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Are All White People Racist?
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Originally posted by seer View PostSo you admit that you are a racist?
Living in Boston when I was younger, I worked at a lab in Quincy, and met the head of the shipping department, Alan. He played bass, I played drums, and after talking about music, we decided to jam. This eventually resulted in the formation of our band, Chrome.
Rehearsals took place in the projects in Green Hills, a suburb of Jamaica Plain. At that time, JP hadn't gentrified yet, and it had a large population of black people. The projects were somewhat low-income, and our rehearsals took place in the common area of a low-rise apartment building. I felt bad for the neighbors, but I never actually heard anyone complain.
I was the only non-black person in the band, a pasty white drummer. I definitely felt out of my element, and stuck out in that neighborhood like a sore thumb. And yet we had fun. Race was never really an issue, and after we'd played there a few times, the neighbors knew me well enough that I stopped getting suspicious looks.
It was just a band, but it was a good experience for me, sorta being on the opposite end of the equation. It helped me dispense with the bit or nervousness I'd had, which was really born of inexperience rather than an actual distrust of people who don't look like me.
No, I'm not a racist. I've worked to make sure of it, though I haven't stopped working, either.
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Originally posted by seanD View PostLiberals are definitely self-deprecating about their own race, and it's bizarre. My theory is that it's a form of projection, it's some weird psychological knee-jerk reaction to their own inherent racists feelings. IOW, white liberals are racist against blacks, but this bothers them deep down inside, and so they become hypersensitive to it and lash out at everyone else for being the racist.Originally posted by Whateverman View PostI've seen racist tendencies in me, and have worked to stamp them out.
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What the hell is your point? Do you even know? I corrected Whatever then you had to stick your big nose in with information that was not relevant to that discussion.Atheism is the cult of death, the death of hope. The universe is doomed, you are doomed, the only thing that remains is to await your execution...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbnueb2OI4o&t=3s
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Originally posted by Whateverman View PostI've seen racist tendencies in me...
I actually lived in the inner city of Newark, New Jersey throughout junior high and high school where people with my skin color were a tiny minority, and it was really no big deal to me. I used to walk to work, and one day, a black guy on the corner stopped me and said, "What's it like to be a white boy like you living in the ghetto with all the [n-words]?" I shrugged my shoulders and said, "It doesn't bother me." He laughed, said a few expletives, and then resumed his conversation with his companion.
I honestly can't imagine what it's like to harbor racist tendencies to the point that you have to actively guard against them, but good for you that you're working to overcome your own racism. Next step is to overcome your liberalism, and then perhaps you can be a productive member of civil society.Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
Than a fool in the eyes of God
From "Fools Gold" by Petra
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Originally posted by seanD View PostLiberals are definitely self-deprecating about their own race, and it's bizarre. My theory is that it's a form of projection, it's some weird psychological knee-jerk reaction to their own inherent racists feelings. IOW, white liberals are racist against blacks, but this bothers them deep down inside, and so they become hypersensitive to it and lash out at everyone else for being the racist. I also think there are some actual white supremacists that are only democrat in disguise because it allows them them to enact or support policy that actually hurts minorities (but that's a whole other subject). But for a white person to say whites want a race war is just so over-the-top bizarre to me for a white person to say that it just caught me off guard. I could understand if he's a black BLM advocate though. If not, then that's cult-like level mentality.
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Originally posted by LeaC View PostCompletely agree with you. There's a great deal of race-obsession from the left that I find extremely disturbing and much of it unsubtle in its racism. The claims of White Fragility or All White People Are Racist are based on a foundation that those who are "oppressed" - always black, on the subject of race - can never do anything wrong or be in any way responsible for their own failings. It denies full humanity from anyone non-white, ironically. They are helpless to change their own circumstances, and we, the enlightened, graciously woke whites, are only to listen silently to their wisdom without question and do as requested. It's insultingly racist to both sides.
There is an awful lot of overcompensating going on there. Makes one wonder just what have they done that they are trying to make up for.
I'm always still in trouble again
"You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
"Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
"Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman
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Originally posted by Whateverman View PostNope. Just him.
And really, you can only turn the other cheek so many times.
I'm always still in trouble again
"You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
"Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
"Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman
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Originally posted by rogue06 View PostIt kind of reminds me of the quote from Macbeth, "The lady doth protest too much, methinks."
There is an awful lot of overcompensating going on there. Makes one wonder just what have they done that they are trying to make up for.Atheism is the cult of death, the death of hope. The universe is doomed, you are doomed, the only thing that remains is to await your execution...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbnueb2OI4o&t=3s
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Originally posted by rogue06 View PostIt kind of reminds me of the quote from Macbeth, "The lady doth protest too much, methinks."
He wishes to complain about people mis-attributing quotes from one play he wrote to another - the quote you have cited comes from Hamlet, not Macbeth. It is spoken by Gertrude [Hamlet's mother]in response to his question as to how she likes the play!"It ain't necessarily so
The things that you're liable
To read in the Bible
It ain't necessarily so."
Sportin' Life
Porgy & Bess, DuBose Heyward, George & Ira Gershwin
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Originally posted by seer View Post[ATTACH=CONFIG]47264[/ATTACH]"It ain't necessarily so
The things that you're liable
To read in the Bible
It ain't necessarily so."
Sportin' Life
Porgy & Bess, DuBose Heyward, George & Ira Gershwin
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Originally posted by seer View Post[ATTACH=CONFIG]47264[/ATTACH]Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
Than a fool in the eyes of God
From "Fools Gold" by Petra
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Originally posted by Hypatia_Alexandria View PostEr there is a man called Will Shakespeare at the door.
He wishes to complain about people mis-attributing quotes from one play he wrote to another - the quote you have cited comes from Hamlet, not Macbeth. It is spoken by Gertrude [Hamlet's mother]in response to his question as to how she likes the play!
I'm always still in trouble again
"You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
"Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
"Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman
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