What's so wrong with racism anyway?

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  1. Olivianus

    Olivianus Member

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    Asserting they are wacko is not an argument.
     
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    snakestretcher Banned

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    Can't argue with the truth...
     
  3. goober

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    I went to the site, there is a list of crazy theories there
    Try reality for a change....
     
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    Denying racism is the new racism. Bill Maher
    :oldman:

     
  5. jpevans

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    Affrimative Action assures that one is not disqualified based on ethnicity, before even looking at their merit.
    :oldman:

     
  6. Glock

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    Nah, Protestants everywhere else outside of the south are not "the most hated people in the world", so that still just leaves ideology.....
     
  7. Jonsa

    Jonsa Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Oh so now you agree that it isn't race, its societal and economic factors that are the main contributors to disparity of various nations/peoples?

    I guess my point about Livingston's victorian colonial congregationalist presumptions about negroes went right over your head.

    Truth might hurt, but its always the best path.

    And as an aside, perhaps you can find a different and more impartial source than Drake Shelton.
    I for one immediately dimiss his "cross and hood" perspectives.
     
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    If you've experienced it, I'm sure you would agree that it's better not to have it around. I wouldn't want to be a discriminated-against minority, especially not in my home nation..
     
  9. danielpalos

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    What is so wrong with racism anyway?

    sounds like a form of affirmative action.
     
  10. Validation Boy

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    Solutions?

    For what problems.

    Racism is natural, if not outright healthy, and its not going anywhere.
     
  11. danielpalos

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    What if, in the alternative, we are all really just Klingons, at heart?
     
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    I learned that different races have an inferior culture and we should have a white culture, which is what I fight for and is the basis for my beliefs.
     
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    why do you not believe we simply need better public policies?
     
  14. Olivianus

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    First, why do you think "Protestants everywhere else outside of the south are not "the most hated people in the world"? When I lived in California for a couple years I was daily persecuted by my co--workers because of my religion. 2nd there is no difference between religion and ideology. 3rd, you need to take into consideration political power:

    http://www.businessinsider.com/the-religious-makeup-of-america-2013-12

    The south is where white protestant people, and yes white is important because that means intellectual ability, have power, political and financial. That is why we are hated.
     
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    If racism is survival instinct then Homophobea is divine puratism. ya-cockoroach.
     
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    Nah, the problem with the south is their conservatism. That's the problem. Always has been, always will be.
     
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    You progressive types sure project a lot. I just wish you folks would quit believing everyone thinks like you.
     
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    You don't think you were daily persecuted by your co-workers in California because of the way you think, and not because you are Protestant? I have a feeling that it has nothing to do with your religion.......
     
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    Like what? I do. We just need better immigration policies.
     
  20. Olivianus

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    Do you even think about what you are saying for 30 seconds? I wonder where their conservatism comes from? From their religion.

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    The way I think is informed by the Protestant bible I read. Do you even think for 30 seconds before you type things for all the world to read?
     
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    I actually think about what I am saying for 38 seconds, is that acceptable? Is the south in America the only place in the world where there are protestants?



    Oh, really?

    Can you please show me where in the protestant bible it states "white is important because that means intellectual ability, have power, political and financial."

    Thanks.
     
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    You just gave an example of bigotry, not racism. Congrats.

    The Webster Dictionary does not have to state quid pro quo that it is one group toward another, However, in the application of racism, racism can only exist institutionally where it is based on the belief of a group, however defined, toward another group. Examplesof this would be the Aryan laws supported by the Nazi Pary toward nonAryan people. That is an example of racism. But if one person is prejudiced or hates another group, then that is bigotry.

    that is one objective to break the barriers of institutional racism in which a person of color could not be hired for a job simply because they are a person of color. Note that does not translate into hiring unqualified individuals.

    Again, you quote a link that does not support your theses. Perhaps you should point out in that we site you posted where it concludes your point that people of color HAVE to be hired regardless of their lack of qualifications. .
     
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    There is a difference between racism and bigotry. Racism is simply a group prejudiced against another group because of race, nationality or religious creed whereas bigotry is an individual belief that is prejudiced against a group based on race, religion, nationality, ethnicity, and so forth.

    I have no doubt that many people have faced bigotry, but very few people have faced racism.
     
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    The Native Americans did originally cross the Being Strait Bridge some 30,000 to 40,000 years ago, but since no one was here at that time, they, the Native Americans still were here first and not Whites.
     
  25. saintmichaeldefendthem

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    It's why calling is "Indians" isn't necessarily in error. We might even be Chinese or Mongolians. And it might not have even been that long ago as migration didn't necessarily require an icing over of that strait as many assume. Being only 50 miles apart at it's narrowest point, it's possible to see Alaska from Siberia and vice versa on a clear day. It's not a stretch to suggest that, seeing land so close, expeditions were made to cross the water by boat.
     

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