By FreezePeach Go To PostIs Scotland nice?
White people got me drunk for a week straight for the free about 12 years ago, so yeah.
Edit: I feel like the white part in white people is redundant since we are talking about Scotland, but whatever I'm leaving it.
By Script Kiddies LLC Go To PostWhite people got me drunk for a week straight for the free about 12 years ago, so yeah.man it sounds beautiful. I wish i wasn't poor right now. :(
Edit: I feel like the white part in white people is redundant since we are talking about Scotland, but whatever I'm leaving it.
By Script Kiddies LLC Go To PostWhite people got me drunk for a week straight for the free about 12 years ago, so yeah.I’m Scottish and that’s just what we do.
Edit: I feel like the white part in white people is redundant since we are talking about Scotland, but whatever I'm leaving it.
By Weekev Go To PostI’m Scottish and that’s just what we do.
And I appreciate you for it.
More interesting is that I've encountered ZERO racism in Ireland and Scotland. Like, I thought it was gonna be awkward, but nope. A few people were even genuinely happy to meet a black American. So many questions that I'm sure I gave ridiculous answers to due to being perpetually drunk.
OT Community is back on GAF and we. are. locked. TOO HOT FOR GAF, BITCHES! This kind of hard work should earn us a tag on... oh, wait, nvm. This is way better than random personal grudges getting some communities banned in the past... we were blamed for allegedly ruining GAF and forcing a new policy of no controversial anything being up for discussion.
*cough*
Okay, I think I can stop screaming and behave myself now.
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Okay, I think I can stop screaming and behave myself now.
Fuck the GAF, seriously they are done, i even stopped going for the suicides. Was fun for a night but now im just moving on.
Donald Trump's xenophobia is the worst. This is the story of a man with 4 US Citizen children, in the country working and paying taxes since 1998, being taken by ICE while he was in the office filing for official permanent residency, and while being told he would get it.
By Randolph Freelander Go To PostDonald Trump's xenophobia is the worst. This is the story of a man with 4 US Citizen children, in the country working and paying taxes since 1998, being taken by ICE while he was in the office filing for official permanent residency, and while being told he would get it.Hell. ICE is enjoying ruining lives a bit too much. It's like the crueler they can make things, the the better. And people expect me to stand for the flag while lives of Americans and those with the American spirit are ruined in heinous ways.
Gees, i mean, what do you even say to this shit anymore? I'd hope people that knew him wanted to throw fists but this shit is so gestapo-esque who the fuck knows.
https://nytimes.com/2017/10/20/us/police-body-camera-study.html
Oh, so no actual consequences leads to no change in behavior?
Oh, so no actual consequences leads to no change in behavior?
By FreezePeach Go To Postno, but a bunch of poli-gaf are here under the same or different names! So yeah. Actually a dude in the Reset thread was saying he would be open to invites etc so check it out. But i recommend hanging here too.
It’s all good. I’m not concerned with where it’s at but like being around you lovely people.
A majority (55%) of white people believe they face discrimination.
http://www.npr.org/2017/10/24/559604836/majority-of-white-americans-think-theyre-discriminated-against
In other news, a majority (55%) of white people confess to being stupid.
http://www.npr.org/2017/10/24/559604836/majority-of-white-americans-think-theyre-discriminated-against
In other news, a majority (55%) of white people confess to being stupid.
By Randolph Freelander Go To PostA majority (55%) of white people believe they face discrimination.Unless not being able to say the N word counts as discrimination, I can firmly say that in 34 years I have never felt discrimination for being White. These people are off their rocker.
http://www.npr.org/2017/10/24/559604836/majority-of-white-americans-think-theyre-discriminated-against
In other news, a majority (55%) of white people confess to being stupid.
By Randolph Freelander Go To PostA majority (55%) of white people believe they face discrimination.
http://www.npr.org/2017/10/24/559604836/majority-of-white-americans-think-theyre-discriminated-against
In other news, a majority (55%) of white people confess to being stupid.
LMFAO. I know this may sound racist to some of yall, but if white people had to live with the stress black folks do daily, I'm 113% sure suicide levels would make Japan go
By rjinaz10 Go To PostHell. ICE is enjoying ruining lives a bit too much. It's like the crueler they can make things, the the better. And people expect me to stand for the flag while lives of Americans and those with the American spirit are ruined in heinous ways.
It makes it easier if you dot view the child as a citizen, but rather an anchor baby.
By Script Kiddies LLC Go To PostLMFAO. I know this may sound racist to some of yall, but if white people had to live with the stress black folks do daily, I'm 113% sure suicide levels would make Japan goSad thing is, I know people in real life that feel like it's Black folks that are the ones that have it easy. They're never going to understand because they so badly need to be a victim.
By Randolph Freelander Go To PostA majority (55%) of white people believe they face discrimination.What was the quote Obama said again. "If I watched Fox News, I wouldn't vote for me either"
http://www.npr.org/2017/10/24/559604836/majority-of-white-americans-think-theyre-discriminated-against
In other news, a majority (55%) of white people confess to being stupid.
Think this is related. They play a huge factor in this. Conservative media used to stick to "Christians are being discriminated against", and ranting about Star Bucks Coffee Mugs and the War on Christmas, but have now moved on to full on white discrimination. It isn't surprising so many think this way considering the stories so many are fed or how Fox frames everything.
By rjinaz10 Go To PostSad thing is, I know people in real life that feel like it's Black folks that are the ones that have it easy. They're never going to understand because they so badly need to be a victim.
And they swear black people are always playing the victim. Like nah, saying something is fucked up and needs to stop isn't even trying to be a victim or play the victim, and those that accuse black people of playing the victim vis a vis institutionalized racism are tacitly admitting there are crimes that they don't want anything done about.
Not to post something international, but this made my blood boil. An appellate court in Portugal let a man off for beating his wife because she was (allegedly) an adulteress and the Bible calls for it, even to the death.
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/24/559882305/assaulting-an-adulterous-ex-wife-doesn-t-merit-jail-time-portuguese-court-says?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=npr&utm_medium=social&utm_term=nprnews
Like, no. First of all, read the New Testament. Secondly, what the hell??
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/24/559882305/assaulting-an-adulterous-ex-wife-doesn-t-merit-jail-time-portuguese-court-says?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=npr&utm_medium=social&utm_term=nprnews
"Quoting passages from the Bible, and citing cultures where adulterous women are stoned to death, judges Neto de Moura and Maria Luísa Abrantes ruled that 'the adultery of a woman is a very serious attack on the honour and dignity of (her) man.' …
"Indeed, the Porto appeal court duo stressed that 'in the Bible, we can read that an adulterous woman should be punished with death.'
"It's a judgement that has sparked outrage over social media - many commentators complaining that it takes the whole issue of gender equality back to the Dark Ages."
Like, no. First of all, read the New Testament. Secondly, what the hell??
We got to have it all, even if it means taking the L, as long as we are taking it away from you. Superior, but also discriminated against. Don't worry about that mental conflict, k?
By Randolph Freelander Go To PostNot to post something international, but this made my blood boil. An appellate court in Portugal let a man off for beating his wife because she was (allegedly) an adulteress and the Bible calls for it, even to the death.
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/24/559882305/assaulting-an-adulterous-ex-wife-doesn-t-merit-jail-time-portuguese-court-says?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=npr&utm_medium=social&utm_term=nprnews
Like, no. First of all, read the New Testament. Secondly, what the hell??
International politics is fine. I prefer it actually. Been doing a bunch of reading on the Kenyan elections happening Thursday myself. It's a clusterfuck of massive proportions.
Just read this shit smh
https://www.hrw.org/blog-feed/kenya-elections-2017
By Vermillion Go To Posthttp://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/25/559950275/senate-kills-rule-on-class-action-suits-against-financial-companies
What's all this, then
Because we know that a deregulated financial system clearly works best. We have learned absolutely nothing from 2008. America's short-term memory gets shorter by the day.
By Script Kiddies LLC Go To PostInternational politics is fine. I prefer it actually. Been doing a bunch of reading on the Kenyan elections happening Thursday myself. It's a clusterfuck of massive proportions.
Just read this shit smh
https://www.hrw.org/blog-feed/kenya-elections-2017
That's absolutely heinous.
By Script Kiddies LLC Go To PostAnd they swear black people are always playing the victim. Like nah, saying something is fucked up and needs to stop isn't even trying to be a victim or play the victim, and those that accuse black people of playing the victim vis a vis institutionalized racism are tacitly admitting there are crimes that they don't want anything done about.My feelings on this are a bit complex, so please let me unpack it a bit...
I firmly believe that PoC are getting screwed horribly by institutional racism. I also firmly believe that most whites face minimal to no untoward consequences for the color of their skin, and anyone part of this group facing issues is largely hallucinating and / or victim of technological or economic disruption.
That said, I'm not a fan of identity politics and feel that crouching one's experiences and calls for action within the format of identity plays into FOX's hands because even people on the left use identity poorly, isolating themselves through action and language at times. "If you're not me, you can't understand me" - that sort of thing.
Identity politics, though, is useful in the sense of calling out early any inversion or corruption of more widely, deeply held American / national principles. Calls to those principles - various freedoms, constitutional intentions writ large - and tying of one's negative identity experience to them can be used to find common ground and coalition, even among those without those personal experiences. I believe there is room for shared outrage, especially on the left but even more broadly, even if there cannot be shared experience. I can never fully understand the experience of a black, lesbian, Muslim woman in our society, but I would like to think that I could sympathize and be suitably, politically propelled by her narrative.
And that's frankly what we need: To gain coalition on principles that a larger audience adhere to and support, even where experience cannot be shared, not use language that is easy to misconstrue as isolating or more cynically characterized as entitled or "playing the victim". Because we only ever get out of this trouble and push through these injustices by voting together through shared purpose and concern.
So long as people on the left foolishly use identity politics to segregate themselves from one another, rather than call on a shared desire for adherence to core principles, we lack momentum in casting votes. And that's self-defeating, dooming those who face real injustice to continue in that cycle.
Sorry if this seems a bit meandering, I just have real concerns that the left faces fragmentation as a voting bloc in elections where the right does not.
By Vinci Go To PostSNIP
Ok, so how would you frame ending the school-to-prison pipeline policy talk? It mostly impacts boys of color, so why would "most" American's care? If you don't bring up the "identity politics" of it, no one is going to make any real effort. When in America's history have PoC gotten away with just calling to America's national principles to advance our civil rights?
By Vinci Go To PostMy feelings on this are a bit complex, so please let me unpack it a bit…
Sorry if this seems a bit meandering, I just have real concerns that the left faces fragmentation as a voting bloc in elections where the right does not.
A bit? I think I get what you try to say in the middle part of your text, which is that empathy should be our tool to solve these problems, not putting up barriers or walls between us and saying "I'm right and you're wrong". The gay rights movement have been winning the culture wars based in large part because LGBT people can literally be anyone and be anywhere without the majority noticing and because they convinced conservatives that they wanted conserve a certain institution, but only expand it a bit (marriage).
But it's different for other "identities", like being black. Black people can't hide who they are and "stealthly" build relationships with white people without their "otherness" being in the way, and black people do want to change several institutions in a radical manner, because what they literally are fighting against is institutionalized racism or an institution that has serious racial problems (law enforcement).
There's also this myth that the Civil Rights movement somehow won over the hearts and minds of a majority of Americans and that's how the Civil Rights Act was passed in the 60s, when nothing can be further from the truth. Martin Luther King Jr. was very unpopular with a majority of America right even after his death. The Democrats lost the south for generations because of it, they lost the 1968 election (that, and Vietnam) and the Republicans took advantage of white resentment to win five of the next six elections in landslides after that. Even to this day, you can see those dynamics play out.
And a lot of black people HAVE been eloquently explaining the problems of racial injustice in America, only to get whitesplained on TV, Facebook, forums and YouTube comments. Colin Kaepernick's kneeling is actually a compromise. He started his protests by staying sitted during the anthem, but a fellow player who is a military veteran convinced him to "just" kneel and they both knelt after that. Almost everybody has forgotten that, and most white people still can't see anything beside a black man "disrespecting the flag".
My point is, yeah, sometimes some on the left get carried away and yells at white, cis-gendered, straight (male?) people that they can never be good enough and should feel bad always. I don't agree with that brute statement either, in part because there are indeed a lot of individuals who are white, and have every right to feel like they aren't guilty about everything that's wrong in the world most of the time, but guess what? They'll survive.
Thank you both for the replies. Let me first state that predominantly I feel that blacks suffering from ill treatment due to the way institutions are structured should look for solidarity and coalition with other maligned groups first and foremost. This may already be happening, but it doesn't seem apparent to me from what I see on television or elsewhere. The specific details of how other groups are treated may differ, even dramatically, but it feels like we have a lot of segments but little unity.
I guess what I'm concerned about is that the right is able to vote as a cohesive bloc - as they principally target all 'otherness' with minimal difference as far they're concerned. This allows them to embolden and heighten anger and resentment, and an attack on 'traditional America', and it frankly gets their asses out to vote. It doesn't matter to them which specific instance or subject sparked the flame, it's the appeal to defend against the larger movement (from blacks asking for X, to transsexuals asking for Y) that motivates the bloc.
To them, it's all congealed into one blob of otherness that they are fighting against. The details matter less - the fundamental concept propels them.
By contrast, I feel like we have a lot of fires but limited to no cohesion or unity across them.
And here's the thing: I want to help. I'm doing what I can. But I see a case where it largely takes one news network to stoke the flames on their side, because fundamentally what it's doing is easy as all they're doing is giving kindling to the same underlying concept. In our case, things are scattered across specific news stories and get drowned out by other topics.
Don't get me wrong, I know gerrymandering and the electoral college hold healthy blame for where we are right now, but I'm also concerned that there feels like so little crossover on subjects that involve people who aren't our specific people. This goes for me as well, though to a large extent I'm activated by what's happening to others.
For what it's worth, I don't get my feelings hurt when people do yell about white guys and how everything is our fault, but the attitude of 'they'll survive' is not a healthy one when you need them to vote for your issues too.
Also, I'm new to these sort of debates and apologize if I'm offending anyone. Just exploring this sense of fragmentation on the left and unity on the right from a voting perspective.
I guess what I'm concerned about is that the right is able to vote as a cohesive bloc - as they principally target all 'otherness' with minimal difference as far they're concerned. This allows them to embolden and heighten anger and resentment, and an attack on 'traditional America', and it frankly gets their asses out to vote. It doesn't matter to them which specific instance or subject sparked the flame, it's the appeal to defend against the larger movement (from blacks asking for X, to transsexuals asking for Y) that motivates the bloc.
To them, it's all congealed into one blob of otherness that they are fighting against. The details matter less - the fundamental concept propels them.
By contrast, I feel like we have a lot of fires but limited to no cohesion or unity across them.
And here's the thing: I want to help. I'm doing what I can. But I see a case where it largely takes one news network to stoke the flames on their side, because fundamentally what it's doing is easy as all they're doing is giving kindling to the same underlying concept. In our case, things are scattered across specific news stories and get drowned out by other topics.
Don't get me wrong, I know gerrymandering and the electoral college hold healthy blame for where we are right now, but I'm also concerned that there feels like so little crossover on subjects that involve people who aren't our specific people. This goes for me as well, though to a large extent I'm activated by what's happening to others.
For what it's worth, I don't get my feelings hurt when people do yell about white guys and how everything is our fault, but the attitude of 'they'll survive' is not a healthy one when you need them to vote for your issues too.
Also, I'm new to these sort of debates and apologize if I'm offending anyone. Just exploring this sense of fragmentation on the left and unity on the right from a voting perspective.
By Randolph Freelander Go To PostNot to post something international, but this made my blood boil. An appellate court in Portugal let a man off for beating his wife because she was (allegedly) an adulteress and the Bible calls for it, even to the death.Everyone has been outraged by that decision here in Portugal, even the church came out and said that the judge shouldn't have based that decision on the Bible.
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/24/559882305/assaulting-an-adulterous-ex-wife-doesn-t-merit-jail-time-portuguese-court-says?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=npr&utm_medium=social&utm_term=nprnews
Like, no. First of all, read the New Testament. Secondly, what the hell??
Kenyan election? Obama is available now, right? (I'm sorry if this joke has been make a hundred times, but I have no idea what's going on)
I hate white people. We're the worst. I think I'd actually be less irritated if we at least understood the inherent privilege and said "hey, sweet" and ran with it instead of just pretending there's no such thing.
I hate white people. We're the worst. I think I'd actually be less irritated if we at least understood the inherent privilege and said "hey, sweet" and ran with it instead of just pretending there's no such thing.
Hey guys, remember that mass shooting that made everyone say "Hey maybe gun modifications are gun control we can get behind!" Well, we live in 2017, so of course everyone stopped giving a fuck:
I don't even...
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/george-h-w-bush-actress-sexual-assault_us_59f05410e4b0bf1f8836dea0
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/george-h-w-bush-actress-sexual-assault_us_59f05410e4b0bf1f8836dea0
“He didn’t shake my hand,” Lind wrote. “He touched me from behind from his wheelchair with his wife Barbara Bush by his side. He told me a dirty joke. And then, all the while being photographed, touched me again. Barbara rolled her eyes as if to say ‘not again.’ His security guard told me I shouldn’t have stood next to him for the photo.”
By Randolph Freelander Go To PostDonald Trump's xenophobia is the worst. This is the story of a man with 4 US Citizen children, in the country working and paying taxes since 1998, being taken by ICE while he was in the office filing for official permanent residency, and while being told he would get it.That was a harrowing read. Fuck.
Flake wrote an op-ed in WaPo
In which at one point, he says
(Narrator: Just last night, Flake voted to take away consumer rights in a straight party line vote.)
In which at one point, he says
This was part of the reason I wanted to go to the Senate — because its institutional strictures require you to cross the aisle and do what is best for the country. Because what is best for the country is for neither party’s base to fully get what it wants but rather for the factions that make up our parties to be compelled to talk until we have a policy solution to our problems. To listen to the rhetoric of the extremes of both parties, one could be forgiven for believing that we are each other’s enemies, that we are at war with ourselves.
(Narrator: Just last night, Flake voted to take away consumer rights in a straight party line vote.)
By Randolph Freelander Go To PostOur poor, beleaguered president.
Get him a blanket and glass of warm milk.
I feel like something is gonna drop. My right knee is swelling so rain is coming as well
By Grahamunculus Go To PostBecause we know that a deregulated financial system clearly works best. We have learned absolutely nothing from 2008. America's short-term memory gets shorter by the day.
I mean, all of this stuff is red-hot fodder for ads attacking the very foundation of Trump's campaign promises to "help the little guy." Of course, Dem messaging sucks, so I assume it will get left on the sidelines.
By Fenderputty Go To PostI feel like something is gonna drop. My right knee is swelling so rain is coming as well
It is odd that something like this suddenly pops up. Not holding my breathe though.
My wife and I were listening to NPR Politics Podcast on the way to work, and discussing Flake. The guy seems to be against Trump based on his character/fitness, but still goes along with whatever policy is put in front of him. Disgusting. I'm not sure what he's trying to do except make his own reputation for being "the guy who didn't go along with Trump." (He did.)
By RumbleHumble Go To PostNot even a little bit surprising, but highly troubling anyway:When using the embedded feature, use just http and not https.
By RumbleHumble Go To PostHey guys, remember that mass shooting that made everyone say "Hey maybe gun modifications are gun control we can get behind!" Well, we live in 2017, so of course everyone stopped giving a fuck:I'm not surprised but this is fucked.
By Randolph Freelander Go To PostOur poor, beleaguered president.
Get him a blanket and glass of warm milk.
Cute coming from the guy who's son was caught talking to Russia for dirt.
Anyway, I thought Jeb was the one that ultimately spearheaded the dossier?
By rjinaz10 Go To PostCute coming from the guy who's son was caught talking to Russia for dirt.
Anyway, I thought Jeb was the one that ultimately spearheaded the dossier?
It was initially funded by Jeb at some point during the primary. Of course, Fox and the RNC and other right leaning outlets selectively leave that part out of their stories.