feb 2016
#106
That's why I'm a socialist. Capitalism forces workers to compete for survival.
Cheese Sandwich
Feb 2016
#133
Rocket science: The typical white household is almost 13 times richer than the typical black family.
Octafish
Feb 2016
#116
bullshit. I am a woman. I still make less than a man. Give me my whole damn dollar.
Hiraeth
Feb 2016
#128