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Post by Deleted on Jun 2, 2020 18:23:25 GMT
Well, it was Chester. I haven't felt that way as much in London, but they are still awful White compared to the US, in general, and the Bay Area, where I've lived most of my life. At the end of the month, I'm travelling three hours north to a semi-rural area. You see a lot more White faces up there than the urban and suburban areas I'm from. Very Chester like. Once you get out of the Bay Area, it's largely White and Hispanic. British cities vary. London definitely can't be described as pretty white unless you're in a wealthy suburb.
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Post by sloopjohnc on Jun 2, 2020 18:25:37 GMT
there's a viral video going around of two cops at a Seattle protest. one cop has his knee on a protester's neck - just like the cop in the George Floyd case. this goes on for a couple of minutes. you can hear people yelling "get your knee off his fucking neck!!!" then something wonderful happens. the other cop TOOK the officers knee off the protestor's neck. www.salon.com/2020/06/01/get-your-fcking-knee-off-his-neck-seattle-officer-forcibly-removes-fellow-cops-knee-amid-arrest/okay, so the second cop saved the day. no doubt about it. what about the people yelling "get your knee off his fuckin' neck?" well, for all we know, they may have been an important factor in the second cop taking action. regardless of who shows up and does what and why; a LOT, maybe even MOST of the people showing up are doing so for one very simple reason. nobody took that other officer's fuckin' knee off George Floyd's neck.
we're coming off a lockdown and being told to go back to our normal lives as the death toll from COVID 19 rises steadily. recent events have been loaded with racially charged incidents. treating all of these people like hooligans because hooliganism is either present or likely only helps people like TRUMP and his supporters. they want to paint a picture that shows "those people act like animals" who really thinks addressing police brutality with police brutality is a sound solution? anybody? TRUMP and his supporters - that's who. I saw a video yesterday with Black store owners in Van Nuys. Their store was being looted and the cops pulled out, put the store owners in cuffs even though the crowd was telling them the looters were getting away and pointing towards them. Cops are fucking stupid sometimes.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 2, 2020 18:26:30 GMT
Yeah i had friends that didn't have to buy a pint for a week just because they were Irish when they were in san fran. When Kid P was here one time, I directed him to an Irish pub on Clement St. Kid P loves his Guinness and he was pretty surprised at the quality. He said it was the best Guinness he'd had on tap apart from Liverpool. You can tell a good Irish bar or pub in the Bay Area by the tradesmens' vans with clovers on the side panels. Just look around 4 pm or after. I wouldn't trust his opinion on Guinness then, US Guinness is apparently different due to your palette, South African guinness is bitter as fuck for the africans. Then we drink the proper stuff, of course.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 2, 2020 18:34:08 GMT
Isn't Nigeria meant to be good for Guinness?
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Jun 2, 2020 18:55:07 GMT
Here today, before you good, good people we have a SINNER!!
*braying crowd, angry shouts* Come here son and announce to the crowd how you have SINNED. Come here son, don't be shy!
*more braying and angry shouts...rotten veg is thrown* Man appears on stage, head bowed looking ashamed and deeply uncomfortable* What's your SIN son? C'mon! Come on! Be out with it BOY... I masturbate 7 times a day.7 times a day? Hot damn he's a SELF-FORNICATOR!!!! A wicked, wicked serial self fornicator! A compulsive player of the pink oboe!
*braying angry crowd reaches fevered peak...old man at the back passes out in shock* Do you renounce Satan and accept JESUS CHRIST as your LORD AND SAVIOUR? Do you promise to give up the pink oboe and give yourself TO GOD?
Man, overwhelmed by guilt and group pressure shouts... "YES! YES!!" YES!!!"
before collapsing to the floor, seemingly in ecstasy *crowd cheers, the formerly sinful man is now accepted into the arms of the willing throng* Man goes home, masturbates ten times
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Post by tory on Jun 2, 2020 18:58:38 GMT
I'm uneasy with the concept of "white" privilege alone. I don't doubt it exists, but the fact is that privilege will occur in any hierarchy, and all countries have hierarchies of some sort.
There's no doubt that in a society whose hierarchy is dominated by one particular racial group that has a certain uniformity to it in terms of language, culture and way of life, the idea of "privilege" will occur. This happens in the USA, it happens in China and I suspect it happens everywhere else where these things are apparent. Societies organise themselves in certain ways and when there are cultures that are distinct and to a certain extent separate, then there's going to be an element of conflict.
The Byzantine Empire lasted one thousand years and had what would be considered a very multi-cultural demographic, particularly with regard to its Emperors, indicating that this sort of hierarchical structure we have today based on race is maybe a somewhat new thing. They referred to themselves as "Armenian" or whatever, but there was a sort of supra-ethnic identity that everyone aspired to - being "Roman". This was despite them all speaking Greek rather than Latin.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 2, 2020 19:03:16 GMT
Isn't Nigeria meant to be good for Guinness? Yeah i think that's where that guinness ad is set where all them get dressed up in their suits and then dance? in said suits.
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Post by Sneelock on Jun 2, 2020 19:04:41 GMT
Man goes home, masturbates ten times only ten? humpf. greenhorn.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 2, 2020 19:13:57 GMT
Man goes home, masturbates ten times only ten? humpf. greenhorn. I'd say his horn would be pretty red and raw.
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Post by sloopjohnc on Jun 2, 2020 19:24:18 GMT
When Kid P was here one time, I directed him to an Irish pub on Clement St. Kid P loves his Guinness and he was pretty surprised at the quality. He said it was the best Guinness he'd had on tap apart from Liverpool. You can tell a good Irish bar or pub in the Bay Area by the tradesmens' vans with clovers on the side panels. Just look around 4 pm or after. I wouldn't trust his opinion on Guinness then, US Guinness is apparently different due to your palette, South African guinness is bitter as fuck for the africans. Then we drink the proper stuff, of course. I pretty much figured that was going to be your response. I've had Guinness in both the US and UK. To me, they tasted pretty much the same except maybe the British Guinness was thicker. But that could be my bad memory too.
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Post by ~ / % ? * on Jun 2, 2020 22:30:55 GMT
Racial inequity continues to plague America, yet many Whites still doubt the existence of racial advantages, limiting progress and cooperation. What happens when people are faced with evidence that their group benefits from privilege? We suggest such evidence will be threatening and that people will claim hardships to manage this threat. These claims of hardship allow individuals to deny that they personally benefit from privilege, while still accepting that group-level inequity exists.
Whites claim increased life hardships when exposed to evidence of racial privilege, that these claims are motivated by threat to self, and that these claims help Whites deny that racial privilege extends to themselves. We found that claiming hardships helps individuals discount the role of systemic privilege in their personal lives, despite accepting that group-level privilege exists. Importantly, this discounting of personal privilege is ultimately associated with diminished support for affirmative action policies — policies that could help reduce privilege and increase racial equity.
doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2015.06.008
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Post by Deleted on Jun 2, 2020 22:46:18 GMT
I'm not too sure about the context to the above, but personally I think using such generalised terms as that quote does - "whites say...." - pretty unhelpful and unlikely to lead to contributing towards a greater racial understanding.
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on Jun 3, 2020 1:12:42 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2020 6:52:20 GMT
You have a textbook example of virtue signalling right there - the fake emoting, the acting.
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Post by cousinlou on Jun 3, 2020 7:08:09 GMT
You have a textbook example of virtue signalling right there - the fake emoting, the acting.What, didn't you hear him say he'd been struggling all weekend? No. this must be real.
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