Posted on 07/19/2019 7:46:28 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
When Donald Trump, in a formal meeting with Senators, referred to Haiti and African countries as “s***holes,” it renewed a cycle of accusations and denials that has devolved into a kind of minor league sport. Is our president a racist? Our wrangling over this question exposes an odd quirk of American life. Most people cannot define racism. And many who understand it resist confining the term to a definition.
Swedes apparently have 25 words for snow. In a cold, damp climate, snow is a force that shapes their life. It makes sense that they would evolve language to express its many nuanced forms.
Racism is as central to the American experience as baseball, cars or gun deaths. It would be difficult to make sense of anything in our history or culture without it. For almost four hundred years, race has quietly permeated every corner of American life, an unacknowledged dark energy that perverts so many of our best intentions. Yet we retain only a single word to describe this ideology and we seem to reluctant to grant it a definition.
As we struggle to free ourselves from a poisonous concept, we may have skipped an essential step. It is very difficult to defeat an enemy you have not identified. This would be a fine moment for Americans to adopt a common public definition of racism.
Racism is usually defined in a manner consistent with this Wikipedia rendering: “the belief in the superiority of one race over another, which often results in discrimination and prejudice towards people based on their race or ethnicity.” That’s helpful, but it leaves out a vital predicate. Perhaps this might be a more accurate and complete definition for racism:
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
What baloney:
“Were Trump’s “s***hole” comments racist? Yes. By confining his “s***hole” definition to “black” places, his comments reflected the belief that these places are bad because of the fundamental racial qualities of the people who live there.”
Averages are not the same as the very top tier.
By his own definition, he is a racist.
“Were Trump’s “s***hole” comments racist? Yes. By confining his “s***hole” definition to “black” places, his comments reflected the belief that these places are bad because of the fundamental racial qualities of the people who live there.”
Baloney or just utterly stupid.
Racism is any republican within sight of a democrat
White liberal 'elites' encourage this dysfunction because it keeps their black base desperate and dependent. (Black citizens are NOT inferior but black culture ginned up by white liberal elites IS inferior.)
IF YOU NOTICE THE ABOVE YOU ARE CALLED A RACIST.
If you object to people breaking into our country, you're a racist.
If you disagree with a 'person of color' you're a racist...
If you believe that a ban on terrorist countries ( countries that together represent less than 8% of the world's Muslims) is a 'Muslim ban', you're a racist.
If you object to people in congress expressing hated for YOUR country, you're a racist.
If you notice the white liberal 'elites' in DC are much more like white trash - you're a racist...
That would depend on the black neighborhood and the Chinatown, I suppose.
You’re talking about making inferences and generalizations, which is how the human mind works. That, in itself, is not destructive or invidious or racist.
How's this?
-PJ
I like your changes. It makes Martin Luther King’s dictum that CONTENT OF CHARACTER is the key and not skin color more enlightening.
Venezuela is a shithole Country and it isn’t in Africa.
Most of the Population is mixed Raced Caucasian, while 20% is simply Caucasian.
Racist (adj)
1. An argument a liberal cannot counter (e.g., "That's a racist argument.")
2. Any fact which is counter to the liberal narrative (e.g., "That's a racist fact.")
I’m not talking about countries. I’m talking about Jews, wherever they may live. And, specifically, the “great” mathematicians of the world. e.g. Einstein, among others.
Racism is _not_ wanting your nation to be populated with citizens of your own nation.
There is no requirement to accept foreigners into your nation, especially because of what race they are.
Well, he’s right. There are turd world sh!thole countries. However, countries are comprised of many races. So, no that wasn’t racist.
The tweet wasn’t racist, either. If he directly named a blonde Swede in the “go home” tweet, this would never have made the headlines. He didn’t mention race. He also didn’t mention, gender, religion, sexual orientation or actual names. That mean girls click assumed it was all about them. But, hey, at least one should legally be sent back home.
Now Republican Trump would have been racist saying, “I mean, you’ve got the first sort of mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that’s a story-book, man.” OTOH, if that was said by anyone but a Republican, it isn’t racist.
RE: I’m not talking about countries. I’m talking about Jews, wherever they may live.
Well, where do you find most Jews? Aren’t they in Israel?
Or maybe it can be said that ON AVERAGE ( since the chart talks about averages ), Jews aren’t really that mathematically superior. Perhaps the UPPER TIER of the Jews tend to be more mathematically superior than the average of ANY race ( e.g. Einstein ).
A few sensible points mixed in with a pile of poisonous junk.
RE: A few sensible points mixed in with a pile of poisonous junk.
Can you show us where the poisonous junk are?
Perhaps the UPPER TIER of the Jews tend to be more mathematically superior than the average of ANY race ( e.g. Einstein ).
But really, my point is that the races are definitely different. That means that each one brings different strengths and weaknesses to the table - generally speaking. And the article seems to say that if you acknowledge that fact you are, by definition, racist.
Looking at it that way, I don’t see racist as a bad thing. It’s only when you choose a mathematician or basketball player solely because of their race that it gets kinda stupid. I’ve known black guys that can’t play basketball.
If the author is white, Mr. BROWN is a racist.
If he is a person of color, he is a sellout.
If he is a regular guy, he is a privileged, heteronormative bigot.
Sorry, I have to discard his words, forever.
J/k
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