Why do you believe minorities are inferior?

That's disgusting. I knew there was something rotten with you.

Perp.

Seriously.. how can people be THIS ignorant...?



http://i.imgur.com/eFYYe.jpg

^^ idiots, the lot of them.

I gave up at "I still ain't forgave japan for Pearl harbor"

Because clearly, dude was present for the attack. And every current resident of Japan was responsible for the attack.

We should nuke Japan. Then we'd be even. Too bad this earthquake happened instead.

If only a tsunami was a payback for Pearl Harbor, I would hate to see what happens to the United States.

Seriously incredulous at those facebook responses. Unbelievable. No mention whatsoever of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We need better history education in this country.

It doesn't even matter, the fact that Pearl Harbor was mentioned at all shows a distinct lack of critical thinking skills. If you teach them history without the thinking then they'll just learn the wrong lessons from it anyway.

/America, Fuck yeah

People are idiots.

For any still interested in the nuclear issue, this is a really good editorial by an MIT nuclear engineer/physicist.

http://mitnse.com/

I posted it on facebook, but anyone concerned about the alleged 'map of fallout' from Japan to the US. It's bunk. See snopes.com. Just forestalling that.

I had to google the map. had to roll my eyes.

OMG DEATH AND TERROR

So, madmax is just EW when he doesn't get enough attention on his on sn, right?

^^ No, it's what happens when you have a culture that values others before themselves.

Or, just a culture that is prepared for earthquakes.

:rolleyes:

It's not Black History Month anymore. It's WOMEN's History Month. But the only Wimminz that don't value human life are the ones getting abortions, amirite?

Ignoring that this is madmax
 

I guess you also watched the morning news.

It bothers me when news agencies say things like "the people in Japan are so calm which is contrast to the looting, etc. after Hurricane Katrina and Haiti...this is a testament to the Japanese as a people and Japan as a country."

The other side of that "compliment" (which, as far as I'm concerned is just as much of a compliment as tokenism comments like "Asian students are so great at math") is exactly whom are the Japanese people being compared to right now? And why? Is that comparison even necessary? And to say that the Japanese are so calm and this is a testament to something, you are really implying that they are the opposite of what America is. That's problematic and stupid particularly coming from the American news agencies.

The calm in Japan is a combination of a number of factors, including:
1. The quick response to this tragedy on the part of the Japanese emergency agencies.
2. The quick response from America and other industrialized nations such that people are wondering why the hell the response on the part of America didn't seem so quick during Hurricane Katrina. I don't know why but I know global economy and America's debt to Japan is probably a component of that.
3. Cultural differences that can translate to an emphasis on meditation during disasters rather than acting out. This is also connected to Japan and similar industrialized nations having a lower homicide rate than the United States, but having higher rates of suicide. This relationship is correlated with culture for a number of reasons including how some consider meditation and self-reflection to be more conducive to harming oneself (suicide and self-harm, alcohol, drug use) rather than harming others (looting, killing, raping).

All people see is a sense of calm and order. The implications of that remains to be seen.

I was wondering why you typed such a lengthy response -- then I saw the heading for your post :)

Yes, welcome to America where whites (across ethnicities and cultures) are over 40% of the total population. How did all of those white folks let the minorities jack things up so much? Ice Cube and the Lynch Mob and we're jackin' 4 beats.

Yeah, madmax merely said what the news agencies said this morning. Minus the Black folks spin, of course.

Suuuuuuuuuure...you happen to have known there were no reports of looting yet because.........

You know that there haven't been any reports of looting yet because you did not see the news (or read anything from news agencies)? That's dumb on your part.

Really?
looks like trash, to me

eta: It's based on upbringing, not race. So, it works both ways.

So, you don't know that there have not been any reports of looting yet. Cool.

:rolleyes:

Unlike madmax, some advise Japan's Tsunami survivors to not seek therapy right away.

http://www.theatlantic.com/life/arch...ht-away/72523/

I read this in the voice of that lady at the McCain town hall who was convinced that Obama was an "Arab." JAPAN DOES NOT HAVE ANY BLACKS. Yes ma'am, there are black people in Japan, yes ma'am. Yes?

Hardly.

Race is irrelevent and disgusting to me. There is nothing to be proud of with concerns to race.

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Heh.

lol

Welp that confirmed my suspicions.

We know you're classist, you don't have to remind us about how you hate the icky people at Walmart. Newsflash, it's not somehow 'better' than being racist.
He's so.. needy.

Yeah I've always hated the terms "white trash" and "trailer trash." Very stupid and classist labels that are based on the premise of white privilege. You're either just like the "good white folks" or you're "trash."

I'm baffled that someone would respond to "no trash" with "looks like trash to me." People are not trash.

As for Walmart, cringe, it's on the same level of the horrendousness of facebook. Not because of the people who shop there but because Walmart has taken over, like facebook has, and it's the epitome of ridiculous consumerism under capitalism. I'll end anti-Walmart/anti-facebook rant there. Cringe.

I get why some people don't like Walmart as a business, but I rarely see that criticism without some pretty disgusting examples of classism along with it. It kind of taints the relatively good points that people have. That said, I'm pretty impressed by some of the changes Walmart's made, it doesn't erase that they're taking over, but it can have positive effects too.

And I agree, people are not trash. I hate the phrases "classy" and "trashy" for the same reason. They really just mean "behaving in a way I approve of" and "behaving in a way that I think beneath me."

That's only a factor of who you're talking to and what you're reading/listening to. For instance, the inequality and work and organization scholars who criticize Walmart are doing so on the basis of how Walmart, in general, treats its employees which is classic capitalism and conflict perspective sentiments. It is also about what happens when Walmarts show up in areas that don't have other options. That's about the social class and race demographics of people who tend to have no choice but to shop at Walmart in some areas; and the social class and race of people who are most likely to have no choice but to work at Walmart. Exploitation of labor, exploitation of the consumer dollar, damn near monopolies in some areas, and an orgasmic capitalism experience on the part of the capitalists. While we are all subjected to this, the working class and poor are more likely than other social classes to be unable to escape it or buffer some of its effects.

Afterall, all "types of people" shop at Walmart. (I've been trying to keep some of my family and friends from it for years to no avail) That's why Walmart has taken over the country. It certainly didn't take over the country only because millions of working class and poor people (who some consider "trash") have no choice but to patron it.

I have a book about the Walmartization of the world. Amazonnnn also has some decent books about the cons and pros (the very few pros that there could be) of Walmart.

I agree that it's just anecdotally what I'm hearing. But classist comments are, it seems, too often used as an argument among the general population rather than among scholars and academics. There are completely good reasons to oppose Walmart overall or the monster that it has become, I was simply pointing out that classism is frequently intertwined.

Very true. And personally, I shop there at times. Here they have the best selection of international products around, but they're less convenient than the grocery store (also a chain btw, I don't know many places that don't have regional or national grocery chains) so it's a toss up
lol at the parenthetical.

Personally I disagree, Walmart has a lot to offer. Are they evil sometimes? Yes. But do they do some things very well? Also yes.

But is it an issue of the 'kind' of person who shops there? Most emphatically no.

The devil sent two of its offspring to tear the world apart:

1. Walmart
2. Facebook

God help us all.