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It's fascinating that you seem to find the "largely middle class white" part racist but not the "largely African American" part racist. Also, saying the Fergus
by Throwaway23412 11y ago
It's fascinating that you seem to find the "largely middle class white" part racist but not the "largely African American" part racist.
Also, saying the Ferguson protests were about "not paying bills" is like saying Occupy Wall Street was about "skipping work". It smacks of either absolute ignorance or some sort of deliberate agenda.
- nunobrito 11y agoSo my comment gets downvoted for pointing out racism in a y-combinator thread. The original post from the person to whom I've replied seems to have been rewritten and now my own previous answer is out of context. Great. Maybe some people around here assume racism as characteristic of a single group, not as a human characteristic that we all share alike. Perhaps helps to quote what "racist" is described on a dictionary: "a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race" http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/racism http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/racism For the record, the original poster mentioned that people of a given race were not paying bills, and that another given race was enforcing punitive legislation, for that reason riots spun at some point. I just disagreed with such point of view. Reducing a complex problem such as Ferguson (and others) to colors is not correct. But heck, just downvote the one that tries to point that out. Even the original poster corrected his comment, so I'm happy to see some reflection happening.
- tptacek 11y agoI stand by everything I wrote in my original comment and have to add that I really don't understand anything you're trying to say here.