Knife wrote:The chick from Kansas saying they're looking for the Last White Hope in the GOPers is worse.
I particularly liked how she then claimed her comment had nothing to do with race or creed. Does she not know where the term "Great White Hope" comes from? It comes from an asshole who was calling for some white person to beat Jack Johnson, a black boxing champion, in a match such that white people could reign supreme in boxing once more. Racism has EVERYTHING to do with the phrase, because it was all about making sure those uppity black people knew their place in the world.
Hrm... I wonder what that has to do with the current Presidency that such phrases are popping up again?
"Show me an angel and I will paint you one." - Gustav Courbet
"Quetzalcoatl, plumed serpent of the Aztecs... you are a pussy." - Stephen Colbert
"Really, I'm jealous of how much smarter than me he is. I'm not an expert on anything and he's an expert on things he knows nothing about." - Me, concerning a bullshitter
Darth Wong wrote:I routinely get into arguments with smug white people who declare that white racism is a thing of the past. I've gotten into many such arguments even here, with jackasses who say things like "don't blame me for things that my ancestors did", as if he completely gets off the hook for things like the fact that people with anglo-saxon sounding surnames still have a huge advantage in getting job interviews compared to people with ethnic-sounding surnames even today.
I followed that argument (Ryan Thunder IIRC) but I'm still unsure of what your point actually is, we all know that racism is still present and the study you posted in that thread makes it clear that whites get preferential treatment in interviews but I have no idea what you actually expect us to do about it.
I expect white people to plug their fucking pie-holes when they feel an urge to tell minorities to "get over it" about racism, or to tell minorities that they're "exaggerating" about racism, or to complain about anti-white racism.
"It's not evil for God to do it. Or for someone to do it at God's command."- Jonathan Boyd on baby-killing
"you guys are fascinated with the use of those "rules of logic" to the extent that you don't really want to discussus anything."- GC
"I do not believe Russian Roulette is a stupid act" - Embracer of Darkness
"Viagra commercials appear to save lives" - tharkûn on US health care.
I reserve the right to complain if and only if I, personally, am being treated as a racist preemptively, before I have had a chance to demonstrate whether I am one or not.
Aside from that, I'm willing to keep quiet, because I've seen enough recent study results to keep me quiet.
