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That's Racist! I: Fun with America's Original Sin

Re: That's Racist! I: Fun with America's Original Sin

Kepler said:
Central NY! Represent! Woohoo!

The South gets all the glory, but there aint no racist like a northern racist cuz a northern racist don't stop!

No Surprise:

Rhode Island red. (petulant mafiosi; originally had "Plantation" right in the state name)
Appalachia (yeah, nuff said)
The great, green West (best in everything else, might as well rock here, too)

Surprise:

Minnesota nice. (apparently the only Minny racists post to the Cops thread)
Northern Florida sane. (almost every map of this type has that area in screaming red)
U.P. racists? (as if there are any people of color in the U.P.)

Full article.
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HEY! tDarkness (retired USCHOer) was a brotha! :mad:

And boy did we always get people wondering when yelling "DARKNESS!" at him in arenas and in public. :D
 
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From my personal experience, areas that are nearly "all" white are the least racist. If anything, a person of color is a curiosity, not a threat, and is treated quite nicely, not badly.

As has been said elsewhere, it seems like one of the roots of racism is economic competition, as members of both races are each trying to fill the same limited number of available jobs from a population of surplus potential workers.



The original minimum wage laws were explicitly and deliberately racist, as has been amply documented in many places. Thomas Sowell's work comes to mind, though there are other studies as well. I think most of them are behind paywalls in academic journals.
 
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FreshFish said:
The original minimum wage laws were explicitly and deliberately racist, as has been amply documented in many places. Thomas Sowell's work comes to mind, though there are other studies as well. I think most of them are behind paywalls in academic journals.
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It should be noted that Sowell is not an independent analyst. He has an extremely strong political bias and is classed as a pundit, not a social scientist. Having said which, I like reading his work. The problem with Sowell is whenever he writes about something I know about he makes critical errors and obviously cherry-picks his citations, and that makes me wonder whether he's doing that when talking about things I don't know about.
 
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Kepler said:
It should be noted that Sowell is not an independent analyst. He has an extremely strong political bias and is classed as a pundit, not a social scientist. Having said which, I like reading his work. The problem with Sowell is whenever he writes about something I know about he makes critical errors and obviously cherry-picks his citations, and that makes me wonder whether he's doing that when talking about things I don't know about.
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Sowell is by no means the only person who has written about the subject, merely someone who has popularized what other people have written.

One of the studies actually cited the justifications given by labor-union proponents of the original minimum wage laws, which at the time were "no blacks wanted," and one of them said outright that, since blacks were willing to work for less than whites, that's why the laws were needed: to protect the wage income of white union workers from being undercut by non-white non-union laborers.
 
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Re: That's Racist! I: Fun with America's Original Sin

Thanks to Shirtless Guy for this one:


If a man says it, he is persistent; if a woman says it, she is nagging.
 
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I don't think you know how deep racism can run until you've spent significant time in South America, SE Asia and the Middle East. And although I've only glanced through Europe I got to know a great many very closely especially when living in the ME.
 
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Slap Shot said:
I don't think you know how deep racism can run until you've spent significant time in South America, SE Asia and the Middle East. And although I've only glanced through Europe I got to know a great many very closely especially when living in the ME.
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The Iron Range, and in Duluth-area, racism is rampant, although it's more to do with Indians than Hispanics/African-Amercians/etc. And also Indians being racist against whites.
 
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I still don't quite understand why it is okay to have the Atlanta Braves, the Cleveland Indians, and the Chicago Blackhawks, but not to have the Washington Redskins.


I suppose the outcry would not subside if they were to change their mascot to a potato, eh?
 
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FreshFish said:
I still don't quite understand why it is okay to have the Atlanta Braves, the Cleveland Indians, and the Chicago Blackhawks, but not to have the Washington Redskins
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I'm guessin' for the same reason that you can name a team the "Rebels" but not the "Racist Wall-eyed Meth-head Yokel Bumpkins."

But you should keep explaining to people when they have the right to take offense. I hear that goes over really well.
 
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FreshFish said:
I still don't quite understand why it is okay to have the Atlanta Braves, the Cleveland Indians, and the Chicago Blackhawks, but not to have the Washington Redskins.


I suppose the outcry would not subside if they were to change their mascot to a potato, eh?
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Why is the Vikings team name not offensive to Minnesotans? Because Vikings isn't a derogatory term. The Washington Redskins would be the equivalent of the Minnesota Honkies.
 
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St. Clown said:
Why is the Vikings team name not offensive to Minnesotans? Because Vikings isn't a derogatory term. The Washington Redskins would be the equivalent of the Minnesota Honkies.
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But the Cleveland Browns are okay?

oh, wait, never mind.... ;)
 
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Good thing New Zealand's best rugby team[SUP]1[/SUP] doesn't have to deal with US political correctness nonsense....





[SUP]1[/SUP] the All Blacks
 
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FreshFish said:
I still don't quite understand why it is okay to have the Atlanta Braves, the Cleveland Indians, and the Chicago Blackhawks, but not to have the Washington Redskins.
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No comment.

Signed,
A University of North Dakota Fighting ... Hawks ... fan
 
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