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RE: How does a white person in North America prove that they aren't racist? (serious)
(07-15-2013 09:08 PM)Walderschmidt Wrote: P.S. I try not to talk about race anywhere on the internet - no matter how good your logic, it never ends well. Better to pick other battles than waste your energy on ones over race.
Point taken.
See that's the thing, this wasn't intended to be a battle about anything.
In fact, I was just using PrimeTime's quote as a springboard to get discussion started, I have nothing against him.
I've never been accused of racism, sexism, etc. in my life that I can remember, and don't expect to have to deal with that either since I don't have actions, writings, etc. related to that. I also don't apologize for my opinions or back down from sensitive topics.
I have just seen posts and threads come up about similar things as a result of the Zimmerman trial and it got me thinking.
The same way I've seen posts talk about false accusations of rape, and what the rise of Feminism and PC Culture mean for us men in the future.
I'm new around here, so I wasn't sure how this would play out, but there's been some insightful responses at least, I respect that.
Did some viewing of old posts, ROK, etc. and just starting to grasp the extent of the history on this forum around inflammatory threads, or trolling topics. Understandable why this could have been misinterpreted in that sense.
Will keep this in mind for the future.
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RE: How does a white person in North America prove that they aren't racist? (serious)
What makes me laugh is that, and yes I know I do bang on and on about this subject - Zimmerman isn't white. He's a full blown Mestizo. That category needs to be inserted into the U.S Census soon. It appears in America a person's race is defined by their last name.
There are white people with Spanish names (look at Spain for crying out loud) and mestizos with 'white' (read: non-what WASP american's perceive as 'white') names. Fuck's sake this shit drives me up the wall. Don't know why really, as it doesn't affect my life one iota, it's just ignorance on such nationwide scale irritates me.
The media trying to make this a 'white people are all racist' thing is pretty despicable if you ask me, even if Zimmerman was a full blown Nordic looking fellow. Their use of that Trayvon-as-a-kid picture/Zimmerman in jail clothes is also utterly deplorable.
I don't know enough about the case to offer anything more than that, and my post is actually in the wrong thread to be honest - although this thread was about race so I offered this.
EDIT: To answer the original question, a white person shouldn't have to PROVE he isn't a racist. Not in America, not anywhere. Some people are racist, some aren't - all people I mean, not just white people. It isn't the media's job (although they think it is) to 'rat out' those who are.
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. - H L Mencken
(This post was last modified: 07-18-2013 01:42 PM by Teedub.)
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Walderschmidt
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RE: How does a white person in North America prove that they aren't racist? (serious)
(07-18-2013 03:42 AM)LeBeau Wrote: Point taken.
See that's the thing, this wasn't intended to be a battle about anything.
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Will keep this in mind for the future.
I know you weren't trying to start a battle. I suppose I should have clarified.
Generally, discussions about race on the internet turn into battles whether you want them to or not. So, in my opinion, it's better not to talk about it unless you've got thick skin and really know your shit.
You can't always predict how race conversations online will go - but if you'd be right most of the time if you guessed 'South'.
That was my point.
~Wald
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RE: How does a white person in North America prove that they aren't racist? (serious)
(07-18-2013 03:37 AM)LoveBug Wrote: Why would you want to? I say what I want, usually from a pro-white male perspective as that's what I happen to be. Say whats on your mind and don't live life with your tail tucked between your legs.
(02-08-2012 01:47 PM)Tuthmosis Wrote: New study: Dick fits perfectly into pussy. Some correlation possible.
(02-19-2013 12:21 AM)Nomad77 Wrote: The juice is rarely worth the squeeze in America.
(08-08-2013 04:31 PM)Sebastian Wrote: Which is more 'Gay'? hanging out in a sports bar with your dudes throwing bean bags OR hanging out in an art gallery surrounded by classy ladies?
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RE: How does a white person in North America prove that they aren't racist? (serious)
(07-21-2013 01:35 PM)numanist Wrote: Honestly, who cares if some dick-brain calls you a "racist". The word was invented by mass-murdering Red Army general Leon Trotsky, and it was used to browbeat the Eastern European populations for not accepting for Soviet occupation. Those same Eastern Europeans were killed in the worst genocide known to mankind, the Holodomor - some 7 million Ukrainian Christians lost their lives to starvation. If you want to read more about this obfuscated history, I suggest you read Alexander Solzenitzyn's literature.
It's interesting, it does seem as if Trotsky's use of the word in the History of the Russian Revolution (1930) is one of the first major uses of the term.
Here's the quote:
"Slavophilism, the messianism of backwardness, has based its philosophy upon the assumption that the Russian people and their church are democratic through and through, whereas official Russia is a German bureaucracy imposed upon them by Peter the Great. Marx remarked upon this theme: “In the same way the Teutonic jackasses blamed the despotism of Frederick the Second upon the French, as though backward slaves were not always in need of civilised slaves to train them.” This brief comment completely finishes off not only the old philosophy of the Slavophiles, but also the latest revelations of the “Racists.”
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So, he used the word to condemn Russians and slavic peoples for believing in their superiority as a people. Yet he has no qualms about implying that they're actually *inferior* when he calls slavophilism the "messianism of backwardness"!
But it seems that the word was used before Trotsky by some French writers. And from digging around it appears that the words racist and racism really only became common currency later in the 30's after the Nazis came to power.
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RE: How does a white person in North America prove that they aren't racist? (serious)
(07-22-2013 03:24 AM)A War You Cannot Win Wrote: Not to turn this into a conversation about history but Hitler is a considered a universal monster by everyone due to the holocaust. Yet, how come men like Stalin, Trotsky, Lenin etc... Get off the hook, despite being responsible for killing even more people?
Simple, Marxists have control over the education system.
Leftard moonbats would argue that Hitler's killings were deliberate, while Stalin was not.
Even if that were true, then it still means that Marxism dangerous, Nazis would be considered murderers, While Communism is like a fire that burns down buildings.
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RE: How does a white person in North America prove that they aren't racist? (serious)
It's more that "racism" (which Hitler, somehow, committed by killing millions of other white people) is now the greatest sin imaginable. So, racism + killing >>>>>>>> killing. In fact, racism alone >>>>>>> killing. In all seriousness, the average SWPL leftoid will muster incomparably greater righteous outrage at the utterance of a racial slur than he ever has for a common murder, or even for all the atrocities committed by left-of-center figures in the 20th century. It really is that ridiculous. And cynical. Nazism is useful as a weapon with which to bludgeon the historical people of this country; Communism is not. So, we hear about the former, not the latter.
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RE: How does a white person in North America prove that they aren't racist? (serious)
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