Thread: Dragging ass

If you really want to fuck with them... say you totally agree. White people do have a knapsack of things other races don't have, because we're fucking better than the others.

White people have been discriminated against more than any other race.

Start with that and see where it all goes.

ask them how this knapsack creates reverse discrimination. as a white male under affirmative action you are limited in financial aid & welfare situations, even when deserving of aid.

if our society is truly color blind then isn't it unfair to hire a person of color over a whitey? are we less sexist to hire a less qualified young lady over an old white guy with experience?

government contracts are given preferentially to minority or women owned businesses. if given our current president's racial status, hasn't society proven that we have overcome enough hurdles and now its time to try out fair & balanced?

by generalizing with an assumed "knapsack" aren't we encouraging this kind of reverse discrimination by avoiding treatment of people as diverse individuals?

rural america is full of poor white people. reconstruction era was full of starving white sharecroppers homesteading next door to sharecroppers of color who had the same paltry means. generalizations based on assumed entitlement keeps these ppl from realizing ambitions held by the educated "middle class".

enjoy your fight, sparkles.

Good talking points folks, I'll see if I can get punched in the face.

-Sean

will the academic prescription of white guilt lead to even more revisionist history?

some texas schools don't even learn about the alamo because it might offend bilingual students. wtf on that. santa ana kicked davy crockett's a55. why would it offend brown ppl?

we are thankful that slavery was abolished. however, the civil war was STARTED over tariffs & rich vs. poor stuff. the abolition issue wasn't officially brought in till many moons after the start & the freeing of the southern slaves actually caused some rioting by union troops (e.g. the NY irish).

the revisions have begun but we still aren't putting smallpox blankets in the history books.

where is the balance? how do we know when we get there? & how do keep the pendulum from swinging too far to the other extreme?

the knapsack is a metaphor for entitlement. as long as the wealthy 1% isn't held accountable, then racial strife continues. they are very much related.

hurricane katrina wasn't a dismissal of colored skin but ignoring the reality of the poor and blind acceptance of census numbers that deeply underestimated the number of ppl who had no funds to get out safely.

when the race card got thrown down, all the attempts to equalize the economics of the rescue stopped cold.

concrete fact was traded for nostalgic abstract.

i don't think revisionist history is a good thing ever, even as a feminist.

when we re-write what happened to fit what is currently pc, we kinda fuk up how we all learn from the mistakes of the past. dontcha think?

i totally agree that art & history has been white male dominated for too long. but if we use their tactics we are as bad as them.

we should blame alexander the great considering he put all the prehistory eggs in one basket which burned to the ground by a bunch of high minded revisionists. made it a lot easier to pretend that matriarchy never existed even though archaeology guarantees it was predominant for a good long time over many continents.

here grrrl.... i think you'll like this:

Originally Posted by GetItGrrl

Its not about re-writing what really happened, but rather shedding light on relevant artists who happen to be female or minority yet never made the history book cut.

that part is good stuff. adding to is cool. taking away is not.

kinda like why i get annoyed at muslim clerics saying hitler didn't kill a bunch of jews & gypsies as genocide.

or our last president saying he didn't get money from enron.

or minorities thinking that all white ppl have scrilla & have a 100% get out of jail free card. some of them do, but the trailer trash does not get a pass & they are oh so fully white bread.

how are we going to improve the trailer ppl & prevent idiocracy if they aren't allowed equal access to affordable education because of the generalized & racist assumption that all white folks can afford to go to college.

stuff like that irks me.

Obama does not care about white people