No, they outsourced them to China. "Jade Rabbit", more like Jade...Prison Camp builder...Rabbit.
Study Finds White Americans Believe They Experience More Racism Than Black Americans
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No, they outsourced them to China. "Jade Rabbit", more like Jade...Prison Camp builder...Rabbit.
hipbabboom
Huh? What did I say? Did I screw up again? :(
Survey means little to me unless someone replicates it and I know the number of people surveyed and the method used. Was the survey done with people only from a certain area? This is a typical media article on a poll that does not give enough information to make a strong argument about anything. If you are not going straight to the source a true judgement on the research is impossible to make.
empty vessel
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You don't have to feel guilty. I'm white. I don't feel guilty in the slightest. What I do is advocate for racial justice. That means trying to get people like you to agree (1) that there is a problem; and (2) to help fix it the best we can.
That's probably why there was no guilt attached to option C.
jordan0386
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Being disliked over history and Racism are two different things.
There is no model in place where black people strive to limit the success of white people,
We all need a grip.
There is no model in place where black people strive to limit the success of white people,
We all need a grip.
Sho_Nuff82
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I googled this story and apparently the article came out in May 2011? Why is this just now being reported by this site?
You know what I hate? Going into a job interview for a valuable position at top companies and being the only not white candidate in the waiting area (and sometimes the only not white male, sorry ladies, it still sucks for you as well!). It's just incredibly anxiety inducing for me.
Things aren't bad for asian americans so I wonder how they'd correlate into a study like this, but these results freak me out quite a bit.
Things aren't bad for asian americans so I wonder how they'd correlate into a study like this, but these results freak me out quite a bit.
Nothing is keeping me and Aisha Tyler apart. Except the restraining order.
PhoenixDark
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I keep saying that race issues are getting worse, not better. We're seeing the death throws of an entitled race that realizes their time is coming to a close. That's not to disrespect all white people, nor do I think "all" white people in the US are racist. But there's definitely a brewing resentment and continued entitlement complex at work here. We see it in politics, with conservatives utterly shocked at the 2012 election results and the dwindling importance of the white vote. We see it in the general reaction to stuff like the Trayvon Martin situation, and the outright dismissal many white people had at the notion that there was any racial aspect to the case, why Trayvon was followed, etc.
Reverse racism isn't some joke that republicans play, it's a real sentiment of a lot of white people. The idea being that diversity is somehow limiting white opportunity, and the only way to combat it is to fight back by hiring white people, promoting white people, etc; why give a Hispanic person a job when you can give one to the white guy he surpassed due to quotas or affirmative action.
I'd rather deal with someone who could burn a cross in my lawn than someone who can hide behind a desk and fuck my career/opportunity while smiling.
Reverse racism isn't some joke that republicans play, it's a real sentiment of a lot of white people. The idea being that diversity is somehow limiting white opportunity, and the only way to combat it is to fight back by hiring white people, promoting white people, etc; why give a Hispanic person a job when you can give one to the white guy he surpassed due to quotas or affirmative action.
I'd rather deal with someone who could burn a cross in my lawn than someone who can hide behind a desk and fuck my career/opportunity while smiling.
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Meccanical
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Someone just tell me as I haven't read it, how bad is this thread right now?
LiquidMetal14
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This is an interesting study. Incidentally the group of white friends I have mixed contact feels this way as well.
Devolution
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Feeling persecuted is a useful, easy way for us white people to avoid feeling guilty.
Charlie McCarthy
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Why every word in the title starting with a capital letter?
I'm not American, and I guess I don't understand America as well as I thought, because this study is very hard to understand. I have a question, though: do white Americans generally feel that black Americans are respectful towards them personally, or rude, generally speaking? I mean, it would hardly be surprising if a lot of blacks were bitter about their situation and took it out on anyone white, although I have no idea if that's really the case.
Most of the time this is due to copy/pasting the title to an article. Headlines are typically written with every word starting with a capital letter.
IncandescentPrecept
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Got it in one.
Ingueferroque
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Living in Upper Manhattan, in a largely Dominican neighbourhood, I can definitely agree with the sentiment expressed in the thread title. Haven't read the article.
Hello. The only realistic posts in here, the thread should be locked due to spreading bullshit.
many places
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Very good point.
Phoenix
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They finished laughing about the study.
eh, I'm 21 and I can honestly say that I don't remember a single instance where I was discriminated against for being white, to my knowledge. Shouldn't be too surprising.
Yeah, that's pretty much how I feel about it. I'm indifferent to being white. I don't see why anyone would have to feel guilty about it unless you realize your privilege but refuse to help level the playing field, or worse actively fight to maintain that privilege.
As a privileged white male, I feel discriminated against often. My black friends call me a word I cannot say on NeoGAF and is usually only said by black people when addressing other black people. White people say it all the time though, while listening to rap and no black people are around to hear it. I know because I do it. I like rapping along and feel bad afterwards.
MidgarBlowedUp
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It's tough being a handsome sophisticated white gaffer.
wsoxfan1214
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Yup. Had a friend telling me tonight that she was denied financial aid and stuff because she was white and had some money in the family.
I almost considered breaking contact with the person.
I almost considered breaking contact with the person.
What is wrong with you?
Vermillion
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I must say that I'm worse than he is at these things. I have friends that are clearly and unquestionably racist.
Vermillion
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That's... not how that works.
As has been said repeatedly, the dominant group feels like power is being taken from them as the oppressed class is brought up. It is factual that whites as a race do not experience the same level of casual nor systemic racism that blacks face.
Oppression Olympics, meaningless as they are requires two groups that are actually oppressed - white people do not fit that bill.
Opression Olympics just need you to belong into a special minority for gaining a sense of grievance and alienation since you are "not like the majority of people" and start playing identity politics riding into that retarded teenager feeling.
Whites in the US are becoming one minority in due to demographic changes, and thus, their "minoritation" process has begun, which have granted them (well, they have granted theirselves) a ticket into Opression Olympics and the whole "our tribe is such a special bunch of snowflakes with our very own special and unique problems and struggles that set us appart from the rest of mankind" type of discourse that it is so appealing to narcissists everywhere.
Yes, it is stupid, meaningless and it makes no sense or whatsoever like pretty much everything regarding collective identities, but I never said it otherwise.
ElectricBlue187
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Maybe if they repeated that phrase 5 more times id agree
Guys please understand, we're just missing the times where we won everything in history. Now that we can't genocide populations anymore because of values we ourselves invented, the other inferior cultures that had to be colonized by us to understand what progress even is are getting a bit cocky, but there's no one else to blame but ourselves.
I'm sure my ancestors loved being told they couldn't drink from certain fountains. Made them feel special, I'm sure.
I hope this is just some facetious humor, because if not I find this to be kind of racist.
Vermillion
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Nope. See, I believe that this mentality is the same one that leads to questions like "why can't we have a white culture club?" It's a misunderstanding of why these groups exist in the first place. On the basic level, there are two reasons:
1) To provide a safe haven from discrimination throughout society
2) To preserve one's culture in a society that doesn't necessarily support it
White culture groups don't fit either of those bills, as Western culture largely revolves around white people.
To respond to you more directly:
This is not true.
This does not matter, as a) whites are not yet a minority, and b) it doesn't matter if they were, as long as the culture continues to serve white people as it does today.
This is one of my favorites. Black people sure did love the GOP before that Obummer bumrushed the white house playing thug music on airforce one.
You are getting it right here and now.
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