sc runner wrote: I highly doubt that blacks and hispanics are more likely to commit crimes than whites.
Then you'd be wrong.
sc runner wrote: I highly doubt that blacks and hispanics are more likely to commit crimes than whites.
Then you'd be wrong.
I've posted this before, and I'll post it again. Once you control for income and family structure, the correlation disappears.
The point is, it's not "racist" to say that blacks are more likely to commit crimes than whites. But it is racist to assume that this indicates something about black people without trying to figure out why.
I agree. I have been living in an East Asian country for a while and racism is unbelievable here. The public mockery and stereotypes are are not met with punitive retribution. Basically, there are no consequences to their actions. They can get away with just about anything, and there's not much course of action I can take to make sure it doesn't happen again.
The culture is basically reactive, rather than pro-active, regarding civil rights. There's no such thing as "self-defense". It's basically who ever causes the most damage pays the bill or goes to jail. Protecting yourself and your human rights are almost worthless here.
Hateful racism is everywhere. The key word is HATE. If we all looked and talked the same, we'd find some other reason to hate eachother. Racism is easy because, you don't have to be intelligent in order to draw an obvious distinction between people who don't look the same. Couple that with a person's innate instinct to hate, and you have what is happening in every corner of the Earth.
At least America has the media to expose issues such as these.
America is a plutocracy, not a meritocracy.
Nothing personal, but I'm not buying what you're selling.
America has been hit by a metaphorical series of ice bergs named Clinton and Bush, we're taking on water and sinking.
Hope I'll be dead and gone before China rules the world.
It's sad to see my nation aiming itself into the hands of Liberals who are bent on destroying it, believing that they themselves will be immune to disaster.
The black are breaking the law. It's a space-saving move for the prison system, silly.
You lived from 2001 until now and you're going to blame "liberals?" Are you even a sentient creature?
If you're going to go on about how blacks and hispanics commit crimes, you have to mention Russians. Russian mobster wannabe teens are the worst. I swear you get as much crime from them as blacks or hispanics.
Crock of Shit wrote:
What a crock ! NYPD and LAPD openly execute black men in public on the streets without a trial. There are more black men in prisons than in college. The U.S. today is the most racist nation in the history of the world.
Nazi Germany
Apartheid South Africa
Rwanda Circa 1994
Get your head out of your ass! We may have our problems, but there is no way you can seriously make that argument.
I agree with what you are saying.
But, f*ck the liberals and the conservatives. It's time to start thinking outside the box. It's time for revolution!!
We need innovation, renewable sources of energy, halts on trading outside our borders, to stop living beyond our means, teach our children to focus their talents on things that can have a direct impact on the capital(money) growth of our nation, and allow us to be more self-sufficient.
People, stop following the man and start reinventing this country. Blacks, Whites, Asians, help eachother. Share your intelligence, not your ignorance (cliche, but true).
Some of you people are the same that commend sport, but piss on the race and ethnicity of its athletes. We disregard the nerds, but exonerate the meat-heads and jocks. We focus our indulgence on worthless tokens of braggadocio like sports and race. Yet, we neglect the source of energy that turns the stadium lights on.
What the f*ck happened to responsibility in this country?
Bullshit wrote:
Bullshit: I live in massachusetts, please don't play that hand here, OK? I see tons of Asian students at harvard, MIT, BC, BU et al...gimmee a break.
The "tons of Asian" also have higher standardized test scores, grades and tougher course loads than those of other "races" who were admitted....
Not BS..get your fact straight...the value of diversity is a separate issue but Asian students are in fact held to a higher standard than Blacks, Hispanics and Whites...
I suppose one could call it "Affirmative Action for Whites" at the expense of Asians
I always say the only people who have the right to criticize Affirmative Action are Asians and Jews
asian guy knows what is up wrote:
They do have quotas at MIT at least, that's why there aren't even more. It's harder to get in if you're Asian.
right, but only b/c if they didn't limit it, MIT would be 95% Asian.
I'm in a phd program for engineering in the middle of the US. Out of ~200 students total, maybe 5 at best are US born white kids
CoachB wrote:
Crock of Shit wrote:What a crock ! NYPD and LAPD openly execute black men in public on the streets without a trial. There are more black men in prisons than in college. The U.S. today is the most racist nation in the history of the world.
Nazi Germany
Apartheid South Africa
Rwanda Circa 1994
Get your head out of your ass! We may have our problems, but there is no way you can seriously make that argument.
I would like to add the Egyptians over Israelites circa 3000 b.c.
asians should be put in concentration camps.
Check with the police chiefs in your area.
Yes and Yes. Liberals seem to think that an al-Qaeda or Talibanski would HESITATE before decapitating them over a moderate or GOP member.
I stand by my post.
I live West of the People's Republic of Cambridge.
Again: Yes and Yes.
That's a main issue: holding people accountable. Real reactionaries would go back to Wilson and WW1 in that vein.
Look, as long as we have affirmative action in place, and as long as we pretend there are not vast genetic racial differences in intelligence, criminality, etc. we will never approach a meritocracy. Just to give one specific extreme example, Ashkenazi Jews in America have IQs which average about 30 points higher than African-Americans (@115 Vs. @85). No wonder communication between these groups is virtually impossible, and no wonder one group is infinitely more successful than the other. We really need, as a country to accept racial differences among humans just as we do among dogs. We accept that Border Collies are much brighter than Afghan hounds, and guess what---nobody craps their pants about this news.
http://linkdonkey.blogspot.com/2006/12/10-most-intelligent-least-intelligent.html
The U.S. is very class oriented. They won't let 1/2 the Asians that should get in, into Ivy schools so they can let their white offspring into class. It's better than my country, but the U.S. has a long way to go.
Bullshit wrote:
...Hope I'll be dead and gone before China rules the world...
China, by the way - Beijing, at least - just banned bars from serving blacks. Not to get back to the side-topic of the thread (racism), but that sounds pretty racist to me.
News story here:
http://shanghaiist.com/2008/07/18/the_racist_games.php