Is Being A Racist The Worst Thing In The World?

Your policy of holding people to account for private conversations is dangerous. When I'm in my own home, as long as I am obeying the law, I don't want to have to "be careful" of what I say.

 

How pathetic that you have to defend the privacy of anti-47% people like Romney and powerful poverty pimps like ACORN by identifying with them. You are being totally dishonest, trying to pump yourself up by defending the scum who run things as fellow Americans. What, is this the Bible in reverse; "Whatever is done to the least of us" turns around to feeling wounded if the powerful get shot out of the sky?

 

I never mentioned Romney, ACORN, or the rich, so I don't know what you are talking about. This is about being held accountable for what you say in the privacy of your home. Some people even get intoxicated and say stupid things in the privacy of their own home. I mean is this open season now? As long as you can acquire the electronic surveillance to monitor what someone is saying in their home, then you can use that information to get them fired the next day? I mean can I go out and buy some surveillance equipment right now, and get my coworkers on tape saying something racist, and then get them fired the next day? Is that what we are doing now?

Sterling is going to win a lawsuit or 2 here. Just want to warn you folks so you don't get too upset. Need to start letting you down now.

 

It's pretty pathetic to try to identify with the 1% by telling yourself that what is done to them can be done to you. You're not important enough to be taped. Deal with that whatever way you want, but don't tell us to defend the privacy of the plutocratic parasites in an effort to pump yourself up with the illusion that they are on your side.

 

Ok I got it, so as long as I don't become rich, I don't have to worry about what I say in private.

 

I can see that my answer was too hard for you to take. It hurt your vicarious self-esteem in believing that if you support rich trash, that will make you rich by second-hand smoke.

 

If you keep on insulting the talented, they will withdraw from benefiting mankind and all your days will become hateful. They create all the wealth of the fatcat parasites, who feed you your ungrateful fatwas. With determination and effort, you will still get nowhere if you can no longer freeload off the inventions of the few people capable of making your life comfortable.

 

You didn't give any answers, but you seem to have no problem with the personal attacks. I suppose I should have known better than to engage an ideological tool who knows nothing and proves it in every post.

 

Have you ever heard of the term "Hubris"?

How about the iconic imagery of the "Tower of False Ambition"?

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There is allot of basic, earthy wisdom in Tarot cards.

Of course, originally, before they were adopted by Italian Gypsies, they were hand painted, ceramic plates made as an educational tool used by private tutors of the Elite Wealthy Italian Merchant class for the instruction of their children.

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of course, you did it for the love of Iraqi freedom and not for the monetary gain of the big corporations.

 

Of course you know what I am talking about, but you think you can get away with denying it by the lie that Sterling's case is any different from Romney's or ACORN's. More pathetic identifying with people who secretly despise you. I'd like to tape the private comments on what these thieves and traitors really think of the useful idiots in the 99% who look up to them as winners.

 

I never denied anything or mentioned the comparison of those cases to the Sterling one. But if you insist I will. I don't know the ACORN case. Romney didn't have the expectation of privacy that Sterling had.

 

Have you ever heard the terms "self-hatred" and "inferiority complex"? It works both ways, no matter how much fun it is for you to resent the uppity. At least you don't have to put up with any false humility from me.

 

One can be opposed to the invasion of Iraq but still cite it as proof this country cares for people of diverse race.

 

Noooooo.... No, I wouldn't expect to see any "False Humility" from you. This is true.

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It's one thing to levy a volley of stinging penalties for Sterling's private, illegally recorded remarks, but to get 3/4ths of the owners to terminate a franchise over a remark is going to be difficult because there's not a one of these owners who don't realize that they too can have some private conversation leaked. It would be a bad precedent. The NBA overplayed their hand in assuming they can force a sale.

Tying back to this thread and the OP, it goes to show that racism is seen as the ULTIMATE offense meriting the worst punishments imaginable. Silver's own bigotry is showing here, treating some off hand remarks like he found a witch that must be burned at the stake. And indeed, I have no doubt the Left would love to just kill this guy if they could get away with it, bringing us back around to the question:

Is being a racist the worst thing in the world?

 

the troops are just doing a job, it is the politicians that are in the pockets of big corporations that only see profit margins. to continue to exploit less developed regions shows no respect for other cultures. that is simply deemed as 'racist' and given the history of america this ideology should be of overiding concern.

 

You're not right wing? You certainly don't seem like a leftist to me.

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Clearly you've never lived in a black neighborhood. Google "unarmed black man shot by police 2014" and see what comes up.

 

I don't know about "black neighborhood," but in my last house on a cul de sac, 3 of 5 neighbors were black families. In the past in NYC I lived across the street from a very large projects and spent time in there every day. Before that I lived in a predominately black apartment building. There was little/no police presence there. I -do- agree that our police state affects lower socioeconomic strata of all races disproportionatel and unfairly. In certain urban centers that means "black neighborhoods," but in others it affects whites disproportionately, so I don't buy the appeal to police state. And then there's also that lower socioeconomic strata of all races tend to commit more crime, particularly drug crime.

But if you want to make the case that leftist programs like the War on Poverty equate to persecution of blacks, I'd agree with that. Still doesn't change the fact that racism and bigotry against nonleft groups is entirely permissible today, and that extends to nonleftist blacks, women, hispanics also. I saw an article where a black congressman was doing the "Clarence Thomas is Uncle Tom" ugliness yesterday, far FAR worse a thing to say than what Sterling said, yet crickets chirp. No $2.5 million fine for a member of Congress expressing open bigotry.

 

They are too wings of the same vulture. You're being played. You accept the pre-sorted distribution of attitudes that would put "racists" in with richlovers. The fact that the Hate Whitey cult chose a economically doomed working-class person like Archie Bunker as its representative of what is wrong with America and not some capitalist Greedhead "racist" proves what side those spoiled, sheltered snobs are really on.

 

Real racism (as opposed to the ridiculous pseudo-racism that elicits liberal finger wagging) is a destructive thing. There's no doubt about that. It's dumb and counterproductive on every level. But there are still worse things a person can be. And the fact that racism has been elevated to the ultimate sin says a lot about where people's priorities are today. Awhile back, I posted a thread asking, "Which is worse? A racist or a rapist?" Surprisingly (or perhaps not surprisingly), many people (on the left, of course) tried to argue that racism was worse than rape.

 

One of my favorite things is asking feminists whether rape is worse than murder. Almost all I've ever asked this to say it is. So if racism is worse than rape, and rape is worse than murder, is racism worse than murder? I have a feeling MLK would have preferred to encounter Sterling rather than James Earl Ray.