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mrgiles
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How do you know everyone in this thread is from the US?
You don't.
The US is close to possibly electing a black candidate to the White House. It'd be wise not to generalize. |
fair enough criticism. however i have met more than one american whose sentiment abt the upcoming election is, and i'm not exaggerating, "well i'm readier to have a nigger as president than a woman."
i cdn't understand why african americans still made such a big deal about how bad the "n-word" is. that was until i heard non-black americans using it in what i thought was the "old" derogatory sense. without any irony or humour, mind u.
i think i shd say that i'm from sydney, a city which prides itself on its famed "multiculturalism," yet racism is a huge problem there. it just seems in my experience that a lot of non-americans, if they are racist, at least pretend to be embarrassed or at least not so public about it. it simply appears - please correct me if i'm wrong here - that the culture of racism is quite public and unashamed in mainstream usa. |
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mrgiles
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| Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 8:35 pm Post subject: |
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| everyone is prejudiced against a race, gender, etc. in one way shape or form. anyone who says they aren't is lying to everyone they say they that to, as well as themselves. |
i see your point, but disagree - if not with the sentiment - with how it's expressed. i concede that acknowledgment of difference and hence a certain amount of prejudice bears down on every person, and that racism is so powerful and extensive that it seeps into everybody's very personality. however, discriminating is a very different thing to discriminating against. knowing that any sort of difference exists is not the same thing as using that difference as a way (conscious or not) to oppress or harm others. |
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thepeel
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| blic about it. it simply appears - please correct me if i'm wrong here - that the culture of racism is quite public and unashamed in mainstream usa. |
You're wrong. In the mainstrem, anti-racism is the religion. It is on the margins that is it openly expressed. |
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Hanson
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| Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 8:52 pm Post subject: |
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Get a load of the comments on that video...  |
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ceesgetdegrees
Joined: 12 Jul 2007
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| Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 9:27 pm Post subject: |
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All I can say is thank God Koreans can't get guns here.
I have no problem with them protecting their property, though. . |
Likewise, randomly shooting at any and everyone i do have a problem with though, it reeks of the ajosshi superiority complex and i would have loved to see those two guys get curb stomped by a bunch of gang bangers. I suppose those guys are still in the same stores taking money from the people in the same neigbourhood, gotta love that attitude. One day we are randomly firing at you irrespective of whether or not you are/were/look like you are going to loot us, the next day we will sell you the shirts of our backs. |
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mrgiles
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| Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 9:36 pm Post subject: |
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| Get a load of the comments on that video... |
for real! was it a fox-affiliated network? |
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mrgiles
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| Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 9:40 pm Post subject: |
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| Get a load of the comments on that video... |
for real! was it a fox-affiliated network? |
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thepeel
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| Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 9:45 pm Post subject: |
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| YouTube has really got to find a way to moderate comments. So many videos turn into race-flame wars. It is disgusting. |
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ceesgetdegrees
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| Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 10:30 pm Post subject: |
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| YouTube has really got to find a way to moderate comments. So many videos turn into race-flame wars. It is disgusting. |
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Hate to say it but it's usually blacks that start the riots and then go on a looting rampage of the group who predominatly owns the businesses in the area, like Koreans, Jews, Arabs, Cubans, etc. |
It's always BLACK. |
pot/kettle glasshouses/rocks pick your saying. |
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thepeel
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| Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 11:13 pm Post subject: |
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| I'm not Dave's ESL Cafe, so the analogy does not stand. In addition, the inappropriate nonsense on this forum doesn't touch what goes down on YouTube. |
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