Who is defining racism nowadays? Is it the victim of racism, or the racist themself? Is there automatically a victim every time racism exists? Is it an indifferent bystander, if there is such a thing? With such a lazy definition, and everyone and their brother playing the race card for several decades now, the term, and concept, has taken on a life and evolution of it's own. It's too easy to claim racism, and too easy to deny it, we-ve been de-sensitized to it all over again, and this time it's from over exposure to the term, rather than the actual thing.
Nowadays it seems to me there are only two statements:
" Listen to what he said! He's obviously racist! How terrible, poor me!"
and,
" I'll say whatever I want because no matter how many times you call me racist I don't care, I'm a martyr for my cause, poor me!"
Get over yourselves, and speak from your mind rather than your heart when it comes to an intellectual conversation.
Racism..
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Clevis Hitch
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the truth about race politics is this. Racism is a term that people in power use against the "common" people hating on each other and blaming other groups for their problems. Its a distraction! if people would get over their fear/hate then they would be able to solve their problems and not need their politicians....
A once great philosopher said" There will never be true freedom in Amerika until the last politician is strangled with the entrals of the last lawyer!"
A once great philosopher said" There will never be true freedom in Amerika until the last politician is strangled with the entrals of the last lawyer!"
If you give a man a match, he'll be warm for a minute. If you set him on fire, he'll be warm for the rest of his life!
While I concede that the expression of profoundly racist beliefs can often be a smart career move, especially in academia http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2 ... 025283.php - I still don't like it.
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Whatever, sophistries aside . . . physical descriptions of Obama's racial features and / or his race accompany Crankmas' expressions of disdain with little political analysis. Crankmas is a bigot.
It is hard to believe that in 2008 similar statements were made regarding Hilary (minus much of the emotional content) when she was running. I want to live in world where daughters and sons have equal opportunity.
I don't give a rat's ass if Crankmas hates the president for policy decisions. However, when it bothers Crankmas that the apartheid line has been broken seating a BLACK president in the WHITE house, this defines him as a bigot.
I would have been disappointed if Palin made it, but who am I if I linked my disdain to the fact she is a woman!?
It is hard to believe that in 2008 similar statements were made regarding Hilary (minus much of the emotional content) when she was running. I want to live in world where daughters and sons have equal opportunity.
I don't give a rat's ass if Crankmas hates the president for policy decisions. However, when it bothers Crankmas that the apartheid line has been broken seating a BLACK president in the WHITE house, this defines him as a bigot.
I would have been disappointed if Palin made it, but who am I if I linked my disdain to the fact she is a woman!?
Izzy, I think speaking from your heart is more important than speaking from your mind. I mean, the mind is the operating system. The mind is where the brainwashed, non-thinking racist person gets all the conclusions and prejudices that have been subconsciously put there for him. That or he has had one or two negative experiences with a person who is externally different from him in some way on which he's based a negative view of all people who appear similar to that person. If we use our heart to examine the people who we interact with, we will never feel prompted to categorize people in the first place..problem solved? I think so. Basically don't let other people think for you. Other than the heart/mind thing, I agree with that post though izzy.
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True dat.bob wrote: An interesting point arising from the human genome project is that there is no discernable difference, genetically, between the perceived races. We are all the same; the only difference arises from relatively minor variances
Actually, the human genome project only reinforced what we already knew on this subject long, long ago. Even in at a backwoods institution like UK
my anthropology instructor taught that there was no genetic basis for the existence of races of humanity. That was about 40 years ago. I wonder how long it will take for the word to get out?