Bad Joke of the Day
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RichardM1 wrote:
That is one of the translations, another is people. You can take it for the worst, it's your right.
What can I say? I don't speak Spanish, so I had to consult Google. Translations for "People": 1. personas 2. gente 3. pueblo 4. habitantes 5. nación 6. familia 7. amigos 8. súbditos 9. antepasados Translations for "Race": 1. raza 2. carrera 3. prueba 4. regata 5. estirpe 6. casta 7. familia But Google's translators are hardly infallible - maybe we can solve this mystery by meticulously analyzing the organization's web site? Oh here it is, wasn't that hard to find after all:
"the largest national Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization in the United States – works to improve opportunities for Hispanic Americans."
(Emphasis mine) Given the organization's own description of itself, it seems likely that they are working for one specific race (it's anyone's guess which) rather than the American people as a whole.
I understand that you rank them right up with the NAACP. :laugh: See, the difference is you think it is racist, and I don't have a problem with it. There is a difference between helping Hispanics get ahead and trying to put down everyone but Hispanics. Do you think the Better Business Bureau is an atheist organization? They promote business, but not religion. You can be for something without being against everything else.
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Hence why posted as a JOKE, & in the Soapbox. If we all considered EVERYTHING that everyone else may find offensive, then we would all be mutes! You live in a country of free speech, appreciate it!!!
Alan Beasley wrote:
You live in a country of free speech, appreciate it!!!
I'm sure he appreciates free speech; he just used his to express his opinion of your joke.
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I know it was not meant in any malicious way. It's just that with several recent laws in Arizona and a candidate for governor in Alabama making xenophobia a central plank in his platform, I'm a little touchy about the subject.
Gregory.Gadow wrote:
I know it was not meant in any malicious way.
Then why say anything? Don't attack everyone because other people have pissed you off.
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Exactly, I live in the UK but have Nordic roots!!! (I'm a 6'5" blonde bimbo dickhead!!!) :-D
Alan Beasley wrote:
I live in the UK but have Nordic roots
Then you're not an immigrant, you're a ****in' INVADER! HIT HIM WITH BIG, SHARP METAL THINGS!
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But... that's not quite right... a whole bunch of them work together on one job.
PIEBALDconsult wrote:
But... that's not quite right... a whole bunch of them work together on one job.
Well, at least they have a driving license. Literally. *A* driving license.
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ragnaroknrol wrote:
And I wasn't from immigrants. My grandparents were in Puerto Rico (Then belonging to Spain) when the US got it in the war. They were turned into citizens without any immigration process. (Unless you consider war a process)
Yes you were from immigrants, unless you currently reside in Africa. Why only go back to your grandparent's time? Just because it is convenient for you? This immigrant vs. non-immigrant concept is ridiculous and entirely arbitrary nonsense. Even "native Americans" aren't really native if you take ancestry into account. Science's best guess, at this point, is that the first creatures that could be called human lived is sub-Saharan Africa - so if you're not currently living there, you (i.e. your ancestors) immigrated to wherever you are.
Hired Mind wrote:
Yes you were from immigrants, unless you currently reside in Africa. Why only go back to your grandparent's time? Just because it is convenient for you?
Because we use ethnicity to track distinctive traits. Reducing everyone to sub-Saharan descent is disingenious. It essentially is an attempt to remove all individuality in the disctinct groups and act like we are all one big homogeneous gene-pool. It is just as much a bit of nonsense as being upset by these differences and judging people as inferior because they are a different group. Pillowpants is using a pretty specific definition for immigrant. Someone that enters a nation with the express intent on living there. For a legal immigrant there is a process. He desires all immigrants attempt to assimilate into the dominant culture and behave as if their cultural traditions should be thrown away because they are inferior in his mind. Using his definition of immigrant, I am not one. I am unconcerned with race or ethnicity for the most part. The only time it bugs me is when my last name causes people to act a certain way with me.
If I have accidentally said something witty, smart, or correct, it is purely by mistake and I apologize for it.
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I understand that you rank them right up with the NAACP. :laugh: See, the difference is you think it is racist, and I don't have a problem with it. There is a difference between helping Hispanics get ahead and trying to put down everyone but Hispanics. Do you think the Better Business Bureau is an atheist organization? They promote business, but not religion. You can be for something without being against everything else.
Opacity, the new Transparency.
RichardM1 wrote:
There is a difference between helping Hispanics get ahead and trying to put down everyone but Hispanics.
If an organization was designed to help white blue eyed folks get ahead, they would certainly be called racists and tied to Neo-Nazi's. Just a thought though. I am neither. Although my grouping at one point in time use to get tossed in to the fire upon birth. If somehow that didn't happen they were tortured by some religous folks thinking we are the devils children. Yet we have no group or ogranization that helps us. We get by OK ;P
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Would an "oops" suffice for my faux pas.
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RichardM1 wrote:
There is a difference between helping Hispanics get ahead and trying to put down everyone but Hispanics.
If an organization was designed to help white blue eyed folks get ahead, they would certainly be called racists and tied to Neo-Nazi's. Just a thought though. I am neither. Although my grouping at one point in time use to get tossed in to the fire upon birth. If somehow that didn't happen they were tortured by some religous folks thinking we are the devils children. Yet we have no group or ogranization that helps us. We get by OK ;P
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Collin Jasnoch wrote:
If an organization was designed to help white blue eyed folks get ahead, they would certainly be called racists and tied to Neo-Nazi's.
I am white, and my eyes go back and forth between green and blue, based on what I wear. I agree that they would be called that, by the same people who think it is ok for a minority. But,like so many other things, it depends. Are you trying to make things fair, now, or get back at someone? Farrakhan wants blacks on top. Bad. The KKK (etc) wants to get whites on top. Bad. The NAACP wants to advance colored persons. Good. The Irish American Society has pub nights. That can't be bad. :laugh:
Collin Jasnoch wrote:
use to get tossed in to the fire upon birth
Ouch. I hate it when that happens. Do you mind telling me what group? Are you mixed race? Name looks Polish or Slavic (so I'd expect white, but you say not). I didn't think either got burned very often, unless the Germans and Russians are in cahoots. Should I just STFU? :rolleyes:
Opacity, the new Transparency.
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Collin Jasnoch wrote:
If an organization was designed to help white blue eyed folks get ahead, they would certainly be called racists and tied to Neo-Nazi's.
I am white, and my eyes go back and forth between green and blue, based on what I wear. I agree that they would be called that, by the same people who think it is ok for a minority. But,like so many other things, it depends. Are you trying to make things fair, now, or get back at someone? Farrakhan wants blacks on top. Bad. The KKK (etc) wants to get whites on top. Bad. The NAACP wants to advance colored persons. Good. The Irish American Society has pub nights. That can't be bad. :laugh:
Collin Jasnoch wrote:
use to get tossed in to the fire upon birth
Ouch. I hate it when that happens. Do you mind telling me what group? Are you mixed race? Name looks Polish or Slavic (so I'd expect white, but you say not). I didn't think either got burned very often, unless the Germans and Russians are in cahoots. Should I just STFU? :rolleyes:
Opacity, the new Transparency.
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RichardM1 wrote:
Do you mind telling me what group?
Red head! ;P
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If you read my post closely I never wrote 'race', I wrote 'group' :)
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