PC Police: A New Low

[BassAle]

Re: PC Police: A New Low

seriously, if you cannot tell the difference between a Jamaican and a Haitian, then you have no right to call anyone else a "racist"

If you think that's our problem then you really are a ****ing idiot.

[FlagDUDE08]

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If you think that's our problem then you really are a ****ing idiot.

We're only recognizing this NOW?

[burd]

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no, it's just your sense of perspective that's inoperative....

seriously, if you cannot tell the difference between a Jamaican and a Haitian, then you have no right to call anyone else a "racist" because you are implicitly assuming that all black people are indistinguishable from each other.

Some folks just will never understand that "sandbagging" works in other venues besides poker. Your response reinforces the point I was making at the outset, you know.

I certainly don't know all you know about accurate racial and ethnic classifications, but a Jamaican friend of mine is a transplanted Guyanese who, like much of the Guyanese population is Indian, nearly all of whom descended from indentured servants brought over by the Brits, many of whom are muslim. This man, who was a professor at the U of West Indies, has commented on significant differences among Jamaicans. But that notion is, of course, impossible, or it would not be possible to so glibly classify them as one and compare them (it) to other diverse groups jammed into a single, one-dimensional box so simple minds like yours can more easily deal with them.

With all due respect, you are so full it . . .

[Slap Shot]

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I certainly don't know all you know about accurate racial and ethnic classifications, but a Jamaican friend of mine is a transplanted Guyanese who, like much of the Guyanese population is Indian, nearly all of whom descended from indentured servants brought over by the Brits, many of whom are muslim. This man, who was a professor at the U of West Indies, has commented on significant differences among Jamaicans. But that notion is, of course, impossible, or it would not be possible to so glibly classify them as one and compare them (it) to other diverse groups jammed into a single, one-dimensional box so simple minds like yours can more easily deal with them.

With all due respect, you are so full it . . .

It's pretty cruel of you to respond to him in a language he can't understand.

[dxmnkd316]

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I think all this talk these days about "racists" and "racism" is a bit over-blown; the issue really seems to be one of ethnicity, not race. For example, in my experiences through the years,

-- I really like Jamaicans a lot; by ethnic group they are tied for 2nd (with Jews) among my friendships. However, I don't like Haitians very much at all.
-- I like Cubans and most Mexicans; Puerto Ricans, not so much.
-- I like most Indians, but have not yet met a Pakistani I can like
-- I like Welsh and Scots, but English, not so much.
-- I like Dutch, but Belgians, meh
-- I like Norwegians considerably more than Swedes.
-- I like Poles, but Russians, not so much.
-- I like Hungarians, but Serbs, meh
-- I like Irish and Jews more than Italians and Greeks

and on and on and on.

If I could make an analogy from statistics, the deviation around the median for most races today is far wider than the medians are separated from each other. There is so much overlap, and such increased awareness of differentiation within each race, that "racism" itself is just too broad a term to have any useful meaning.

Are you having a stroke? Or did your keyboard eat a bad batch of sushi?

[St. Clown]

Re: PC Police: A New Low

Are you having a stroke? Or did your keyboard eat a bad batch of sushi?

I think it might be more like this: (NSFW - language)

[bigblue_dl]

Re: PC Police: A New Low

Eh, I don't know, he might be onto something when it comes to Jamaicans. They seemed pretty awesome in Cool Runnings.

[dxmnkd316]

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Plus there's the Anchor Bar. Or was it harbor bar?

[The Rube]

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Plus there's the Anchor Bar. Or was it harbor bar?

Harbor Bar. Great place.

[bigblue_dl]

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Plus there's the Anchor Bar. Or was it harbor bar?

Ohhh, The Harbor is pretty awesome...

[Kepler]

Re: PC Police: A New Low

I think all this talk these days about "racists" and "racism" is a bit over-blown; the issue really seems to be one of ethnicity, not race. For example, in my experiences through the years,

-- I really like Jamaicans a lot; by ethnic group they are tied for 2nd (with Jews) among my friendships. However, I don't like Haitians very much at all.
-- I like Cubans and most Mexicans; Puerto Ricans, not so much.
-- I like most Indians, but have not yet met a Pakistani I can like
-- I like Welsh and Scots, but English, not so much.
-- I like Dutch, but Belgians, meh
-- I like Norwegians considerably more than Swedes.
-- I like Poles, but Russians, not so much.
-- I like Hungarians, but Serbs, meh
-- I like Irish and Jews more than Italians and Greeks

and on and on and on.

If I could make an analogy from statistics, the deviation around the median for most races today is far wider than the medians are separated from each other. There is so much overlap, and such increased awareness of differentiation within each race, that "racism" itself is just too broad a term to have any useful meaning.

The important thing to remember is that we are all united in our humanity, and we are all far more alike than different. For example, in all your cases of people you like and don't like, there is one common characteristic you are ignoring.

They all don't like you.

[FreshFish]

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I have read about more than a few situations in which a 20-something woman marries and 80-something man. In every case, the 80-something man is very, very wealthy.


Sometimes, it seems like interview comments can be taken out of context, so that they take on an entirely different meaning when viewed in isolation, compared to what they meant within context.

For example, suppose you are a really wealthy man, let's say in his 60s, and you find many young women offering themselves up to you. You mention off-handedly to someone, "wow, I cannot believe it! it is so ridiculous, how all these women come up to you and offer themselves up, just because you are rich. It is amazing, you can grab them in an intimate area and they don't seem to mind at all, in fact they even give off signals that they welcome it!"

[joecct]

I have read about more than a few situations in which a 20-something woman marries and 80-something man. In every case, the 80-something man is very, very wealthy.


Sometimes, it seems like interview comments can be taken out of context, so that they take on an entirely different meaning when viewed in isolation, compared to what they meant within context.

For example, suppose you are a really wealthy man, let's say in his 60s, and you find many young women offering themselves up to you. You mention off-handedly to someone, "wow, I cannot believe it! it is so ridiculous, how all these women come up to you and offer themselves up, just because you are rich. It is amazing, you can grab them in an intimate area and they don't seem to mind at all, in fact they even give off signals that they welcome it!"

Slightly off topic...

Many years ago there were the Civil War Veterans' brides who I guessed married the old codgers for their pensions. The last Union widow died in 2003 and we're still paying a pension to a daughter of a Union soldier.

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/...ast-shot-fired

[unofan]

I have read about more than a few situations in which a 20-something woman marries and 80-something man. In every case, the 80-something man is very, very wealthy.


Sometimes, it seems like interview comments can be taken out of context, so that they take on an entirely different meaning when viewed in isolation, compared to what they meant within context.

For example, suppose you are a really wealthy man, let's say in his 60s, and you find many young women offering themselves up to you. You mention off-handedly to someone, "wow, I cannot believe it! it is so ridiculous, how all these women come up to you and offer themselves up, just because you are rich. It is amazing, you can grab them in an intimate area and they don't seem to mind at all, in fact they even give off signals that they welcome it!"

Are you really trying to excuse trump's *****-grabbing comment?

GFY and DIAF. And I don't want to hear any whining from you, seeing as you're so anti-PC and just want to hear straight talk.

[dxmnkd316]

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Holy ****. Get ****ed you *******.