Mother, mother, mother - there's too many of you crying.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

To the contrary, it's highly logical to make assumptions about people based on distinguishing characteristics.

Actually, no. That's highly intuitive.

(I'm limiting distinguishing characteristics to purely physical attributes. If one is wearing a burqa, Hasidic garb, or Oktoberfest lederhosen and pointed hat, certain logical assumptions may be made.)

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

Actually, no. That's highly intuitive.

(I'm limiting distinguishing characteristics to purely physical attributes. If one is wearing a burqa, Hasidic garb, or Oktoberfest lederhosen and pointed hat, certain logical assumptions may be made.)

It's both intuitive and logical to make assumptions, but people go too far. Cf. Gordon Allport, The Nature Of Prejudice (1954).

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Bummer.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

It's both intuitive and logical to make assumptions, but people go too far. Cf. Gordon Allport, The Nature Of Prejudice (1954).

My gut tells me that it is time to lay down some Meters for the Daily Dose. The logic is unassailable. A short little instrumental that once again shows that, when the Meters were really on, every note was intentional and not one was superfluous. "Tippi-Toes":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-7Uh_qVW5k

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

Racists are racists because they're losers. And we measure winning and losing in these United States of Consumption in dollars. Sure, there are some intelligent, successful racists. But that's very much the exception. Show me a guy who hates or blames an "other" and I'll almost every time show you a guy who's a congenital loser.

This is the biggest load of horseshit I have ever seen.

TM

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

This is the biggest load of horseshit I have ever seen.

Now, that's hard to believe. I reckon you've seen some pretty big loads of horseshoe in your day.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

This is the biggest load of horseshit I have ever seen.

TM

At a minimum, Sebby gonna post that, he has to account for Trading Places, and/or Trump.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

This is the biggest load of horseshit I have ever seen.

TM

I trust you're treating some of Sebby's long posts as multiple loads.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

At a minimum, Sebby gonna post that, he has to account for Trading Places, and/or Trump.

I am sorry about telling you to buy all those frozen orange juice futures.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

I have thought about this all day and have come to understand that you are correct and that your solution-to-all-societal-problems-ladder is not only spot on, but is actually blindingly obvious. The fact that our so-called politicians and other Big Thinkers have not figured this out and fixed everything already is astonishingly baffling.

I'd be the finest of benevolent dictators.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

"Besides partisan affiliation, it was cultural anxiety—feeling like a stranger in America, supporting the deportation of immigrants, and hesitating about educational investment—that best predicted support for Trump."

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics...utm_source=fbb

TM

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

I am sorry about telling you to buy all those frozen orange juice futures.

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/05/trum...dZPgw.facebook

TM

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

"Besides partisan affiliation, it was cultural anxiety—feeling like a stranger in America, supporting the deportation of immigrants, and hesitating about educational investment—that best predicted support for Trump."

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics...utm_source=fbb

TM

This is what they're afraid of: http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-...htmlstory.html

It's going to happen anyways, because:

Yet not all of the city’s changing demography, or even most of it, is a result of newcomers. Today, most of the city’s Latino growth springs from children born to immigrants who arrived two or three decades ago.

And it’s only going to become more pronounced. In Harris County, of which Houston is the county seat, 51% of all those under the age of 20 are Latinos, and 19% are African American.

What that means is a whole new dynamic, in which minorities are no longer seen as outsiders. “Suddenly these are 100% American kids, and they’re falling in love with each other, making multiracial babies,” Klineberg said.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/05/trum...dZPgw.facebook

TM

This cat is successful, no doubt. But a serious freak. I can't really use "loser" on him, but "fucking tool" and "undiagnosed malevolent Asperger's case" seem to fit.

But otherwise, yes, touche. There are some very well heeled racists out there. And some, apparently, who deal in logic. (I have to wonder wtf is in the heads of people like this guy.)

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

This cat is successful, no doubt. But a serious freak. I can't really use "loser" on him, but "fucking tool" and "undiagnosed malevolent Asperger's case" seem to fit.

But otherwise, yes, touche. There are some very well heeled racists out there. And some, apparently, who deal in logic. (I have to wonder wtf is in the heads of people like this guy.)

No, he's a loser. I suspect his soul will rot in hell, and that Dante, were he writing today, would find a place in one of the inner circles for him.