Little-Acorn
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Why indeed.
There have been more cries of "racism"... while there has been less actual racism (though never zero).... than at any time I can remember.
What exactly is the purpose?
Andy why should we keep listening to the screamers who continually try to whip up hatred and resentment with little or no basis in fact?
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Why Should We Treat People Who Falsely Cry Racism With Kid Gloves - John Hawkins - Page 1
Why Should We Treat People Who Falsely Cry Racism With Kid Gloves?
John Hawkins | Dec 20, 2014
Since we’ve entered the Obama era, we’ve learned that the same America that elected a black President twice is supposedly a seething caldron of secret racism. Don’t like Obama? You must be racist. Don’t like Democrats? Definitely racist! So you’re opposed to Obamacare? Obviously racist. Sick of the IRS? Racist, racist, RACIST! Are you Republican? A Tea Partier? Just a plain old white guy? You’re a super racisty racist!!! We’re now even regularly hearing speculation that people are unknowingly racist, subconsciously racist or just racist by virtue of the fact that they somehow benefit from “white privilege.”
Here's an alternative idea: 99% of the cries of racism today are made for political reasons by people who habitually cry racism every time they have a problem. Or alternatively, just by hypersensitive, coddled losers who are desperate to blame anyone but themselves for their own failures.
Just as an example, nobody wants to hear the poor put-upon First Lady of the United States complaining that she was discriminated against because someone asked for her help getting something off the shelf at Target. Similarly, someone asked her husband to go get some coffee because he was wearing a tuxedo and the person mistook him for a waiter? Boo freaking hoo. A lot of people get mistaken for store employees at some point in their life.
(Full text of the article can be read at the above URL)
There have been more cries of "racism"... while there has been less actual racism (though never zero).... than at any time I can remember.
What exactly is the purpose?
Andy why should we keep listening to the screamers who continually try to whip up hatred and resentment with little or no basis in fact?
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Why Should We Treat People Who Falsely Cry Racism With Kid Gloves - John Hawkins - Page 1
Why Should We Treat People Who Falsely Cry Racism With Kid Gloves?
John Hawkins | Dec 20, 2014
Since we’ve entered the Obama era, we’ve learned that the same America that elected a black President twice is supposedly a seething caldron of secret racism. Don’t like Obama? You must be racist. Don’t like Democrats? Definitely racist! So you’re opposed to Obamacare? Obviously racist. Sick of the IRS? Racist, racist, RACIST! Are you Republican? A Tea Partier? Just a plain old white guy? You’re a super racisty racist!!! We’re now even regularly hearing speculation that people are unknowingly racist, subconsciously racist or just racist by virtue of the fact that they somehow benefit from “white privilege.”
Here's an alternative idea: 99% of the cries of racism today are made for political reasons by people who habitually cry racism every time they have a problem. Or alternatively, just by hypersensitive, coddled losers who are desperate to blame anyone but themselves for their own failures.
Just as an example, nobody wants to hear the poor put-upon First Lady of the United States complaining that she was discriminated against because someone asked for her help getting something off the shelf at Target. Similarly, someone asked her husband to go get some coffee because he was wearing a tuxedo and the person mistook him for a waiter? Boo freaking hoo. A lot of people get mistaken for store employees at some point in their life.
(Full text of the article can be read at the above URL)
