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Ever since the 1970s, the universally acceptable way to refer to blacks is "blacks".
"African American" is OK where the nationality is relevant.
Only in academia and in screwball nationalist circles is there any contention.
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Tue Jun 12, 2012 10:29 am
I say blind faith believers who refuse to critically think for themselves deserve whatever the UFO aliens have in store for them!!! -- JasonAristotle
Tue Jun 12, 2012 2:59 pm
Tue Jun 12, 2012 4:02 pm
Redskin heap big firewater teepee wampum.
Tue Jun 12, 2012 4:05 pm
Redskin heap big firewater teepee wampum.
Yeah, that probably wouldn't go over so well.
Tue Jun 12, 2012 5:07 pm
Tue Jun 12, 2012 7:41 pm
I say blind faith believers who refuse to critically think for themselves deserve whatever the UFO aliens have in store for them!!! -- JasonAristotle
Tue Jun 12, 2012 11:31 pm
Tue Jun 12, 2012 11:54 pm
A lot of the older union guys didn't like blacks much, though I wouldn't lump them with the KKK. Think of someone like Archie Bunker, but a little more realistic about his own interests.
I really didn't think about it until I read the WSJ article, and the only guys I personally knew like that were already dead in 2008.
I say blind faith believers who refuse to critically think for themselves deserve whatever the UFO aliens have in store for them!!! -- JasonAristotle
Wed Jun 13, 2012 12:09 am
Wed Jun 13, 2012 12:17 am
Thu Jun 14, 2012 2:44 am
I remember meeting a new guy at work one day. Nice guy. He was a white guy from South Africa. I got a real kick out of telling those who hadn't met him yet that he was an African American, then watching their bewildered expressions when they met him.
Thu Jun 14, 2012 3:23 am
Thats why science demands replication.
Thu Jun 14, 2012 3:27 am
Thats why science demands replication.
So, wanna fund that?
Thu Jun 14, 2012 1:37 pm
That I've decided is an euphumism for redneck cracker.
While waiting to suck the next dick, go fuck yourself, lefty-lib idiot.
Mon Jun 18, 2012 8:13 pm
Mon Jun 18, 2012 10:26 pm
Tue Jun 19, 2012 12:04 am
You're over 12 years late:
Track 4 of this one.
http://www.amazon.com/Kabala-Matthew-H- ... 586&sr=1-2
I say blind faith believers who refuse to critically think for themselves deserve whatever the UFO aliens have in store for them!!! -- JasonAristotle
A liberal look for signs of racism and guess what?
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Tue Jun 12, 2012 10:29 am
Tue Jun 12, 2012 2:59 pm
Just like most Indians I know are fine with the term "Indian". THough I will occasionally us the term "Native Americcan" if there is a chance that it will be unclear whether I am talking about Indiand from here or Indians from India.
"You see things aren't sequential. Good doesn't lead to good nor bad to bad. People steal, don't get caught. Live the good life. Others lie, cheat and get elected. Some people stop to help a stranded motorist and get taken out by a speeding semi. There's no accounting for it. How you play the cards you're dealt, that's all that matters." - Jigsaw
Tue Jun 12, 2012 4:02 pm
Nyarlathotep wrote:
Just like most Indians I know are fine with the term "Indian". THough I will occasionally us the term "Native Americcan" if there is a chance that it will be unclear whether I am talking about Indiand from here or Indians from India.
Redskin heap big firewater teepee wampum.
Tue Jun 12, 2012 4:05 pm
EvilYeti wrote:
Nyarlathotep wrote:
Just like most Indians I know are fine with the term "Indian". THough I will occasionally us the term "Native Americcan" if there is a chance that it will be unclear whether I am talking about Indiand from here or Indians from India.
Redskin heap big firewater teepee wampum.
Yeah, that probably wouldn't go over so well.
"You see things aren't sequential. Good doesn't lead to good nor bad to bad. People steal, don't get caught. Live the good life. Others lie, cheat and get elected. Some people stop to help a stranded motorist and get taken out by a speeding semi. There's no accounting for it. How you play the cards you're dealt, that's all that matters." - Jigsaw
Tue Jun 12, 2012 5:07 pm
depends on how much firewater was consumed.
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Master of the Bracket in all of their varied glory
Master of the Bracket in all of their varied glory
Tue Jun 12, 2012 7:41 pm
Hey ed!
Update:
Has Obama lost the all-important white bigot vote?
The Wall Street Journal
The WSJ column quotes Mike Lupica only to make fun of him, but I can see it.
Update:
Has Obama lost the all-important white bigot vote?
The Wall Street Journal
...
Lupica offers no evidence to support his contention that swing voters are racially motivated; he is engaged in speculation, or, to put it less charitably, racial stereotyping. Yet his stereotype, while odd, is not logically inconsistent. He imagines that the voters likeliest to swing against Obama are whites who overcame antiblack prejudice to support him four years ago.
Let's imagine what such a voter would be like. He's certainly not a white supremacist or a hater, but rather somebody with comparatively mild prejudices. We imagine him as resembling Archie Bunker from "Archie Bunker's Place," the "All in the Family" spinoff that ran from 1979-83. Carroll O'Connor's character had mellowed considerably since the latter program's origins in the early 1970s, when he declared: "We ain't got a black president . . . 'cause God ain't ready for that yet."
Presented with two otherwise equal candidates, Lupica's notional voter would support a white one over a black one. But McCain's manifest deficiencies outweighed that prejudice. Mitt Romney so far is running a far better campaign than McCain did, and Obama has a lousy record, so the balance is different this time around. If Lupica is right, there is one troubling implication: that the failure of Obama's presidency will reinforce antiblack prejudices by seeming to confirm them.
...
Lupica offers no evidence to support his contention that swing voters are racially motivated; he is engaged in speculation, or, to put it less charitably, racial stereotyping. Yet his stereotype, while odd, is not logically inconsistent. He imagines that the voters likeliest to swing against Obama are whites who overcame antiblack prejudice to support him four years ago.
Let's imagine what such a voter would be like. He's certainly not a white supremacist or a hater, but rather somebody with comparatively mild prejudices. We imagine him as resembling Archie Bunker from "Archie Bunker's Place," the "All in the Family" spinoff that ran from 1979-83. Carroll O'Connor's character had mellowed considerably since the latter program's origins in the early 1970s, when he declared: "We ain't got a black president . . . 'cause God ain't ready for that yet."
Presented with two otherwise equal candidates, Lupica's notional voter would support a white one over a black one. But McCain's manifest deficiencies outweighed that prejudice. Mitt Romney so far is running a far better campaign than McCain did, and Obama has a lousy record, so the balance is different this time around. If Lupica is right, there is one troubling implication: that the failure of Obama's presidency will reinforce antiblack prejudices by seeming to confirm them.
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The WSJ column quotes Mike Lupica only to make fun of him, but I can see it.
Tue Jun 12, 2012 11:31 pm
I'm trying to figure out what McCain's "deficiencies" were that would drive off the "white bigot" vote...
"When people thought the Earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the Earth was spherical they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the Earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the Earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together."
--Isaac Asimov
--Isaac Asimov
Tue Jun 12, 2012 11:54 pm
gnome wrote:
I'm trying to figure out what McCain's "deficiencies" were that would drive off the "white bigot" vote...
A lot of the older union guys didn't like blacks much, though I wouldn't lump them with the KKK. Think of someone like Archie Bunker, but a little more realistic about his own interests.
I really didn't think about it until I read the WSJ article, and the only guys I personally knew like that were already dead in 2008.
Wed Jun 13, 2012 12:09 am
Sort of unknowable stuff, isn't it? They are saying that a hypothetical group who behaved in a certain hypothetical way for certain speculative reasons, may not do so again for reasons that are speculative.
I love "journalism"
I love "journalism"
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Master of the Bracket in all of their varied glory
Master of the Bracket in all of their varied glory
Wed Jun 13, 2012 12:17 am
It wasn't all guesswork though... the guy made a measurable prediction and tested it.
"When people thought the Earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the Earth was spherical they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the Earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the Earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together."
--Isaac Asimov
--Isaac Asimov
Thu Jun 14, 2012 2:44 am
Abdul Alhazred wrote:
Ever since the 1970s, the universally acceptable way to refer to blacks is "blacks".
"African American" is OK where the nationality is relevant.
"African American" is OK where the nationality is relevant.
I remember meeting a new guy at work one day. Nice guy. He was a white guy from South Africa. I got a real kick out of telling those who hadn't met him yet that he was an African American, then watching their bewildered expressions when they met him.
Every so often, you just have to pause your video game and deal with life. - Bruce
Yeah, that's right. I quoted myself in my own sig. Fuck you, AC. - Bruce
Yeah, that's right. I quoted myself in my own sig. Fuck you, AC. - Bruce
Thu Jun 14, 2012 3:23 am
gnome wrote:
It wasn't all guesswork though... the guy made a measurable prediction and tested it.
Thats why science demands replication.
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Master of the Bracket in all of their varied glory
Master of the Bracket in all of their varied glory
Thu Jun 14, 2012 3:27 am
ed wrote:
gnome wrote:
It wasn't all guesswork though... the guy made a measurable prediction and tested it.
Thats why science demands replication.
So, wanna fund that?
If a Man's Retch should exceed his Gasp, then what's a Heavin' for?
Thu Jun 14, 2012 1:37 pm
Evolver wrote:
No racism from Hamster. But then, he can't wait to vote for Mitler.
That I've decided is an euphumism for redneck cracker.
While waiting to suck the next dick, go fuck yourself, lefty-lib idiot.
Mon Jun 18, 2012 8:13 pm
He's found a new obsession to supplement his usual obsession with matters anal.
 | If masturbation led to homosexuality you'd think by now I'd at least have better fashion sense. --Grayman I SAY BLIND FAITH BELIEVERS WHO REFUSE TO CRITICALLY THINK FOR THEMSELVES DESERVE WHATEVER THE UFO ALIENS HAVE IN STORE FOR THEM!!!--JasonAristotle |
Mon Jun 18, 2012 10:26 pm
How's the cowbell opus coming along?
Tue Jun 19, 2012 12:04 am
hammegk wrote:
How's the cowbell opus coming along?
You're over 12 years late:
Track 4 of this one.
http://www.amazon.com/Kabala-Matthew-H- ... 586&sr=1-2
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