Rape Spurs Anti-Hispanic Backlash in Ohio

AP ^ | 7/16/05

[wardaddy]

there are at least 11 million illegals....W's administration admits this.

i suspect twice that.

when Reagan gave amnesty...the turnout was double the estimate.

[Fishing-guy]

Time to pick the KKK and deport them along with the illegals.

[wardaddy]

i forgot....everything on FR must be qualified

"hispanic" is not a race nor is it homogenous culturally

what we are really talking about are meztizo Mexicanos, Guatemaltecos, and Salvadorenos for the most part

[wardaddy]

i hope it's red

[hispanarepublicana]

All the burrheaded white boys here in Nashville are hardly skinheads

< Is there any other hairstyle to wear in the South in summer? IT'S HOT DOWN HERE.

[hispanarepublicana]

what else goes with delmonicos? (purchased for $5/lb in the "sell by today" bin this morning--LOL).

[hardworking]

Now, sentiments like that seem to go unchallenged except by literally a handful of FReepers,

Maybe a lot more people are starting to say what they are thinking(?) I couldn't care less what color someone's skin is and live in a very mixed community. But I do know that more and more people I talk to are just plain tired of all the PC nonsense, particularly regarding our schools.

As a country I think we are very accepting of people - far, far more so than what I have personally experienced in other countries. But other countries have RULES - in fact, a U.S. citizen cannot get a job in most other countries - yet we are expected to just give everything to anyone who somehow arrives here. I think that is what is so upsetting and is causing many to lose their objectivity.

[wardaddy]

since I've gotten into middle-middle aged ...almost 50.

i wear the shortcut Colonel David Hackworth style greyhair

i used to have quite long hair 8 years ago but gave it up

it sure rains a lot here...lately

my wife, who has long hair wears it up mostly....highlighted of course..lol

[rdb3]

...or the one where there's a FReeper who thinks only those with the ethnic backgrounds of our "founding fathers" should be in the U.S.

She's talking about you, TAquinas. You said that, did you not?

[hardworking]

who are not in the primary invasion zone.

Yes, it makes a huge difference when theory is replaced with personal experience.

[wardaddy]

I'm having camarones in a bit myself with remoulade sauce and salad and french bread

delmonicos?

the ubiquitos baked spud or twice baked stuffed....salad...fresh asparagas with bernaise or hollandaise...a bread...and wine (red...white wine is not really wine)


i'm so old school....that sounds like a 60s cookbook

[djf]

I wish I knew an answer, but I don't. It does seem though, that if there is ever another civil war in this country it will have in large part a racial dimension to it.

[djf]

After the lawyers, of course!

[hispanarepublicana]

there's PC nonsense, and then on the other extreme there's knuckle-dragging stupidity. can't we just be in between? (answering my own rhetorical question here) I shared with a FRiend recently the sentiment that people will usually take the easiest route, and it's easiest to categorize people into "neat little boxed-in categories". That's why all canned milkshake, fat-free, carb-free, eat tuna all day, wheat-free, vegetarian, atkins, you-name-it diet plans work. People don't want to think hard enough to realize that bacon grease isn't ALWAYS bad and that celerely isn't ALWAYS good (eating too much will make you bloat).

[spinestein]

[Or the thread where the guy used the word "beaner" or the one where there's a FReeper who thinks only those with the ethnic backgrounds of our "founding fathers" should be in the U.S. ...sentiments like that seem to go unchallenged except by literally a handful of FReepers, and the offending parties still get to hang around.]


Maybe I'm not hanging out at the "right" threads where this is the opinion of a significant number of posters. My personal opinion is that it's intellectually lazy to judge individuals by the groups they are born to (as opposed to the ones they choose to join), and there is no quicker path to hatred and violence than to get into the habit of rating a person's character according to their ethnicity, gender, etc...

I won't hesitate to denounce bigotry whenever I see it, but the reason I choose to spend so much time on FR is because "Jim Rob and the mods" ARE more vigilant in keeping it out of the forums as much as possible, to an extent that other political and social discussion sites wouldn't find plausible.

[hispanarepublicana]

Mr. HR sometimes makes me shrimp w/ remoulade. YUMMY and perfect for summer. (why do i always seem to help hijack even the most serious thread with food)

[djf]

Trouble is, though, that when a nine year old girl gets raped, thought ain't much value. You're talking emotion and gut response.

This is a "human nature" issue, not a white-American, brown-American, purple-American thing.

[junta]

"Racism" means hate the white man and nothing more and it is just an excuse to exercise in moral superiority against those with little voice or power. Ever notice how your vitriol only pours out to those who are at the lowest of our society and never those with privelege or power. Yet I'm told "racism" is about holding people back and excluding them from enjoying the riches of our society (witness that fat stooge Oprah) and I cannot see how the poor and the ignorant whites by your account accomplish this grand conspiracy. In conclusion I think that fools who shout "racism" are little but evil little freaks themselves doing the bidding of the priveleged of our society.

[spinestein]

I like pizza.

[hispanarepublicana]

You're unfortunately right about human nature. During the French Occupation of Mexico, some French crossed over the river to my great great great grandparents place and raped my great great great grandmother. Her sons killed the offending French and then would go out weekly into Mexico to "hunt French".