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[On the other hand]

[seoulshock]

[Kuros]

[thepeel]

[igotthisguitar]

Was the Judge a Boule?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boule

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ey7gDJfRICA

Boo-lay-boo ...

[stevemcgarrett]

OTOH:

I hear ya but it depends on who you ask. The criticalists on the Far Left label them neo-liberals while the Thatchers and Bushies are neo-cons.

But, yeah, if you situate it historically, especially with reference to economics, it's misapplied.

Anyway, the Far Left is mostly neo-Marxist, having distanced themselves now from the "vulgar Marxists."

That's why I prefer the essentialist route: I just call them ALL liberals.

thepeel:

Hold onto your seat because I'm about to jolt you:

You're right! I got it wrong this time or as Black lingo goes "My bad." I misinterpreted the news story on this frivilous lawsuit. ABC News ran a 4 page detailed account of this case before and after and not once did they mention that Pearson is Black. Nor did they even hint at a racial motivation. That's bad reporting but very PC journalism nowadays, revealing part of the problem with liberal reporting.

http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/Story?id=3119381&page=1

They shy away from incidents involving racism between minorities. My assumption that Pearson is White reveals my generational disposition, namely, that I grew accustomed to the media always indicating the race of defendents in news stories about courtroom cases long before this was considered unnecessarily provocative or irrelevant.

In fact, as you pointed out, the Judge's race is relevant; there is bad blood between Blacks and Korean Americans. Actually, in Houston, it is directed toward Vietnamese and Chinese. Pearson is a textbook case of the victimhood mentality, so much in vogue in the Black community these days and spreading to all communities (i.e. I doubt all 63 witnesses he planned to have testify were Black). And the liberal media can't see the fact that many Asian American small business owners resent how so many of their minority customers aren't as industrious.

Had I not been so quick to retort, I would have realized the possibility that Pearson is Black. And I gave to much credence to ABC News. I mean, c'mon, a four page article that doesn't even touch on race? That's pretty sad.

[thepeel]

All of my coworkers thought the dude was white. It was their default assumption. They also thought that the VT killings would have a "massive" backlash against Asians. Both assumptions were wrong.

[Ya-ta Boy]

I asked another Korean today how he would feel if Obama were elected. He said it wouldn't matter. He said the US policy of stability would not change, no matter who is elected president. Besides, he said, Korea and the US are allies.

[Czarjorge]

I'm wondering, given the fact that it seems to be either Obama or Clinton, and there is a standing stereotype that Asians, given the nature of stereotypes I'm assuming Koreans are included, view women and black men as having lower social standing, does it really matter?

That aside, both Clinton and Obama have distinct advantages over Bush. Hilly has Billy, a man that was pretty damn beloved around the world. Obama has the benefit of being a new face untainted by the last few years of problematic US foreign policy. Wouldn't Koreans, regardless of their predispositions, prefer either one over Bush?

[Ya-ta Boy]

Koreans would prefer anyone at all over Bush. He's not well liked here.

I've had a thought about this. Koreans tend to respond to the position more than the individual filling the position. It's a cultural thing. I think that's one more reason they won't react much to a black or a woman filling the job.

[Kuros]

[thepeel]

[On the other hand]

[Gopher]

Right. Clinton and even a Socialist like Bachelet can be neoLiberal. In fact, anyone who embraces classical Liberal economics (free trade, open doors, privatization, specialization, comparative advantage, etc.) can be. But only the W. Bush Administration's top officials seem to be neoConservatives. I also agree that the latter is really hard to define and has not been sufficiently defined by its users. Clearly it means "very bad person" to the simplistic leftists.

I remember BLT used to call people who swam outside his far, far left circles "C/NC": "Conservative/NeoConservative," I believe. Never had any idea what he meant by it.

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