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Sure I've heard people make comments about minorities, but it's nowhere near the anger and frequency that I see it online.
Are the people who post online a small minority or is it that I just happen to live in an area that doesn't have bad feelings towards minorities? The few times I do hear it in person the speaker usually gets called out on it, not always, but most of the times. Is my area more politically correct?
I think you have two things going on. One is that people cannot speak about race openly. Political correctness will now allow for cross-cultural criticisms. I'm not talking about racism, per se, I'm talking about some of the same observations made by Obama. The pent-up criticisms then come out, often sounding mean-spirited and over-blown, on the internet.
The other thing is that garden variety racists cannot speak their mantra in public. If they do, they will get fired from their jobs, and they will often become dissociated from friends and even family. So they go to the anonymous internet.
I think you have two things going on. One is that people cannot speak about race openly. Political correctness will now allow for cross-cultural criticisms. I'm not talking about racism, per se, I'm talking about some of the same observations made by Obama. The pent-up criticisms then come out, often sounding mean-spirited and over-blown, on the internet.
The other thing is that garden variety racists cannot speak their mantra in public. If they do, they will get fired from their jobs, and they will often become dissociated from friends and even family. So they go to the anonymous internet.
Exellent Point!
Within the areana where racial differences are most likely to rise to the surface .... the workplace .... the issue is generally skirted. No problem with that, just as long as the practicioners of High Political Correctness don't opt to fill the void (exclusively) with their agenda.
And in some quarters, more so in academia than on the factory floor or in the office, this appears to be the strategy they have formulated.
Sure I've heard people make comments about minorities, but it's nowhere near the anger and frequency that I see it online.
Are the people who post online a small minority or is it that I just happen to live in an area that doesn't have bad feelings towards minorities? The few times I do hear it in person the speaker usually gets called out on it, not always, but most of the times. Is my area more politically correct?
I hear Asians and other nonwhites say the sort of things in daily life that white posters only say online. White people have been effectively silenced by political correctness which is silly because people will still behave the way they want regardless of whether or not society thinks its ok to be honest about it. I honestly wish white people were allowed to be open......
I hear Asians and other nonwhites say the sort of things in daily life that white posters only say online. White people have been effectively silenced by political correctness which is silly because people will still behave the way they want regardless of whether or not society thinks its ok to be honest about it. I honestly wish white people were allowed to be open......
Exactly bottling these things up is simply too dangerous. African-Americans in particular are under the impression that only white people see many of the pathologies emanating from their community as negative.
Which is one of the reasons why if I was African- American I wouldn't exactly be heralding this new non-white majority. The new majority won't be beholden to white guilt.
Part of it is that people are cowards and know that if they say that to someone's face, it's gonna get far uglier than it can on the Internet.
yes, they're safe behind the keyboard and monitor. A good reason why black men especially have such a difficulty finding quality work. When Obama got elected blacks were shown the door fast. People are very racist towards blacks in general.
Exactly bottling these things up is simply too dangerous. African-Americans in particular are under the impression that only white people see many of the pathologies emanating from their community as negative.
Which is one of the reasons why if I was African- American I wouldn't exactly be heralding this new non-white majority. The new majority won't be beholden to white guilt.
When I was in real estate I never had a white person tell me they did not wish to live in an area where too many blacks or hispanics lived. I had one black client (from England), three Muslim clients and one native born hispanic client tell me that.
Had a Hindu client who told me he did not wish to see a house after we drove by a mosque on the way to it.
I hear Asians and other nonwhites say the sort of things in daily life that white posters only say online. White people have been effectively silenced by political correctness which is silly because people will still behave the way they want regardless of whether or not society thinks its ok to be honest about it. I honestly wish white people were allowed to be open......
open? Go back to the early days where blacks where hanged for even looking St whites. You don't remember the language spoken from whites back when they were allowed to be free? You really want to go to those days? Alot of what minorities have are due to the government trying to create laws of opportunity for minorities. You think every minority is there because of brains and a white speaking voice?
Once you leave school you forget the majority of what you learnt and its more than enough whites to fill every good paying job and leave the slave labors for the blacks and browns.
You need political and social correctness in America as a chance to give those who usually aren't given much of a chance.
open? Go back to the early days where blacks where hanged for even looking St whites. You don't remember the language spoken from whites back when they were allowed to be free? You really want to go to those days? Alot of what minorities have are due to the government trying to create laws of opportunity for minorities. You think every minority is there because of brains and a white speaking voice?
Once you leave school you forget the majority of what you learnt and its more than enough whites to fill every good paying job and leave the slave labors for the blacks and browns.
You need political and social correctness in America as a chance to give those who usually aren't given much of a chance.
There were 3 major drawbacks to the civil rights movement and that was the abandonment of Black-owned businesses to go work for corporations and govt positions, the abandonment of Black neighborhoods by the middle and upper class, and Black women embracing the lies of the Women's movement. These have been nearly fatal errors for African Americans. We believed and internalized the lie that White = better and as a group, we acted accordingly.
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