“It will make sure no race is scapegoated”

I’m sorry, but it wasn’t Chinese people in the white hoods, burning crosses, and lynching black people. It wasn’t Arabs saying “race mixing is communism” and shouting at Ruby Bridges and holding signs saying “all I want for Christmas is a clean, white school”.

It was white people. This is a simple historical fact. It’s not “critical race theory”. To call it “scapegoating” to discuss an objective fact means that you want to whitewash and sanitize history.

If merely talking about this makes a white child feel “anguish” and “discomfort”, then that’s a failure on the parent, not the teacher (ironic, because all these conservatives want “parental choice” in education, but don’t prepare their kids for education) for simply pointing out facts.

What does it say about your kid that when told that white Americans enslaved black people, they identify with the slaveholders and feel “anguish” instead of identifying with the abolitionists and feeling pride in the good things that white people have done? What are you teaching them at home? That white people are angelic and perfect, so when they hear about segregation, they think “no, not us white people!”

I sure as hell never felt “anguish” when I learned about black gang violence from the late 80s and early 90s. Because that didn’t represent my values. What values are white conservative parents teaching their kids at home that makes it so they feel “anguish” when they go to school and learn “white people did bad things in the past”?

A Coinbase recruiter reached out to me around this time last year about an opportunity that was basically the same type of role as what I had been doing for a couple of years and it interested me because it was tech/crypto and I was tired of insurance.

Had an amazing compensation package. He said it would be $150k all in, with a base salary of $135k + bonus, with an addition of stock options. I got deep into the interview process but I ultimately didn't get the job. In hindsight, I'm glad I didn't because I absolutely would have taken it if they gave me an offer.

They've done nothing but slash jobs since then. And the crypto market is more turbulent now than its ever been

I’d happily deal with a higher interest rate that could be refinanced to a lower interest rate some time down the line, but home prices need to drop. Mediocre houses selling for a half million when they should actually be around $350k is probably scaring people off more that a 6.5% interest rate.

That rate honestly isn’t even bad. People just got used to artificially low rates after the 2008 crash, but that’s what it was prior to the housing market collapsing. But paying that “high” rate on top of an overvalued mortgage because investors and house hunters who all have endless cash want to turn everything into a rental property so they can pay whatever price for whatever house? And regular joes have to compete with that? That probably scared people off more than anything.

I’m not paying a half million for a 1500 sq ft ranch that’s in the suburbs. Regardless of interest rate.