I think I just figured out ANTIFA.
SoreShoulder
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They're the people who are being displaced by this country's collective decision to view all inequality as racism.
Just to spend one sentence reminding of what was already said, some inner city public schools are said by some sources to be spending 5X more than the amount that stopped making a difference on standardized test scores, and are graduating 40% of their students from high school who are functionally illiterate.
That could leave other students high and dry because their classes are on simpler things than they need.
They could also have been shunted into private school systems by societal pressure because communities wanted to preserve their budget for public school. The amateur teachers there may not have known how to cope with students whose parents don't provide considerable assistance. Those families who do provide assistance, may appreciate that state of affairs because they wind up looking smarter, and the other students get chalked up by the amateur teachers as being inattentive or slow.
Then the students go on after high school to try to get college degrees. They may not be well prepared with a good background and guidance counseling and wind up wasting their time and not getting hired. These are probably the most disgruntled of the Antifa members.
If these students had been given the primary education they need and been sent to a community college or vocational program which they needed instead of being geared toward filling out the graduation rolls of minority candidates, they might have done well. But now they are unemployed or underemployed and disgruntled.
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Hey, maybe that's why they're so violent!
If they incite people to loot and riot, then they will be fired, and Antifa will have a job!🤐😁🤐😁
There is a portion of the population, regardless of race, that will not succeed in any meaningful way. The no child left behind thinking has had the effect of dragging down the better students to the level of the less capable. Kind of the opposite results that most gullible voters expected. A high school diploma in a lot of places is like a participation trophy. Gives the recipient a warm fuzzy feeling but does not reflect on the competence of the student. Hand out rewards to everyone and the reward becomes meaningless. Bob
What they're doing is they're lumping the basically competent in with the people who can't or won't learn to read.
When you hand out participation trophies for degrees in schools, what do you make the fraudulent recipients out to be like? If they handed out participation based medical degrees, we'd get bad medicine. So they make the students who aren't destined for success look just like the ones who could succeed in a menial job, so they'd have to be included. It is easier to find them something they can do in a menial job than in a law office or engineering company.
They also benefit from being kept in school for 12 years because it teaches them to behave. Well, probably more so than if we didn't do it. If they placed the "illiterate 40%" in special ed, they might not show up, or they'd rebel outright, or they'd just go and try to get as much public assistance as they could, or become criminals as soon as they could.
Perhaps most importantly, what they're doing now is applying to college. That raises the black quota, and the smart blacks and the "slightly black whites" have an easier time getting their kids in and funded.
The false encouragement foments the notion that they're being kept out of college because of race.
Antifa was paid by the Democrats to rile up the black folks and get them rioting..while they were looting..Antifa was burning and destroying.. Useful Idiots..did exactly what they were supposed to do.. anybody with any common sense can see that..
I don't believe it is all due to lack of mental acuity on behalf of the "Illiterate 40%." There could be a lot else going on there.
Yep:
Antifa is an organization that uses VIOLENCE as a means to achieve political goals.
IMHO, the only connection between Antifa and education is the hatred for America as founded and leftist dogma passed on to students by DEMOCRAT ideologues in public schools and college.
You have, with the exception of your thoughts regarding private schools, possibly figured out the Democrat Party.
Antifa is a bit of a different animal.
Brad Steele
No, no, no.
The Democrat party are the people coldly manipulating race to get themselves jobs since the days of JFK and before.
Antifa are their victims whether they know it or not.
Albert Einstein said that when Technology surpasses Human Interaction we will have a Generation of Idiots...
Hey, maybe that's why some people get much harsher jail sentences than others for the same crime.
They've had too much lavished on their educations and had access to all kinds of counseling and programs for their behavioral health and for finding a career.
Meanwhile, other students were shunted out of that system by societal pressure and wound up in a system run by amateurs.
My thoughts may be off but here goes. The majority of Antifa members are basically the "outcasts". They were not part of the "cool" group and never fit in with those they perceived as someone. The Democratic Party has basically used them to do their dirty work. They have made them feel like they are a wanted member of a group and the "outcasts" now see this as a way to get back at society that didn't make them feel like they were important.
Phycologist's have been trying to understand the criminal mind for eons. Not much progress has been made in recent years but there is hope that more participants will become available for autopsies very soon.
You all are trying way to hard to figure them out when it's simple..buy a couple of them a new iPhone and they will burn down your neighbors house.. see... simple..
I have a different theory now.
One time, I was pressured by a person from the inner city to stand up against the privilege and the racism of society by declining anything I didn't deserve, and the idea was a group of inner city minorities would be the judge of whether I deserved anything. It amounted just to a speaking to. She was trying to recruit people to her ideal. But I am supposing that for some people in some neighborhoods, the pressure can be quite high.
"How do I know I don't deserve something?" "Well, we'll tell you. Now, you know that we da same as you, right?"
Then they want you to throw in with the ghetto in opposing fascism and when they have what they want, then they'll let you keep some of what you could have without them.
It seems they'd be motivated to louse up the best people they could with this idea because then they'd have good people on their side. Good, smart revolutionaries.
This type of thinking may be affecting gatekeepers and not just individuals.
Antifa may be the result. They may be people who have been menaced into not trying their best because they'd rather be able to prove they're not racist.
Just Google Antifa.com and see where it takes you.. it's as simple as that...
That's only going to tell me what they say they're about.
No..it doesn't.. google it...
I think you're overthinking the whole mess.
Simple answer is they just don't pass the test to get on Jeopardy and Jeopardy is racist. Jeopardy needs to lower its standard of questions so they qualify.
It is my speculative theory that Antifa did not want to spend their youth being angry at society for excluding them like the slackers of the early 90s, so they made themselves over into revolutionaries.
If any of this speculation is true, it raises the possibility that liberals already have plans in place to make the new immigrants fill the role of the people they are supplanting in the coalition. They may be intended to lend their support to canceling anyone who doesn't believe that equal outcomes are necessary because that person must be racist.
+1
You also remember the story about the grasshopper and the ant, dontcha? :<) That song sums it up well.