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[DanaC]

In the 20th Century it would be "Looks like a negro did it"; now it's "Looks like a corporation did it."

These are in no way equivalent.


If you want a real comparison in attitudes, look at the attitude many on the right have towards unions. All bad, all the time.

Or the absolute mistrust of congress: all politicians are the same. All bad, all the time.

Lamplighter's attitude might call up a lot of things - but an equivalent to racism it is not.


I find it slightly baffling sometimes that a lot of people are so instantly hostile to one set of apparently self-serving, though unavoidably neccessary, powerful individuals and the system in which they operate - yet at the same time see any instant hostility to another set of apparently self-serving, though unavoidably necessary, powerful individuals and the system in which they operate as somehow heinous and anti-social.

[Clodfobble]

Originally Posted by DanaC

These are in no way equivalent.

If you want a real comparison in attitudes, look at the attitude many on the right have towards unions. All bad, all the time.

You've got the parallel wrong. A union is a union, and hating all things unions do is indeed a bias. But pointing to something that, say, a Little League baseball team did, and using it as evidence that unions are bad, that's what's equivalent to blaming everything bad on the negro/boogeyman.

UT's point is Reddit is not a "corporation" in any common understanding of the word. But they did something that Lamplighter didn't like, and now Lamp is using it to reinforce his belief that corporations are bad.

[Undertoad]

It was clumsy. It's both those things; seeing whatever X does as "bad", and finding something "bad" and reaching to blame X for it. Both of those things happen in racism and in LL's version of anti-corporatism.


And, while Reddit is owned by a corporation, nothing in the events that have happened have anything to do with the "corporate persona".

[Gravdigr]

Little league baseball team = union...

[busterb]

I see no one has posted about the two cops killed in MS. last week.
Perhaps in another thread there's a link to assholes walking on flag.
Also about the past subway employe who posted a bunch of crap on FB, then wanted to sue newspaper the printed her post. Then she called the cops about all the people hating her, do something.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Instead of pissing in the wind, why don't you give us some links to theses stories I haven't heard of.

[Lamplighter]

Originally Posted by Lamplighter

Which is worse ?

Update:

Principal criticized for making racial remark at graduation has been fired, NAACP says
Washington Post - Peter Holley and Sarah Larimer - May 14, 2015

And now, Gordeuk has been fired by the Stone Mountain school
she founded, according to Atlanta NBC affiliate WXIA:

Heidi Anderson, chair of the board of directors at TNT Academy, wrote
in a letter sent to the Gwinnett County NAACP that the board voted
to dismiss school director Nancy Gordeuk.

[Gravdigr]

Oh, snap! She got kicked outta her own school.

[infinite monkey]

There are so many funny things in this story I don't even want to take the time to enumerate them. Collect all 4!

http://www.whio.com/news/news/crime-...hburger/nmJ3H/

I dream of the luxurious burger whose life I held in my hands, verily, and I became a crumption of a darkness of aptitude, having been solaced by the endearment of vertitude.

And then I found myself.

Whilst vaptiliating.

Amongst the conjured.

Cleverly contained and sufficiently absorbed into matter.

[Gravdigr]

Okay. Now it's my turn to be confused as fuck.

Read the story. Watched the video.

Just clueless as fuck regarding everything after: "nmj3h"

[busterb]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Instead of pissing in the wind, why don't you give us some links to theses stories I haven't heard of.

Well I though maybe Google just might have or help some of ya. I haven't looked. Heard on radio. This's one link http://news.yahoo.com/subway-employe...QDBHNlYwNzcg--

[xoxoxoBruce]

Yes Google might have helped but why the fuck should I have to go chasing rumors and hearsay.

OK, "two cops killed in MS" ~ 5,320,000 results. Which one?
"assholes walking on flag" ~ 564,000 results. A little easier but not much.
"past subway employe who posted a bunch of crap on FB" ~ 782,000 results

If you just want to drop by and see what people are saying about stuff, don't get pissy if they're not talking about what you want to hear.
Tell us what you read, where you read it, and what you think about it, then I'm sure these fine folks would be glad to discuss it.

[BigV]

Originally Posted by Gravdigr

Oh, snap! She got kicked outta her own school.

I think it's the right choice. I do not approve of the way she's leading kids. Her own son, while valiantly coming to the defense of his mother, is a pretty good example of what I don't want to see more of.

On Saturday, Gordeuk’s son came to her defense on his Facebook page, posting his address and telling critics of his mother to come see him face to face.

“What was rude wad somone standing up during the ceremony and walking around with a tablet with somthing wrote on it that was rude now regaurdless my moma not racist one bit she’s done nothing but help kids so yall need to get stories straight,” he wrote, prompting numerous responses.

One hour later, Gordeuk followed up with a second post repeating the invitation, but this time including a racial epithet.

In his defense, he says his facebook account was hacked and that's the reason for his remarks.

[Gravdigr]

Hacked by a semi-literate hacker...

[Lamplighter]

If you already brew your own beer, soon all it may take is a slightly different
strain of yeast to brew your own morphine or other concierge opiates.
... so say some bioengineers in Berkeley and Montreal