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.
Legislate God out of the picture (He's so passe, doncha know?). With Him gone, SOMEONE has to legislate morality.
Who better than the omnipotent, all-knowing State?
Yup.
God is an "uptight, unfair fascist" to the pods.
The State knows better; how to heal their planet; and how to feed their "Hope & Change" fetish as they ALL bend over.
They want Secular Humanism? They'll get its hellish system. Buy hey - we won't be around too much longer to feel the lash of that anti-Christ Slave State.
The State knows better; how to heal their planet; and how to feed their "Hope & Change" fetish as they ALL bend over.
I'll "confess" to being a Christian - so it is difficult for me to understand the mindset of agnostics or atheists.
Many of them tend to be what society considers well-educated and intelligent. Yet they miss one of the most basic human traits that I - as someone whose wall is sorely lacking in framed degrees - have observed all my life.
Blaise Pascal observed it when he wrote about a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man.
Even if one questions or denies the existence of God, it does not seem intellectually honest to deny this one trait of human nature. Especially when we have seen it played out in culture after culture throughout human history.
It's difficult for me, but I will attempt to argue from an agnostic point of view. I believe I can make the case that man NEEDS an external, larger than himself entity to be the arbiter of laws, rules and order in a society.
Without arguing whether or not the Founders were Christians or even believers in God (some were, some weren't), they DID recognize the benefit of assigning the source of human rights to Him. Thus the term "endowed by their Creator" in the founding documents.
Unfortunately for us here in 2010, the Constitution they created was NOT a supernatural document. It depended (and still depends) upon humans to enact and enforce it. So here we are, after 200 short years of human tinkering and outright corruption, with nothing more than what Bush described as a " . . . piece of paper."
Whether agnostics and atheists of the statist variety wish to acknowledge it or not, the "glorious" humanistic utopia they wish to create will be given god- like powers. The laws of human nature are just as sure as the laws of physics or gravity.
Without arguing whether or not the Founders were Christians or even believers in God (some were, some weren't), they DID recognize the benefit of assigning the source of human rights to Him. Thus the term "endowed by their Creator" in the founding documents.
Unfortunately for us here in 2010, the Constitution they created was NOT a supernatural document. It depended (and still depends) upon humans to enact and enforce it. So here we are, after 200 short years of human tinkering and outright corruption, with nothing more than what Bush described as a " . . . piece of paper."
Whether agnostics and atheists of the statist variety wish to acknowledge it or not, the "glorious" humanistic utopia they wish to create will be given god- like powers. The laws of human nature are just as sure as the laws of physics or gravity.
Thanks...
That was one of the best, well-articulated posts on the subject that I have ever seen.
Where will they be then?
Dead, still rejecting calls from within their "heart-shaped vacuums," or finally seeing the Light.
