And They Say Race Isn't An Issue

Rob Graham

John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:

WTF is that?

That is an Atlanta Civil rights Icon, unable to let go of the past.

Lost User

You're ok, you aren't in a group that faces discrimination.

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realJSOP

*Everyone* faces discrimination, and mostly because of crap like the reverends "prayer". Maybe after all the old guys with chips on their shoulders die off, the human race can get on with itself...

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Oakman

John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:

Maybe after all the old guys with chips on their shoulders die off,

Does that include you and me? btw: I agree. There was no reason for a gratuitous insult to caucasians.

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BoneSoft

John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:

Maybe after all the old guys with chips on their shoulders die off, the human race can get on with itself

'Fraid not. Besides the fact that new chips are being manufactured for shoulders every day, people have always and will always fear, and therefore hate, people who are different. Color, shape and size are just easily identifiable traits to help you decide who you hate from a distance, but people only have to be seperated by some invisible line to perceive them as different enough to be a threat. Personally, I think that those who base their prejudices on the easily identifiable traits just betray how simple they are. Honestly, who among us can look at any two given people on the planet and see "equal" every time? I hope it's not impossible, but I'm all but 100% sure it's extremely rare. As long as there are groups of people, groups will be hated. And there's no getting away from that since nature does plenty of grouping for us.

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Rob Graham

Oakman wrote:

There was no reason for a gratuitous insult to caucasians.

And completely out of step with the message Obama has been trying to send. WTF- how does this rate a 1 vote? It is just an innocuous factual observation... someone needs to get a life.

Mike Gaskey

Trollslayer wrote:

You're ok, you aren't in a group that faces discrimination

pure crap. In today's America if you're: a middle aged, white, straight, church-going guy - you're the devil and treated that way.

Mike - typical white guy. The USA does have universal healthcare, but you have to pay for it. D'oh. Thomas Mann - "Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil." The NYT - my leftist brochure. Calling an illegal alien an “undocumented immigrant” is like calling a drug dealer an “unlicensed pharmacist”. God doesn't believe in atheists, therefore they don't exist.

Stan Shannon

Fuck Lowery, fuck Obama, fuck the democrat party, fuck the liberals, and fuck this goddamned collectivist piece of shit country.

Chaining ourselves to the moral high ground does not make us good guys. Aside from making us easy targets, it merely makes us idiotic prisoners of our own self loathing.

Lost User

Not your day eh Stan?

jeron1

Then move out of this piece of s**t country.

Stan Shannon

WHy don't you? You could move anywhere on the planet and be in a country just like what this one has become. Where the hell do I go?

Chaining ourselves to the moral high ground does not make us good guys. Aside from making us easy targets, it merely makes us idiotic prisoners of our own self loathing.

James L Thomson

Stan Shannon wrote:

Where the hell do I go?

If you're looking for a place where the government agrees with your political outlook, then I would recommend Iran. If you're looking for a place with a 100% free market, then I would recommend Somalia.

BoneSoft

That's a damn good point. If anybody feels that maybe we should give socialism (of any disgusting flavor) a go, go some place where they're already oppressed by it. Then you can test drive it without ruining the closest thing to a free democratic republic we've had in human history. If you don't disappear in political prison, and your new home ever decides to let you leave, you'll likely come home with a different perspective. Hell, you might even buy a gun, find yourself with a healthy distrust for all things government, and decide to put some ideas down on paper before finding that the Constitution already says what you wanted to say better than you could. Just saying, maybe some of the "enlightened" ones could use some enlightening.

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Lost User

Seriously, what's wrong with that?

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Stan Shannon

James L. Thomson wrote:

If you're looking for a place where the government agrees with your political outlook, then I would recommend Iran.

How can you say that to me? I don't believe in anything that Iran stands for. How goddamned stupid do you have to be to not understand that centralized power is centralized power whether it is in Iran or the US. That is what I, as a conservative, am opposed to. Why is that so hard for people like you to comprehend? People like you are turning the US into Iran. You think just because you are putting power into the hands of people you consider to be secular zealots that somehow that is different than putting power into the hands of someone who is a religious zealot. It isn't. It is exactly the same damn thing.

Chaining ourselves to the moral high ground does not make us good guys. Aside from making us easy targets, it merely makes us idiotic prisoners of our own self loathing.

jeron1

While I don't totally disagree with you, your whining on and on about something that isn't going to change anytime too soon is like a 5 year old pitching a hissy fit. Suck it up, your guy lost, better luck next time.

thrakazog

Course it has nothing to do with race. Although it was interesting that segments of the crowd at the inauguration kept chanting "Black Power".....

Stan Shannon

Yes. There is no place left now. No where that a person can go to escape collectivism and religious and economimc tyranny. All we can do now is wait for it to all come crahsing down. There is no possible way that any of this is going to succeed. We now have one of the most unaccomplished, ner do wells that we have ever had in power, trying to fix the problems that liberalism has created with far more liberalism. The only cure he knows is to feed the patient more poison. Well, fine. If thats what it takes to put this entire sorry system out of its misery, I'm all for it.

Chaining ourselves to the moral high ground does not make us good guys. Aside from making us easy targets, it merely makes us idiotic prisoners of our own self loathing.

Shepman

Stan Shannon wrote:

That is what I, as a conservative, am opposed to.

You're not a conservative. You're a whiny old man with a shrunken soul espousing outmoded concepts and a vision of America that resembles Never-Never-Land.

Stan Shannon

jeron1 wrote:

While I don't totally disagree with you, your whining on and on about something that isn't going to change anytime too soon is like a 5 year old pitching a hissy fit. Suck it up, your guy lost, better luck next time.

No. The democratic processes in this country are no longer fair and honest. The true government we are supposed to have has been usurped by pure corruption and propaganda. Our educational systems are controlled by leftists, our news media is controlled by leftist, and our entertaiment industry is controlled by leftists. This is no longer a gentleman's debate. Its fucking war.

Chaining ourselves to the moral high ground does not make us good guys. Aside from making us easy targets, it merely makes us idiotic prisoners of our own self loathing.