An Open Letter to White Privilege

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Re: An Open Letter to White Privilege

Post by Tyrannical » Wed Jul 09, 2014 9:30 am

NuclMan wrote:
Drewish wrote:No, you're not.
Am so.

I did a cursory glance at the Wiki page on IQ and lo and behold, not a female mentioned in any significant aspect. There's also plenty of critique and controversy regarding the objectivity of the testing.
Oh, well why didn't you just say you read a wikipedia article. I guess you know it all now :funny:
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Re: An Open Letter to White Privilege

Post by NuclMan » Wed Jul 09, 2014 11:25 am

Tyrannical wrote:
NuclMan wrote:
Drewish wrote:No, you're not.
Am so.

I did a cursory glance at the Wiki page on IQ and lo and behold, not a female mentioned in any significant aspect. There's also plenty of critique and controversy regarding the objectivity of the testing.
Oh, well why didn't you just say you read a wikipedia article. I guess you know it all now :funny:
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Re: An Open Letter to White Privilege

Post by Gallstones » Fri Jul 11, 2014 3:07 pm

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Re: An Open Letter to White Privilege

Post by laklak » Fri Jul 11, 2014 8:25 pm

WTF is it with juggalos anyway?
Yeah well that's just, like, your opinion, man.

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Post by piscator » Fri Jul 11, 2014 9:46 pm

laklak wrote:Mutherfuckin' Juggalos, what the fuck?

Evidently, fat, drunk, and stupid is now an accepted way to go through life?

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Re: An Open Letter to White Privilege

Post by JimC » Fri Jul 11, 2014 9:52 pm

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laklak wrote:Mutherfuckin' Juggalos, what the fuck?

Evidently, fat, drunk, and stupid is now an accepted way to go through life?
It has a proud and ancient tradition in human culture...
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Re: An Open Letter to White Privilege

Post by piscator » Sat Jul 12, 2014 12:03 am

JimC wrote:
piscator wrote:
laklak wrote:Mutherfuckin' Juggalos, what the fuck?

Evidently, fat, drunk, and stupid is now an accepted way to go through life?
It has a proud and ancient tradition in human culture...

But it never really had a face...and a brand, and corporate sponsorship... :ask:

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Re: An Open Letter to White Privilege

Post by Gallstones » Tue Jul 15, 2014 10:02 pm

But here’s the thing about rights. They’re not actually supposed to be voted on. That’s why they’re called rights. ~Rachel Maddow August 2010

The Second Amendment forms a fourth branch of government (an armed citizenry) in case the government goes mad. ~Larry Nutter

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Re: An Open Letter to White Privilege

Post by Gallstones » Tue Jul 15, 2014 10:52 pm

SJW and Cultural Appropriation


The music at the end is pretty good. Bet the concerts are a blast.
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Re: An Open Letter to White Privilege

Post by Gallstones » Tue Aug 12, 2014 12:33 am

Fisking NPR about Latinos in the movies
Why Aren’t Top Films Diverse As The Real World? They Miss Hispanics
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The popularity of British/Australian/Canadian actors in American films. When NPR isn’t looking under every rock for racism, they’ve also done interviews about why directors love those types of actors for what they bring to the roles. Basically, these commonwealth types are sneaking over here and stealing our jobs!
Many speaking roles belong to the bad guys, and Hollywood is so scared of Social Justice Warrior’s perpetual outrage that they are hesitant to cast anybody who doesn’t look like Dick Cheney as antagonists. That’s why books that have Muslim bad guys have them mysteriously turn into white supremacists or some sort of pseudo-Blackwater when they’re made into a movie.
It might have something to do with much of Hollywood being scared of doing original things, and instead doing reboots and remakes. So if something stared a white guy when your parents watched it, the new version probably stared a white guy too. There are some obvious switches, like Will Smith in Wild Wild West or Denzel Washington as the Equalizer (I’m really looking forward to that one, because nobody does Retired Badass like Denzel).
Movies based on comic books make up a huge part of the market, and these comic books and their characters have been around for such a long time that they predate any of these demographics. Hispanics didn’t make up 16% of America’s population when Stan Lee was making these characters up back in the sixties, not that Stan Lee probably would have cared, because he strikes me as the kind of guy who’d say Shut Up and Enjoy Your Awesome.
Much more at the links.
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Re: An Open Letter to White Privilege

Post by Svartalf » Tue Aug 12, 2014 9:34 pm

mistermack wrote:I really don't see why Americans should be so obsessed with intelligence anyway, coming from the country that values it so low.

What other country would VOTE in a moron like Bush as president?
And anyway, intelligence is not one thing, that you can measure like height. IQ tests are bollocks, they only measure the ability to do that particular IQ test.

It's a completely sterile argument.
Compare Tony Blair and George Bush. Blair, whether you like him or not, is highly intelligent.
Bush is a moron. But they both put their countries in the same tub of shit.
And they both believe in invisible magic men in the sky.

How sterile can the intelligence argument get, when such a huge gap in intelligence resulted in identical performance, in running two of the most powerful countries on the planet, or working out that religion is a con?
Well, a supposedly highbrow country like France elected a complete nonentity like hollande president, and let a grammar murdering moron like his wife (segolene royal) be runner up in an election where we elected the sarkoshyt, who's not a highbrow figure either...

Is cameron that intelligent?
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Post by Brian Peacock » Wed Aug 13, 2014 4:50 pm

Cameron doesn't need intelligence, his ideology does all his thinking for him.
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Re: An Open Letter to White Privilege

Post by Gallstones » Wed Aug 13, 2014 9:20 pm

THE CELEBRATED ‘ROOTS’ OF A LIE
By Eric Fettmann
January 16, 2002
What’s truly amazing, however, is that “Roots” is receiving a reverential tribute at all. For while the miniseries was a remarkable – and important – piece of television, the book on which it was based has now been widely exposed as a historical hoax.
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a 1997 BBC documentary expose of Haley’s work has been banned by U.S. television networks – especially PBS, which would normally welcome such a program.
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Haley himself was forced to acknowledge, a large section of his book – including the plot, main character and scores of whole passages – was lifted from “The African,” a 1967 novel by white author Hal Courlander.

But plagiarism is the least of the problems in “Roots.” And they would likely have remained largely unknown, had journalist Philip Nobile not undertaken a remarkable study of Haley’s private papers shortly before they were auctioned off.
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The result was featured in a devastating 1993 cover piece in the Village Voice. It confirmed – from Haley’s own notes – earlier claims that the alleged history of the book was a near-total invention.
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Historical experts who checked Haley’s genealogical research discovered that, as one put it, “Haley got everything wrong in his pre-Civil War lineage and none of his plantation ancestors existed; 182 pages have no basis in fact.”
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The judge who presided over Haley’s plagiarism case admitted that “I did not want to destroy him” and so allowed him to settle quietly – even though, he acknowledged, Haley had repeatedly perjured himself in court.
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The Pulitzer Prize board has refused to reconsider Haley’s prize, awarded in 1977 – in what former Columbia President William McGill, then a board member, has acknowledged was an example of “inverse racism” by a bunch of white liberals “embarrassed by our makeup.”
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Haley’s defenders insist that the literal truth of “Roots” is less important than its larger truth; that, as Gates has put it, ” ‘Roots’ is a work of the imagination” that was “an important event because it captured everyone’s imagination.”

True, Haley’s literary fraud doesn’t alter the historical reality of slavery and its evils, or the pernicious lasting effect it had on America. But there’s a pernicious paternalism at work when it’s suggested that an ostensible work of history shouldn’t be held to account merely because its heart is in the right place.
Complete article at the link.


Treating people like children who don't know any better and can't do any better based on the pigmentation of their integument, "pernicious paternalism at work." In the very least.
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Re: An Open Letter to White Privilege

Post by Gallstones » Wed Oct 01, 2014 7:11 pm

WHEN EUROPEANS WERE SLAVES: RESEARCH SUGGESTS WHITE SLAVERY WAS MUCH MORE COMMON THAN PREVIOUSLY BELIEVED
“One of the things that both the public and many scholars have tended to take as given is that slavery was always racial in nature – that only blacks have been slaves. But that is not true,” Davis said. “We cannot think of slavery as something that only white people did to black people.”

During the time period [Robert] Davis [professor of history at Ohio State University] studied, it was religion and ethnicity, as much as race, that determined who became slaves.
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Although hundreds of thousands of Christian slaves were taken from Mediterranean countries, Davis noted, the effects of Muslim slave raids was felt much further away: it appears, for example, that through most of the 17th century the English lost at least 400 sailors a year to the slavers.

Even Americans were not immune. For example, one American slave reported that 130 other American seamen had been enslaved by the Algerians in the Mediterranean and Atlantic just between 1785 and 1793.
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The enslavement of Europeans doesn’t fit the general theme of European world conquest and colonialism that is central to scholarship on the early modern era, he said. Many of the countries that were victims of slavery, such as France and Spain, would later conquer and colonize the areas of North Africa where their citizens were once held as slaves. Maybe because of this history, Western scholars have thought of the Europeans primarily as “evil colonialists” and not as the victims they sometimes were, Davis said.

Davis said another reason that Mediterranean slavery has been ignored or minimized has been that there have not been good estimates of the total number of people enslaved. People of the time – both Europeans and the Barbary Coast slave owners – did not keep detailed, trustworthy records of the number of slaves. In contrast, there are extensive records that document the number of Africans brought to the Americas as slaves.
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The result is that between 1530 and 1780 there were almost certainly 1 million and quite possibly as many as 1.25 million white, European Christians enslaved by the Muslims of the Barbary Coast.
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While African slaves did grueling labor on sugar and cotton plantations in the Americas, European Christian slaves were often worked just as hard and as lethally – in quarries, in heavy construction, and above all rowing the corsair galleys themselves.
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