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You're absolutely right, but HN users don't realize that most of America exists outside of their ideological bubble. > For example, if child of meth heads grow

by montyf 8y ago

You're absolutely right, but HN users don't realize that most of America exists outside of their ideological bubble. > For example, if child of meth heads grows up to be president, he's yet another privileged white president, not an outsider who overcame adversity. It's racism and nothing else. Thing is, it's OK to be racist nowadays, as long as you're a liberal. Edit: to the guy quoting the dictionary below me, this is racism in a really obvious way. It is "prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race" and it's not okay just because you don't explicitly declare your race superior.

Clubber 8y ago
Again, not racism. It's being stereotypical. Dictionary definition: >prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior.
- needToSay 8y ago
  > Again, not racism. It's being stereotypical. > Dictionary definition: > >prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior. Fuck off nigger
kadenshep 8y ago
>Thing is, it's OK to be racist nowadays, as long as you're a liberal. Citation needed, but I know you're just lying. The "left" in the U.S. has been the only political wing to consistently call out and punish its own members for unacceptable behavior. Meanwhile on the right, they gladly promote and endorse members who engage in racism, sexual assault, pedophilia, and ignoring people's rights. All while actively taking nearly every wrong perspective/action on basically any subject ranging from the economy to diplomacy. Happy reading! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_federal_political_sex_scandals_in_the_United_States#2000%E2%80%932009 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_federal_political_sex_...
- briandear 8y ago
  Louis Farrakhan. Joy Reid. Hillary Clinton (who once famously called young black males ‘predators.’) Joe Biden, who called Barrack Obama a “clean, articulate” black candidate in contrast to the implied “uncleanliness” of one of the first black presidential candidates, Jesse Jackson. Then there is the soft bigotry of low expectations that’s famous among the left: “oh, these people are of a certain. race, so we don’t expect them to be able to pass this test or accomplish this goal.” Bigotry and racism on the left is not as obvious, but I would argue, even more insidious.
  - kadenshep 8y ago
    >Louis Farrakhan. Joy Reid. Hillary Clinton These people were called out (or continue to be called out) for their actions and words, and unlike their counter parts on the right had the intelligence to correct for it. Whether you believe it to be sincere is kind of irrelevant, so I'm just going to stave off that talking point right there. Notable "leftist" institutions like the SPLC track such statements and view points and won't play disingenuous games with who they point a spotlight on. >but I would argue, even more insidious. Please do. I'd love to see how "bigotry" on the left is somehow equivalent to the decades of economic and social policies advanced by the right+ in the U.S.; policies that have quite literally decimated entire communities across the nation via incarceration, lack of education, and lack of capital access.
    - briandear 8y ago
      Decades? Because decades ago, people like Robert Byrd, one of Hillary Clinton’s mentors was a leader of the Ku Klux Klan. Democrats took up civil rights because it was politically expedient to do so. But they have been far from leaders when it comes to civil rights. Martin Luther King, Jr was a Republican. The Democrat party has used black people. Look at the recent history. How many black congressmen were given committee chairmanships when Democrats controlled Congress? How many black people have ever had significant party leadership positions other than Obama? And what economic policies are racist in the US? If you admit that there are racist economic policies, then you are admitting that black people are somehow a homogenous group — which is itself racist. Black people aren’t different from white people, suggesting that they need special economic consideration is insulting. Poor people isn’t analogous with black people, despite what Democrats would have you think.

by montyf 8y ago

Clubber 8y ago

Again, not racism. It's being stereotypical. Dictionary definition: >prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior.

needToSay 8y ago
> Again, not racism. It's being stereotypical. > Dictionary definition: > >prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior. Fuck off nigger

kadenshep 8y ago

>Thing is, it's OK to be racist nowadays, as long as you're a liberal. Citation needed, but I know you're just lying. The "left" in the U.S. has been the only political wing to consistently call out and punish its own members for unacceptable behavior. Meanwhile on the right, they gladly promote and endorse members who engage in racism, sexual assault, pedophilia, and ignoring people's rights. All while actively taking nearly every wrong perspective/action on basically any subject ranging from the economy to diplomacy. Happy reading! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_federal_political_sex_scandals_in_the_United_States#2000%E2%80%932009 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_federal_political_sex_...

briandear 8y ago
Louis Farrakhan. Joy Reid. Hillary Clinton (who once famously called young black males ‘predators.’) Joe Biden, who called Barrack Obama a “clean, articulate” black candidate in contrast to the implied “uncleanliness” of one of the first black presidential candidates, Jesse Jackson. Then there is the soft bigotry of low expectations that’s famous among the left: “oh, these people are of a certain. race, so we don’t expect them to be able to pass this test or accomplish this goal.” Bigotry and racism on the left is not as obvious, but I would argue, even more insidious.
- kadenshep 8y ago
  >Louis Farrakhan. Joy Reid. Hillary Clinton These people were called out (or continue to be called out) for their actions and words, and unlike their counter parts on the right had the intelligence to correct for it. Whether you believe it to be sincere is kind of irrelevant, so I'm just going to stave off that talking point right there. Notable "leftist" institutions like the SPLC track such statements and view points and won't play disingenuous games with who they point a spotlight on. >but I would argue, even more insidious. Please do. I'd love to see how "bigotry" on the left is somehow equivalent to the decades of economic and social policies advanced by the right+ in the U.S.; policies that have quite literally decimated entire communities across the nation via incarceration, lack of education, and lack of capital access.
  - briandear 8y ago
    Decades? Because decades ago, people like Robert Byrd, one of Hillary Clinton’s mentors was a leader of the Ku Klux Klan. Democrats took up civil rights because it was politically expedient to do so. But they have been far from leaders when it comes to civil rights. Martin Luther King, Jr was a Republican. The Democrat party has used black people. Look at the recent history. How many black congressmen were given committee chairmanships when Democrats controlled Congress? How many black people have ever had significant party leadership positions other than Obama? And what economic policies are racist in the US? If you admit that there are racist economic policies, then you are admitting that black people are somehow a homogenous group — which is itself racist. Black people aren’t different from white people, suggesting that they need special economic consideration is insulting. Poor people isn’t analogous with black people, despite what Democrats would have you think.