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In the discussion thread: i don't get white supremacism. [View all]

Tue Aug 7, 2012, 01:52 PM

55. Why would I do that?

You have given me know reason to suspect that you are a racist ... though you would ignore racism/white priviledge (something that negatively affects me, but presumably benefits you) in favor of attacking classism.

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73 replies	Author	Time	Post
i don't get white supremacism. [View all]	barbtries	Aug 2012	OP
About a dozen years ago an IT Director who worked for me hired a Pakistani man...	Scuba	Aug 2012	#1
US citizens come in all colors. I don't really think the OP is in support of H1Bs, either way. nt	Romulox	Aug 2012	#21
I'm sorry, I didn't make my point clear. The asshat in question would have been...	Scuba	Aug 2012	#22
I'm pretty certain ...	1StrongBlackMan	Aug 2012	#29
Check out the frustrated white man thread.	ieoeja	Aug 2012	#37
Yep, I recced that yesterday.	Scuba	Aug 2012	#40
I posted to that thread yesterday ...	1StrongBlackMan	Aug 2012	#53
Sorry I brought up the issue of class in that thread. Insinuate I'm a racist now, to punish me! nt	Romulox	Aug 2012	#38
You didn't. You tried to hijack the thread into an H1-B discussion.	Warren Stupidity	Aug 2012	#54
That wasn't my intention. I think it is odd to frame an employment issue that way, though.	Romulox	Aug 2012	#57
Why would I do that?	1StrongBlackMan	Aug 2012	#55
If I've misread you, I apologize. I'll admit to being hyper-sensitive to such accusations. However	Romulox	Aug 2012	#60
No one will argue that race and class ...	1StrongBlackMan	Aug 2012	#62
the OP is in support	barbtries	Aug 2012	#33
If all you have going for you is your skin color	yellerpup	Aug 2012	#2
I think that's kind of the thing....	Jeff In Milwaukee	Aug 2012	#31
I grew up in a family of	yellerpup	Aug 2012	#42
i'm glad you made it out	barbtries	Aug 2012	#51
The price of 'going against yer raising"	yellerpup	Aug 2012	#56
you have my respect.	barbtries	Aug 2012	#58
All I did was stay true to myself	yellerpup	Aug 2012	#61
Its the system we live in. We all participate in one	Solomon	Aug 2012	#3
You nailed it	brush	Aug 2012	#4
It's not white supremacism, it's Evil; with a capital E	Nuclear Unicorn	Aug 2012	#5
I find it tragically ironic	Homer Wells	Aug 2012	#6
Change "white citizenry" to "humanity" and you've got a +1 n/t	Nuclear Unicorn	Aug 2012	#8
I know, right?	Jeff In Milwaukee	Aug 2012	#32
Being White Did Come with a Lot of Privileges	Yavin4	Aug 2012	#7
...it still does.	uponit7771	Aug 2012	#18
True, But Far, Far Less Than It Once Was	Yavin4	Aug 2012	#23
Unless ...	1StrongBlackMan	Aug 2012	#43
That is what the do-nothing wealthy want you to think	siligut	Aug 2012	#49
"here we ALL are on this planet together. all human, all together on the planet."	pampango	Aug 2012	#9
It's the refuge of the former masters of a dismantled system of slavery.	Skidmore	Aug 2012	#10
The people that are white supremacists	JoeyT	Aug 2012	#67
It's also in this instanced,	warrior1	Aug 2012	#11
I would like	riverwalker	Aug 2012	#12
It has always made me scratch my head as well.	hifiguy	Aug 2012	#13
If you don't get White Supremacy, then you must not think you are better than everyone else.	slampoet	Aug 2012	#14
Oh, they have more engaging things - FOX Noise and Limbaugh!	HopeHoops	Aug 2012	#15
Definitely time to revisit this	nichomachus	Aug 2012	#16
id never seen it	barbtries	Aug 2012	#64
But white people are supreme!	Nye Bevan	Aug 2012	#17
it is the extreme of white privilege that so many deny. he KNOWS he is entitled to so much more	seabeyond	Aug 2012	#19
you would have understood white supremacism	BOG PERSON	Aug 2012	#20
i hope not.	barbtries	Aug 2012	#34
It's like nationalism.	Lizzie Poppet	Aug 2012	#24
"Nationalism does nothing but teach you how to hate people you never met and take pride in	pampango	Aug 2012	#30
yep	barbtries	Aug 2012	#36
Nationalism should be distinguished from "populism", however, which is about banding together for	Romulox	Aug 2012	#46
That's because you're not a loser.	Zoeisright	Aug 2012	#25
reminds me of something the humorist fran lebowitz said	BOG PERSON	Aug 2012	#35
Fear	Berlum	Aug 2012	#26
Someone said, "George Bush is proof	The Velveteen Ocelot	Aug 2012	#27
But, at the same time, ...	1StrongBlackMan	Aug 2012	#44
+1, this is what makes most black folk I know mad as hell. Bush was a dumb ass	uponit7771	Aug 2012	#59
so much of these attitudes IMHO	gopiscrap	Aug 2012	#28
out of the mouths of babes	janlyn	Aug 2012	#39
wise for her years.	barbtries	Aug 2012	#48
Any kind of X-supremacy is silly to me	4th law of robotics	Aug 2012	#41
It gives poor whites somebody "below" them to feel better than.	Odin2005	Aug 2012	#45
exactly what i don't get.	barbtries	Aug 2012	#47
of course, the flipside of the exclusivist religion	BOG PERSON	Aug 2012	#52
It's how one person can be ''one-up'' on another.	Octafish	Aug 2012	#50
Maybe because they wish they was not white.	Thinkingabout	Aug 2012	#63
Well, I don't get it, either.	Denninmi	Aug 2012	#65
"...we're all richer for it."	ailsagirl	Aug 2012	#71
Nice post. A lot of folks don't view people from around the world so positively. Immigrants do make	pampango	Aug 2012	#72
why some whites are supremacists...	Sick of the GOP	Aug 2012	#66
Looks to me like you understood it just fine.	JoeyT	Aug 2012	#68
that's the part i can see,	barbtries	Aug 2012	#69
They're not pursuing happiness.	JoeyT	Aug 2012	#70
apparently.	barbtries	Aug 2012	#73

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