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[Pipeline 1010]

It sounds like racism to me.

To me, the following can sum up what racism is:
1) Treating someone differently depending on the racial or ethnic group you perceive them to be part of.
2) Thinking you know something about somebody because of the racial or ethnic group you perceive them to be part of.

In this case, #1 has been met, possibly due to #2. Racism is always divisive and always wrong. They shouldn't have excluded people based on a physical trait that those people didn't get to choose.

 

[shabby]

Correct me if I forgot my grade school color wheel crap but isn't black the absence of color?

Bingo.

 

[Smoblikat]

wrong topic.....sorry

 

[MongGrel]

The Beatles Helter Skelter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWuXmfgXVxY

 

[Coalfax]

last I checked, white is a color.. shrug.

 

[emperus]

It sounds like racism to me.

To me, the following can sum up what racism is:
1) Treating someone differently depending on the racial or ethnic group you perceive them to be part of.
2) Thinking you know something about somebody because of the racial or ethnic group you perceive them to be part of.

In this case, #1 has been met, possibly due to #2. Racism is always divisive and always wrong. They shouldn't have excluded people based on a physical trait that those people didn't get to choose.

I think u have the definition of racism wrong. Racism is treating someone differently based on the belief that their race is inferior or ur race is superior.

 

[Bitek]

I'm going with racism on this one.
Let alone questionable judgment.

If you pursuing a cause, why would you back someone like this cat who is a career criminal? Great way to undermine your own cause.

 

[Exophase]

I think u have the definition of racism wrong. Racism is treating someone differently based on the belief that their race is inferior or ur race is superior.

You'll have a hard time finding that definition somewhere. I know the Wikipedia page uses it as an example of racism, but not every example of racism. Then again, the Wikipedia page also has this beautifully written section:

Colorblindness is a human behavior referring to the disregard of racial characteristics when selecting which individuals will participate in some activity or receive some service. Colorblindness makes people profiling, classifying, distinguishing, and categorizing others based upon their race. Colorblindness is related to racism. In order to stop racism, colorblindness era must be ended. As described by Chief Justice John Roberts, "The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race, is to stop discriminating on the basis of race."[57] Colorblindness practices have been happened in United States. There is an era where American practices the colorblindness. In Social Inequality and Social Stratification in US Society, Christopher Doob says that white people believe they live in a world in which "racial privilege no longer exists, but their behavior supports racialized structures and practices." There are several efforts in United State to prevent colorblindness, one of them is the effort to built civil rights legislation. The goal of the civil rights legislation was to remove racial discrimination and so establish a race-blind standard. Other effort is Martin Luther King Jr.’s African-American Civil Rights Movement[58] that has hoped for people would someday be judged by "the content of their character" rather than "the color of their skin". Although the colorblindness era in United States has already finished, but there are many people in United State that still used the colorblindness to discriminate others.

This section has directly survived edits by multiple accounts. It's amazing.

At any rate, could not this group's unwillingness to congregate with white people be an expression of perceived inferiority? That white people are unsuitable or unqualified to partake in their meeting?

 

[emperus]

You'll have a hard time finding that definition somewhere.

rac·ism
ˈrāˌsizəm/Submit
noun
noun: racism
the belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races.
prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior.
"a program to combat racism"
synonyms: racial discrimination, racialism, racial prejudice, xenophobia, chauvinism, bigotry, casteism
"Aborigines are the main victims of racism in Australia"

That was the defintion google gave me when I typed in racism. I would say you didn't even try hard enough, but in this case you didn't even try.

The word is defined. And it does not mean what you thought it did.

You chose the word for the effect of the word. You could have easily used racial discrimination to make your point and have a discussion about this issue.

At any rate, could not this group's unwillingness to congregate with white people be an expression of perceived inferiority? That white people are unsuitable or unqualified to partake in their meeting?

And you further your ridiculous point by arguing that you believe these colored folk believe they are superior to white people and thus don't want to invite white people to their meeting? Sorry, that's idiotic.

 

[werepossum]

I'm going with racism on this one.
Let alone questionable judgment.

If you pursuing a cause, why would you back someone like this cat who is a career criminal? Great way to undermine your own cause.

Because he had the complexion for the connection.

Some people have moved on from "black people should have the right to assault others in safety" to "black people should have the right to shoot cops in safety". Sad, but also amusing.

Could be worse. These could be the people in charge.

 

[Victorian Gray]

Because he had the complexion for the connection.

Some people have moved on from "black people should have the right to assault others in safety" to "black people should have the right to shoot cops in safety". Sad, but also amusing.

Could be worse. These could be the people in charge.

Examples?

 

[werepossum]

Examples?

Not sure if you missed the linked story in the original post because it had too few pictures, or just didn't understand the linked story in the original post because it had too few pictures. Either way, this forum has seen people staunchly defend Trayvon Martin's right to assault someone without being shot, defend Mike Brown's right to assault a cop without being shot, and we're now seeing people defend a self-segregating group meeting about a man shot after he shot one cop and attempted to shoot more.

I'm at a loss as to how I might bring that down to a simpler level.

 

[Victorian Gray]

Not sure if you missed the linked story in the original post because it had too few pictures, or just didn't understand the linked story in the original post because it had too few pictures. Either way, this forum has seen people staunchly defend Trayvon Martin's right to assault someone without being shot, defend Mike Brown's right to assault a cop without being shot, and we're now seeing people defend a self-segregating group meeting about a man shot after he shot one cop and attempted to shoot more.

I'm at a loss as to how I might bring that down to a simpler level.

Insults and straw. Any way you can work in a way to blame Obama as well?

 

[emperus]

Because he had the complexion for the connection.

Some people have moved on from "black people should have the right to assault others in safety" to "black people should have the right to shoot cops in safety". Sad, but also amusing.

Could be worse. These could be the people in charge.

This should be nominated for the dumbest post of the year.

 

[brianmanahan]

i think that's fair

 

[LegendKiller]

Nice double standard. Racism is only racism when it occurs against black people. It's OK for them to rip on anybody else.

Remember how Black Lives Matter had a cow when those evil Canadian Jews decided that the Mall of America was off limits to protestors?

Yeah, same shit. How dare you deny us the right to go where we want, private property or no.

 

[DCal430]

As a person of "color" this is stupid, and smells of racism. A person shot and basically has killed a cop, and now people are mad he is dead too.

 

[Exophase]

That was the defintion google gave me when I typed in racism. I would say you didn't even try hard enough, but in this case you didn't even try.

The word is defined. And it does not mean what you thought it did.

You chose the word for the effect of the word. You could have easily used racial discrimination to make your point and have a discussion about this issue.

ESPECIALLY does not mean EXCLUSIVELY. Do you not understand that? Do I really have to explain this? It's given as an example, not all examples. Same thing as on Wikipedia.

And you further your ridiculous point by arguing that you believe these colored folk believe they are superior to white people and thus don't want to invite white people to their meeting? Sorry, that's idiotic.

I said that it's possible, not that it's the only explanation.

Believing that people are, by virtue of their skin tone, threatening to your group can also be a way of expressing that they are inferior. Inferiority/superiority can actually be pretty broad...

 

[Pipeline 1010]

ESPECIALLY does not mean EXCLUSIVELY. Do you not understand that? Do I really have to explain this? It's given as an example, not all examples. Same thing as on Wikipedia.



I said that it's possible, not that it's the only explanation.

Believing that people are, by virtue of their skin tone, threatening to your group can also be a way of expressing that they are inferior. Inferiority/superiority can actually be pretty broad...

Yeah, I can't understand how/why he's arguing that you can treat people in different ways based solely on their perceived racial group and that isn't racism. And no, he doesn't seem to understand what the word "especially" means.

 

[WaTaGuMp]

I am white, but my skin has color, just like every other person in the world.

 

[cubby1223]

I'm going with racism on this one.
Let alone questionable judgment.

If you pursuing a cause, why would you back someone like this cat who is a career criminal? Great way to undermine your own cause.

To be fair, we don't know from the tweet if the meeting is in support of the guy or not. If there is further info, I'm just not aware of it at this moment.

 

[halik]

How the hell did they manage to find a martyr that's objectively worse than Brown?

Unless their end game is to somehow make any behaviour acceptable with the provision of some perceived racial injustice, I don't see what this whole movement is after. We've gone from assaulting a cop not being a cause for getting shot, to now shooting a cop not being a cause of getting shot.

 

[pcgeek11]

This is as bad a Reverend Sharpton ranting on the Indiana Law on freedom of religion law using religion to cover racism.

They are using racism to try and cover racism....

 

[emperus]

ESPECIALLY does not mean EXCLUSIVELY. Do you not understand that? Do I really have to explain this? It's given as an example, not all examples. Same thing as on Wikipedia.



I said that it's possible, not that it's the only explanation.

Believing that people are, by virtue of their skin tone, threatening to your group can also be a way of expressing that they are inferior. Inferiority/superiority can actually be pretty broad...

Sorry. You're attempt to back up your idiotic use of Racism is just that idiotic. The fundamental element of racism is believing another race is inferior or your race is superior. Look at even the 2nd part of the definition to make it clearer for you. You are the one who chooses to use a word you didn't have an understanding of. What, does it sound so good when black people use it, that you wanted to hurl it back, or take the oppression of hundreds of years of persecution to make a silly point that whites are the one now being persecuted because of reverse racism?

You're further twisting your idiotic use by making a further idiotic argument. I'm scared of someone, or feel persecuted by someone, so by attempting to not invite them somewhere proves that they are inferior to me? Get out of here with that Bullshit. You'd get an F for that logic even in middleschool.

 

[VtPC83]

It's racist, plain and simple. They are discriminating against a race from doing something by not allowing them to attend based on their skin color.

THAT IS THE DEFINITION OF RACISM.

This is just like skinny vs fat shaming. Its absolutely fine when an overweight person makes fun of a skinny person but god forbid it goes the other way, the world ends.

I'll repeat what I said before, this is disgusting.