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I don't like him because he is an idiot. I'm black.
No.. he is far from an idiot. My issues with him is his pandering to the Fox News crowd. That definitely makes him look like an idiot at times.
I hope he runs, he has a few good ideas but I want to see how the GOP tears him down.
He messed up big time with the plagiarism in his book but once again, he was pandering to the Fox News crowd and this is how you end up looking like an idiot.
Reverse discrimination is real, Liberals never talked about it but I will give you some examples of where I have seen it:
Northern New Mexico: Some of the towns in Northern New Mexico are 80% Hispanic- the families have been in the area for 8 generations and have deep ties to the area. Good luck finding a job in these places if you are a White man.
El Paso: Good luck finding a job in El Paso if you don't speak Spanish.
Indian reservation towns: One that comes to mind is Pine Ridge, South Dakota. I look kinda Latin and never felt so unwelcome in a place. They can tell right away that you are not a Native. When I visited the Wounded Knee site, I was practically harassed by several Native panhandling children, to the point where I ended up leaving because it was just too much to handle. Very sad place.
In another thread you said you were humiliated, beaten and harassed by liberals. Now Hispanics and Native Americans are piling on. For some reason you appear to be a persecution magnet.
Do you agree with this statement? I am not White, I am Lebanese/Italian ethnically, so I usually check Other when they ask me about my race.
I dislike racism and intolerance but when I take a look at my own actions, I am guilty of excluding people from a certain race based on my own experiences and stereotypes.
Heck, I have lost a job once because I used a "racist" term on the phone and it was total slip of the tongue, so when I hear especially White people say that they are not racist , even when they use racial slurs, trust me, I know what they mean.
I am not by any means trying to justify racism and exclusion as acceptable. I am sure I have had it done to me, even though I always give people the benefit of the doubt and I never buy into the whole race card/victim mentality BS.
So, do you think everybody is racist to a certain degree?
No. But I do think approaches like your last statement helps racists "justify" their beliefs.
Most likely because no culture is superior or inferior to any other culture.........only racists or bigots believe differently.
That is B.S.
However, to assess whether one culture is better than another, you have to make value judgments about what the standards are for making that determination, which would necessarily be highly subjective.
So while you can certainly say and believe that one culture is better than another, that would be your opinion and not something that is beyond dispute.
So for example, if person A were to say that a better culture produced more scientific achievements, more literature, more architectural achievements, etc. and person B took it upon himself to call person A a bigot because of that perspective, person B would be a P.C. A-hole, and would in truth be the one worthy of being disparaged for being intolerant and uncivil toward person A because of that person's different perspectives.
^^look at it like this. In my culture we do not use profanity and value politeness and work ethic. Compared to one that is using M-Fer this, that, etc, rude and sloven.
^^look at it like this. In my culture we do not use profanity and value politeness and work ethic. Compared to one that is using M-Fer this, that, etc, rude and sloven.
So which one is better?
Spare me the sanctimonious, self-important bullcrap.
You seem like a really fair, enlightened human being.
It's called common sense.
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