First thing's first: KEEP. THIS. SHIT. CIVIL. If you can't talk about race without resorting to childish insults and rude generalizations or getting angry at people who don't see it your way, leave the thread.
With that said, I bring you to what can hopefully be the general thread about race.
First, a few starter questions.
- How, if at all, do you feel your race affects your everyday life?
- Do you believe that white people (or whatever the majority race in your area is) receive privileges simply because of the color of their skin. How much?
- Do you believe minorities are discriminated against for the same reason? How much?
- Do you believe that assimilation of cultures is better than people trying to keep their own?
- Affirmative Action. Yea, Nay? Why or why not?
Also, a personal question from me.
- Why (in my experience, not trying to generalize) do white people often try to insist that they aren't white? I can't count the number of times I've heard "I'm not white, I'm 1/4th English, 1/4th German, 1/4th Scandinavian 1/8th Cherokee, and 1/8th Russian," as though 4 of 5 of those things aren't considered "white" by the masses. Is it because you have pride for your ancestry, or an attempt to try and differentiate yourself from all those "other" white people? Or something else altogether?
edited 30th May '11 9:16:04 PM by Wulf
The same sort of thing happened with Daesh.
He later apologized, but obviously, many people (myself included) are more than a little suspicious (to put it mildly). It doesn't help that the girl he asked out responded with two heart-eye emojis with no comment on the sign, and that this has happened before.
EDIT: Changed it to say has happened before, which was my original intent.
edited 25th Apr '18 5:26:32 PM by SciFiSlasher
"Somehow the hated have to walk a tightrope, while those who hate do not."
Someone needs to take a very close look at the culture at their school.
Ah blatant racism, how charming.
"Sandwiches are probably easier to fix than the actual problems" -Hylarn
Edit- See that was addressed in the post/article.
edited 25th Apr '18 2:19:49 PM by Hodor2
Brenner's Wolves Fight Again
Brenner's Wolves Fight Again
Grammar also fails too.
Take you to prom!
Where there's life, there's hope.
So it's horrible from every conceivable angle?
Though as much 
It probably goes without saying that he clearly apologized solely because of the backlash and not out of genuine repentance. It's more than likely his parents are keeping him out of school activities for the rest of the year for the same reason.
![[up]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/smiles/arrow_up.png "[up]"){kind=icon}
Pretty much. As a comment on the article outright states, apologizing nowadays is what you do after saying exactly what you mean.
Oh, bother.
This is just...it's just so asinine on top of being awful and racist. What makes it worse is that it was effective, considering that girl's heart emoji response.
Disgusted, but not surprised
That's why I think someone should look into the school itself. Something bigger may be going on here.
Stupid teenager is racist and makes racist joke then tweets about it.
This...is not terribly shocking to me.
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.
My Hair Provides Affordable Healthcare
But don't y'all know? Racism is back in!
edited 26th Apr '18 10:17:41 AM by FluffyMcChicken
How can it be back in when it was never out?
"Sandwiches are probably easier to fix than the actual problems" -Hylarn
Impossible Gender Forge
Yeah this is about on level with my expectations of how racist things get in that region, even when I went to high school.
Well, excuse me for suggesting that it might make sense for someone to tackle student attitudes in their school (or any other school, for that matter).
Brenner's Wolves Fight Again
Why that defensive attitude?
Where there's life, there's hope.
People see racism and settle for condemning the act, seemingly without taking a constructive approach to the problem seriously.
In all honestly, there doesn't seem to be much we can do to change American culture so shit like this at least rarely happens and it being utterly condemned stops it dead in its tracks, without there being something as huge and terrible as another Civil War.
Oh, bother.
Yeah, short of a massive cultural renaissance undoing generations of white privilege, condemning bigotry when we see it is probably what we should be doing.
Disgusted, but not surprised
I mean, a teenager did something racist; that doesn't scream 'this school is a problem', that screams 'American society is a problem'. If he was supported in his bid (for instance, teachers saw the sign and allowed him to keep it), then that merits an investigation, but it doesn't sound like this was caused by the school any more than baseline American racist background radiation.
Of course changing the school culture is a good response, but that's what people have been trying to do for decades.
edited 26th Apr '18 10:28:00 PM by RedSavant
It's been fun.
Shin Megami Tensei IV
Why America is so messy compared to Europe? Not that they're perfect, but compared to the USA...
Watch me destroying my country
I will admit that I am a little concerned that this might end up as a compaction cycle
, to borrow a phrase from a schizophrenic ex-cult member who’s actually an excellent and useful source on the authoritarian mindset once you get past the strange way she presents her theories. Basically, it’s a group encountering a crisis and shedding members, but in a way that causes the remainder to become more fanatical. So the alt-right may have less media presence and less feet on the ground, but we may instead see an uptick in violence.
What's precedent ever done for us?