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racism

  1. Ranb

    Deadspin loses bid to toss defamation suit

    Deadspin loses bid to toss defamation suit over article accusing young Chiefs fan of racism https://nypost.com/2024/10/08/media/deadspin-loses-bid-to-toss-defamation-suit-over-article-accusing-young-chiefs-fan-of-racism/ Another article...
  2. Brainster

    Racist Countryside Art

    Gotta love the woke; they are constantly on the alert for new causes. The latest is the racism stirred up by paintings of the English countryside: I do love the insistence that this is not "woke"; apparently even the wokerattti know to avoid that description.
  3. L

    Are concentration camp victims terrorists if they try to break out?

    Ponder this hypothetical situation: Victims of persecution and ethnic cleansing and racism are confined in a concentration camp At some stage during their torment some of the victims manage to kill some of the guards and break out of the concentration camp Many of the people living in the...
  4. Ranb

    Bruce's Beach Returns to Heirs.

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/29/california-returns-beachfront-property-taken-black-couple-bruces-beach You might think that the Bruce family getting the land back and leasing it to the County would not ruffle any feathers, but that would be naive...
  5. Brainster

    Race-Based Grading

    I suppose this is the latest front for the anti-racists (as compared to the not-racists): Now, misbehavior (within some reasonable limits) should not result in a lowered grade; there are other places on the report card for identifying social adjustment issues. But no penalties for missing...
  6. Minoosh

    What we mean when we talk about racism

    Sometimes it seems to me that people are envisioning different things when discussing racism. Is a person a racist? Or does it speak to a certain configuration of society, which makes any systematic "othering" racist, whether it literally has to do with skin color or not? An article in The New...
  7. Octavo

    Racism is contextual

    I think the thread title is self-evident and propose a real world example: I recently had occasion to overhear an event producer on a phone call to book talent: "No, the dancers can't be white. I need them to be black." This sounds racist. Without further context, I'd agree. Why are you...
  8. rdwight

    How do you define racism?

    For the purpose of this discussion I am talking about the USA specifically. It seems there is an ongoing debate about how we define and view racism. I personally adhere to the standard dictionary definition of racism which simply requires the belief in racial superiority or inferiority. I...
  9. The Sparrow

    Racism is baseless

    At breakfast Friday morning, a co-worker of mine made some 'joking' remark about how soon 1/3 of school children in Manitoba would be indigenous. He said "we gotta find a way to thin that out". I called him a *********** racist. Then I asked him what part of my wife should be thinned out. He...
  10. Zeuzzz

    Patriotism is a form of racism

    Discuss.
  11. Roadtoad

    Some Folks Just Don't Get It...

    Bumper sticker isn't racist, says the seller... You're kidding. Right? In Idaho, some politicians have trouble understanding "rape"... Oh, please. Tell me this guy is simply making a sick joke...
  12. Kthulhut Fhtagn

    Infowars branching out into race baiting

    I don't know but it seems as if Jones et al are actually getting crazier/dumber as time goes on. Source
  13. shadron

    Whence the White/Black Racial Line?

    As I've become more worldly in my reading I've often wondered why race is such a big deal in the US, but does not seem to be so elsewhere in the North, Central or South Americas. I've never had the opportunity (read: boot in the rear) to investigate. I happened upon a youtube channel in which...
  14. truethat

    Did Darwin's theories tend to build racism?

    The other day I was on the subway and this very brutish black woman got on the train. Her size and her demeanor really seemed "apelike" to me. I was shocked that this thought so casually skipped through my mind. I certainly don't like that it did and of course it was racist. I apologize...
  15. applecorped

    Abraham Lincoln a Racist?

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_lincoln_colonization "McLEAN, Va. – Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address has inspired Americans for generations, but consider his jarring remarks in 1862 to a audience of free blacks, urging them to leave the U.S. and settle in Central America...
  16. Puppycow

    Michelle Obama's Outrageous Superbowl Menu!

    Fox Nation has found a new reason to hate Michelle Obama: Michelle Obama's Shocking Anti-Obesity Super Bowl Menu Who knows if Michelle Obama actually had anything to do with choosing the menu, but who cares? Maybe this was posted tongue-in-cheek, but the commenters aren't hiding their hate or...
  17. let`s talk

    "Black is the dominant color"

    ..he said. I am not American, I never resided in the USA. Today I was talking to an Afro-American from New York city. He said that Obama is the first black President of the United States. I asked why black if Obama is as black as white- 50%. The guy said: "Black is the dominant color. It doesn't...
  18. lionking

    American racism during WWII?

    Firstly, anyone who knows my posting history understands I'm not a US basher, quite the opposite in fact. This thread has no hidden agenda. I was reading the review of a new book called "Moral Combat: A History of World War II" by Michael Burleigh, which I think I will purchase. While the book...
  19. R

    What is Racism?

    There seem to be a few different viewpoints, all of which are at times considered to be racist, yet which, in my view, are entirely different. The first, and in my opinion most offensive (and most likely to be wrong) is that there is an inherent, biological, difference between different races...
  20. MarkCorrigan

    Channel 4 (UK) The Event: How Racist Are You?

    Just watched a disappointingly short but intriguing documentary on Channel 4 where Jane Elliot, creator of a psychological experiment on racism wherebay people are seperated into those with brown eyes and those with blue, and an aparteid scenario is constructed with the blue eyed discriminated...
  21. applecorped

    Jimmy Carter claims racist tone against Obama.

    http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2009/09/15/carter_claims_there_is_racist_tone_against_obama.html "In an interview with NBC's Brian Williams, former President Jimmy Carter said he has been extremely bothered by the heightened climate of racial and other hate speech since the election of...
  22. The Don

    BNP leaflet through my door

    I just received a BNP leaflet through my door courtesy of my postman and it makes me very sad that in this day and age we have a political party which may garner a sizeable percentage of votes in the local and European elections whose electoral platform is effectively "everything will be just...
  23. D

    When will Northerners learn the truth about the Civil War.

    I asked a question about this video on yahoo answers. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwgRLRZe14U&feature=channel_page SomeonE, Said something to the effect that "America has kicked racism out" or something like that. She also tied the confederate flag as a symbol of racism. SHe said she was...
  24. seismic_cowgirl

    Science Podcast on racism

    For those of you that don't already know, Science Magazine regularly has a podcast. For this week, they have one concerning research over racism, how we think we will react towards racism versus what we actually do. The abstract to the article is here...
  25. seismic_cowgirl

    Science podcast on study of racism

    For those of you that don't already know, Science Magazine regularly has a podcast. For this week, they have one concerning research over racism, how we think we will react towards racism versus what we actually do. The abstract to the article is here...
  26. R

    Why the Persistent Disassociation?

    Why are whites so hell-bent on totally disassociating themselves genetically from Obama by repeatedly and invariably referring to him as black and an Afro American? Please forgive my question if it comes across as offensive. It isn't meant to be that way. I'm simply interested in your...
  27. E

    Nader first in line to direct racial slurs at the President-Elect.

    KmgByAtj8eU
  28. M

    Merged Black Obama supporter carves up face of white woman -- maybe

    My jaw dropped when I read this: "It had to happen. Less than two weeks before we vote for a new president, a white woman says a black man attacked her, then scarred her face, and says there was a political motive for it. Ashley Todd, a 20-year-old white volunteer for John McCain’s...
  29. Paranormal Inquirer

    Racist McCain/Palin Supporters

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRqcfqiXCX0 It's videos like these that make me wonder if CNN, FOXNews, NBC, ABC, and etc. get the same responses and get them on tape but censor it from final screening. Good thing we have Al Jazeera English to show the whole thing.
  30. 196

    Canadian Prime Minister Apologizes for Residential Schools

    Today Prime Minister Harper formally apologized for the treatment of aboriginal Canadians in Canada’s notorious Residential Schools. For over one hundred years the purpose of the schools was to suppress aboriginal culture and language and to instil Christianity in native children. They did this...

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