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The States: North Dakota is Still the Worst
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Kepler
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Re: The States: North Dakota is Still the Worst
I used to enjoy hot spices. Now they just obliterate flavor.
Try getting something spicy around here.
I've been asked, "You want Tabasco, or the really hot stuff?" The latter was Sriracha. That's good and all, but that ain't spicy.
I used to enjoy hot spices. Now they just obliterate flavor.
Re: The States: North Dakota is Still the Worst
I wonder how many in Worthington alone, pop 13k, could set him straight.
I wonder how many in Worthington alone, pop 13k, could set him straight.
trixR4kids
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Re: The States: North Dakota is Still the Worst
That part of MN is basically IOAW, had to drive through there this past weekend and saw a "stop eminent domain abuse" sign as well as one that said how windmills are bad from the website Greenenergylies .com.
Re: The States: North Dakota is Still the Worst
You get very far out of the Cities, and there is lot of "that part" of MN, as is the case in most states.
You get very far out of the Cities, and there is lot of "that part" of MN, as is the case in most states.
Slap Shot
I got nothing
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Not saying it's not bad there, but if you want to see Racism spend some time in the Middle East (it was effing atrocious in Bahrain), SE Asia, South Korea, South Africa, Nigeria, here in the PH, hell even Japan...
Not saying it's not bad there, but if you want to see Racism spend some time in the Middle East (it was effing atrocious in Bahrain), SE Asia, South Korea, South Africa, Nigeria, here in the PH, hell even Japan...
Kepler
Si certus es dubita
Re: The States: North Dakota is Still the Worst
Racism is ignorance; it's not a shock it correlates almost perfectly with lack of education (e.g. the South). The only highly educated racist population I can think of is Japan -- the world's petri dish experiment in cultural isolation. (They don't despise you because you're not yellow. They despise you because you're not Japanese.)
Racism is ignorance; it's not a shock it correlates almost perfectly with lack of education (e.g. the South). The only highly educated racist population I can think of is Japan -- the world's petri dish experiment in cultural isolation. (They don't despise you because you're not yellow. They despise you because you're not Japanese.)
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To be fair, the southern MN first district has some good diversity. It has Rochester, Mankato and a major stretch of Mississippi and voted for Obama while keeping Dem Walz in office for over a decade. The flip of the first and similar districts is why we have Trump.
To be fair, the southern MN first district has some good diversity. It has Rochester, Mankato and a major stretch of Mississippi and voted for Obama while keeping Dem Walz in office for over a decade. The flip of the first and similar districts is why we have Trump.
Slap Shot
I got nothing
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While lack of education can be an indicator just as often racism stems from a feeling of, "I am part of the master race" and is perpetuated by a lack of exposure - real exposure - to people that are different from you.
South Koreans (like the Japanese) believe they are the true master race.
South Africans don't think blacks have any value of any kind - nearly going so far as to believe they're subhuman.
In the Middle East a lot of it is directed toward the subservient labor workers who are mostly foreigners from developing countries. Maids and nannies have been victims discrimination for decades, there are reports of high rates of foreign workers having been raped, exploited, underpaid, unpaid, abused and overworked. HRW doesn't have nearly the resources to keep track and most of the abused are afraid to report their employers for fear of losing their jobs or worse yet increased abuse. Get raped and and become pregnant? Gool luck. Bedouins vs. non-Bedouins, obviously the hatred from one sect toward another....
Filipinos have no love lost for Arabs, Koreans, African Americans, Indians, Pakistanis and Sri Lankans and even toward their own if of a darker complexion, etc. The dichotomy of this is that for a nation in which the people identify as 95% Catholic the LBGT community (while completely under-represented by law) is relatively left alone socially.
Etc.
While lack of education can be an indicator just as often racism stems from a feeling of, "I am part of the master race" and is perpetuated by a lack of exposure - real exposure - to people that are different from you.
South Koreans (like the Japanese) believe they are the true master race.
South Africans don't think blacks have any value of any kind - nearly going so far as to believe they're subhuman.
In the Middle East a lot of it is directed toward the subservient labor workers who are mostly foreigners from developing countries. Maids and nannies have been victims discrimination for decades, there are reports of high rates of foreign workers having been raped, exploited, underpaid, unpaid, abused and overworked. HRW doesn't have nearly the resources to keep track and most of the abused are afraid to report their employers for fear of losing their jobs or worse yet increased abuse. Get raped and and become pregnant? Gool luck. Bedouins vs. non-Bedouins, obviously the hatred from one sect toward another....
Filipinos have no love lost for Arabs, Koreans, African Americans, Indians, Pakistanis and Sri Lankans and even toward their own if of a darker complexion, etc. The dichotomy of this is that for a nation in which the people identify as 95% Catholic the LBGT community (while completely under-represented by law) is relatively left alone socially.
Etc.
Kepler
Si certus es dubita
Re: The States: North Dakota is Still the Worst
NYS pretty much breaks down to urban-heterogeneous-liberal vs rural-white-fascist. Are the midwestern purp(ish) states like that or is there a different dynamic?
The South is very different. Some of the worst districts in the South have large minority black populations. The whites there know black people but are still monsters and/or morons.
NYS pretty much breaks down to urban-heterogeneous-liberal vs rural-white-fascist. Are the midwestern purp(ish) states like that or is there a different dynamic?
The South is very different. Some of the worst districts in the South have large minority black populations. The whites there know black people but are still monsters and/or morons.
FadeToBlack&Gold
Microlot Marxist
Re: The States: North Dakota is Still the Worst
The Chinese are also getting bad at this under their current leader. In Korea's case, their people, language isolate, and culture have managed to persevere through eons of conquest, oppression, and enforced division by both China and Japan, so looking at it from their perspective they may have a bit of a point.
The Chinese are also getting bad at this under their current leader. In Korea's case, their people, language isolate, and culture have managed to persevere through eons of conquest, oppression, and enforced division by both China and Japan, so looking at it from their perspective they may have a bit of a point.
Kepler
Si certus es dubita
Re: The States: North Dakota is Still the Worst
They default to that. But the upper midwest can be different. There are lunchpale and to a lesser extent limosine liberal enclaves in the nicer rural areas. MN has stretches along the so. Mississippi and the NE arrowhead region including the lakefront, the boundary waters and much of the iron range. Wisconsin's side of the Mississippi is also fairly liberal - but those places were largely lost in 2016. I doubt its permanent. IMO we just need a moderate D candidate to win them back.
They default to that. But the upper midwest can be different. There are lunchpale and to a lesser extent limosine liberal enclaves in the nicer rural areas. MN has stretches along the so. Mississippi and the NE arrowhead region including the lakefront, the boundary waters and much of the iron range. Wisconsin's side of the Mississippi is also fairly liberal - but those places were largely lost in 2016. I doubt its permanent. IMO we just need a moderate D candidate to win them back.
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Rochester HATES Muslims and Mexicans (that's the stereotype, similar to White Cloud, I mean St Cloud). There is a ton of racism down there, they are just quiet about it.
Rochester HATES Muslims and Mexicans (that's the stereotype, similar to White Cloud, I mean St Cloud). There is a ton of racism down there, they are just quiet about it.
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I will say that my Edina Nextdoor feed is perhaps the saddest, most hostile I’ve ever seen it. Two huge threads about the lake Calhoun name. Tons of old people saying “maybe we should change nokomis back to its original white name, see how fair that is” to people saying everyone is racist, and some middle aged white dudes telling people that it’s not a big deal and it’s dumb to honor the Native American name. It culminated in some dude telling someone else that both he and his dogs were ****ty beings.
I’m writing a large paper on the commercial sex industry in Thailand and how the government helped curb the spread of HIV in the 90s, so luckily I don’t have time for a ton of reading.
I will say that my Edina Nextdoor feed is perhaps the saddest, most hostile I’ve ever seen it. Two huge threads about the lake Calhoun name. Tons of old people saying “maybe we should change nokomis back to its original white name, see how fair that is” to people saying everyone is racist, and some middle aged white dudes telling people that it’s not a big deal and it’s dumb to honor the Native American name. It culminated in some dude telling someone else that both he and his dogs were ****ty beings.
I’m writing a large paper on the commercial sex industry in Thailand and how the government helped curb the spread of HIV in the 90s, so luckily I don’t have time for a ton of reading.
dxmnkd316
Lucia Apologist
Re: The States: North Dakota is Still the Worst
If people want to eradicate every name that is associated with racism....goodbye Mt Rushmore, national landmarks, etc. Use them as a teaching tool. Don't eradicate mistakes.
If people want to eradicate every name that is associated with racism....goodbye Mt Rushmore, national landmarks, etc. Use them as a teaching tool. Don't eradicate mistakes.
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