The biggest summer for racial tension since 1994 continues, this time with a strange, n-word-laden rant from what has been typically perceived as a fairly innocuous source: Dr. Laura Schlessinger. Speaking to a black caller who called for advice on handling racial tensions with her white husband, Dr. Laura uses the offensive word eleven times and ultimately tells the caller that if she doesn't "have a sense of humor," she should not "marry out of your race."
And Lara Big Bush is a fucking idiot. He point was that she had no point. Race isn;t a hilarious issue. Just because some blacks say nigger with impunity it doesn't make it acceptable to the woman who called...Lara Big Bush assumed that the caller had no issue with this because the caller was black...a racist assumption on her part. It'sc called the Fallacy of Negation...because blacks use the word nigger it's acceptable.
And saying "You black people love [whatever]..." most CERTAINLy has racial and stereotypical overtones.
Words have no intrinsic power. They are only as powerful as we allow them to be.
And before you go off on a rant (no, I've never been called a {n-word], understand that we are never going to "get past" this racial bullshit until we quit GIVING these words power.
Her point about racial tension being worse since Zero took office is spot on.
And I'll go one further - the ONLY people who have a supposed "problem" with this word are those who have a vested interest in having a problem with it.
Her point about racial tension being worse since Zero took office is spot on.
It's not worse. it's just more apparent.
Is racism a white problem or a black problem, dude?
And I'll go one further - the ONLY people who have a supposed "problem" with this word are those who have a vested interest in having a problem with it.
Know a lot of blacks who enjoy being called a nigger, do you?
When people are reluctant to criticize a policy or a politician for fear of being labeled a "racist", then it's EVERYONE's problem.
Exactly. From your ittle rant, you make it sound as if it's a black problem.
Bro...
If you or I have spent any time living on this planet, we've been called something we don't like.
And given a separate water fountain...and school...and hotels...and hospitals...and denied voting rights and so on along with being called something we didn't like.
Quick...make a moral relativism case out of it by claiming that USED to happen while ignoring the fact that absent laws it still WOULD happen...
Exactly. From your ittle rant, you make it sound as if it's a black problem.
I actually wrote "those who have a vested interest in [having a problem with the word].
When it advances their statist goals, white people can have a vested interest, too. Harry Reid, for instance, is white.
And given a separate water fountain...and school...and hotels...and hospitals...and denied voting rights and so on along with being called something we didn;t like.
You make my point that (in the space of my lifetime) we've advanced light years in terms of race. The sad thing is - there are the Jacksons, Reids, and Pelosis of the world who continue to stir the pot for their own selfish ends.
Quick...make a moral relativism case out of it by claiming that USED to happen while ignoring the fact that absent laws it still WOULD happen...
Nope. And you stated exactly as I predicted you would. IT USED TO HAPPEN AND WE"VE MOVED LIGHT YEARS?
Is this like the location of Trantor in Second Foundation...the irony of opposite ends of the universe...?
We've gone near nowhere with race on our own. We've needed laws and continued cajoling. You ask a black man if he'd rather have a job and be called nigger or have no job at all and his response would probably be what's the difference?
My worldview is man is NOT perfectible. He can be made better - he can create societies and in those societies he can address wrongs. But we will never achieve perfection on this Earth. Sorry. There are laws against murder, but murder will always happen.
Likewise there are policies that have been put in place to address egregious wrongs - people not being able to vote, get medical help, etc. simply due to the color of their skin. These are good things, and I applaud them.
But at some point, we have to say enough. Because - racism (like murder) is NEVER going to be completely extinguished. No matter how many laws are passed. Not as long as we remain human beings.
At some point, the law of diminishing returns kicks in. Continuing this view that "we have NOT progressed past racism" and "more laws are needed" fits the bill.
Well...we're barely a generation removed from addressing the problem which festered for a couple of centuries...my view is that we have a ways to go...this is only round 2...
we're barely a generation removed from addressing the problem which festered for a couple of centuries...my view is that we have a ways to go...this is only round 2...
Somehow you believe 35 years of Affirmative Action and hiring bias based on the color of skin and ethnicity instead of qualifications isn't going to result in major blow-back at a time of economic Depression?
And hasn't dumbed-down American education devolved enough for you? We're a nation of morons which has to import brain cell activity because of Commie do-gooders like you. Little Johnny's watered-down Bachelor's degree is the equivalent of Jethro Bodine's 6th Grade education these days.
You are so far off the wall and detached from reality, it's mind-boggling.
Somehow you believe 35 years of Affirmative Action and hiring bias based on the color of skin and ethnicity instead of qualifications isn't going to result in major blow-back at a time of economic Depression...
Blah blah blah and yet after 25 years on Wall Street I could be a quadruple amputee and count the number of black bosses I've had...in fact, give me an arm back and I can probably count how many blacks have had a position parallel to mine. I'm still waiting to come home to the Mexican family you claim is going to demand my house, too. Got an ETA on their arrival?
And you know goddammed well that "ethnicity" has zipola to do with this discussion. I'm not that dumb and you're certainly not that clever.
after 25 years on Wall Street I could be a quadruple amputee and count the number of black bosses I've had...
Most people count with their eyes.
in fact, give me an arm back and I can probably count how many blacks have had a position parallel to mine.
And that's the fault of WHOM? "Racist" Whitey? Or gubmint for not enforcing unqualified people via AA?
I'm still waiting to come home to the Mexican family you claim is going to demand my house, too. Got an ETA on their arrival?
Yeah. Just as soon as you leave the insular, well-policed nest of NYC suburbia, and find yourself living in the southwest within a 100 miles of the Mexican border.
