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Beers with our Founding Fathers

This also applies This includes race, gender, religion, sexual

orientation, age and other personal and class characteristics that are
of birth and not of choice. The ‘radical’ transforms these to

characteristic traits and removes them from the person or class
traits.

When you see statistics it is often broken down by race, sex or
other personal characteristic. At times this may be appropriate, but

for the most part there is no longer valid reason, except to enlarge
the divisiveness of bigotry. Applications for jobs and admissions to

higher education, even hospital admissions, ask about race or sex,
but why? If the application process were to remove any questions

of class characteristics and personal identity, leaving only personal
character, the processing of the application would be without any

bias. If a person could truly look at a candidate for political office in
the same way they should view a job or student candidate, we may

someday have politicians of character serving the interests of the
people they are elected by to represent. By extension, bigotry also

applies to socioeconomic status. Although not strictly, it does in the
sense that a person is often in a socioeconomic class of which they

have no choice, but do have every means and effort to escape from
within their reach, but not necessarily their grasp.

Like unions, the activism regarding race, sex, religion, sexual
orientation and all other class characteristics have been polarizing

and self-serving to the leadership of the radical groups pushing a

politicized agenda. More importantly, this is at the expense of the
individual and group they purport to represent. It is extortion by
exploitation. Like the union strike or government extortion of states

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