Betzee said...

Betzee at 09:25 AM JST - 5th August

I recently saw some survey results illuminating which Chinese citizens are most nationalistic. Paradoxically, it is those who have traveled or lived abroad, allowing them to interact with non-PRC nationals on a regular basis, who tend to be the most nationalistic.

The reason for this is that they encounter simplistic…

Posted in Bush heads to Asia for diplomacy and sports at 09:25 AM JST - 5th August
Betzee at 04:00 AM JST - 5th August

SezWho2,

There is little doubt that qualified members of the majority are turned away--to a greater degree than would be without affirmative action.

As a Yale-educated Mexican-American LA Times columnist observed, "Show me a white man complaining a minority took his place and I'll point to the 50 white men…

Posted in Racial politics hit Obama-McCain campaign at 04:00 AM JST - 5th August
Betzee at 11:00 PM JST - 4th August

SezWho2 part II,

McCain has released 1600 pages of documentation to try to show that his age should not be a concern.

He has his 90-something mother out on the campaign trail sometimes. The thing is, she seems perkier than he (if she were running I might vote McCain).

Anyone…

Posted in Racial politics hit Obama-McCain campaign at 11:00 PM JST - 4th August
Betzee at 10:50 PM JST - 4th August

I'm not a big fan of affirmative action, but I think that without it the US would not have made the advances in racial relations that it has. I'm not a big fan of the income tax, either, but until someone finds a better way, that seems to be a…

Posted in Racial politics hit Obama-McCain campaign at 10:50 PM JST - 4th August
Betzee at 04:00 PM JST - 4th August

I was really quite shocked by a previous post of Wolfpack's in which he wrote something to the effect that while Jesse Helms support for segregation was wrong, his anti-affirmative action stance was right.

While I personally oppose affirmative action, to equate the ill-effects of that with segregation shows a…

Posted in Racial politics hit Obama-McCain campaign at 04:00 PM JST - 4th August
Betzee at 10:34 PM JST - 3rd August

"Race plays a role in American politics in a lot of different ways. It's not just Ku Klux Klan-style racism," said Vincent Hutchings, a University of Michigan specialist on the intersection of race and politics. "When a large number of African Americans decide to support Barack Obama on the assumption…

Posted in Racial politics hit Obama-McCain campaign at 10:34 PM JST - 3rd August
Betzee at 10:20 PM JST - 3rd August

I'm simply an observer to what's going on in China. And I accept that all ideas, however offensive they may be to the sensibilities of others, have a right to a fair hearing. You seem to prefer imposing political correctness to stifle the debate, however.

Posted in Bush vows to take 'message of freedom' to Beijing at 10:20 PM JST - 3rd August
Betzee at 10:00 PM JST - 3rd August

Obama wants to make insinuations that McCain is a racist so he can label any political attack against him as also being racist.

Sentences such as this show that racism has been decontextualized from power relations. All of us have made judgments about others based on race and ethnicity. "You're…

Posted in Racial politics hit Obama-McCain campaign at 10:00 PM JST - 3rd August
Betzee at 12:00 PM JST - 3rd August

"which will continue to be the leading light and hope of the world."

I don't think you will hear anybody on the campaign trail discussing this, but there's a lot of discussion beyond the scenes on how to manage America's impending relative decline. Both Clinton and then GWB, who each…

Posted in McCain defends web ad mocking Obama at 12:00 PM JST - 3rd August
Betzee at 09:25 AM JST - 3rd August

I'm not sure how aware you are of the lively intellectual debate going on inside China about the future of their country. In late 1994 a book entitled Looking at China Through the Third Eye was published in Beijing. It had a short shelf life because it painted a bleak…

Posted in Bush vows to take 'message of freedom' to Beijing at 09:25 AM JST - 3rd August