Posted on 11/27/2007 5:27:15 AM PST by rwbusa50
While I was a teenager and still enthralled with my own generation, the Boomers, I truly believed that we were heralding a new and better human nature. We were going to stamp out prejudice, discrimination, and every other foul practice in the hemisphere. No more bashing folks of color. No more negative stereotyping for females. No more blonde jokes, fat jokes, handicap jokes, divorce jokes, gay jokes or Polish jokes. Human nature be damned. We could all be nice to each other if we tried hard enough, if we just had enough determination.
Here we are forty years later, and it seems to me that all we've really accomplished is an exchange of all of our old prejudices for a new one. The demographic group that now gets it full on the chin at every turn, in every public sphere, is the lone, white male. Christians, especially the Catholic Church, are also an approved target, but that topic is for another article.
So we haven't gotten any better as human beings. We simply changed targets.
note, see link for more
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Oh why don’t you go and bash yourself? (sarcasm)
The one that threw me was the Capitol One Small Businessman commercial wherein the wealthy, fat banker does a field goal kick of the small (White) business man, while the other fat wealthy banker (Black) gets amusement. I did not see that one coming.
Caucasian??!?!?!
Thats like using the word negro - outdated and racist.
No, but I did touch myself this morning.
You are really bad! LOL!
The trouble with trying to suppress an innate human tendency is that it will sprout anyway, like seeds beneath concrete, and it will break up all that nice smooth concrete.
Humans are basically predator animals, and this predatory nature has to be expressed somehow. Wars are handy escape valves for this excess display of virility and ingenious interpretation of dominance versus submission. All this “equality” shinola kind of goes out the window, when one stereotype or another is demolished and replaced with new, equally distorted stereotypes.
Someone will always be “up”, and someone will always be “down”. The great American experiment showed that the layers of “up” or “down” are not static or permanently striated into immutable levels. Individuals break from one level to another all the time.
White males of western European origin are, for the moment, “down”. But keep in mind, these are the most bloodthirsty, rapacious, unrelenting pirates that have ever evolved on this planet, and once they have shed their largely self-imposed limitations on their actions, the balance of things will return.
With a vengeance. “Being fair” is not an option.
No my friend, my grandfather fled from the Bolshevik revolution.
The article was written by a female.
And if all else fails, just go for the tried and true standard, known as the Redneck Joke.
Have you watched any commercials in the past five years where he wasn't? He can't cook, usually can't make anything successfully without his wife or kids help, and is gennerally a fool. It's even worse in actual programming; the last competant dad I can recall was Cliff Huxtable.
And don't get me started on how Christians are portrayed. If I see somebody wearing a cross or praying in the first act, you know who is going to be the murderer/pederast/zelot by the third act.
I think, though, if you look at the article that group would be included in, what I feel, are her balanced remarks.
95% do...5% lie about it.
You wrote,
“It’s not just white males, it’s males.”
I tend to agree.
Bingo!
The answer to this fundamental question seems to be hidden in the fact that hate is what we know well. It's been around since the beginning of the ages.
No one, man, woman or child, no nation or groups have been able to contain it. Everyone claims they don't have it and everyone claims they are the victims of it. Everyone believes they have the perfect solution for it and yet it lives on.
For the survival of our own species we all build up or defenses against it and war against each other.
Who is this enemy? Is it really a person? Of course, we say, most certainly it must be that other person, that other group, not us... it was the one who struck first. It was "their" fault. But who really struck first? Can we recall a real beginning point to this hate?
It must be in the air we breath, it can not possibly be part of me so it must be you because I know it is there and I can not place my hand on it.
Will you accept that someone must pay for this hate? Will it be you or me? It must be stopped. We all know it must be stopped.
I don't want to pay for the hate of the ages, so will you please pay the price of it for me? No you say, I must be the one, my people and my children.
Well I am not that strong. Find someone else.
And so we will go forward, on and on feeding the hate. Going from one place to the other looking for the one to blame for it all, until someone pays today for yesterday.
Won't someone please volunteer to pay so we can just stop? Is there no one who is willing? Not even for the whole world?
Surely that person will be worshiped for saving us, but no, even if that person did pay for us, we would not recognize it because all we have ever known is hate. We know how to deal with it...blame someone else.
How can we live without it now? It is familiar to us. So we must all worship it instead. We will feed the hate beast daily with grievances of all kinds and will forever until the end, when we all pay.
That price will surely be the death of us all.
I stopped watching that show when I realized the only recurring white person was a stupid fat white kid with nerdy glasses who was usually brought in to utter some stupid line while the rest looked at him like he was a total buffoon.
I have an appointment to slap myself about the head and shoulders this afternoon. (It gets me sympathy from Mrs. MortMan ;-)
Can we talk about a circle bash on a family-friendly forum?!? ;-P
I’ve noticed in recent months they have ventured into inclusion of the black male in the “husband is an idiot” commercial. Maybe just plain old male bashing is the problem. The ads are disgusting. Note to self: DO NOT SHOP K-MART FOR CHRISTMAS..................
That'll make you go blind.
Is this going to be an all boy bash or are girls excluded...just asking. :)
I guess beauty (or the lack thereof) is in the eye of the beholder. To me, saying White - Black is too contentious. Too general.
Was recently at meeting with some African-Americans on a project they were doing. The historian for the project is Caucasian. During his presentation, he apologized for being a White man working on the project. The Af-Ams told him not to apologize. They continued to say, along with other remarks, they use 3 terms - “European”, “Caucasian”, and “White”. Evidently they have no problem with saying Caucasian.
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