LawTalkers - Towards A Virtual Williamsburg!

To this Average White Guy, "benefiting from" is not as bad as "fanning the flames of." And in 2008, McCain to his credit did more than semi-stop it (though I could be Not Right). And I don't think Romney did any flame-fanning in 2012, did he?

W in the 2000 South Carolina primary against McCain is the most recent flame-fanning in a presidential campaign that I can think of.

I think standing by and passively "letting" racism help you is an oxymoron. If anything, it is worse than pure ignorance. It is turning one "other" into a tool to use to oppress the first "other."

Did you just call me Coltrane?

11-22-2013 11:30 AM

Re: For Sebby

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Originally Posted by taxwonk (Post 484725)

I agree. "He's not like the rest of them" is just as racist.

Did people really think he was "clean" as in not corrupted by Chicago politics? Penske would say that's impossible.

Flinty_McFlint

11-22-2013 11:32 AM

Re: For Sebby

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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall (Post 484704)

I thought we kind of established that anyone who links the words, "articulate," and "clean," as some kind of compliment when referring to a black person is most likely an ignorant jackass.

TM

You're so well-spoken TM, I agree.

Did you just call me Coltrane?

11-22-2013 11:48 AM

Re: For Sebby

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Originally Posted by Flinty_McFlint (Post 484729)

You're so well-spoken TM, I agree.

Imma drop me a bomb today. I be Prez-o-dent!

Tyrone Slothrop

11-22-2013 12:26 PM

That there is an odd use of the passive construction.

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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield (Post 484720)

Yep, there are loads of racism deniers. I am alleged to be one.

By yourself, in fact.

ThurgreedMarshall

11-22-2013 12:37 PM

Re: For Sebby

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Originally Posted by LessinSF (Post 484717)

I have my McCain issues, but he did not stand al quiet-like here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?featur...&v=Xi6rIaVBacQ

I don't know why you're showing a clip from this year about Syria when I was specifically talking about his silence during the 2008 election. He stayed quiet while Palin and her (and his) lunatic supporters said the nastiest shit. He only spoke up, as far as I can remember, on that one occasion when that idiot woman called Obama a muslim on fucking stage in front of his face. That was so far into the campaign that his silence, combined with him allowing his agent (Palin) to stir racial shit up, had raised the racial bullshit to a disgusting level.

TM

ThurgreedMarshall

11-22-2013 12:43 PM

Re: For Sebby

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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield (Post 484720)

I get that. Blow's just a dull writer, and that obvious point kind of proves it. Yep, there are loads of racism deniers. I am alleged to be one. The more interesting point is, do some of the people challenging the view that racism is the cause of all negative impacts felt by minorities have a point? Are some of them validated by facts or data or logical argument in noting what is knee-jerkedly always seen as racism might in fact, in many instances, be other factors at work?

Now you're being an asshole. You have intentionally skipped over a nuanced understanding of how people are affected by subconscious bias (in both fucking directions) because you think the author of the piece is boring or whatever in favor of some bullshit that doesn't exist. "The view that racism is the cause of all negative impacts felt by minorities." That is a load of bullshit, even for you. You know absolutely no one who thinks this. And the fact that you're acting like this is a position that needs to be challenged makes me think you're a moron or a dick who enjoys being intentionally obtuse.

Everything else in your post is masturbation.

TM

Hank Chinaski

11-22-2013 02:05 PM

Re: For Sebby

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Originally Posted by Flinty_McFlint (Post 484729)

You're so well-spoken TM, I agree.

I won't be around forever, so I've decided to train you. First lesson, your post would have been funnier if you quoted something else he said that didn't include the "faint praise." That would have referenced back to this post of his. See?

In a sense you whiffed on your own joke.

ThurgreedMarshall

11-22-2013 03:51 PM

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Not Bob

11-22-2013 04:23 PM

I won't worry and I won't fret/ain't no law against it yet.*

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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall (Post 484737)

Everything else in your post is masturbation.

TM

Old skool or via those robots that Hank told us about?

*I'm bored with using lyrics from "Turning Japanese" in the re lines of posts discussing self love. Yes, I know Sebby's a dude, but "She Bop" is a great song.

Atticus Grinch

11-22-2013 04:26 PM

Re: Towards A Virtual Williamsburg!

I learned today that soup sandwich comes from the phrase "as fucked up as a soup sandwich," which suddenly clarified the origin of that name, which never seemed interesting before. Is this a regionalism? It sounds like an Army thing. Whatever. I love it.

In related news, I live in a daily fear that I will someday mention "Thurgreed Marshall" (the Supreme Court justice) in an IRL conversation and will have some very weird asplaining to do.

Replaced_Texan

11-22-2013 04:57 PM

Re: Towards A Virtual Williamsburg!

You know, bullying is a little more than "stick and stones." Fuck these guys.

Adder

11-22-2013 05:13 PM

Re: Towards A Virtual Williamsburg!

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Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan (Post 484752)

You know, I bullying is a little more than "stick and stones." Fuck these guys.

But hey, gave me a lot more respect for Anonymous.

And, of course, Ms. Laws.

Replaced_Texan

11-22-2013 05:18 PM

Re: Towards A Virtual Williamsburg!

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Originally Posted by Adder (Post 484753)

But hey, gave me a lot more respect for Anonymous.

And, of course, Ms. Laws.

She's amazing. I'm glad that there are people like her in the world.

Hank Chinaski

11-22-2013 06:40 PM

Re: Towards A Virtual Williamsburg!

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Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan (Post 484754)

She's amazing. I'm glad that there are people like her in the world.

2. And she is a great writer- lesson, this line: "One shot revealed her left breast." Helps you see the rest of the story and the horror 100% better than "One shot revealed a breast." Detail detail detail.

I had no idea people were hacking random people's phones.

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