It's true that these orgs are keeping the lie of race alive. We have destroyed all institutions that create racism, but their legacies do still exist. The problem is that if we ignore them and the traces of racism, they don't go away. There is no simple answer. Saying that "minorities are victims of nothing but numbers" is an answer too simple to be the right one.


I'm with you 100%, Joker. It is a dumb analogy. The reason I find conservatives so irritating is that even when I agree with them on a policy issue, I despise their simplistic, moronic reasoning. If that makes me an elitist, then I'm a ^$#%@# elitist. Hand me the espresso (@#%#@ that. Stick with my coffee)


I say "fair enough". But doesn't it sort of contradict the first quote. If the United Negro College Fund is racist, then... Like I said: simplistic, moronic thinking. I'll have a refill on that espresso.

What's the point. It's still not something that justifies screwing over and being generally nasty to certain people. In fact it's even less justified if there's nothing to fear. So you're not a scaredy-cat. You're a hateful person. Okay. I'll take a double shot now, with Amaretto.

I'm with you 100%, Joker. And I fail to see how being intolerant is somehow so feared by the right. People who believe in the free market seem to fear the free market of ideas and culture. Intolerance is fine as long as it stays in the realm of opinion. Perhaps we should really tick off the right by using the phrase "Tolerophobic".

True. But most arrests are for drug offenses, which I feel is stupid, but we'll pretend it isn't. Why don't the suburbanite potheads and pillpoppers get arrested in such numbers. Maybe not racism, but something is going on.

Who the %$#% doesn't speak English when addressing customers in a store in a neighborhood that is not segregated? Sometimes they speak their own language to other people while you're there. Sometimes they speak bad English with an accent. Sometimes they stay mostly silent. I've yet to have a gas station attendant speak Arabic to me while I pay. Sometimes they're hard to understand. But his English is better than my Arabic! I guess I just tolerate it. Oh yeah. Rooney's exercising his right to intolerance. Kudos to the great defender of good ol' middle-American hate!


Yeah, we showed a lot of respect to the Indians! %#%#@% you! The free market logic also goes on to ideas. Why is your "traditional" culture so special while you disregard all others. As long as someone's not pushing their culture on you and they're adjusting enough to be part of the market and contribute, shut the %#% up and leave these people alone. But I guess the right to intolerance justifies the right to force your ideas on to others.

Cops should be able to shoot you if you THREATEN them. Period. Don't threaten the police. Or anyone for that matter. Even people who don't have the same cultural background as you.


Kind of. Depends though. The reason we do it is to create incentive for smart, entrepreneurial foreigners to come in and make up for the failings of our mostly lazy, non-risk-taking population. True, it goes too far in allowing any kind of business to be started, without any regard to whether we need one or not. But how many doctors do you think we'd have in this country if we didn't give aid to foreigners in starting their own offices? Do people like Rooney actually choose death over dealing with a doctor with an accent? If so, I %##@%% encourage it!


The Constitution was made purposely vague. The thing is that no one can seem to agree with what it means. But frankly, I think it was good that we allowed it to "live" in order to give universal sufferage and end slavery. Perhaps in the future, we will be viewed as allowing totalitarian use of government but idealized as godly ancestors.

Not many people do hate the rich. Some do pity the poor. I pity some of the poor and many of the rich as well (not because of their taxation, but because of their addictions). But the trouble is that once again we have an empty soundbite, another simplistic fortune cookie quote. It's a rationalization to allow people to ignore what some of the rich do wrong and what some of the poor do right. I think such ignorance is wrong and I don't believe in unearned hand-outs for any but the disabled. And I certainly don't think we should pity the rich or hate the poor either, which can just as easily be applied to the right as Rooney's quote can be to the left. Simpleton thinking is a two-way door. I'll have a Cappucino this time. Extra froth.


Agreed. Is there contraversy over this?


I agree. But that doesn't mean all monopolies or oligopolies with high entry barriers are a wonderful thing that anyone can break into. Kudos to Gates for making his own monopoly. And it's not really a monopoly. And I don't think he's selfish. He does do a lot for charity.

I think people should stay out of such things since they don't know the real context. But authoritarian parenting is the way of neanderthals. I'm not so much against spanking. I'm against the "Do what your told because I said so" and the spankings that are delivered for ambiguous reasons and the huge array of rules that make pleasing parents impossible and lead to deviant behavior or mental lacking later on. But a passer-by cannot see this. We wind up having to trust that families will learn on their own (there are books out at least).

I can deal with that.

.Yeah, I think liberals regret political correctness more than anyone. Might as well have been called "Political Suicide". But we do have a free market and any business that wishes to cater to diverse folk will use generic language and policies and will call specific groups what they want to be called. Same with anyone who wants friends. Hate to tell ya, but as much as anti-PC sells, so does PC. So grin and bear it. For business it's a lot like not having noserings. But once again here's the anti-tolerance (tolerophobic) activist getting P!$$ed off about what others call themselves. Note that such things always begin with either "I know a lot of blacks and" or "I'm not racist but".


Did he write that? I hope he realizes it's a living document. That "under God" wasn't always there.

I'll admit, atheists do get caught up in the dumb battles. But of course the other 86% do often say "Shut Up" and lend creedence to the ideas that they are overbearing and obnoxious. Of course they also spend a lot of time telling each other to shut up! Oh, I get it! He's calling for class-consciousness among the religious and a theocratic revolution! %#@%@#% Commie!

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