Racism is alive and well in the US

The Dude said:
Ila/dumbyanky your a riech wing gem maker machine!
Slave owners weren't racist
Luv it klansman
Please keep your thoughts on racism and down markets coming
Priceless
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add to that list, Talmudic studies, and Seapower. He thinks he's a fucking genius there as well. ;)
 
"Fire and Blood" said:
shut the fuck up bro. seriously, you are just being a derailing troll. yes, DNA wise race doesn't really exist. That's fucking obvious and also totally irrelevant. As a matter of culture, reality, and general colloquialism, race is very real in our society. Even you know that, so knock it off with your masturbatory factoid citing masquerading as meaningful conversation.
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Lot of swearing, no sense. There is one human race only, though some right-wing nutters are trying to get back up the trees. Fascist nutters choose noses, knees, hair or any other bullshit to pick on and bully others, and the way to stop them is to show up their ludicrous silliness, as you know.
 
iolo said:
N o, thank God - but I can read posts and books. There are no races or witches, but ignorant peasants believe in both.
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If you can read you know there's a big difference between book learning and actual experience. Just today there was an article about yet another American cultural icon with clay feet.
Paula Deen racist testimony: Food Network star uses epithet in court deposition

The celebrity chef, who is famous for her Southern approach to life, admitted to using racial slurs in a court deposition last month, but said neither she nor her brother, Bubby Hier, are racist.

 
Don Quixote said:
racism varies by where you live, speak and look.

try being white in parts of hawaii or other nonwhite areas in the nation just like being the 'wrong' color in other places. however, racial 'purity' is on the decline.

also, a persons social economic status impacts how they are treated.

short, tall, fat, thin, good looking, ugly...the list is endless

talk to a sociologist if you want more information (my wife was a sociology major) or just travel a lot

even the way you dress varies how you are treated.
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I agree with all of this. You're preaching to the choir. :)

Lowaicue told us what it's like to be a Brit living in HK and the racist terms used against him and other light-skinned people. It's just one of those negatives that seems to be in all societies and cultures.
 
christiefan915 said:
I agree with all of this. You're preaching to the choir. :)

Lowaicue told us what it's like to be a Brit living in HK and the racist terms used against him and other light-skinned people. It's just one of those negatives that seems to be in all societies and cultures.
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I've been working with a lot of Chinese investors for the past year and came to realize real quick a lot of them do not like black people. It's the damndest thing.

I'm sure for most of us when we see the title of a thread that says racism is alive in America our first thought is probably white vs. black racism but the reality is yeah it's everywhere isn't it? Crazy.
 
cawacko said:
I've been working with a lot of Chinese investors for the past year and came to realize real quick a lot of them do not like black people. It's the damndest thing.

I'm sure for most of us when we see the title of a thread that says racism is alive in America our first thought is probably white vs. black racism but the reality is yeah it's everywhere isn't it? Crazy.
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I don't watch soccer, but in Europe there fans are overtly racist to blacks.
The world is decades behind us on PC issues.
 
The Dude said:
I don't watch soccer, but in Europe there fans are overtly racist to blacks.
The world is decades behind us on PC issues.
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Yeah, but in Europe they don't fuck around with the racsism stuff. They'll shut the stadiums down and fine teams for fan conduct.
 
The Dude said:
I don't watch soccer, but in Europe there fans are overtly racist to blacks.
The world is decades behind us on PC issues.
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One of my partners at the office is from Portugal, he's here on a green card. He's a great guy. I love hearing his perspective on Europe and as a European in the U.S. He can't vote but he reads the NY Times daily and loves their editorial page, especially Paul Krugman. Yet he carriers that attitude towards blacks many Europeans do. It's real interesting to see.
 
christiefan915 said:
If you can read you know there's a big difference between book learning and actual experience. Just today there was an article about yet another American cultural icon with clay feet.
Paula Deen racist testimony: Food Network star uses epithet in court deposition

The celebrity chef, who is famous for her Southern approach to life, admitted to using racial slurs in a court deposition last month, but said neither she nor her brother, Bubby Hier, are racist.

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And today I read she blamed it on being 60... sad. Other people her age aren't racist - or don't use racial slurs, if that's how she would prefer we put it.
 
Dungheap said:
Yeah, but in Europe they don't fuck around with the racsism stuff. They'll shut the stadiums down and fine teams for fan conduct.
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Really, it's routinely chanted at blacks with only the occasional action taken. Us fans would shut that shit down themselves
 
tekkychick said:
And today I read she blamed it on being 60... sad. Other people her age aren't racist - or don't use racial slurs, if that's how she would prefer we put it.
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I'm not defending the lady for using them but I believe she said she used them several decades ago in the South when the fact is it was not that uncommon for people there to use those words. Hell LBJ signed one the biggest civil rights documents in our history and that guy regularly used the n-word.

If she was dropping n-bombs today is regular conversation then that is a real issue. Again, not justifying the use of the word back when but I think it should be put in context.
 
The Dude said:
Really, it's routinely chanted at blacks with only the occasional action taken. Us fans would shut that shit down themselves
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Yeah, as I listen to my co-worker tell me about games he's attended shutting down stadiums for racial slurs is far from the norm.
 
New York has a stop and search law!
Stop dark people and search to reduce crime!
Affective yes
Racist as our founding fathers yes
 
cawacko said:
Yeah, as I listen to my co-worker tell me about games he's attended shutting down stadiums for racial slurs is far from the norm.
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I think there has been more of an effort in recent years to crack down on it.

By the by, if you're interesting in European soccer hooliganism, you should read Among the Thugs by Bill Buford. It's pretty dated, but jesus lord almighty. he tells the story of fans doing a gorilla grunt whenever an opposing black player touched the ball.

Here's a short Grantland piece on it:

http://www.grantland.com/blog/the-t...hall-of-fame-among-the-thugs-bill-buford-1990
 
christiefan915 said:
If you can read you know there's a big difference between book learning and actual experience. Just today there was an article about yet another American cultural icon with clay feet.
Paula Deen racist testimony: Food Network star uses epithet in court deposition

The celebrity chef, who is famous for her Southern approach to life, admitted to using racial slurs in a court deposition last month, but said neither she nor her brother, Bubby Hier, are racist.

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Stop evil people calling one another witches! Playing along with bullshit just strengthens it.
 
iolo said:
Stop evil people calling one another witches! Playing along with bullshit just strengthens it.
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If you want to make the philosophical argument that we're all one race, the human race, yeah I'll buy that. But it sure looks to me like you don't know squat about racial discrimination in America.
 
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