Excellent Article On Racism
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espeir wrote:
However, US airport security is supposedly not allowed to racially profile and I usually see whites being searched.
The whites being searched could be just a pretence. It's important to double check all brown people - so since they cannot racially profile people, they need to do dummy checks on some whites and blacks too :-) Just a theory of course.
espeir wrote:
I just think that whenever a racial minority endures the same thing everybody else does, they get the feeling that it's because they're a minority.
Possibly true. Minorities are automatically defensive. Regards, Nish
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
The whites being searched could be just a pretence.
Actually most of the searches are based upon a code written on your boarding pass. I discovered this when I was pulled out of line and had to stand in a queue for a flight to Seattle from Boston two years ago. There are a variety of codes, my particular code (and I checked with the guy in line behind me who was also caucasian and had the same code on his boarding pass) was because I'd bought the plane ticket the day before. And I'm as Boston as they come having been born and raised a little ways north of there. Mike Poz
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Mike Gaskey wrote:
so there you go. a question is asked, answered - but since it wasn't politically correct it is wrong.
Jesus H. Christ. I actually agreed that the time for the things you listed has passed. But I also picked apart how it didn't answer my question. The original assertion that whites are being asked to ignore whites in order to support other races is pure hyperbole, and I couldn't let it to go unchallenged. Here's what it all comes down to for me: 1. There is no such thing as race. It is a scientifically invalid concept. (In other words: there is more variation within a so called "race" than there is between races, so there's no point in paying attention to race.) 2. Racists still exist. And you don't have to be white to be one. 3. Whites still have the power in this country, but then we are a mostly white country. Minorities used to have zero power, and this has changed dramatically through extraordinary efforts by people of all races. We are not there yet. (See #2.) 4. If given a level playing field, skewing things in favor for minorities only perpetuates inferiority. 5. When not given a level playing field, those who are in power and making the field unlevel should be forced to make it level. 6. If you believe everything is now on a level field for everybody, you live in a fantasy world.
David Kentley wrote:
The original assertion that whites are being asked to ignore whites in order to support other races is pure hyperbole, and I couldn't let it to go unchallenged
It's not hyperbole when where you work, live or go to school "diversity" is chosen over "ability". BTW, "diversity" is the new name for "affirmative action". And I know quite a few white guys who got shafted because of "diversity". Mike Poz
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Racism is looking at a Black person and say "they are different to me". Why do people have to be white Americans or Black Americans. Why cant you look at a Black person and say "there goes my American brother"? Your background does not define you as a person. You poor little hate filled person. Objects in mirror are closer than they appear
Josh Gray wrote:
You poor little hate filled person.
:(( Stand rigid for the next battle Peace means reloading your guns The love for life is all hatred in disguise - Dimmu Borgir
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Racism is looking at a Black person and say "they are different to me". Why do people have to be white Americans or Black Americans. Why cant you look at a Black person and say "there goes my American brother"? Your background does not define you as a person. You poor little hate filled person. Objects in mirror are closer than they appear
Josh Gray wrote:
"there goes my American brother"?
Because too many times I have personally heard black men abuse white men for saying that they are brothers. Want to hear something funny? Until I graduated from high school and enlisted in the Marines, I had no idea I was racist. I just thought I was a fair skinned American who had white, black, asian, latin (and a mix of all those) friends and neighbors. It was pointed out to me by a number of black Marines from the south that since I'm white, I am racist because I didn't "understand the black man" and because I didn't feel "sorry for the abuses heaped upon the black man in the form of slavery." Mike Poz
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Josh Gray wrote:
You poor little hate filled person.
:(( Stand rigid for the next battle Peace means reloading your guns The love for life is all hatred in disguise - Dimmu Borgir
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Every time you post a responce that consists of an icon and nothing else you are proving to everyone the child you are. DO you have something to say? Objects in mirror are closer than they appear
Josh Gray wrote:
Every time you post a responce that consists of an icon and nothing else you are proving to everyone the child you are. DO you have something to say?
Like i am the only one who makes responses consisting of only an icon. :rolleyes: Stand rigid for the next battle Peace means reloading your guns The love for life is all hatred in disguise - Dimmu Borgir
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Josh Gray wrote:
"there goes my American brother"?
Because too many times I have personally heard black men abuse white men for saying that they are brothers. Want to hear something funny? Until I graduated from high school and enlisted in the Marines, I had no idea I was racist. I just thought I was a fair skinned American who had white, black, asian, latin (and a mix of all those) friends and neighbors. It was pointed out to me by a number of black Marines from the south that since I'm white, I am racist because I didn't "understand the black man" and because I didn't feel "sorry for the abuses heaped upon the black man in the form of slavery." Mike Poz
Mike Poz wrote:
Because too many times I have personally heard black men abuse white men for saying that they are brothers.
Bad choise of words by me. how about "there goes my fellow American"
Mike Poz wrote:
It was pointed out to me by a number of black Marines from the south that since I'm white, I am racist because I didn't "understand the black man" and because I didn't feel "sorry for the abuses heaped upon the black man in the form of slavery."
Which just goes to show that there are idiots of every colour. I would say the same thing to them. They should recognise that you have a lot in common and not focus on the differences. You were all Americans serving your country. We have similar issues here with our Aboriginal population. Objects in mirror are closer than they appear
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Sorry, I meant seeing them as a different kind of person based on their appearance and as you say treating them differently as a result. The point I wnt to make is we should recognise the similarities between ourselves and others and not concentrate on the differences. Objects in mirror are closer than they appear
Josh Gray wrote:
Sorry, I meant seeing them as a different kind of person based on their appearance and as you say treating them differently as a result. The point I wnt to make is we should recognise the similarities between ourselves and others and not concentrate on the differences.
Well why don't you tell that to the illegal immigrants here that march with signs saying that Americans are "nazis" for wanting to send them back Stand rigid for the next battle Peace means reloading your guns The love for life is all hatred in disguise - Dimmu Borgir
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Josh Gray wrote:
Every time you post a responce that consists of an icon and nothing else you are proving to everyone the child you are. DO you have something to say?
Like i am the only one who makes responses consisting of only an icon. :rolleyes: Stand rigid for the next battle Peace means reloading your guns The love for life is all hatred in disguise - Dimmu Borgir
Score: 1.0 (1 vote). wrote:
Like i am the only one who makes responses consisting of only an icon.
"Like" that makes it ok. Its like dude like if someone else like does it it doesnt mean like that you should like do it. Do you have something to say on the topic of this thread in responce to my post or not? Objects in mirror are closer than they appear
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Score: 1.0 (1 vote). wrote:
Like i am the only one who makes responses consisting of only an icon.
"Like" that makes it ok. Its like dude like if someone else like does it it doesnt mean like that you should like do it. Do you have something to say on the topic of this thread in responce to my post or not? Objects in mirror are closer than they appear
Josh Gray wrote:
Do you have something to say on the topic of this thread in responce to my post or not?
Yes.[^] Stand rigid for the next battle Peace means reloading your guns The love for life is all hatred in disguise - Dimmu Borgir
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Josh Gray wrote:
Sorry, I meant seeing them as a different kind of person based on their appearance and as you say treating them differently as a result. The point I wnt to make is we should recognise the similarities between ourselves and others and not concentrate on the differences.
Well why don't you tell that to the illegal immigrants here that march with signs saying that Americans are "nazis" for wanting to send them back Stand rigid for the next battle Peace means reloading your guns The love for life is all hatred in disguise - Dimmu Borgir
Ummm....how would I tell them? Messenger piggion perhaps? I dont think then tend to hang around here much. I doubt there are many of them that feel that way but as usual you only see the extremes. I would imagine that is directed more at the policy of your goverenment than a blanket statement about American people. Hell if they meant all American people that would include all the non illigal immigrants from their own country. Objects in mirror are closer than they appear
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Ummm....how would I tell them? Messenger piggion perhaps? I dont think then tend to hang around here much. I doubt there are many of them that feel that way but as usual you only see the extremes. I would imagine that is directed more at the policy of your goverenment than a blanket statement about American people. Hell if they meant all American people that would include all the non illigal immigrants from their own country. Objects in mirror are closer than they appear
Josh Gray wrote:
Hell if they meant all American people that would include all the non illigal immigrants from their own country.
It was directed at the american people that care enough about their country to want the illegal immigrants to get out. This forum software is really fucking up Stand rigid for the next battle Peace means reloading your guns The love for life is all hatred in disguise - Dimmu Borgir
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Josh Gray wrote:
Hell if they meant all American people that would include all the non illigal immigrants from their own country.
It was directed at the american people that care enough about their country to want the illegal immigrants to get out. This forum software is really fucking up Stand rigid for the next battle Peace means reloading your guns The love for life is all hatred in disguise - Dimmu Borgir
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Why did you modify your post and make it look like you didnt? Objects in mirror are closer than they appear
Josh Gray wrote:
Why did you modify your post and make it look like you didnt?
Because i wanted to. Stand rigid for the next battle Peace means reloading your guns The love for life is all hatred in disguise - Dimmu Borgir
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Josh Gray wrote:
Why did you modify your post and make it look like you didnt?
Because i wanted to. Stand rigid for the next battle Peace means reloading your guns The love for life is all hatred in disguise - Dimmu Borgir
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Do you think you are racist or bigoted in other ways? Objects in mirror are closer than they appear
Josh Gray wrote:
Do you think you are racist or bigoted in other ways?
Other ways? What "other ways" are you referring to? Stand rigid for the next battle Peace means reloading your guns The love for life is all hatred in disguise - Dimmu Borgir
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Racism is looking at a Black person and say "they are different to me". Why do people have to be white Americans or Black Americans. Why cant you look at a Black person and say "there goes my American brother"? Your background does not define you as a person. You poor little hate filled person. Objects in mirror are closer than they appear
Josh Gray wrote:
Racism is looking at a Black person and say "they are different to me". Why do people have to be white Americans or Black Americans. Why cant you look at a Black person and say "there goes my American brother"? Your background does not define you as a person. You poor little hate filled person.
Most white Americans have bent over backwards to achieve that. As with most things (Muslims for example) we aren't the ones who need the lectures. "You get that which you tolerate"
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Josh Gray wrote:
Do you think you are racist or bigoted in other ways?
Other ways? What "other ways" are you referring to? Stand rigid for the next battle Peace means reloading your guns The love for life is all hatred in disguise - Dimmu Borgir
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Josh Gray wrote:
Racism is looking at a Black person and say "they are different to me". Why do people have to be white Americans or Black Americans. Why cant you look at a Black person and say "there goes my American brother"? Your background does not define you as a person. You poor little hate filled person.
Most white Americans have bent over backwards to achieve that. As with most things (Muslims for example) we aren't the ones who need the lectures. "You get that which you tolerate"
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Racism - a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race How could you be racist based on sex, sexual preference, or age? That would make no sense. As far as bigoted, i dont see how you could be bigoted against someone based on age or sex, but i do not like homosexuals. Stand rigid for the next battle Peace means reloading your guns The love for life is all hatred in disguise - Dimmu Borgir