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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
We won't fix the intolerant mindset of the South without difficulty. I live in the South, this mentality won't go away easily. A lot of people are still entrenched in far right conservatism and incredibly pigheaded homophobia. What people aren't homophobic still see it as a sin but try to be nice to people regardless (which I think is probably going to be an easier step to reach then outright acceptance). Islamophobia and anti-Latino sentiment run crazy here, and every time I hear someone mention "those Mexicans stealing our jobs", I have to refrain from speaking out. My father is a Mexican immigrant, after all.
And there was one incident in my old high school that just pissed me off (and I've mentioned it to people before): there was a Muslim girl who was graduating when I was still a sophomore. She mentioned Allah in her yearbook quote, and this caused some jackass in my engineering class to rant for two days (as a joke) about her being an idiot. I was disgusted, but tried to ignore it. People there were racist enough anyways. Then he said something so not funny and so disturbing that I tried to walk out of the room. He said, and I quote, "Ya know what I should do? I should drag her to the courtyard and beat her with a baseball bat, that'll show her!". And even after I told the teacher about it, the prick never got punished. He even passed it off as him "joking" later on (I'm not even going into how that's about as funny as Michael Richards telling racist jokes, it speaks for itself).
Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?The Department of Justice and the EPA are suing Volkswagen over their emissions-cheating software.
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No the Cubans are a model minority. If anything many Republicans will make a great show of accommodating them.
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How is mentioning god in a yearbook quote. Judging from the type of society down their I assume your engineering class mate wasn't one of those smug atheist types.
It's a racist term used to refer to minorities that don't cause trouble. Typically it's applied to Asians because they have high college graduation rates and commit few crimes.
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You'd be surprised. Engineers and atheists have a lot of overlap with libertarian style Republicans.
As for your other point it's the wrong god. Religious freedom only applies to Christians in their mind.
edited 4th Jan '16 11:13:49 AM by Kostya
I wonder if this mentality remains the same not when it is one cuban appearing every now and then, but thousands coming in at once.
My bet would be "no"
P.S: I am butthurt NPR's tags on those news do not include costa rica. We don't matter enough. Notice us, U.S senpai.
edited 4th Jan '16 11:34:31 AM by Aszur
It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes![]()
What happens in the US is that the performance of these model minorities is immediately used in a "Why can't you be more like *insert model minority here*?" question directed at every other minority in a bid to deny the need for better treatment of said minorities.
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Hey' that's probably the reason you remained a stable democracy throughout the entire Cold War. When they were plotting all the coups, the CIA literally forgot Costa Rica existed, or at least that's how I imagine it went down.
It also harms the group as a whole, as affirmative action policies are apparently insanely discriminatory towards Asians, to the point where they have to score even more highly than both whites and other minorities to even have a chance at getting into good schools.
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Nah we just don't have an army for the CIA to train and teach torture to. So the contras were desperate to find a real enemy nearby but it's hard to look like a hero to the people if you wanna declare war on an armyless enemy.
That might have flied in the middle ages but not so much in modern era.
Which reminds me: Did you guys end up finding chemical weapons in Iraq?
edited 4th Jan '16 12:10:53 PM by Aszur
It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothesAsians are overrepresented at many top schools, in a manner more severe than whites (who are definitely overrepresented, but being still the majority group makes that less severe). Quota systems will impact the group which is most severely overrepresented to the greatest degree, so affirmative action diversity policies hit Asians the hardest (as a proportion) in higher education, even though the "victims" are more likely to be white in terms of raw numbers.
This has probably been posted in other threads, but noting here that a major headline today is a developing spat in the Middle-East that has seen Saudi Arabia and some allied nations cutting all diplomatic ties with Iran
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Reading the article, it seems that the Saudis executed an Iranian cleric, prompting an attack on the Saudi embassy in Tehran. The latter then caused the Saudis to suspend all relations. Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, and Sudan have also cut or reduced relations.
Let's hope this doesn't turn into an actual war.
edited 4th Jan '16 12:42:56 PM by Fighteer
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It's all connected into the Sunni/Shia Conflict — the Cleric was Shia, which is the major sect in Iran. Saudi Arabia is predominately Sunni.
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Yep, that seems to be it. So, over/under on an armed conflict breaking out? Pass the Popcorn.
Ugh, the Sunni/Shia infighting is basically "The Troubles": International Edition!
"Why would I inflict myself on somebody else?"@aszur https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction
They still have some bunkers of chemical weapons from before 03, so, yea, we did.
I'm baaaaaaackIt's not exactly surprising, per se, but Trump's first TV ad
is a hell of a thing.
edited 4th Jan '16 12:52:09 PM by Iaculus
What's precedent ever done for us?

By the way I wanna do a "I am calling this". if I get it right, I demand to be called "Prophet Aszur" from now on (Super Kami Aszur would also do)
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the "blockade" has ended, and a cooperation between Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica and the rest will finally get teh cuban immigrants moving.
This means that Miami is bound to get the thousands of cuban immigrants
in a much, much faster and blunt way than a steady trickle had they been allowed before.
So I am calling some minor one day panic in the U.S news services and facebook posts about the thousands of cuban immigrants that will swarm and conquer the U.S and Miami or something.
You know.
Something they could have avoided much, much, much earlier.
It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes