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Big_Bird

Joined: 31 Jan 2003 Location: Sometimes here sometimes there...
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Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 2:19 am Post subject: Let's have an open and honest discussion about white people |
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Let's have an open and honest discussion about white people
The tolerant, secular, liberal society into which British Muslims are being asked to integrate is still a work in progress
Gary Younge
Monday October 2, 2006
The Guardian
On Wednesday September 20 Corporal Donald Payne became the first Briton to admit to a war crime. Payne, 35, is accused of repeatedly banging the head of Baha Mousa, a 26-year-old Iraqi hotel worker, against a wall and floor until Mousa died - an accusation he denies. Payne called his Iraqi prisoners in the jail in Basra "the choir", because he liked to invite friends to hear them shriek with the pain he inflicted. "Corporal Payne enjoyed conducting what he called the choir," Julian Bevan QC told the court martial, which is taking place at Bulford Camp, in Wiltshire, and is expected to last for 16 weeks. "It was all done very openly."
The next day the home secretary, John Reid, went to Leyton, in east London, and told a room full of Muslims how to raise their kids so they won't grow up hateful. "Look for the telltale signs now and talk to them before their hatred grows and you risk losing them for ever," he told them.
The heckler in his midst simply provided Reid with proof of his moral righteousness. "This is Britain," Reid told the Labour party conference last week. "We will go where we please, we will discuss what we like, and we will never be browbeaten by bullies. That's what it means to be British."
Reid and Payne are two sides of the same coin. The bully of Basra exercises his right to demean and degrade wherever he pleases - the longstanding hallmarks of British colonialism. The hooligan from the Home Office vaunts the fair play, decency and social liberalism that ostensibly underpin core British values - a longstanding feature of Britain's self-delusion. Payne could have done with some parenting lessons of his own. Instead he was given a uniform and a gun. The arrogance we imbibe and the atrocities we export do not just coexist - they are codependent. That's also what it means to be British.
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cellphone
Joined: 18 Feb 2004
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Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 2:33 am Post subject: |
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I thought that white people wasn't supposed to be a race nor a group.
You know in California when they always talk about racial rights they proclaim that whites are the only non-race and therefore don't have legal abilities to make any claims, and when a white person suffers anything he or she does so as a lone individual but gets no cultural recognition.
Except when it's time to "talk about the bad things white people do", then it appears all of a sudden they are a distinct group with traits, cultural and biological characteristics easily seperated from others. |
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Hank Scorpio

Joined: 18 Jan 2003 Location: Ann Arbor, MI
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Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 2:41 am Post subject: |
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| I'm amused that you'd post an Al Guardian article as though it were an actual news source. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994
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Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 5:37 am Post subject: |
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Let's have an open and honest discussion about white people
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Hey! I've got a great idea. Why don't we pick out one feature from a bunch of people and then make a lot of silly generalizations about them? It think that would be a lot of fun and do a lot to further intelligent discussion.
This thread reminds me of a ditzy blonde chick who somehow managed to get herself enrolled in my high school psych class. I don't remember how we got on the topic of language, but she said, "I hate that someone just names something and the rest of us have to go along. I don't like the word 'dog'. I call them 'doorknobs'." She was serious.
I called her 'Doorknob' for the rest of the semester. |
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Ilsanman

Joined: 15 Aug 2003 Location: Bucheon, Korea
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Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 7:16 am Post subject: yes |
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Is this a post about whites, or a post about supposed 'racism' muslims are receiving in Britain?
Cry me a river. |
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happeningthang

Joined: 26 Apr 2003
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Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 8:52 am Post subject: |
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What amazes me is that you get some guy who tortures people, and his name is "Corporal Payne".
Too much like the cop convicted of beating Rodney King, "Officer Koon". |
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bucheon bum
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 11:53 am Post subject: |
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| you do realize arabs are considered white right? |
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EFLtrainer

Joined: 04 May 2005
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Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 12:16 pm Post subject: |
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| cellphone wrote: |
I thought that white people wasn't supposed to be a race nor a group.
You know in California when they always talk about racial rights they proclaim that whites are the only non-race and therefore don't have legal abilities to make any claims, and when a white person suffers anything he or she does so as a lone individual but gets no cultural recognition.
Except when it's time to "talk about the bad things white people do", then it appears all of a sudden they are a distinct group with traits, cultural and biological characteristics easily seperated from others. |
not having read this thread completely, and having a mind that the OP is a bit off-kilter, I still must correct you: The sociological and, perhaps, psychological point of view is that, in a relatively free society, a ruling majority, by definition, cannot claim to be oppressed.
Your statement that white, i.e. caucasion, is a non-race is a serious misundersadning, or outright distortion. I have no idea which. But you do. So...? |
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bucheon bum
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 12:22 pm Post subject: |
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| EFLtrainer wrote: |
not having read this thread completely, and having a mind that the OP is a bit off-kilter, I still must correct you: The sociological and, perhaps, psychological point of view is that, in a relatively free society, a ruling majority, by definition, cannot claim to be oppressed.
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except there are no majorities in CA, everyone (including us whities) is a minority.
But yes, I suppose we do "rule" since a white dude is governor and the bulk of politicians are white as well. In addition, over 70% of the electorate is white, but that ain't our fault. Other groups need to put more effort into voting. |
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EFLtrainer

Joined: 04 May 2005
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Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 12:26 pm Post subject: |
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| bucheon bum wrote: |
| EFLtrainer wrote: |
not having read this thread completely, and having a mind that the OP is a bit off-kilter, I still must correct you: The sociological and, perhaps, psychological point of view is that, in a relatively free society, a ruling majority, by definition, cannot claim to be oppressed.
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except there are no majorities in CA, everyone (including us whities) is a minority.
But yes, I suppose we do "rule" since a white dude is governor and the bulk of politicians are white as well. In addition, over 70% of the electorate is white, but that ain't our fault. Other groups need to put more effort into voting. |
Have you stats? Last I heard, the Caucasian population was not going to be a minority quite so soon. |
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bucheon bum
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 12:59 pm Post subject: |
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edit:
straight from the horse's mouth:
State Report
Go to page 10 for the % breakdown. |
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Big_Bird

Joined: 31 Jan 2003 Location: Sometimes here sometimes there...
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Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 8:29 pm Post subject: |
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| you do realize arabs are considered white right? |
Gary Younge (whose favourite and usual topic is race) is talking about muslims in Britain. They are overwhelmingly from the subcontinent and not considered white. (I think Younge himself is black.)
BTW, I know a quite a few black arabs, both Asian and African. |
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Big_Bird

Joined: 31 Jan 2003 Location: Sometimes here sometimes there...
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Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 8:30 pm Post subject: |
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What amazes me is that you get some guy who tortures people, and his name is "Corporal Payne".
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Big_Bird

Joined: 31 Jan 2003 Location: Sometimes here sometimes there...
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Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 8:38 pm Post subject: |
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Let's have an open and honest discussion about white people
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Hey! I've got a great idea. Why don't we pick out one feature from a bunch of people and then make a lot of silly generalizations about them? It think that would be a lot of fun and do a lot to further intelligent discussion.
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The main point of the article is that it highlights the hypocrisy and empty rhetoric of people like Reid. Simply substitute 'muslims' for 'white people.' Surely I didn't need to spell it out for you kids? |
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thepeel
Joined: 08 Aug 2004
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Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 11:02 pm Post subject: |
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Here is how these discussions go,
Someone points out that the way almost all muslims raise their kids leads to hate (Islam is the religious equivalent to white/black supremacist political ideas).
Idiots point out that some non-mussies do bad stuff too, suggesting that this excuses mussies for their crimes.
Initial point lost..
On a totally unrelated topic, today 4 mussies were charged with confining and gang raping a white woman in Ottawa.
Though, I suppose I should not mention the pattern of muslim gang rape, because there are isolated times when non-muslims gang rape too.
Also, three muslim sisters were shot dead in Norway. Guess who did it? If you used your skills of informed deduction, you would answer their brother, and you would be right. |
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