Black, not brown but I don't expect someone from a country near the bottom in diversity to know the difference.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_ranked_by_ethnic_and_cultural_diversity_level
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Black, not brown but I don't expect someone from a country near the bottom in diversity to know the difference.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_ranked_by_ethnic_and_cultural_diversity_level
Yeah, you keep justifying your racism. We all see what you are, Mister No-Go Zone Expert.
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acbytesla
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So? We can do better than those other countries...so why shouldn't we?
If we can hand a trillion dollars in tax cuts to the top 1%. BTW, I love how Trump said he wasn't going to take the salary. But he sure took I care of that with the way he has been taking emoluments and the over billion dollars his family is saving through the tax cuts.
Easy to accuse others of racism when you live in an all-white country. Take cues from your American forums members, people of color are not impressed by white people calling other white people racists. In fact, they are very put-off by it.
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Lol, keep trying. Everyone on this website knows exactly what you are about.
whatever
Mmm, indeed.
Skeptic Ginger
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So you dismiss access to housing, health care, education as what? Not rights? Not important?
But criticizing the government, now that's a real right when comparing countries.
Sideroxylon
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It is an interesting metric with its weighting on linguistics. Thanks for sharing.
Our racists have to be much more subtle, though we can draw strong parallels between Australia’s “stop the boats” election race baiting and Trump’s caravan farce. Our conservative politians were recently caught in embarrassing back-pedalling after support of an “It’s OK to be White” parliamentary motion. One of the coalltion parties also purged an alt right infiltration of their youth party wing. All evidence of a relatively healthy national social concience that rejects such bigotry. We certainly don’t want to catch the full blown emboldened white supremacy sickness America is facing.
Vote for positive change America. Aspire to be great model for liberal democracy again.
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Sideroxylon
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It’s easy to accuse others of racism when they throw graphs of ethnic crime rates into a discussion of white reactions to brown people moving into their neighbourhood. It’s also racism too scared to follow through with making explicit its implications.
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Delvo
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If the timing could have worked out, he'd be likely to order the Army to open fire on the group of asylum seekers as soon as they reach the border, but they will arrive a bit too late for this purpose. (He still might do it anyway when they do arrive, just not for the election-related purpose; the only thing holding him back will be if he's lucid enough to understand the fact that going full "Burn them all! Burn them all! Burn them all!" will only get him politically Jamie-Lannistered.)
Other than that, I don't know what else there is for him to try that there's enough time left for. He could announce more craziness like an invasion somewhere or posting armed Federal agents at polling sites for "security" and "monitoring", but it wouldn't be ready to actually start happening that fast.
The real danger is not what he or any other Republican politician will do either shortly before or after the election, but what they've been riling up their voters to do after it. Some fraction of them have it firmly fixed in their minds that the legitimate outcome is sure to be good for them, which means that an outcome that's not good for them must be fraudulent: a hostile move perpetrated by the government against the people. I'd say the odds of multiple riots, particularly centered around government buildings and Democrat party offices and headquarters for non-governmental lefty organizations, are higher than the odds of a major "surprise" from Trump himself.
Foolmewunz
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Look for Breckenridge to get a posting as Customs Collector at the Sweet Grass border crossing.
quadraginta
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Oh for pity's sake!
Got news for ya, the majority of those homeless encamped in Seattle are white.
It's probably to expensive for dark-skinned people to be homeless there. They migrate to places with a lower cost-of-living.
Australian's white supremacy comes out of the shadows when they do something anonymous like vote. Australia has an overwhelming white government far out of proportion for its population.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/10/world/australia/study-diversity-multicultural.html
Fortunately in the US, anyone can be elected to Congress or the White House, as we have People of Color well represented in Congress, a robust black caucus a former black president, and a current president who has received numerous honors for his commitment to diversity, inclusion, and for benefiting underrepresented minorities. Your admitted ignorance of the US is blatant in every post you make.
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There's nothing racist about facts. People of color are not offended by facts nor do they need racist white non-Americans to protect them from facts. Your thought-leaders led you to believe you could play the white savior for People of color in America when all you're doing is perpetuating white supremacy. They cashed in on your racism.
Sideroxylon
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Where do you start with bullcrap like this?
Stacyhs
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Care to post a few of these "numerous honors"?
Sideroxylon
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Yes, there are a lot of racists in Australia with fears that right wing politicians can play to. Is it worse that they try to dress it up in respectability when they argue that locking up asylum seekers, including children, on remote islands is done to stop people risking their lives on a boat journey? Trump is a bonehead with no processing stage between raw ideas and his mouth. His caravan xenophobic fear mongering is absurd but its effectiveness is concerning. A lot of us in Australia embrace multiculturalism but I am scared that what is happening in America could take a hold here.
I hope the coming polls can be a major setback to the politics of hate in America and Australia for the sake of both allies.
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WilliamSeger
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There's something very racist about how facts have always been used by racists to produce racist stereotypes. The most common method is to focus on selected facts to create stereotypes around an implicit nadir fallacy for the group they view as inferior, i.e. implying that the lowest individual performance is representative of the whole group, but an implicit apex fallacy for the supposed superior race, taking highest accomplishments as representative. Even if the facts are accurate (which should always be suspect), it's those fallacies, often subconscious, that are the problem. And then, regardless of the accuracy of a stereotype, it's always fallacious to assume that a given individual matches that stereotype. Facts are useless without logic, and they can be harmful with bad logic.
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The race in Spokane looks an interesting one, with a white supremacist bible-bashing incumbent with links to Bundy recently circulating a document about christian holy war. He thinks journalists are "dirty godless hateful people". We laugh at nutjobs like that here, but in Washington State they somehow get elected into positions of power. There must be a whole lot of utterly dreadful people in Spokane.