Posted on 05/06/2014 9:35:52 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
There’s something insufficiently descriptive about calling Los Angeles Clippers owner and real estate developer Donald Sterling a racist. By now, everyone is familiar with the baffling remarks he made to his girlfriend, admonishing her for featuring photos of black people on her Instagram feed and for bringing her black friends to Clippers games.
These weren’t merely the words of a jilted madman. They fit within a broader pattern of behavior, most notably a series of lawsuits in which Sterling was charged with housing discrimination on the basis of race against Latino and black tenants—black people “smell and attract vermin,” he allegedly remarked to his staff.
This is racism in its most recognizable, blatant form: the powerful bigot creating structural obstacles against the advancement of poor minorities.
But there’s another piece to Sterling’s warped worldview, one that illustrates the bizarre and incoherent ways in which racism works.
As Sterling allegedly schemed to rid his properties of certain racial minorities, he sought to fill his development with Koreans, an ethnic group he valorized as hardworking and reliable.
Sterling did not take a passive approach to attracting Korean tenants. He changed the name of one of his buildings to “Korean World Towers,” adorned his buildings with Korean flags, and explicitly stated a preference for “Koreans” in his housing ads.
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The meaning, given the way it is being used today, is not descriptive of a point of view; rather, a verbal equivalent to giving a dog an electrical shock, as part of a Pavlovian experiment. (See Life & Politics In A Pavlovian Kennel.)
The complicity of much of the mass media, in deliberately imposing conditioned reflex reactions to the misuse of language, on those found to be susceptible, amounts to a crime against the American future.
William Flax
[ The term Racism is becoming a word with no meaning. ]
Too many people these days confuse Race with Culture, Religion, Language or some weird mix of the three....
Even if true, wouldn't that be a better way of handling all immigration?
No welfare or social security will spur to work hard!
RE: Even if true, wouldn’t that be a better way of handling all immigration?
Whatever happened to :
“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore...”
Racism in America = Someone winning an argument with a liberal.
Their membership in the Racial Industrial Complex
An idealistic 19th century poem is not a suicide pact for the 21st.
I just heard on Rush that we rejected the crack using mayor of Toronto when he entered the US, so apparently we can make some choices on who comes in.
The left intentionally conflates race with culture when it comes to inner city urban culture.
They do so because they seek to promote the destructive culture as a foil to Western Civilization,
and to use white guilt as a shield from criticism.
Loves Koreans, black girlfriend, donates tens of thousands to NAACP and got their lifetime achievement award
Racist??
I can’t seem to do it on a phone
Korean women, Chinese women, Vietnamese, Thai, Cambodian, etc.,...they’re heavenly!!
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