I’m betting the origin of this tiff was when your elderly friends demurred when the neighbors were mouthing off on political topics. We have Republican friends and Democratic friends. The Republican friends use Facebook to post pictures of their grandchildren &c. Our Democrat friends mouth off about politics. They think in slogans and memes and have no critical engagement with anything they read from talking point mills.

All this free, heartfelt advice.

This country is blessed, I tell ya’…

Actually, it’s sick.
Well, gotta give credit where it’s due:
Thanks, Hillary!
Thanks, Obama!
Thanks, Pelosi!
Thanks Democrats!
Thanks, MSCM!

That’s an improvement over Some, Select Black Lives Matter, which was founded and progresses on false premises. Baby steps, I suppose.

Systemic diversity (i.e. class-based color judgments), not limited to racism, sexism, is a progressive condition. A prototypical example of class-based labels and judgments is the Pro-Choice religion or ethics’ selective-child doctrine, and Planned Parenthood et al clinical cannibalism (e.g. redistributive change) of her profitable parts with social and quasi-legal (i.e. Twilight Amendment) justification under Roe. Some, Select Black Lives Matter is another example, which has found corporate patrons at Amazon, Goodyear, and other major corporations.

And all of these doctrines filtered and focused by reason and modes of analysis from Aristotle. Heady, powerful stuff — denied by Educrats today.

Thus, the moronielle insistence that racism means we overturn everything and start over? Ridiculous, unless one is ignorant. Right now I’m looking at a long claim at YouTube by an East Indian saying that classical liberalism foisted exploitation, slavery and genocide on the people. It’s a complete failure, he claims.

Liar or insanely ignorant? How does one say that while your concerns might be touching, your certainty betrays your victimisation…by your “teachers!”

I remember reading an article by a Democrat some fifteen years ago or so.
She was driving on the highway, and noticed a van stopped along the side, obviously with children inside. She related that her first impulse was to pull over and help, but then she noticed the “Bush” sticker on the disabled vehicle and drove past.
She was posting the story because she was proud of her decision.

How sad. And it’s also sad that your neighbors’ friends’ desertion doesn’t surprise me.

So Neo really says the millions who are devoted are a shrinking number. Our culture has lost its way. Secularism increases, tattoos are everywhere as if this was New Guinea, and our western culture is disappearing before our very eyes.

I submit that in America races and cultures are tightly interwoven. It is patently obvious that blackness is now a virtue inherently worthy of rewards. see Harvard medical school admitting criteria; see Affirm Action. As 2 examples.

Yet ‘systemic racism’ is everyhere; blacks deserve more and more!
Reparations! Now! BLM!

Watch your TV commercials; by my estimate some 30-40% feature blacks, though blacks are only ~15% of the population. Maybe blacks watch more TV, I don’t know, but corporate CEOs are not throwing money away. The implication is that blackness is good, that blacks are just like the rest of us, but clearly we as a nation do not follow that. As Justice Sandra Day O’Connor said about fifteen years ago, we’ll need Affirmative Action for another twenty years. Still going strong, stronger than ever.

Being black has its own culture. That culture has no “respect for western civilization”, I submit. None. Who heeds Thomas Sowell and Clarence Thomas? Not blacks. My black housekeeper of 20 years sneers at Thomas, for being married to a white, inter alia.

Look at post-colonial Africa, for gosh sakes! Botswana is the sole respectworthy nation. South Africa amended its constitution last year to allow seizure of white farmers’ lands with zero compensation.