Racism...Forever?

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  1. taosjohn

    taosjohn Member+

    Dec 23, 2004
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    In fact, the expectation that people will soft pedal its presence so as not to offend is itself a manifestation of it.
     
  2. Smurfquake

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    I can't tell who's the dude they're talking to. It can't be the President - not fat enough.
     
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  3. You know, this is what happens when you're not having prisons as a profit maker:
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wo...als-to-fill-its-prisons-as-crime-to-drop.html
    Netherlands doesn't have enough criminals to fill its prisons as crime to drop
    Crime will drop by 0.9 per cent per year in the next five years and as a result, prisons will be forced to close
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    A prisoner in his cell in Scheveningen Prison, The Hague, Netherlands Photo: Alamy

    By Senay Boztas, Amsterdam

    5:37PM GMT 22 Mar 2016


    The Netherlands is suffering an unusual crime problem: there isn’t enough of it to fill prisons.
     
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  4. KensingtonSC

    KensingtonSC Still Lazy After All These Years

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    If we’re looking to fill prisons in The Hague, I know some good people on both sides...
     
  5. JohnR

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    Crime rates are dropping all over the developed world, presumably due to demographics, that is the average age is becoming older. It's happening in the U.S., too, although I don't think we have too many empty prisons.
     
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  6. sitruc

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    They're getting new contracts to be detention centers.
     
  7. Dominican Lou

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    Maybe it's because there's less white people around.

    Seriously though, whenever I argue about crime and race with right wingers, I always bring up how the decrease in crime has coincided with the increase in the nonwhite population. They get really mad because they're the self-declared owners of reason and logic.

    I'm all, Facts don't care about your feelings. Less white people, less crime.
     
  8. Curious about a thing in relation to white privilige.
    I've seen a few people, adopted as non white kids into well to do Dutch families.
    They themselves turned out as successful people.
    Relation between it?
    How is that in the USA?
    Of course that whole wp thing seems to be very much related to the segregation syndrom of the USA, but I suppose it's also in a mild form present in the Netherlands.
     
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  9. So,
    How predictive has this been?
    [​IMG]
     
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  10. charlie15

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    Is that real?
     
  11. Yup. Stern was criticised for it by the Simon Wiesenthal Institute.
     
  12. American Brummie

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  13. russ

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    What will most likely happen is some current minority group will be accorded whiteness and its accompanying ingroup status.Just as the filthy irish and italians were.
    Its super effective.
     
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  14. JohnR

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    One third of Hispanics, roughly speaking, seem to think that they are insiders, although with Trump attacking anybody who has a Spanish-sounding surname, regardless of their origin, those Hispanics are fooling themselves badly.
     
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  15. It works as the GOP is fooling poor whites that voting for racism against minority groups is going to help them.
     
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  16. JohnR

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    Interesting how that dynamic is changed. Poor Protestant whites didn't like anybody besides Protestant whites in the Thirties, because that stuff never changes, but they didn't resent Eleanor Roosevelt's very public support of blacks and Jews. They still thought that Eleanor spoke for them too -- for the disadvantaged everywhere.

    The Republicans have learned how to use the wedge since then, so no more. Now if you help other groups, poor whites will view that as neglecting them.
     
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  17. dapip

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    I saw a funny CNN segment the other day: In a 3 way debate the democratic operative tells the GOP Latino operative pretty much, that he's fooling himself if he thinks once he's served his purpose the GOP will still back him...

    https://caching.grabien.com/c/streams/0654/BM7ldfIQsMg5RcSIn_fw2g/1563499381/654159.mp4

    Actually it was "White Nationalists will never love you", but it's about the same thing...
     
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  18. American Brummie

    Jun 19, 2009
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    Yes, that's possible. Or the concept of whiteness itself will be replaced by another dividing line orthogonal to skin color. Human beings like ordering and categorizing and we're shitty people so the problem will never go away, but it looks like we'll abandon skin color as *the* important thing eventually.
     
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  19. Smurfquake

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    But rest assured that whatever we come up with to replace it, black folks will still be at the bottom.
     
  20. charlie15

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    That was Steve Cortez....This dude is such a douchebag it is not even funny.
     
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  21. charlie15

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    I wish I could "like" that tweet 10 times..

     
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  22. dapip

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    Oh sh!t... that makes this even better:

     
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  23. JohnR

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    Not bad. The closest thing to humor that I can recall from The Occupant.
     
  24. russ

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    And replace it with what ?Secret handshakes?Stars on clothes ?Scannable microchips flashing your caste membership on a smart screen?
     
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  25. Pønch

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    Aug 23, 2006
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    And of course, he picked the absolute wrong last name to call her. If he wanted to cut it short, he should have gone with Ocasio.
     

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