If you think racism is in the past

[Sundae]

Originally Posted by Gravdigr

But, she's the one who looked back. If she hadn't looked back...

Originally Posted by Clodfobble

The angels said "Don't look back" to Lot, his wife, and his daughters all in a group. Lot's wife was the only one who looked back, so she turned into a pillar of salt.

My apols.
I was thinking of Orpheus and Eurydice

[Pete Zicato]

Originally Posted by tw

Was. That has changed with the popularity of tanning saloons.

You made me laugh with that one.

[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by Gravdigr

I have white skin. According to the latest census 'minority' births now outnumber 'white' births.

I am now a minority.

Wheeeeeeeere's mah special prgrams?
Wheeeeeeeere's mah NAAWP?
Wheeeeeeeere's mah check?

You'll get your check when white people have been treated by the majority the way white people have treated minorities for the same length of time. Not one minute before.

Now get your thumb out of your mouth and get a job.

[Gravdigr]

Originally Posted by Spexxvet

...get a job.

Don't need one. Done my bit.

Start a business. Sell it. Good luck!

[Gravdigr]

Originally Posted by Gravdigr

I have white skin. According to the latest census 'minority' births now outnumber 'white' births.

I am now a minority.

Wheeeeeeeere's mah special prgrams?
Wheeeeeeeere's mah NAAWP?
Wheeeeeeeere's mah check?

Originally Posted by DanaC

No you're not. Not yet. Takes a while for the birthrate to have a strong impact on demographics. The largest single group in America, at a little over half the population, is still whitey :p

Originally Posted by Spexxvet

You'll get your check when white people have been treated by the majority the way white people have treated minorities for the same length of time. Not one minute before.

Yeah. Sigh. Didja really think I was headed down to da welfare office? Really?

JFC, people...would ya just think, think, if for only a fucking split second, before ya get on your fucking moral high horse?

Ya just might save yaself some effort.

[TheMercenary]

Until we rid our nation of preferential treatment and government programs like "Affirmative Action" we will be a Nation of racist policy.

[DanaC]

Originally Posted by Gravdigr

Yeah. Sigh. Didja really think I was headed down to da welfare office? Really?

JFC, people...would ya just think, think, if for only a fucking split second, before ya get on your fucking moral high horse?

Ya just might save yaself some effort.


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I'd have thought my use of the word 'whitey' would have given away that I was meeting your humour with my own. The :p should have clued you in otherwise.

[tw]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

Until we rid our nation of preferential treatment and government programs like "Affirmative Action" we will be a Nation of racist policy.

Ironic from one who promoted hate of Muslims in Lower Manhattan.

[BigV]

Racism is alive and well today. It has a bright future too, because thinking is hard. Lots of people would prefer a simple wrong explanation because it's easier (to put on a bumper sticker) than a complex correct understanding because it's harder (to convey during a commercial break). Intolerance is rooted in laziness and fear, both of which are abundant and self-renewing; they are everlasting. Intolerance based on skin color is just one kind, an easy kind of intolerance. One that can be exercised at a distance.

Such rigid and simple discrimination may have been useful at one time when tribal conflict had mortal stakes, but it is completely maladaptive now. Absent knowledge of skin color, there are not many distinguishing characteristics that can be known that matter.

Originally Posted by William Shakespeare channeling Shylock

I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions; fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a Christian is? If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example? Why, revenge. The villainy you teach me I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.

Hate begets hate. Laziness begets laziness. We share our humanity regardless of such trivialities as skin color. But we are easily distracted by what is apparent from what is important.

[Pete Zicato]

Originally Posted by BigV

It has a bright future too, because thinking is hard.

This. Well, that and it's easier to blame someone else for your problems.

[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by Gravdigr

Yeah. Sigh. Didja really think I was headed down to da welfare office? Really?

JFC, people...would ya just think, think, if for only a fucking split second, before ya get on your fucking moral high horse?

Ya just might save yaself some effort.


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Dood. I even used the winky smiley. Now get your thumb out of your ass and get a sense of humor.