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.
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.
Legislating politeness and propriety is something the Left fantasizes over - but only on their terms. It's ALL a one-way street as far as they're concerned. Power is that way.
So what has the Left done to "correct" what they deems as contemporary wrongs? They've established an un-constitutional socio-economic system where the citizenry ARE judged and hired by the color of their skin, their gender, and their ethnicity - it's called "Affirmative Action," and enforced by the mob in DC.
It has nothing to do with "fairness," and everything to do with Power and un-fairness.
Blacks comprise 10% of the work force have a disproportionately high unemployment rate. There are enough of "them" to cause the major dislocation on the workforce as you are intimating here.
Blacks comprise 10% of the work force have a disproportionately high unemployment rate. There are enough of "them" to cause the major dislocation on the workforce as you are intimating here.
Yes, and the "disproportionately high unemployment rate" JUST might have something to do with the 75% illegitimacy rate, the destruction of the black family, the ostracism of blacks in school who want to learn for "acting white," and a culture that ridicules scholastic achievement. Hadn't you been paying any attention to the Bill Cosby? Man, you ARE ignorant.
You also seem to ignore the leadership of black culture stressing "entitlement" instead of the meritorious achievement as in other cultures like Asian, Jewish, and Indian.
You also seem to ignore the leadership of black culture stressing "entitlement" instead of the meritorious achievement
Please, Libby...you are hardly one to characterize what black community leaders stress. Do you really want a college educated person to believe that "black culture" [sic] is being told "You don't need to work or educate yourselves"?
You've said so many goddam stupid things in this conversation...
Do you really want a college educated person to believe that "black culture" [sic] is being told "You don't need to work or educate yourselves"?
"Want"?? What I want is for blacks to reject the "victim" mentality encouraged by Sharpton, the NAACP, and guilty white patronizing socialist liberals like yourself in keeping the brothas down.
Please, Libby...you are hardly one to characterize what black community leaders stress.
Geez, you're a f***ing ignoramus. LOL, Yoda...
You've said so many goddam stupid things in this conversation...
