Proof that racism is alive and well Options

[cmac]

You mean to tell me your entire life nobody ever made fun of you at all? I call major bullshit. Hell you have been made fun of by people on here before.

yeah, that's what i'm telling ya. not that i can recall off hand anyway.
i'm not quite sure a difference in opinion is considered 'made fun of?'

[impala454]

You're wacky man I dunno what to say. How are you comparing "difference in opinion" to being "made fun of"?? Those two concepts do not have anything to do with each other.

Made fun of = "hey you're a doo doo head"

Difference of opinion = "I think blue is a great color." "well, I do not"

If you think nobody made fun of you growing up ever, you're even more stuck up than I thought. Seems more to me like you're just posting business as usual claiming some dumbass personal anecdote to try to counter whatever point it is someone is trying to make.

[cmac]

no.
i think it's possible that people were never made fun of growing up. speaking from personal experience.
i grew up in a ridiculously small town and my grad class had 21 people in it.
we were all close from k-12. i participated in every sport and was valedictorian. played sports in college. i have 0 recollection of being made fun of, teased, etc.
talked about behind my back, probably, but that's not being made fun of.
i don't recall being called a doo doo head on this site.
i'm just saying, it does happen.
tease me if you wish. then we can defunct my "myth."

[Dogmeat]

yeah, that's what i'm telling ya. not that i can recall off hand anyway.
i'm not quite sure a difference in opinion is considered 'made fun of?'

christ I would have beat the shit out of you daily until you killed yourself had you gone to my highschool. your whole highschool must have been just chock full of queers

[cmac]

[impala454]

Lol bragging about valedictorian and playing all sports with his graduation class of 21.

And yes, being made fun of behind your back is still being made fun of.

Bottom line, is you know I'm right, and as usual you think you're some damn special case when you're really not.


p.s. I bet you never cried as a kid either right? Probably never got a bruise before? I bet you haven't ever even taken a shit! Your food is probably transformed into a sweet smelling perfume rather than shit.

[woody]

Lol bragging about valedictorian and playing all sports with his graduation class of 21.

And yes, being made fun of behind your back is still being made fun of.

Bottom line, is you know I'm right, and as usual you think you're some damn special case when you're really not.


p.s. I bet you never cried as a kid either right? Probably never got a bruise before? I bet you haven't ever even taken a shit! Your food is probably transformed into a sweet smelling perfume rather than shit.

I bet you've never lost an argument. I bet you've never said you were wrong

[chook]

I bet you've never lost an argument. I bet you've never said you were wrong

I bet that you were never white!

[cmac]

p.s. I bet you never cried as a kid either right? Probably never got a bruise before? I bet you haven't ever even taken a shit! Your food is probably transformed into a sweet smelling perfume rather than shit.

yeah pretty much. see, i have this halo thing above my head, and i can't quite figure out how it got there. odd really.

[Inferia]

White privilege is just a kind of privilege, and not the only kind of privilege. Since we're talking about race, then I didn't venture into the privilege that comes with wealth, or having good health. Yes, if you move to another country, then it may not benefit you to be white, but we're not talking about another country, we're talking about the US.

http://www.redroom.com/blog/tim-wise/denia...-bias-cambridge

[Black Bear]

...your kind of food in the supermarket...

I'm being discriminated against here in Lubbock County. I have to drive at least 40 minutes to find the nearest store that sells my comestibles on both my German and Irish sides.

I've heard comments such as don't you think Mexicans are racist? Ultimately that's not the point, I personally don't think people should (or at least aim to try) justify their actions and attitudes based on the ignorance of another group of people.

I understand your point here, but you also make another point. Growing up I always heard racism talked about like it was a disease only white people could get. Then I grew up and went to college. Fuck that. If you want to generalize--a scary proposition, I know--I find whites to be the least racist. I think it is mainly because the media and affirmative action and all the other crap has been trying for years to guilt us into feeling bad. Fuck that. I personally grew up in BFE, but a co-worker of mine was a white boy growing up in a black neighborhood. Yeah, like the song. A nine year old trying to protect a 7 and a 5 year old brother from teenagers. To this day his only comment is "Fuck those black mother fuckers." From what he went through I cannot blame him.

As far as profiling goes, I know about that, too. If you sat me on a harley I would fit right in with most biker gangs. I simply like my beard, and I like it to be the opposite of my head, which looks like a cue-ball. When people first see me they are pretty damned reserved to say the least. Now you are probably thinking that my situation is different from skin color, and I'll agree with you: I choose to look the way I do. But I've been profiled before. Is it fun? No, it isn't. Personally I hate cops, but you don't yell and scream at them, no mater how big the fucking chip on their shoulder is.

As far as white privilege, I never really felt very privileged because I was white. I worked to get where I am today. Did I do it all myself? Hell no, but I didn't lay around and expect it to be handed to me either. I busted my ass in school to get good grades to earn my scholarships. My family did without so we could participate in 4-H. I didn't have a game console till I went to college and I bought a sega genesis. My vehicles were used oil-field trucks. I was able to get them not cause I'm white, but because my old man worked his ass off doing four fucking jobs, and one of those jobs was in the oil-field. (Yeah, I freely admit I'll never be the man my dad is, but then neither will anyone else. They just don't make 'em like my old man anymore. He's the greatest god-damn man I've ever met. That's not bragging, just the facts.)

Now I know someone will probably try to misquote me, and that's fine. But the only racism I see in THIS case is coming from the black community.

[impala454]

I bet you've never lost an argument. I bet you've never said you were wrong

You would be wrong about that.

[impala454]

yeah pretty much. see, i have this halo thing above my head, and i can't quite figure out how it got there. odd really.

only shows up in the mirror though doesn't it