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The most useful and relevant thing on that link was the first comment:
"On the Internet, there's a thing called Rule 34, which states that, whatever it is, there is porn of it. No exceptions.
A similar rule applies to the perception of racism in America today. Everything is related to race, no exceptions. This rule includes four corollaries:
a) The moment someone declares a thing racist, it is. b) The moment someone says a thing is not racist, it is. c) To disagree with either a) or b) is a racist act. d) The person committing offense c) is a racist."
It's all tied up with the deliberately obtuse people who conflate "freedom of speech" with "immunity from criticism."
Have you encountered these people? Are you in fact, one of them?
ROFL!! That's half this forum!!! There's storm front, then there's the rest of us <alleged> liberals failing to be storm front. Real dialog can't happen here.
Here is the general rule about racism that that idiot blogger doesn't get: ITS USUALLY THE PEOPLE WHO ARE SO AGAINST RACISM WHO ARE THE MOST RACIST!
We all know the liberals with the "Justice for Treyvon" button who still clutch their purse when a WELL DRESSED black man walks by. Or how about the people who PROUDLY vote for Obama but GET THE HECK OUT OF DODGE when a Latino family moves next door.
The guy with a beer in his hand who makes the occasional black joke (like everyone does, including blacks) is probably less racist than the liberal who gasps every time someone says "going to drop the Cosby kids at the pool" when they go to the bathroom.
I mean...this guy says: "Here's the thing about jokes. They only work when they're aiming up. I wrote this in another piece recently, but I'm just going to plagiarize myself: People in positions of power simply cannot make jokes at the expense of the powerless" So, we can't make jokes about redheads? I mean, who was the last redheaded president?
People need to loosen the hell up. Sorry, but a white kid going to a bar in the ghetto and saying "yeah, it was in the hood, but it was alright" isn't racist...BUT THIS? THIS IS RACIST AND NO ONE SEEMS TO CARE:
I am half black...but if I was in that church he would have gotten his teeth knocked in. Just one more reason NOT to vote for the gangster from Chicago.
Oh yea? Just how open are they? I mean, i lived in Georgia for a little over a year in what was considered a pretty racist part of the state, and i saw the same surreptitious and sneaky kind of racism that i found everywhere else. And everywhere else i've been in the South has been the same damn way.
That's everybody. I mean, if i go into a grocery store in any part of America and the person on the register treats me nice, should i assume they like black people? C'mon...get real. They might actually HATE black people! And yet, i doubt i'd be treated as if they feel that way. That's not necessarily out of political correctness (that term is overused), but because to actually act as if they don't like black people is frowned upon.
As far as where you're from, again, i don't buy it. Open how? They go up to the blacks and tell them their true feelings? Where in the hell do folks do that at? I've never seen it, and i've been in some pretty racist areas of the country.
The rule that just about everyone lives by is live and let live....unless you're a troublemaking idiot, and that'll get you hurt if you say the wrong thing to the wrong person. If you have some negative stereotype about some group or race, common sense tells most clear minded people to keep it to themselves or express it in the company of like-minded people.
I'm 46 years old and i've yet to have someone say something to me that was intentionally racially insensitive with the purpose of putting me in my place or trying to show how they won't be "politically correct" for anybody. Intentionally being the operative word. The reason for that is simple...it's just not something that most people do.
It's all tied up with the deliberately obtuse people who conflate "freedom of speech" with "immunity from criticism."
Have you encountered these people? Are you in fact, one of them?
Modus Operandi of progressives.
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C'mon...get real. They might actually HATE black people! And yet, i doubt i'd be treated as if they feel that way. That's not necessarily out of political correctness (that term is overused), but because to actually act as if they don't like black people is frowned upon.
