Being Asian While having a Soft Skull

[sarge]

I can't imagine what it feels like, thinking you are surrounded by 70 million racists. That must really suck.

The part that sucks is actually being surrounded by 70 million racists. I don’t mind the open racists. It’s the closeted ones that frustrate me. The deniers, know what I mean?

 

[casebro]

We really need to redefine the type of insanity that leads to permanent 'hospitalization' to include "living on the street". It's got to be considered "causing harm to yourself" to live in a card board box in icey winter. Or have such a density of the homeless **** ting on the street that you can catch hepatitis just walking through that neighborhood.

As more than one psychologist noted "Show me a person incarcerated for violence and I'll show you a person with damage to his pre-fontal cortex". In other words, mental issues.

Let's make a profitable system of mental health 'homes', rather than for-profit prisons.

 

[Warp12]

The part that sucks is actually being surrounded by 70 million racists. I don’t mind the open racists. It’s the closeted ones that frustrate me. The deniers, know what I mean?

Well, I'm sure some people see "racists" lurking everywhere, but one has to look with better eyes than that. Know what I mean?

 

[casebro]

Well, I'm sure some people see "racists" lurking everywhere, but one has to look with better eyes than that. Know what I mean?

Yes.

I came to JREF looking for, and wanting to discuss, facts. I'm just as curios of the facts of racism as about Bigfoot. But even here it is taboo to discuss factual differences between races. Or even to bring up that there might BE any. And so, many here will put me in the 'racist' column, even for this post.

Point is though, there are quantifiable differences between races as large groups. BUT, the differences within any groups is larger than the differences between groups. "Racial Prejudice" means to pre-judge any single member as being the mean of the group. Every group has it's geniuses- G.W. Carver, Einstein, Marconi. And every group has it's idiots, like the perp in the OP.

What society needs to do is sort out the wheat from the chaff. In ALL races. Possible growth industry- Chaff Keeping? It won't take 99th percentiles to do it, lots of jobs for 51st percentiles. Win-win.

 

[lomiller]

Anti-Asian hate crimes is a taboo subject now that Trump is out of office? I must have missed the memo.

Not at all. What people are telling you is that someone else hate isn't justification for the racist views and hate you promote. The fact that someone else does it to doesn't make you are better person.

Nor, does the fact that one black person doing something bad doesn't reflect on black people in general the way you seem to think. It works the other way too, BTW. The rest of us non-black people are not guilty of of your evil worldview, and don't need to accept any culpability for it so long as we don't tacitly support your evil worldview.

 

[lomiller]

Yes.

I came to JREF looking for, and wanting to discuss, facts. I'm just as curios of the facts of racism as about Bigfoot. But even here it is taboo to discuss factual differences between races. Or even to bring up that there might BE any. And so, many here will put me in the 'racist' column, even for this post.

Point is though, there are quantifiable differences between races as large groups. BUT, the differences within any groups is larger than the differences between groups. "Racial Prejudice" means to pre-judge any single member as being the mean of the group. Every group has it's geniuses- G.W. Carver, Einstein, Marconi. And every group has it's idiots, like the perp in the OP.

What society needs to do is sort out the wheat from the chaff. In ALL races. Possible growth industry- Chaff Keeping? It won't take 99th percentiles to do it, lots of jobs for 51st percentiles. Win-win.

Highly questionable. Alleles radiate outward from their point of origin and freely cross into other "racial groups". They can become more common in one group because that group is more common int he area where they arose, but that doesn't make for meaningful differences between large groups of people.

At best you can argue that someone "clusters with" some larger group of people, but even then the gene variants you'd be using to make that judgment are markers that are irrelevant for any other aspect of human life or behavior.

 

[Norman Alexander]

Yes.

I came to JREF looking for, and wanting to discuss, facts. I'm just as curios of the facts of racism as about Bigfoot. But even here it is taboo to discuss factual differences between races. Or even to bring up that there might BE any. And so, many here will put me in the 'racist' column, even for this post.

Point is though, there are quantifiable differences between races as large groups. BUT, the differences within any groups is larger than the differences between groups. "Racial Prejudice" means to pre-judge any single member as being the mean of the group. Every group has it's geniuses- G.W. Carver, Einstein, Marconi. And every group has it's idiots, like the perp in the OP.

What society needs to do is sort out the wheat from the chaff. In ALL races. Possible growth industry- Chaff Keeping? It won't take 99th percentiles to do it, lots of jobs for 51st percentiles. Win-win.

There's only one race, dude, with many variations in it. We all have the same type of blood, and can interbreed.

Perhaps you are thinking of cultural groups instead. In which case there ARE many of those, and many differences between them. But that's not race-based.

 

[sarge]

Well, I'm sure some people see "racists" lurking everywhere, but one has to look with better eyes than that. Know what I mean?

I’m sure most everyone here knows what you mean in these threads.

There are actually racists everywhere. Here, in my part of trumplandistan, the ones with all the power are the white racists. It is the second largest unifying characteristic of the modern Republican, after religious nonsense.