Comments on: Jackson Katz on Virginia Tech http://www.republicoft.com/2007/05/03/jackson-kataz-on-virginia-tech/ Black. Gay. Father. Vegetarian. Buddhist. Liberal. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 02:47:01 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: JP http://www.republicoft.com/2007/05/03/jackson-kataz-on-virginia-tech/comment-page-1/#comment-180521 JP Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:05:26 +0000 http://www.republicoft.com/2007/05/03/jackson-kataz-on-virginia-tech/#comment-180521 I heard Katz speak at my college and honestly saw no validity really in what he said. People can call it rankism or sexism or whatever they want. The overall principle in the world though is strength and individuality. Im not trying to sound like Machiavelli or say thats its a dog eat dog world. But ultimately, a person, whether theyre black white guy girl or whatever has to step up for himself/herself and take advantage of his/her talents to get what he/she desires in life. Rarely do people get what they want just out of being passive. At some point one needs to say this is what I want and Im going to do anything to get it. Obviously there are people with an advantage or disadvantage that they themselves didnt earn, but in that case it usually leads to the downfall of the advantaged person. When people, companies teams or even countries ride on their laurels they will eventually fail because they dont have the drive tenacity or basic will that is needed. Thats what brings major corporations to bankruptcy, teams to failure and empires to a fall and is really what makes the world work. People like Katz can say that women are degraded by society and theres a good amount of truth to that. But if you look at it from a different prospective, they also completely by into that degradation because they dont do what they need to do to get themselves out all the time, and take the bait that is given to them. On rankism, I think the evils of it are also self solving, if someones abusing his/her rank they will ultimately go over the line and fail because the people under them will stop supporting them, like Don Imus. I heard Katz speak at my college and honestly saw no validity really in what he said. People can call it rankism or sexism or whatever they want. The overall principle in the world though is strength and individuality. Im not trying to sound like Machiavelli or say thats its a dog eat dog world. But ultimately, a person, whether theyre black white guy girl or whatever has to step up for himself/herself and take advantage of his/her talents to get what he/she desires in life. Rarely do people get what they want just out of being passive. At some point one needs to say this is what I want and Im going to do anything to get it. Obviously there are people with an advantage or disadvantage that they themselves didnt earn, but in that case it usually leads to the downfall of the advantaged person. When people, companies teams or even countries ride on their laurels they will eventually fail because they dont have the drive tenacity or basic will that is needed. Thats what brings major corporations to bankruptcy, teams to failure and empires to a fall and is really what makes the world work. People like Katz can say that women are degraded by society and theres a good amount of truth to that. But if you look at it from a different prospective, they also completely by into that degradation because they dont do what they need to do to get themselves out all the time, and take the bait that is given to them.

On rankism, I think the evils of it are also self solving, if someones abusing his/her rank they will ultimately go over the line and fail because the people under them will stop supporting them, like Don Imus.

]]> By: erizzle http://www.republicoft.com/2007/05/03/jackson-kataz-on-virginia-tech/comment-page-1/#comment-93888 erizzle Fri, 04 May 2007 04:53:09 +0000 http://www.republicoft.com/2007/05/03/jackson-kataz-on-virginia-tech/#comment-93888 Katz rocks! i've used his TG video for a while in my classes. just dropping a line. recently starting reading. great blog. Katz rocks! i’ve used his TG video for a while in my classes.

just dropping a line. recently starting reading. great blog.

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