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06-05-2010, 09:37 PM
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Originally Posted by PiKA2001
I don't think ever in my life I've heard or seen or read so much "Us Vs. Them" talk in my life, aren't we supposed to be beyond this by now?
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You need to get out the house more. 
Anyway, bigotry doesn't move me either way. I was just co-signing about that website. Racism doesn't require bigotry so I hope prejudice and racial niceties are not what your racism-o-meter (also known as the "Are we there yet?"-o-meter) is based on. I also hope it isn't based on Obama and "some of my bestfriends are Black."
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06-05-2010, 10:12 PM
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Originally Posted by DrPhil
You need to get out the house more.
I also hope it isn't based on Obama and "some of my bestfriends are Black." |
I'm not racist, my cat is black.
I'm not sure I get the Obama reference. Do you mean the train of thought that racism is dead because we have a black president, or you just don't agree with/like Obama cuz he's black? Nope, I don't subscribe to either.
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06-05-2010, 10:18 PM
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Do you mean the train of thought that racism is dead because we have a black president
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This. You said you thought we were beyond "this" by now and I don't know why you would think that. Despite how well people have learned to hide their racial and ethnic prejudices, they still express them in more anonymous settings or settings where they feel they are around likeminded others.
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06-05-2010, 10:27 PM
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Originally Posted by DrPhil
This. You said you thought we were beyond "this" by now and I don't know why you would think that. Despite how well people have learned to hide their racial and ethnic prejudices, they still express them in more anonymous settings or settings where they feel they are around likeminded others.
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I meant in an evolutionary way. I believe its our animal instincts that bring out racism and bigotry, it's because we humans are tribal.
Like the Miike Snow song "Animal"
I change shapes just to hide in this place but I'm still, I'm still an animal
Nobody knows it but me when I slip yeah I slip
I'm still an animal
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06-05-2010, 10:29 PM
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Originally Posted by PiKA2001
I meant in an evolutionary way. I believe its our animal instincts that bring out racism and bigotry, it's because we humans are tribal.
Like the Miike Snow song "Animal"
I change shapes just to hide in this place but I'm still, I'm still an animal
Nobody knows it but me when I slip yeah I slip
I'm still an animal
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I disagree 100% with all of this. Tribal is not synonymous with (animal) instinct. "Tribes" are still human constructions and even animals (many of which also have tribal groups and hierarchies) have constructions that are arguably nurture as much as (or even more than) nature. Animals are taught, as are we.
Back to the lightened darkies in this thread, though.
Last edited by DrPhil; 06-05-2010 at 10:33 PM.
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06-06-2010, 03:49 PM
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Originally Posted by PiKA2001
Have you looked around on that site; the language in some of those posts? Do you not see that it can be polarizing to people not on the " Everyone who is white is evil, racist, bigot, white-trash, Nazi" bandwagon?
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Are you kidding me? No, I didn't look at the site, but I'm not surprised. I hate it when some people blame an entire race for their own problems.
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Originally Posted by PiKA2001
aren't we supposed to be beyond this by now?
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THIS
It's dumb.
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06-10-2010, 02:01 PM
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Originally Posted by DrPhil
This. You said you thought we were beyond "this" by now and I don't know why you would think that. Despite how well people have learned to hide their racial and ethnic prejudices, they still express them in more anonymous settings or settings where they feel they are around likeminded others.
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Late back into this thread, but what's been going on in Arizona and Texas should clearly show the opposite of the US being beyond anything right now.
it's like the real nuts are coming out of the closet en masse.
I chuckle when people think just because the US has a black president racism automatically goes away...
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06-10-2010, 03:55 PM
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Originally Posted by DaemonSeid
it's like the real nuts are coming out of the closet en masse.
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Or is it a response to the nut in the White House?
Maybe the "real nuts" already were out and more responded to the call. (that's what she said)
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