YES We did!

[Deebs]

Originally Posted by JWBear

"Well, he's a Muslim, and I heard that's what he was going to use." she added.

D'oh! I am so sorry you have see this person regularly. I hope you are able to keep your interaction to a minimum.

[Alex]

If he shuts anything down it will just be the prison. There's no way we're letting the forced lease of Guantanamo Bay lapse any time soon.

If it will be difficult for Obama to start normalizing relations with Cuba while Fidel/Raul/puppet are still in power it would be a complete ****storm if he gave up the base. The best $3,000 our government tries but fails to spend each year.

[innerSpaceman]

As for Lowrey ... those who think all the blacks, reds and yellows of this country haven't been consistently oppressed and victimized by whites need to get that reality check Obama referenced in his speech, and stat. (Yeah, not by all whites, but all who oppressed and vicitmized them HAVE BEEN WHITE.)

Sheesh. What a load of perfect-example White-Privilege Blindhood crap from scaeagles and jazzman. Get a fracking clue! No one's accusing YOU personally.


And yeah, a black man was inaugurated president on the National Mall yesterday, where Martin Luther King famously had a dream 30 years earlier. If you didn't expect other black men to take a dig at White Supremacy on that day, you yourself were dreaming.

[scaeagles]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

As for Lowrey ... those who think all the blacks, reds and yellows of this country haven't been consistently oppressed and victimized by whites need to get that reality check Obama referenced in his speech, and stat. (Yeah, not by all whites, but all who oppressed and vicitmized them HAVE BEEN WHITE.)

Sheesh. What a load of perfect-example White-Privilege Blindhood crap from scaeagles and jazzman. Get a fracking clue! No one's accusing YOU personally.

I guess generalities are OK if you think they're OK, but not if you think they're not. I didn't suggest anyone was talking to me personally. When McCain used the term Gook he wasn't talking to every Asain. I'm sure Koreans in the Los Angeles area don't hate every black person. I would figure that women are oppressed by men of all races. A large majority of the black population voted for prop 8 in CA. I could go on and on, but it's pointless.

Next time someone uses the term "that's so gay", I'm sure they don't mean it as demeaning to all gay people, so it must be OK. Or if someone says they want to "Jew someone down", that's OK, because they didn't mean all Jews are greedy. Or if I call a man a rag head, it's OK, because not all Middle Eastern people wear headdresses.

Open your eyes, ISM, and you get a "fracking clue" that the only generalities that are acceptable are negative toward white people. They aren't the only ones used by any means, but they are the ones that are even remotely accepted.

[Betty]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

Open your eyes, ISM, and you get a "fracking clue" that the only generalities that are acceptable are negative toward white people. They aren't the only ones used by any means, but they are the ones that are even remotely accepted.

Actually that's not quite right. People make general negative statements about fat people all the time and they are quite accepted by nearly all skinny people and a lot of fat people too.

[scaeagles]

Originally Posted by Betty

Actually that's not quite right. People make general negative statements about fat people all the time and they are quite accepted by nearly all skinny people and a lot of fat people too.

I can agree with that.

[Jazzman]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

What a load of perfect-example White-Privilege Blindhood crap from scaeagles and jazzman. Get a fracking clue! No one's accusing YOU personally.

Actually, you can get a fracking grip iSm. What privilege have I had from being white? Is that the privilege that has led to me being thirty and still finishing college because my family was too poor to buy one for me when I was eighteen? Is this the privilege that had me working full time in high school to help my family keep the electricity on? Is it the privilege that brought me hand-me-down clothes, broken Salvation Army toys at Christmas, and food-stamp-purchased, minimal groceries growing up because we couldn't afford better? Tell me, iSm, what White Privilege are you talking about? Because I don't see it. All I see is a lot of middle, and upper-middle, class white people who can't get over their own senseless, liberal white guilt, making excuses for a bigoted old douchebag who was classless enough to take a swipe at the largest group of people in America, from a world wide stage. As I said earlier, I wasn't offended by his remarks, just saw how insulting and stupid they were. But I am annoyed by the blatant tsunami of hypocrisy flowing forth because of it.

[innerSpaceman]

Originally Posted by Jazzman

What privilege have I had from being white?

That was a joke, right?

[Jazzman]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

That was a joke, right?

So, no answer, huh? I'm just supposed to accept that there's this mythical, magical land of opportunity that's open to me simply because I'm a white guy? Horse crap. Show me what opportunities I've had that blacks haven't. Demonstrate where I had open doors solely because of my skin color. Drop the hyperbolic, pseudo-intellectualist rhetoric and actually tell me; What White Privilege have I enjoyed. Anybody, please. I want to see it. Otherwise, without some proof, I'm continuing to file it under "BS Theories" alongside The Second Gunman, The Government Did 9/11 and Global Warming.

[lizziebith]

I still don't don't see the insult. And I'm a whitey.