racism

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

..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...

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...

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...

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...