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We’re all racist. But racism by white people matters more
The Manchester Guardian ^ | October 5, 2017 | Mona Chalabi

Posted on 10/14/2017 9:04:19 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

We don’t live in a racially neutral society: from police officers to headteachers, all the gatekeepers in my life have been white. Yet we do have to acknowledge those who feel they lose out to ethnic minorities

Most white people don’t see themselves as racist. They can comfortably reel off a list of people of colour they know, like, or maybe even love. They can’t think of a time when they’ve negatively discriminated against someone on the grounds of their race. And they don’t see, in a concrete way, how their own race has positively affected them.

More than that, when people imagine a racist, they probably envisage a white skinhead sat in a pub ready to start a fight with the first black or brown person who walks through the door. That’s a convenient picture to conjure up – it’s pretty easy to comfort yourself that you’re nothing at all like that awful bastard.

In fact, though, everyone – of whatever colour – is racist. As part of a TV documentary I’ve been working on, I’ve seen how our brains have a tendency to automatically associate our own race with good and other races with bad, whoever we are....

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: Heated Discussion
KEYWORDS: antiwhite; antiwhiteracism; blacks; blahblahblah; chalabi; lawenforcement; monachalabi; racism; tripe; whites
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To: bagster

“Honky” was used in an insulting and derogatory way - I took immediate offense and was forceful, but polite, in telling the offensive person how I felt about the use of insulting and derogatory terms such as that.

I, personally, do not insult people based on any accident of their birth. After all, we cannot help who our parents are!

I do, however, insult based on character and behavior!

Well, being a Correctional Officer is a tough job, and I guess if you can’t shrug off those kinds of insults pretty easily, you’d go nuts. I would, fer shure, fer shure!

We probably ought to thank you for doing, what, IMHO, is a thankless, but necessary job: THANKS!


101 posted on 10/15/2017 11:28:30 AM PDT by Taxman (Replace the income tax with the FAIRtax and abolish the IRS!)
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To: Taxman
Well that's very kind of you to say, taxman. Thank you. That's a first.

Well don't worry about me. I didn't really shrug it off as much as you might think. You really can't. I gave as good as I got. Better in fact. I learned all about "the escalation of force" ladder. That includes verbal force. Always stay one level of force above your opponent. Smack talk is a weapon. Some people are better than others and verbal judo can serve a man well. It's also important to not let your opponent think he's rattled you.

102 posted on 10/15/2017 8:56:03 PM PDT by bagster (Social Culture Warrior (SCW))
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To: fieldmarshaldj

It pays for a lack of accountability for others.


103 posted on 10/16/2017 6:12:32 AM PDT by Architect of Avalon
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To: bagster

You have a tough job.

I’ll wager you have mastered the art and science of “comparementalization?”


104 posted on 10/16/2017 7:46:15 PM PDT by Taxman (Replace the income tax with the FAIRtax and abolish the IRS!)
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To: Taxman

Haha...yea, Taxman. Compartmentalization does come in handy.


105 posted on 10/16/2017 7:55:53 PM PDT by bagster (Social Culture Warrior (SCW))
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To: bagster

What happens at the lockup stays at the lockup?


106 posted on 10/16/2017 8:13:40 PM PDT by Taxman (Replace the income tax with the FAIRtax and abolish the IRS!)
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To: Taxman

Haha no. I’m retired. AND I got a big mouth. I wish I had been a secret service agent for Clinton of Hillary. I’d tell it all.


107 posted on 10/16/2017 8:16:02 PM PDT by bagster (Social Culture Warrior (SCW))
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To: bagster

Somebody needs to “tell all” about Hitlery the LIEberal, noxious, venomous harrian Real Soon now!

[My snark defined: Hitlery (because she is a female Hitler); LIEberal (because LIEberals LIE!); noxious (“she is harmful to living things: toxic”); venomous (“she expresses very strong hatred or anger”); harridan (“she is an angry and unpleasant woman: a shrew.”)]


108 posted on 10/17/2017 6:12:17 AM PDT by Taxman (Replace the income tax with the FAIRtax and abolish the IRS!)
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To: Taxman

Somebody will someday. They will pile on like she was Harvey Weinstein when she is no longer dangerous. That is my prediction.


109 posted on 10/17/2017 6:37:57 AM PDT by bagster (Social Culture Warrior (SCW))
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To: bagster

FRom your lips to God’s ear!


110 posted on 10/17/2017 7:26:23 AM PDT by Taxman (Replace the income tax with the FAIRtax and abolish the IRS!)
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

Yes, but it is progress.


111 posted on 10/18/2017 12:17:37 PM PDT by Crucial
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