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
Kinda hard trying to remain at a distance these days, everything can be politicized, even personal taste. Personally I genuinely don't care in my media consumption to be ideologically pure, no one should have to(in my opinion). Expecting personal taste to tell us about character is a pointless excercise in sniffing out 'the hypocrite'.
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edited 26th Mar '16 7:43:20 PM by NoName999
Because Obama stopped new inmates being sent there years ago?
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranSo her claim of cultural appropriation is not only void but also shows sings of not knowing what cultural appropriation is, that along assaulting both the student and the camera in the end of the video.
She's an idiot and his response was quite civil.
Inter arma enim silent leges"It's time to talk about 'Black Privilege'".
Okay now this ridiculous. It's true that there are bad apples within the progressive community who misuse the notion of "white privilege" and muddy what exactly it means to have it, but if you wanna talk about actual supposed privileges black Americans may have over other groups at least bring up the relative invisibility of other non-black minorities in US racial discourse, such Chris Rock's Oscars speech or the various problems Native Americans living on reservations continue to face. Which if you ask me isn't really a privilege when you consider exactly why black activism is so loud in the first place.
edited 30th Mar '16 3:04:51 PM by AlleyOop
I'm not sure appropriation is even the right term. If people wanna talk about society's double standard against black versus white people with the same dreadlock hairstyle that's completely fine, but unless dreadlocks have an exclusive cultural significance that's being misrepresented when white people wear it* , it's not "appropriation" any more than it is for white people to wear gray hoodies.
He was assaulted 'for' 'appropriation'. It wasn't even appropriation, but the assaulter thought it was.
Wait, is that a woman hitting a man?
edited 30th Mar '16 8:46:33 PM by hellomoto
Racism tends to apply not just to actual racial groups, otherwise Anglo-American progoganda against Germany in WW 1/2 wouldn't be racist, as you're dealing with the same Saxon/Anglo-Saxon racial group even within in the wider racial group of "white people".
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranSome commentary on the aforementioned dreadlocks incident
that I thought was interesting.

It took me a while to come to terms with Wagner racism and not let his anti-semitism let in the way of appreciating his music.
But as of late, I've been looking for martial industrial groups and music scores, most of them hardly bothered me but a few of them glorify fascism, including the blatant racism.
I particularly enjoyed the works of a group called Blood Soil, but by taking a look at their facebook profile I found that their fascist iconography wasn't there for the Rule of Cool they are actually pretty damn racism and homophobic.
While I don't like their ideology I really enjoy their music, but pulling the Death of the Author is getting a bit hard when people can mistake you for another fascist due to your music tastes.
edited 21st Mar '16 9:44:48 PM by AngelusNox
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