TKC HATES SECRET SANTA!!! ONCE AGAIN KANSAS CITY MISTAKES CHARITY FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE DURING X-MAS!!!
Every year it's just disgusting that I have to bust local media and so many other Kansas City dimwits for their misunderstanding of X-mas.
Sadly . . .
KANSAS CITY CONSISTENTLY CHAMPIONS CHARITY OVER SOCIAL JUSTICE DURING X-MAS IN A CYNICAL PLOY TO PRESERVE THE STATUS QUO AND IGNORE SO MUCH LOCAL DISPARITY!!!
Get it straight . . .
KANSAS CITY'S SECRET SANTA DOESN'T DO ANYTHING BUT ALLEVIATE WHITE GUILT!!!
So, I advise local po'folk to take the cash from Secret Santa II and don't bother to say thank you . . . It's really an insult.
Throughout the year so many d-bags hate on the undocumented and their babies, vote against healthcare for the poor and engage in vindictive political discourse AND THEN expect to be treated like a decent person because they throw a few coins in a kettle while going to buy luxury gifts for their trophy wives.
Let's break it down according to a list neatly compiled by the good Catholics at St. Mary's:
Charity = social service. Charity provides direct services like food, clothing, shelter.
Justice = social change. Justice promotes social change in institutions or political structures.
Charity responds to immediate needs.
Justice responds to long-term needs.
Charity is directed at the effects of injustice, its symptoms. Charity addresses problems that already exist. Otherwise put: LOVE MOPS UP.
Justice is directed at the root causes of social problems. Justice addresses the underlying structures or causes of these problems. Otherwise put: JUSTICE TRIES TO MAKE SURE THE MESS ISN'T MADE TO BEGIN WITH.
Generally . . . Charity is private, individual acts.
Justice is public, collective actions.
Once again it's important to remember the conclusion of a great essay from Slate, this passage especially:
William Jewett Tucker, a reverend and future president of Dartmouth College, put it this way in 1891: Critiquing Carnegie's "Gospel of Wealth" he declared that a society could make no greater mistake than asking charity to do the work of social justice.
And while Carnegie funded a great many philanthropic endeavors . . . Currently, the vast majority of "charity" taking place in Kansas City right now consists of nothing more than monuments built to satisfy egos of the local elite.
In the final analysis, it's just too shameful to watch this town celebrate some brokeass people eating table scraps. Around the world class differences are starting to emerge thanks to so much economic turmoil. In Great Britain they're poking back at the Prince and his sweetheart . . . While I certainly don't encourage any outright class warfare for Kansas City (yet), I don't see any reason why po'folk should continue to collect crumbs with a smile or just because the cameras are on and the middle-class want some cheap entertainment.
Good distinction and call to action, Tony. What do you suggest? How about a couple of guest columns suggesting approaches to social justice in KC - that is if you really are serious about the topic.
ReplyDeleteSocial justice, just another word for taking money from successful people and give to losers.
ReplyDeleteWhat Secret Santa should do is when he gives every poor person money he should make them promise to get off welfare, stop smoking, drinking and if their Mexican have them promise to speak English and stop having babies like rabbits. THAT’S SOCIAL JUSTICE!!!!!
Good post, Tony.
ReplyDeleteThe rich wage class warfare everyday (see previous comment), but it will only be called class warfare if the poor fight back.
There are deserving poor and undeserving poor. There are also poor who are young and will someday have plenty. "Social Justice" makes no distinction and actually encourages poverty. The discussion about poverty usually ends with those serious about the issue being called racist by those whose job or elected office depends on poverty.
ReplyDelete"There are deserving poor and undeserving poor." WTF does that mean? Who gets to decide this? Your comment is just more class warfare. Does anyone make a distinction between the deserving rich and the undeserving rich?
ReplyDeleteTo be blunt, your "social justice" is a bunch of crap.
ReplyDeleteI am all for equality of opportunity, and I am in favor of a social safety net. And, yes, I am in favor of and try to practice "charity."
You are in favor of taking money from the wealthy and giving it to others, whether they are deserving or not. It is a philosophy based upon jealousy and, history proves, leads to dictatorship.
Tony, is this an example of what you are talking about?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.nbcactionnews.com/dpp/lifestyle/holiday/construction-company-will-double-kc-kettle-donations
Great job, T. Stir up the fucking ingrates and assure that less money will be donated in KC.
ReplyDeleteDumbass.
You've really lost it, man.
ReplyDeleteIt would have been nice had you mentioned my 'corporate giving' post which obviously set you off. But you didn't and I'll survive.
ReplyDeleteStill. I'm glad you get this. I agree with you completely. We humans can be soooo hypocritical this time of year. Hold your love ones close! Bring in someone needy NOT SO CLOSE, and hold them close too! Feel the connection as well as the spirit of God.
You're right Tony, I see the light.... thanks to you're knowledge... im saying NO to Harvesters, NO to Toys For Tots, and NO to the Salvation Army!!!!... I used to give every year.
ReplyDeleteCharity = individuals deciding to give out of a sense of love and compassion to help those less fortunate.
ReplyDeleteSocial justice = people who think they are smarter and more morally pure than anyone else seizing the money of others and giving to the less fortunate so that they -- not the original possessors of the money -- look compassionate.
Tony is one sad little man.
ReplyDeleteIn the name of social justice, please stop demeaning women on this blog.
ReplyDeleteI'm hoping that Tony just posts this baloney to get people stirred up and that he doesn't actually believe this drivel.
ReplyDeleteHe's successful, to a certain extent, but he still can't sell any ads on TKC.
Yo is on it Ton! Kill all they whitey
ReplyDeletes for thinking they should do nice things fo us. Dont they whitey owe us everything we want? I need new rims on my ride. WTF! Whitey owe me dem! Dem dam stingy bastards!
Tony, in your attempt to prove your thesis you leave out that you truly need both charity and social justice to alleviate the problems that impact us (be they direct, or indirect).
ReplyDeleteCharity is a gateway to education and then social change.
Anon 11:23 AM
ReplyDeleteNice comment.
Andrew Carnegie is my hero.
ReplyDeleteAnd 'social justice' is a Marxist wet dream achieved at the point of a gun.
'Social justice' is malignant manifestation achieved by a brutal oligarchy built upon the death and misery of millions. Witness Myanmar, Cuba, Soviet Union, Zimbabwe, et al.
I'll take religious convictions, free markets, private charity, and open society any day.
Like I said, Andrew Carnegie is my hero.
Dear Mr. Tony: Society needs both personal charity and social programs for the less fortunate. Mother Teresa stated it best when she said her sisters gave something that the state cannot give: Love and concern. The money that the "Secret Santa" gives out is not the joy of his ministry: It is that people realize when he gives them money that they are important, they are not "expendable." Again, Mother Teresa put it best: "The greatest poverty is not lack of goods, it is being totally unwanted and uncared for." Some people I know got a visit yesterday from the "Secret Santa"--they were thrilled--not by the money, but by the fact that they were important to someone whom they had never met. If we could cure the world's hunger for love curing its hunger for food would be a trivial problem. Sincerely, Respectfully and In Christ, Ernest Evans
ReplyDeleteBehind every great fortune lies a great crime.
ReplyDeleteHow can we talk about redistributing wealth when the rich are too busy still pillaging our economy?
yes the bankers and wall street need to keep all the money they stole in the first place. how dare any one think of taking money from the successful folks who earned their money the old fashioned way. They stole it.
Ha ha ha ha ha. You bitches crying about redistributing wealth are probably as broke as tony is. If you had wealth you would not be so angry.
8:19 AM, brilliant idea! If Tony wants social justice so bad then the Secret Santa should make every po’folk he gave money, to sign a contract promising the Secret Santa they will not spend this money on weed, booze, porn, rims, Jordan’s or tattoos. They will have to use the money for bills or keep it in the bank. If they’re of Hispanic decent, they should sign a contract saying they will learn and only speak English, stop taking government money, not have an anchor baby and if they’re here illegally to go back to their country of origin and try to get here the right way.
ReplyDeleteOnly then will there be “Social Justice.”
Wuz a matter the general public doesn't support unregulated, winner-take-all capitalism anymore?
ReplyDeleteI suppose Byron thinks someone who drops out of school, drinks and does drugs to excess, and is too lazy to work deserves to be rich. A huge percentage of the poor fit in that category.
ReplyDeleteA single woman with a couple of kids making $21,500 per year pays $1645 in FICA, no income tax and gets a $5,000 refund from the government because she's "poor". A single woman making $45,000 pays $3443 in FICA, $3250 income taxes and gets no EITC. If that same woman goes to medical school and after ten years of being poor makes $150,000, she pays $8800 in FICA, and $28,000 income tax. But according to Byron she is not doing her part to help the poor woman achieve "Social justice".
Nobody deserves to be rich. (We're only pretending money has value. It could just as easily be tulips.)
ReplyDeleteNo matter how much money rich people steal from the middle-class, the middle-class still hates on the poor.
Maybe, you realize how precarious the middle-class delusion is, and no, you won't become rich someday. Not by any honest means.
All money is fiat. Gold, silver, copper, bronze, or paper doesn't matter. All monetary value is extrinsic, subjective, and arbitrarily assigned.
ReplyDeleteTalk to a homeless person, someone suffering from mental illness, couldn't hold a job, and couldn't afford treatment or ask a college graduate working at McDonalds, barely able to feed themselves or their family and ask them whether or not they felt they chose to work a shit job, or were forced.
Why do we have mortgages? Why do people pay rent? Why do we trade something of no value, money, for something of actual value, shelter? Because the system is structured as such in order to force the masses to work and support state economic expansion.
A society based on money necessitates compulsory theft and prostitution. The use of money forces people to obtain it, by any and all means necessary, or suffer and die.
Money is coercion.
Bunch of scrooges in here.
ReplyDeleteTony, I have yet to figure out why you live in this town. The only thing you seem to like is that all the women over 18 have boobs the size of cows udders. So what if the guy wants to give away HIS money at $100 a pop. Its a lot better than the daily dose of racial bs thats your contribution to the good of KC.
ReplyDeleteAnd here I wrote that nice post the other day on the local republican station pretending goodwill with its kotes for kids program...(while it'd advocate shutting down the school lunch program as unnecessary welfare.)
ReplyDeleteYet not a Immodicum of a word from his Outlet about it. I know he reads my little blog but he obviously doesn't like it.
It's okay, I don't listen to him get beat up by Darla either.
Byron "Nobody deserves to be rich.....No matter how much money rich people steal from the middle-class, the middle-class still hates on the poor."
ReplyDeleteSo because I make a decent living with a decent wage, I am stealing that wage from someone who is poor? I make my decent living wage because I went to educated myself in my profession and then paid the money back that I borrowed and then worked my way up the ladder to where I am at now. At no time did I deny anyone the chance to do the same!
Don't misunderstand me, everyone needs a helping hand, and Secret Santa is doing that by generously and charitably giving out HIS own money with no expectation of anything in return. What people do with that gift is their own business, whether it is to spend it on unpaid bills, a gift for someone else or the newest ipod.
BUT, to attack Secret Santa for giving out of the goodness of his heart or to attack "middle class America" because they have more than you do is nothing more that envy and jealousy.
Jesus Christ, mister. The rich are taking your tax dollars, not the poor.
ReplyDeleteSeriously??!! if I read this story right from Tony, he is claiming that this Secret Santa is giving out monetary gifts in an attempt to "alleviate white guilt." I never said anything about taxes or how much taxes are paid by someone with or without wealth.
ReplyDeleteYou seem to have a problem with people who have worked hard to get where they are at in their life. Those who own businesses and are successful in business work hard and in doing so create jobs and work for others. I know, I know, they stomp on the poor and keep them there with low wages and poor working conditions. Did you miss where I said that I used education to gain my job? At some point in life, we have to take on responsiblity for our own life and our actions. Part of that is making a decision to do something different that what I have been doing if it is not working.
Okay, I'm off the soap box now. Merry Christmas to you all and please be safe.
I apologize for my short comment. I was distracted by the snowfall, here.
ReplyDeleteListen, what I was talking about was the one percent of the population that owns 34% of the wealth.
I think that there is enough for everyone to live a comfortable middle-class life. The only problem I have with the middle-class is that they seem to identify with the rich, instead of the poor. When they are closer to being poor than rich.
I believe in Moore's Law: From each to according to his abilities & to each according to his needs.
It isn't fair that in the richest country on the planet those who can't work should live in poverty.
Why do conversations about social justice end with middle class people talking about how they deserve to have more than the poor? Isn't this the guilt Tony was talking about?
Again, the poor aren't your enemy, its the rich!
Two thoughts: Who ever said that life is fair? But your'e right we don't help enough those who have a legitimate reason for not being able to work. We should help them and give them the support they need, I think the question is how to do that. Should we take 15% more taxes from those who make more than $500,000 just because "they can afford it?" Not very fair to them not is it. It's a hard question with some hard answers that we still have to figure out.
ReplyDeleteWhy are the rich my enemy? Didn't the business owner who makes a large income have to work hard to build his business to get that income? Shouldn't he be able to enjoy his income? What about the guy who is exceptional at sports? Is it reasonable to pay him or her a bloated amount of money because they have an exceptional skill?
It sounds like you are talking about redistributing wealth which is a slippery slope to start on. That was tried in the Depression era which in part has led us to the problem we are now talking about.
Thank you for the good discussion, but the way.