If ya don't know what this is, ask an old sailor.
Posted on 07/07/2013 1:02:54 PM PDT by NotYourAverageDhimmi
I’ve often pondered the question, why are white people so touchy about being called out for racism?
I know some of you will say that racism is much more than the hurtful prejudice of a marginal few. Agreed. Racism is also inherited structural and political inequity by race resulting in persistent poverty, health disparities, and deficits of opportunity in communities of color. And as with all kinds of oppression, racism is ultimately kept in place by violence and the threat of violence (think in terms of lynchings, cross-burnings, KKK raids, etc. throughout our history). Simple prejudice seems pretty minor by comparison.
However, the powerful effect of white people’s touchiness on this subject should not to be underestimated. In fact, I think it goes hand in hand with the threat of violence in perpetuating racism.
For instance, racial inequality nowadays relies more heavily on the intimidation and violence of the war on drugs and immigration enforcement than on the terrorism of vigilante groups. But, racist immigration and drug enforcement policies are founded on the widespread popularity of racial stereotypes that falsely criminalize black men as the source of the illegal drug problem in the U.S., and immigrants of color as drains on our economy. In other words, ordinary prejudice is as much a part of the oppressive equation for communities of color as violence and intimidation, and the fact that these ordinary forms of prejudice are expressed through major public institutions is possible because we deny that these stereotypes are grounded in prejudice at all.
We need to marginalize ordinary racist stereotypes and behavior, and this starts with calling racism out, even when those guilty of it get touchy because they are unable to recognize their acts as racist.
But, why so touchy?
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Am I racist for noticing that black people have a far higher rate of criminality than other races? Am I racist for noticing that most of the illegal immigrants coming into America are Hispanic? In the eyes of today’s Liberal the answer to those questions is “yes”.
In the absence of wise discrimination, racism might be good for something. In other words, if your granddaughters couldn’t perceive that the men they were attracted to were bad characters and criminals, or they didn’t care, they would have been better off being racist and avoiding those men because of it.
Nakagawa sounds like a Japanese name...and he referred to himself as a “person of color” in the article. East Asians easily outstrip so-called non-persons of color i.e. “white” Americans from Europe on average in education and earnings. Does this mean Nakagawa is a privileged “person of color?” I doubt he ever considers that fact. If white Americans were/are given all sorts of privileges over other ethnic groups, how did east Asians manage to succeed above those “privileged” white people? People like Nakagawa in fact help foster the racism they attribute to other groups.
Yup, “crying racism” has been so overused by minorities (mostly blacks) and liberals, that it has no stigma for me. It just signals to me that I’ve won an argument, because they obviously have nothing else to answer with.
Wayne Cochran and the C.C. Riders. Whatever happened to that guy?
The effect of endless media propagandizing and group think on ‘guilt’ over slavery and Jim Crow engendered by what is euphemistically called higher education and the cultural establishment (a film such as ‘Gone With the Wind’ would be literally impossible today) has brainwashed a large part of the so called educated white professional class into buying the myth of white guilt and into being just plain cowardly. This is true in the South as much as or maybe more than elsewhere. The sheer horror that comments I have made on the necessity for self defense and the need for white Southerners to be bluntly unapologetic for black problems today decades after the end of Jim Crow have engendered in a number of upper middle class white professionals is evidence of how brainwashed, weak and cowardly many of these people have become.
I think it is because it is so subjective and the definition is always changing.
You might be racist if:
You don’t have a black friend.
You don’t live in a neighborhood with black people.
Add your own.
As amply demonstrated before the elections and now from the Zimmerman trial. The persecution of Paula Deen shows just how hard it is to find white racism these days - it's been PC'd out of the vast majority of us. Black racism, on the other hand, is displayed daily.
I prefer to watch NASCAR over other sports, so that makes me a racist.
We have come to this sad state in America partly because far too
many people are more concerned about being labeled a
racist than standing up for what is right. Even those who
are not particularly politically motivated voted for Obama,
(some twice) just to make themselves feel good about
their attitude toward those of other races. My question
is will our country be strong enough to overcome this kind
of insanity?
If ya don't know what this is, ask an old sailor.
In addition, there are more and more whites who, after prolonged contact with blacks and black culture, have run out of sympathy. A LOT of people have come to the conclusion that blacks have only themselves to blame for most of their trouble.
If you haven't already read it, there was a tremendously informative and moving post on craiglist by a high school teacher who taught for a couple years in an 80% black high school. The listing was posted on FR a week or two ago. It was entitled, Craigslist: Essay by a Teacher in a Black School. It tracks well with my own more limited experience of trying to teach SAT classes to a heavily African-American group of students in Houston. The longer one is in direct contact with these people, the more one's sympathy for them vanishes. It's sad, but the experience is growing more common. More and more people just don't give a damn about being called "racist." Far from being based on prejudice, the reaction stems from prolonged, daily contact. Sadly, it just doesn't pay off to try to help the majority of blacks in this country. They must be to be left to their own devices until they get fed up with their own degradation and start changing themselves.
“My right wing Filipina wife is always asking these idiots if they know where the sun don’t shine.”
My favorite part is when mexicans think he looks like a mexican and they start talking to him in Spanish and he retorts with Tagalog. The look on their faces is hilarious.
My Filipina has been mistaken for Vietnamese, Japanese, East Indian and Mexican. She confounds them all.
There's no need to invent a new word just for them. "Racist" works just fine.
No, it's not. Those things result from individuaal choices. Nothing else.
My wife's uncle did something similar, replying in Mitchiff to someone who addressed him in Spanish down in Houston. He later explained he was Chippewa...(in English).
I get tired of being the screen the liberals do all their projecting on. It’s demeaning...and racist!
A lecture from a Nip about racism?
Priceless you son of Bataan prick.
Why are white folks the only folks we are allowed to dislike for how they behave as a group
When as a group they behave better and have advanced every single facet of human civilization more than all the other groups who we are not allowed to dislike group wise
Its like a cultural world war III against the western white Judeo slash...but mostly Christian race......a race without which the world would be stuck in the middle ages or earlier....much earlier...like rocks and no wheel ....for some
Is it jealousy?
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