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We’re all racist. But racism by white people matters more
The Manchester Guardian ^ | October 5, 2017 | Mona Chalabi

Posted on 10/14/2017 9:04:19 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

We don’t live in a racially neutral society: from police officers to headteachers, all the gatekeepers in my life have been white. Yet we do have to acknowledge those who feel they lose out to ethnic minorities

Most white people don’t see themselves as racist. They can comfortably reel off a list of people of colour they know, like, or maybe even love. They can’t think of a time when they’ve negatively discriminated against someone on the grounds of their race. And they don’t see, in a concrete way, how their own race has positively affected them.

More than that, when people imagine a racist, they probably envisage a white skinhead sat in a pub ready to start a fight with the first black or brown person who walks through the door. That’s a convenient picture to conjure up – it’s pretty easy to comfort yourself that you’re nothing at all like that awful bastard.

In fact, though, everyone – of whatever colour – is racist. As part of a TV documentary I’ve been working on, I’ve seen how our brains have a tendency to automatically associate our own race with good and other races with bad, whoever we are....

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: Heated Discussion
KEYWORDS: antiwhite; antiwhiteracism; blacks; blahblahblah; chalabi; lawenforcement; monachalabi; racism; tripe; whites
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To: bagster

A faggot is a bundle of sticks. Maybe because a pack of smokes is like a bundle of sticks?...


81 posted on 10/15/2017 3:29:19 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If we were as racist as they keep trying to claim, they would either be gone or in hiding as they waited to be gone.....


82 posted on 10/15/2017 4:04:58 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Dear Mona,

Fuck off.

That is all.


83 posted on 10/15/2017 5:07:30 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (eliminate perverse incentives)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hey - f*ck you, you filthy racist! You don’t get to call me racist. Go back in your hole.


84 posted on 10/15/2017 5:09:16 AM PDT by I want the USA back (*slam is a violent political movement that hides behind the illusion of religion.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The UK is lost.

Someday, we will be bombing Big Ben.


85 posted on 10/15/2017 5:12:06 AM PDT by anton
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To: bagster

“Honky” offends me; “cracker” is kind of another term for “redneck,” and it does not offend me to the same degree.

You’d best not call me a “racist!” Or a “honky!”

Those are fighting words.

White “N” words?


86 posted on 10/15/2017 5:20:48 AM PDT by Taxman (Replace the income tax with the FAIRtax and abolish the IRS!)
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To: mylife

Well, YES!


87 posted on 10/15/2017 5:21:16 AM PDT by Taxman (Replace the income tax with the FAIRtax and abolish the IRS!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

All animals are equal, some are less equal than others.

Fu?k Communism in academia


88 posted on 10/15/2017 5:22:59 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: x

February 32nd


89 posted on 10/15/2017 5:25:18 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: RC one

My feelings exactly.


90 posted on 10/15/2017 5:28:01 AM PDT by carmen2017
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

North or South Koreans


91 posted on 10/15/2017 5:29:44 AM PDT by carmen2017
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To: Paladin2

Too Hell with race as long as there are DOGS. I Love Dogs 100 times more than people. Heres thinking of you Queenie, Charlie, Tippy, Reese, Carmen and Butch.


92 posted on 10/15/2017 5:38:04 AM PDT by carmen2017
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

In capitalism and free societies, you can’t force people to stop discriminating on the micro-thought or unconscious levels.

The ultimate goal here is to legislate new crimes about racism (and genderism) that will destroy the concept of a free society.

Until then, keep asking lefties what their policy goal is. They’ll be confused, and say “we need to have a conversation about race”. Then tell them we “should have a conversation about The Rule of Law” or “Freedom” or even “Christiality” too. Then watch them run.


93 posted on 10/15/2017 5:55:12 AM PDT by ReaganGeneration2
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’m guessing that Piss-and-Mona can’t see that her vision of white people is filtered through her own racial lens, and that she’s no more fit to judge whites than Robert Byrd is fit to judge blacks.


94 posted on 10/15/2017 6:13:17 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Over the last 50 years all obvious and even imaginary forms of racism have been eliminated in schools and the workplace. There has even been govt mandated racial discrimination in the form of affirmative action and “diversity” requirements to encourage the hiring of blacks over white males. After all this the socioeconomic condition of blacks has not significantly improved. Its time to admit that racism ISN’T the problem.


95 posted on 10/15/2017 6:28:27 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (The DemocRAT party has been taking a knee on America for decades.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
What about a white person who grew up poor, was physically and emotionally abused by terrible parents, has the looks of Alfred E Newman, IQ score of 105, is 5'4” weighs 90 lbs, lives in a rusted mobile home with one light bulb hanging from the ceiling?

So what about this guy? Lumping all whites into one group is wrong! The LEFT is practicing demagoguery, stereotyping, prejudice and encouraging negative bias based only on skin color. They are way out on a limb with this strategy.

Just point to our white friend in the rusted trailer and ask, “Is this the white privilege you are talking about?

96 posted on 10/15/2017 6:46:18 AM PDT by Awgie (Truth is always stranger than fiction.)
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To: Taxman
That's funny. Honky doesn't bother me in the least. It's like calling me something that doesn't mean anything. At least "cracker" is semi derogatory. Either one I don't care about though. To me its not the word that offends, it's the intent. They can call me "mister" and if it's said with hateful intent, then I'll get pissed.

The same goes for the "nigger" word. It's all about intent. Words are nothing.

I probably got that attitude from being a Correctional Officer. Lots of words get slung behind bars.

97 posted on 10/15/2017 7:51:19 AM PDT by bagster (Social Culture Warrior (SCW))
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To: Awgie
What about a white person who grew up poor, was physically and emotionally abused by terrible parents, has the looks of Alfred E Newman, IQ score of 105, is 5'4” weighs 90 lbs, lives in a rusted mobile home with one light bulb hanging from the ceiling?

I happen to think Humblegummer is a very nice guy, despite his flaws.

98 posted on 10/15/2017 7:58:58 AM PDT by bagster (Social Culture Warrior (SCW))
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To: carmen2017

Are you an idiot?


99 posted on 10/15/2017 10:32:49 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: RC one

Agree as I call it an equal opportunity racist that way nobody can whine.


100 posted on 10/15/2017 11:05:20 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacted the most.)
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