L.A. Mayor:Fire Department too white.

[Pogo]

Racism is the belief that one race is superior to another. That's why I pointed out to the OP that he doesn't know what the word means.

At one time that was the definition of the word, but it has expanded to mean pretty much anything where a minority doesn't get his way or feels offended. Don't give a black applicant a job for any reason? Racist. Tell an off color joke about Asians? Racist. Use niggardly in a sentence? Racist. Disagree with Obama's policies? Racist. Dislike the teachings of Islam? Racist.

Not unlike rape and terror, the word racist has been so overused and stretched to cover so many things that it really has no meaning because it has been so overused.

Some clown tossing a word around willy-nilly doesn't change the word's definition. When you're wrong, you haven't invented a new definition; you're just wrong.

 

[Pogo]

Affirmative action is racism.

Uh... no, it isn't.

Racism is the belief that one race is superior to another. That's why I pointed out to the OP that he doesn't know what the word means.

Affirmative action is a quota system that seeks to artificially generate a particular demographic. That makes no value judgement on race.

By the way I've been turned down for two jobs because of affirmative action. I knew the people that were hired over me; all three of us are the same race.
Figure that one out.

The exact definition of racism is controversial both because there is little scholarly agreement about the meaning of the concept "race", and because there is also little agreement about what does and does not constitute discrimination. Critics argue that the term is applied differentially, with a focus on such prejudices by whites, and defining mere observations of racial differences as racism.[3] Some definitions would have it that any assumption that a person's behavior would be influenced by their racial categorization is racist, regardless of whether the action is intentionally harmful or pejorative. In sociology and psychology,[4] some posit that racism is in effect 'prejudice plus power' and suggest that without the power dimension that racism would not be able to manifest as a cultural, institutional or social phenomenon.[5][6] Other definitions only include consciously malignant forms of discrimination.[7] Among the questions about how to define racism are the question of whether to include forms of discrimination that are unintentional, such as making assumptions about preferences or abilities of others based on racial stereotypes, whether to include symbolic or institutionalized forms of discrimination such as the circulation of ethnic stereotypes through the media, and whether to include the socio-political dynamics of social stratification that sometimes have a racial component. Some definitions of racism also include discriminatory behaviors and beliefs based on cultural, national, ethnic, caste, or religious stereotypes.

Racism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is the equivalent of some clown going to Wiki, hitting the Edit button available to literally everybody, and going "some people say....". And it's bullshit. There is no such question of what the word means. You can ask the question of whether it means that, and you can be told "no it doesn't", and then you sit the **** down. You don't go to Wiki and write your own definition. Nor do the rest of us go to Wiki for such definitions. In so doing we're dipping a toe into the ocean of the absurd.

>> 'I don't know what you mean by "glory",' Alice said.

Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. 'Of course you don't — till I tell you. I meant "there's a nice knock-down argument for you!"'

'But "glory" doesn't mean "a nice knock-down argument",' Alice objected.

'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.'

'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things.'

'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master — that's all.'

Alice was too much puzzled to say anything; so after a minute Humpty Dumpty began again. 'They've a temper, some of them — particularly verbs: they're the proudest — adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs — however, I can manage the whole lot of them! Impenetrability! That's what I say!'

'Would you tell me please,' said Alice, 'what that means?'

'Now you talk like a reasonable child,' said Humpty Dumpty, looking very much pleased. 'I meant by "impenetrability" that we've had enough of that subject, and it would be just as well if you'd mention what you mean to do next, as I suppose you don't mean to stop here all the rest of your life.'

'That's a great deal to make one word mean,' Alice said in a thoughtful tone.

'When I make a word do a lot of work like that,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'I always pay it extra.' << -- Lewis Caroll, Through the Looking Glass

 

[ClosedCaption]

From the "White Genocide Project" huh. Who's their President? Chicken Little?

 

[RoadVirus]

While I do not support outright quotas, I do believe local government employees should somewhat represent the makeup of the community.

Even if it may jeopardize the community's safety?

 

[The T]

While I do not support outright quotas, I do believe local government employees should somewhat represent the makeup of the community.

Even if it may jeopardize the community's safety?

Indeed. Get a gaggle of represented dumbasses...and defy logic AND safety 'for the good of the Community'...

 

[Huey]

If we had a White Country this wouldn't be happening.

But you dont have a white country,you have a rainbow country azzhole.You dont get what you wish for.Who the hell would want to be a fireman anyway. Thats a shitty job period.

 

[National Socialist]

If we had a White Country this wouldn't be happening.

But you dont have a white country,you have a rainbow country azzhole.You dont get what you wish for.Who the hell would want to be a fireman anyway. Thats a shitty job period.

No we have a multicult mud hole that is collapsing on its self which is what we knew would happen.Multicult societies DON'T WORK. Why is a fireman a shitty job? I think its a great job. My son wants to be a fire fighter...Helping people,good pay,adrenaline rush...I don't see anything bad about it really.

 

[Lonestar_logic]

Just dumb down the entry test to third grade level. Problem solved!