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Running racism in America thread

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Scout, May 26, 2020.

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  1. dixiehack

    dixiehack Well-Known Member

    Ragu must have gotten one of those “sanitized for your protection” educations people around here are so desperate to mandate for their own kids lest they ever question why white always seems to make right.
     
    dixiehack, Mar 24, 2023
    #7429
  2. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    Racism is racism. It will likely never go away, because it is rooted in individual attitudes. ... and people can be really shitty. There are people who are antagonistic, discriminatory, prejudiced, etc. toward others because of their race.

    But racism is something specific. It is discrimination againt someone because of their race.

    A lot of people now take every outcome they are outraged by. ... and allege that the outcome has to be an example of racism at work.

    Sometimes, that is the case. Oftentimes, it is not.

    But it's become so automatic that it's become corrosive. It has taken a majority of people who didn't have racist attitudes, and it is causing them to shut down on claims of racism.

    When you make racism so fungible ("de facto racism" was the term someone posted) that everything is an example of racism (regardless of evidence of actual racial animus), you are having the effect of making it so that nothing (including actual racist behavior) is.
     
    The Big Ragu, Mar 24, 2023
    #7430
  3. MisterCreosote

    MisterCreosote Well-Known Member

    This is when I miss the former poster whose favorite game was “Try to Get White People to Admit ANYTHING Might Be Racist.”
     
    MisterCreosote, Mar 24, 2023
    #7431
  4. Azrael

    Azrael Well-Known Member

    Azrael, Mar 24, 2023
    #7432
  5. Azrael

    Azrael Well-Known Member

    Azrael, Mar 24, 2023
    #7433
  6. Azrael

    Azrael Well-Known Member

    Azrael, Mar 24, 2023
    #7434
  7. Azrael

    Azrael Well-Known Member

    Azrael, Mar 24, 2023
    #7435
  8. dixiehack

    dixiehack Well-Known Member

    Dice keep coming up snake eyes for crazy, unknowable reasons.
     
    dixiehack, Mar 24, 2023
    #7436
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  9. Azrael

    Azrael Well-Known Member

    I'm sure it's just a few bad apples!
     
    Azrael, Mar 24, 2023
    #7437
  10. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

     
    Inky_Wretch, Mar 24, 2023
    #7438
  11. Regan MacNeil

    Regan MacNeil Well-Known Member

    FAFO
     
    Regan MacNeil, Mar 24, 2023
    #7439
  12. dixiehack

    dixiehack Well-Known Member

    Dude on the right looked like he was trying to teleport to anywhere else. Off-camera Julie was not going to be dragged into that conversation with a fleet of International Harvesters.
     
    dixiehack, Mar 24, 2023
    #7440
    DanielSimpsonDay, Batman and Inky_Wretch like this.
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