LUFTRAUSER
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I should have clarified: it was a school bus. This was from back when I was in high school. The person was another student; I don't know what their socioeconomic status was.
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Are millennials tolerant racists?
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It's an issue where you just don't see/experience things through any viewpoint from your own. If you grow up in an integrated area where the only ethnic conclaves are either intentional (immigrants speaking a shared language) or historical (Union/Confederacy line), you don't see all those other places where there's white people on one half of the town, and black people on the other. It's not going to be in a history book, you're not going to see it or talk to anyone who lives there, and you're going to think things are relatively ok, not understanding that there are massive systemic issues going on under you. Things like sentencing disparities and fines, the lack of any sort of economic help/reparations over the past 2 centuries, or voter registration laws aimed to reduce representation of the electorate.
NYCmetsfan
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They're less racist but still are. (I was just at a party where someone told me he doesn't like London because they're are too many imigrants)
I'll pimp this book again because I still think is the best book on racism in the 21st. But read racism without racism. I think most of the interviews and examples are from older millenals
They express anti racist ideas but have internalized much of racisms stereotypes
I'll pimp this book again because I still think is the best book on racism in the 21st. But read racism without racism. I think most of the interviews and examples are from older millenals
They express anti racist ideas but have internalized much of racisms stereotypes
Omega Ultimus
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Goddamnit.
Keep drinking.
What you cited doesn't even read like the diet version. It's more like the "throwback" cola.
Before, I thought when white people shirked off claims of privilege and issues that involved racial prejudice, that it was implicit bias. Now it seems more like full-blown conscious racism; denying that they hold racist attitudes are just attempts at preserving their own image.
It reads like colorblind racism.
NYCmetsfan
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Yep. Also known as symbolic racism in academia
LUFTRAUSER
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Could you please elaborate? I am having trouble understanding what this means.
I am a racist and it is safe to say that everyone here, or close to everyone here is as well.
For example, when deciding what neighborhood to live in, that is a decision that oozes racial considerations.
It will take many generations, of decreasing returns of racial improvements, for the world to ignore race.
For example, when deciding what neighborhood to live in, that is a decision that oozes racial considerations.
It will take many generations, of decreasing returns of racial improvements, for the world to ignore race.
LUFTRAUSER
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BreezyLimbo
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"Fucking Millenials"-Brad Shoemaker
Yeah..I find Millennials tend to be indifferent about things. Not so much ignorant, but they don't really care about things. Hell, I mean didn't MTV try to launch a campaign to get young people to vote because statistics or something were saying that young'ins weren't really voting? Either way..I agree with alot of the things the article says.
Yeah..I find Millennials tend to be indifferent about things. Not so much ignorant, but they don't really care about things. Hell, I mean didn't MTV try to launch a campaign to get young people to vote because statistics or something were saying that young'ins weren't really voting? Either way..I agree with alot of the things the article says.
Oh well those are just kids, and I was called a homophobic slurs by students both brown and white in school. I don't think race plays a big a role in this basic ignorance as you think.
NYCmetsfan
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http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_racism
Its racism which doesn't see itself through racial lenses but 'cultural' which always align with race
That's true of every generation- voting rates increase as people drop out of the labor pool. Old people are retired with nothing else to do- hence, they vote the most. (Same with well-off people- they can afford to take time off to vote when poor people can't.)
LUFTRAUSER
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Terrifying. I see this attitude everywhere.
I don't know if you're a millennial too, but we're definitely more apathetic than any previous generation. I think it's because we grew up with the Internet.
Yeah, I agree. Poor white Americans are absolutely not more socially tolerant than poor Black Americans. If anything, poor white people are probably more intolerant.
BreezyLimbo
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Oh, really? Hrm.
NYCmetsfan
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I could be wronf I don't believe studies bare this out. Poor white women are I believe the least racist. And poor people in general are more aware of racial discrimination
This is "extremist" Tumblr. I would even compare it to generalizing fanatics in religions as the entire religion
Well, I learned something new today.
Aeolipole, you should read Racism Without Racists: Colorblind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality. The opening paragraphs:
Nowadays, except for members of white supremacist organizations, few whites in the United States claim to be "racist." Most whites assert they "don't see color, just people"; that although the ugly face of discrimination is still with us, it is no longer the central factor determining minorities' life chances; and, finally, that like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., they aspire to live in a society where "people are judged by the content of their character, not by the color of their skin." More poignantly, most whites insist that minorities (especially blacks) are the ones responsible for whatever "race problem" we have in this country. They publicly denounce blacks for "playing the race card," for demanding the maintenance of unnecessary and divisive race-based programs such as affirmative action, and for crying "racism" whenever they are criticized by whites. Most whites believe that if blacks and other minorities would just stop thinking about the past, work hard, and complain less (particularly about racial discrimination), then Americans of all hues could "get along."
But regardless of whites' "sincere fictions," racial considerations shade almost everything in America. Blacks and dark-skinned racial minorities lag well behind whites in virtually every area of social life; they are about three times more likely to be poor than whites, earn about 40 percent less than whites, and have about an eighth of the net worth that whites have. They also receive an inferior education compared to whites, even when they attend integrated institutions. In terms of housing, black-owned units comparable to white-owned ones are valued at 35 percent less. Blacks and Latinos also have less access to the entire housing market because whites, through a variety of exclusionary practices by white realtors and homeowners, have been successful in effectively limiting their entrance into many neighborhoods. Blacks receive impolite treatment in stores, in restraints, and in a host of other commercial transactions. Researchers have also documented that blacks pay more for goods such as cars and houses than do whites. Finally, blacks and dark-skinned Latinos are the targets of racial profiling by the police, which, combined with the highly racialized criminal court system, guarantees their over-representation among those arrested, prosecuted, incarcerated, and if charged for a capital crime, executed. Racial profiling on the highways has become such a prevalent phenomenon that a term has emerged to describe it: driving while black. In short, blacks and most minorities are "at the bottom of the well."
How is it possible to have this tremendous degree of racial inequality in a country where most whites claim that race is no longer relevant? More importantly, how do whites explain the apparent contradiction between their professed color blindness and the United States' color-coded inequality? In this book, I have attempted to answer both of these questions. I contend that whites have developed powerful explanations - which have ultimately become justifications - for contemporary racial inequality that exculpate them for any responsibility for the status of people of color. These explanations emanate from a new racial ideology that I label colorblind racism. This ideology, which acquired cohesiveness and dominance in the late 1960s, explains contemorary racial inequality as the outcome of nonracial dynamics. Whereas Jim Crow explained blacks' social standing as the result of their biological and moral inferiority, color-blind racism avoids such facile arguments. Instead, whites rationalize minorities' contemporary status as the product of market dynamics, naturally occurring phenomena, and blacks' imputed cultural limitations. For instance, whites can attribute Latinos' high poverty rate to a relaxed work ethic ("the Hispanics are mañana, mañana, mañana - tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow") or residential segregation as the result of natural tendencies among groups ("Does a dog and a cat mix? I can't see it. You can't drink milk and scotch. Certain mixes don't mix.").
Color-blind racism became the dominant racial ideology as the mechanisms and practices for keeping blacks and other racial minorities "at the bottom of the well" changed. I have argued elsewhere that contemporary racial inequality is reproduced through "new racism" practices that are subtle, institutional, and apparently nonracial. In contrast to the Jim Crow era, where racial inequality was enforced through overt means (e.g., signs saying "No Niggers Welcome Here" or shotgun diplomacy at the voting booth), today racial practices operate in a "now you see it, now you don't" fashion. For example, residential segregation, which is almost as high today as it was in the past, is no longer accomplished through overtly discriminatory practices. Instead, covert behaviors such as not showing all available units, steering minorities and whites into certain neighborhoods, quoting higher rents or prices to minority applicants, or not advertising units at all are the weapons of choice to maintain separate communities. In the economic field, "smiling face" discrimination ("We don't have jobs now, but please check later"), advertising job openings in mostly white networks and ethnic newspapers, and steering highly educated people of color into poorly remunerated jobs or jobs with limited opportunities for mobility are the new ways of keeping minorities in a secondary position. Politically, although the civil rights struggles have helped remove many of the obstacles for the electoral participation of people of color, "racial gerrymandering, multimember legislative districts, election runoffs, annexation of predominately white areas, at-large district elections, and anti-single-shot devices (disallowing concentrating votes in one or two candidates in cities using at-large elections) have become standard practices to disenfranchise" people of color. Whether in banks, restaurants, school admissions, or housing transactions, the maintenance of white privilege is done in a way that defies facile racial readings. Hence, the contours of color-blind racism fit America's new racism quite well.
Compared to Jim Crow racism, the ideology of color blindness seems like "racism lite." Instead of relying on name calling (niggers, spics, chinks), color-blind racism otherizes softly ("these people are human, too"); instead of proclaiming that God placed minorities in the world in a servile position, it suggests they are behind because they do not work hard enough; instead of viewing interracial marriage as wrong on a straight racial basis, it regards it as "problematic" because of concerns over children, location, or the extra burden it places in couples. Yet this new ideology has become a formidable political tool for the maintenance of the racial order. Much as Jim Crow racism served as the glue for defending a brutal and overt system of racial oppression in the pre-civil rights era, color-blind racism serves today as the ideological armor for a covert and institutionalized system in the post-civil rights era. And the beauty of this new ideology is that it aids in the maintenance of white privilege without fanfare, without naming those who it subjects and those who it rewards. It allows a president to state things such as, "I strongly support diversity of all kinds, including racial diversity in higher education," yet at the same time characterize the University of Michigan's affirmative action program as "flawed" and "discriminatory" against whites. Thus whites enunciate positions that safeguard their racial interests without sounding "racist." Shielded by color blindness, whites can express resentment toward minorities; criticize their morality, values, and work ethic; and even claim to be victims of "reverse racism." This is the thesis I will defend in this book to explain the curious enigma of "racism without racists."
But regardless of whites' "sincere fictions," racial considerations shade almost everything in America. Blacks and dark-skinned racial minorities lag well behind whites in virtually every area of social life; they are about three times more likely to be poor than whites, earn about 40 percent less than whites, and have about an eighth of the net worth that whites have. They also receive an inferior education compared to whites, even when they attend integrated institutions. In terms of housing, black-owned units comparable to white-owned ones are valued at 35 percent less. Blacks and Latinos also have less access to the entire housing market because whites, through a variety of exclusionary practices by white realtors and homeowners, have been successful in effectively limiting their entrance into many neighborhoods. Blacks receive impolite treatment in stores, in restraints, and in a host of other commercial transactions. Researchers have also documented that blacks pay more for goods such as cars and houses than do whites. Finally, blacks and dark-skinned Latinos are the targets of racial profiling by the police, which, combined with the highly racialized criminal court system, guarantees their over-representation among those arrested, prosecuted, incarcerated, and if charged for a capital crime, executed. Racial profiling on the highways has become such a prevalent phenomenon that a term has emerged to describe it: driving while black. In short, blacks and most minorities are "at the bottom of the well."
How is it possible to have this tremendous degree of racial inequality in a country where most whites claim that race is no longer relevant? More importantly, how do whites explain the apparent contradiction between their professed color blindness and the United States' color-coded inequality? In this book, I have attempted to answer both of these questions. I contend that whites have developed powerful explanations - which have ultimately become justifications - for contemporary racial inequality that exculpate them for any responsibility for the status of people of color. These explanations emanate from a new racial ideology that I label colorblind racism. This ideology, which acquired cohesiveness and dominance in the late 1960s, explains contemorary racial inequality as the outcome of nonracial dynamics. Whereas Jim Crow explained blacks' social standing as the result of their biological and moral inferiority, color-blind racism avoids such facile arguments. Instead, whites rationalize minorities' contemporary status as the product of market dynamics, naturally occurring phenomena, and blacks' imputed cultural limitations. For instance, whites can attribute Latinos' high poverty rate to a relaxed work ethic ("the Hispanics are mañana, mañana, mañana - tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow") or residential segregation as the result of natural tendencies among groups ("Does a dog and a cat mix? I can't see it. You can't drink milk and scotch. Certain mixes don't mix.").
Color-blind racism became the dominant racial ideology as the mechanisms and practices for keeping blacks and other racial minorities "at the bottom of the well" changed. I have argued elsewhere that contemporary racial inequality is reproduced through "new racism" practices that are subtle, institutional, and apparently nonracial. In contrast to the Jim Crow era, where racial inequality was enforced through overt means (e.g., signs saying "No Niggers Welcome Here" or shotgun diplomacy at the voting booth), today racial practices operate in a "now you see it, now you don't" fashion. For example, residential segregation, which is almost as high today as it was in the past, is no longer accomplished through overtly discriminatory practices. Instead, covert behaviors such as not showing all available units, steering minorities and whites into certain neighborhoods, quoting higher rents or prices to minority applicants, or not advertising units at all are the weapons of choice to maintain separate communities. In the economic field, "smiling face" discrimination ("We don't have jobs now, but please check later"), advertising job openings in mostly white networks and ethnic newspapers, and steering highly educated people of color into poorly remunerated jobs or jobs with limited opportunities for mobility are the new ways of keeping minorities in a secondary position. Politically, although the civil rights struggles have helped remove many of the obstacles for the electoral participation of people of color, "racial gerrymandering, multimember legislative districts, election runoffs, annexation of predominately white areas, at-large district elections, and anti-single-shot devices (disallowing concentrating votes in one or two candidates in cities using at-large elections) have become standard practices to disenfranchise" people of color. Whether in banks, restaurants, school admissions, or housing transactions, the maintenance of white privilege is done in a way that defies facile racial readings. Hence, the contours of color-blind racism fit America's new racism quite well.
Compared to Jim Crow racism, the ideology of color blindness seems like "racism lite." Instead of relying on name calling (niggers, spics, chinks), color-blind racism otherizes softly ("these people are human, too"); instead of proclaiming that God placed minorities in the world in a servile position, it suggests they are behind because they do not work hard enough; instead of viewing interracial marriage as wrong on a straight racial basis, it regards it as "problematic" because of concerns over children, location, or the extra burden it places in couples. Yet this new ideology has become a formidable political tool for the maintenance of the racial order. Much as Jim Crow racism served as the glue for defending a brutal and overt system of racial oppression in the pre-civil rights era, color-blind racism serves today as the ideological armor for a covert and institutionalized system in the post-civil rights era. And the beauty of this new ideology is that it aids in the maintenance of white privilege without fanfare, without naming those who it subjects and those who it rewards. It allows a president to state things such as, "I strongly support diversity of all kinds, including racial diversity in higher education," yet at the same time characterize the University of Michigan's affirmative action program as "flawed" and "discriminatory" against whites. Thus whites enunciate positions that safeguard their racial interests without sounding "racist." Shielded by color blindness, whites can express resentment toward minorities; criticize their morality, values, and work ethic; and even claim to be victims of "reverse racism." This is the thesis I will defend in this book to explain the curious enigma of "racism without racists."
And yes, you see it everywhere.
How would that even be measured?
BeatResetsTheWorld
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I definitely see this as the most prevalant type of racism nowadays
Omega Ultimus
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Yeah, I was considering touching upon that in my post, as well.
It's just hard for me to fathom how one can hold such doublethink-esque views on racism, and not have ulterior beliefs.
Edit: Mumei, you're well-read on the subject, would you mind explaining if this type of thinking is mainly covert, or genuine? Both?
LUFTRAUSER
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I know, but these extremists are often used as an example to incite or justify hatred, similarly to how people use terrorism to justify hating Muslims.
Can you source that? I was mostly thinking of homophobia and transphobia, though.
Here's a (somewhat) recent article that goes further into depth about "Racism without racists" or "Diet Racism" as some call it:
http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/26/us/ferguson-racism-or-racial-bias/
http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/26/us/ferguson-racism-or-racial-bias/
NYCmetsfan
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I believe it was from racism with out racists. He found white women from lower incomes were more aware of the racism behind many of colorblind racisms ideas (Black's lack of work ethic for example). Obviously this varies depending on the region of the country but my guess would be it holds pretty well even in places like the south.
NYCmetsfan
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Considering i think it was you in my lurking days (along with being privileged enough to take a class with Melissa Harris Perry in college) that got me reading that book and being much more cognizant of racial issues, I'll call us even
Can also be a case of let's say the naughty things we can't say in real life in this anonymous (kind of) setting.
Less about the actual meaning or intent of the words, more so the shock value of saying the words in this time we live.
Not to say some are not fully paid up racists, but like most young and silly people, they like to say and do what they are told not to.
Byakuya769
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Soft excuse for the behavior. As gender/racial terms are spewed, you're intimately aware that their impact is heavier than what you could have said for insults towards a white male. Playing that game, you may not be a hate-monger. But you're certainly a little racist shit, fully comfortable with using a position of privilege to lob charged salvos of attacks against those you feel are lower than you.
AwesomePossum
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im poor, but i dream. am i racist
Ampersands
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I think big picture racism and institutional racism are less underdstood among the younger generation. That may be because they haven't experienced blatant racism firsthand.
I don't think this is necessarily a bad thing because, on a small-scale, it is a step in the right direction. Once this generation grows, hopefully the racism that we're used to won't be as ingrained in society.
I don't think this is necessarily a bad thing because, on a small-scale, it is a step in the right direction. Once this generation grows, hopefully the racism that we're used to won't be as ingrained in society.
I find things like this super weird... A story about a racist and the response itself crazy.
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There are other stories posted around the same 14hr mark with nowhere near the number of comments. A staggering amount of which defend the guy. It's fucking bizarre to just poke around that site and see things like this. I'd imagine it's places like stormfront taking part but shit man... Even if that site has hit that Facebook-esque saturation point it's still crazy to see.
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There are other stories posted around the same 14hr mark with nowhere near the number of comments. A staggering amount of which defend the guy. It's fucking bizarre to just poke around that site and see things like this. I'd imagine it's places like stormfront taking part but shit man... Even if that site has hit that Facebook-esque saturation point it's still crazy to see.
Well, what I think about their sincerity would be based on my impressions and not necessarily what I've read. Anyway, my impression is that most people adopt the dominant frame for understanding race in whatever community they belong to, and then they adopt the same rhetorical strategies for making sense of racial phenomena. This is why the author of that book was able to identify four frames (abstract liberalism, naturalization, cultural racism, and minimization of racism) through which people, especially white people, use to interpret race. For instance, segregation might be interpreted in terms of naturalization - that is, framing segregation as a natural or inevitable result. Or one might express one's opposition to affirmative action in the form of appeals to abstract liberalism (abstract in the sense that the liberalism is made without reference to the realities of race in the real world), by arguing for equal opportunity or individual choice. Or one might try to explain black people's socioeconomic status not in terms of biological, immutable inferiority, but based upon some cultural deficiency, perhaps framed as a "culture of poverty." The use of these frames was nearly universal among white people, though it is true, as APKmetsfan said, that lower-class white women were the most likely to avoid those frames or made less use of them, and black people's use of those frames was different than white people's. But I think that the point of the book was qualitative analysis of how people thought about and talked about these issues, rather than quantitative attempt to determine whether X group of people are more racist than another.
The point is that each of these explanations purports to explain racial phenomena while not including race as part of the problem. I don't think people are being insincere by making those arguments. I think that colorblindness allows whites in particular to start from the premise that we now have a meritocracy, which leads to the conclusion that being of a particular race has little or no bearing on a person's place in American society. But in order to explain, for instance, why there is a wealth gap, or why we have segregation, a person with this ideological perspective makes reference to those frames.
tl;dr: I think the explanations are genuine and not just covert attempts to hide their racism. I also think that is part of what makes it insidious; it allows people to defend racial privilege without being aware that they are defending racial privilege, and to excuse racism without realizing that's what they are doing - and makes it easier for people who know exactly what they are doing to work within those socially acceptable confines.
Byakuya769
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Shut up and eat some pizza.
Man-is-Obsolete
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It's weird sometimes, I have been in positions prior where I am with a person of the millennial age and racial slurs are used among their friends and coming through as texts on the phone I am helping them with right in front of them. I don't think they are racists at all, in fact the person on the other end may not even be white themselves. I think millennials just don't see things as black and white as other generations and don't put as much meaning into individual words. Maybe this is what Chappelle wanted all along, for these words to become so commonplace in our language that they lose all meaning.
Also for all the faults of the internet I believe it has and will continue to break down many socioeconomic barriers that other generations just didn't have access to at the time. Think about it, a kid growing up in a tough environment in the 80's or even mid to late 90's knew nothing else but that environment. Today the internet is accessible in nearly every home and definitely at schools and libraries, and that gives those kids information on how they are not alone and that is not how things should be and inevitably find their way out. Even finding a job for a troubled High School graduate has become easier because of the internet, instead of just a local paper they have access to national job sites. Nothing is more empowering than knowledge, the worst communities, parents, leaders, etc try their best to suppress it, and the readily available access to the internet completely undermines their attempts. "You'll never be able to..." *Googles how to*, that is tremendous empowerment that just didn't exist before, or required way more effort or even having leave the house to go to a library that maybe those parent(s) wouldn't allow in the first place. Hopefully now that a generation went most of their life with access to the internet and this next will have it from the start many of the socioeconomic barriers, that also leads to racism, will begin to fall.
Also for all the faults of the internet I believe it has and will continue to break down many socioeconomic barriers that other generations just didn't have access to at the time. Think about it, a kid growing up in a tough environment in the 80's or even mid to late 90's knew nothing else but that environment. Today the internet is accessible in nearly every home and definitely at schools and libraries, and that gives those kids information on how they are not alone and that is not how things should be and inevitably find their way out. Even finding a job for a troubled High School graduate has become easier because of the internet, instead of just a local paper they have access to national job sites. Nothing is more empowering than knowledge, the worst communities, parents, leaders, etc try their best to suppress it, and the readily available access to the internet completely undermines their attempts. "You'll never be able to..." *Googles how to*, that is tremendous empowerment that just didn't exist before, or required way more effort or even having leave the house to go to a library that maybe those parent(s) wouldn't allow in the first place. Hopefully now that a generation went most of their life with access to the internet and this next will have it from the start many of the socioeconomic barriers, that also leads to racism, will begin to fall.
I was not intending to make soft excuses for anyone, merely pointing out that kids like to say bad words for shock value or from a position of plain ignorance.
Growing up in a racially homogeneous society (did not see a black person in the flesh until I was 20 and in a different country) bad words had entered our vocabulary and we had no idea what they meant.
My mother and father never used any racially charged words,or even swore in front of me but through other kids things where picked up. As I grew up and learned what these words meant then they where no longer used.
These days of course with changes in communication the naivety of those times are no longer around for the most part.
Kite
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http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/2ub4wf/mo_man_arrested_after_telling_black_waitress_he/I find things like this super weird... A story about a racist and the response itself crazy.
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There are other stories posted around the same 14hr mark with nowhere near the number of comments. A staggering amount of which defend the guy. It's fucking bizarre to just poke around that site and see things like this. I'd imagine it's places like stormfront taking part but shit man... Even if that site has hit that Facebook-esque saturation point it's still crazy to see.
.. wow you are full of shit, a simple sort by comments with the most upvotes shows most people on reddit thread are making fun of the racist guy.
[–]PinkTacoPounder 749 points 12 hours ago
That mug shot is EXACTLY how I pictured him lol
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[–]Roook36 339 points 10 hours ago
He looks like he stepped right out of To Kill a Mockinbird
[–]laurabaileysirishcre 3442 points 12 hours ago
"Gaa initially denied making the remarks but dropped a few racial slurs in trying to explain his innocence. "
This was the best part of the article. He couldn't even fake not being a racist fuck while lying to the cops.
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[–]omegasavant 433 points 11 hours ago
Close second: telling the waitress he wanted white toast because he was a white supremacist.
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[–]JarateIsAPissJar 804 points 12 hours ago
Probably thought he'd get away if he played "The Old Boys Club" card.
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[–]CySailor 574 points 11 hours ago
Best thing about old racists is, hopefully they die off soon and the next generation can get past race.
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[–]gaijingunma 973 points 12 hours ago
Some John Grisham southern-fried lawyer is already lol'ing at the idea of getting his client off by pointing out he used hung instead of the correct 'hanged'.
All a big misunderstanding, your honour!
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[–]vox_barfly 226 points 11 hours ago
Articles like this should be accompanied by pictures of the bumper and window stickers on the guy's pickup.
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[–]gnovos 314 points 12 hours ago
What a hilariously stupid shithead.
Tommy Dean Gaa, of Maryville, reportedly told the waitress, after she asked if he wanted wheat or white toast, that he was prejudiced and therefore would take white toast
This man is full to the brim with logic and sanity.
According to police reports, Gaa initially denied making the remarks but dropped a few racial slurs in trying to explain his innocence.
And intelligence.
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[–]scrumtrellescent 429 points 13 hours ago
Both the words he used and the arm grabbing can be considered assault. Its up to the judge. What a monumental asshole.
Massive Duck. C.M.
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Might want to read posts more carefully before you pop that fuse
Take it easy homie no need for that insult bull. I haven't bothered going back in since it was posted a couple hours ago. At that point it hit 1k comments and a ton of gilded ones were citing the constitution and his rights. If they've been pruned or downvoted then great, but it still begs the question as to why a story that should be open shut about racism hit so many comments. Well, well beyond what the vast majority of the front page stories go beyond.
Well this is the most succinct description I've ever heard on this issue.
Omega Ultimus
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Thanks for the excellent response. It's similar to what I was expecting and have experienced. I can understand how some millennials fall into the trap, especially when they have an ivory tower perspective and have not experienced racial prejudice. Especially when it reinforces and assuages their minds to their belief in a post-racial America when the notion of white privilege is brought up in an argument.
Kite
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Fact-checking is fun, you took that screen shot an hour ago but didn't check to see if your accusations were still true, and looking through it I'm not seeing any gilded racist posts. Nice try
And its obvious there are so many comments because the white guy's comments are hilariously stupid and easy to mock. Being unable to hide his racism while talking to the cops and his comment about preferring white bread.. the jokes make themselves~TheSaddestSort
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Well, if folks don't mind academic texts Stuart Hall's piece about overt vs inferential racism is worth a read.
It's also having the adverse effect. A lot of paranoia and persecution beliefs. There was a thread a few days ago about the extreme left. I think a lot are developing an "I don't give a fuck" mentality. Reading comments on all sites and articles, even ones that require full name and Facebook, there is this "oh boy here we go again" mentality that is starting to take hold.
Plus that tolerant racism is, they think just because they aren't throwing burning crosses in lawns anymore, doesn't mean they don't say or do dumb racist things.
Thats Real America. I just think racism is more hidden and standardize that a lot of people just don't care. And there is the "World is just becoming to PC" and "People are just getting too offended nowadays" crowd that try to shut down any discussion before it starts
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