meazza Posted May 2, 2014 Posted May 2, 2014 I'm always curious why so many white people get off on being outraged about anyone falling short of taking a mouthful of black dick. Why don't you guys relax a bit. I know a whole lot of black folks, and few, if any, are as genuinely uptight about racism as the Lilly white crowd that so desperately try to constantly prove that they're among the good ones. I'd like for one of the racially outraged to explain the logical basis of their impassioned position on this issue. Because they watched django unchained?
Rob's House Posted May 2, 2014 Posted May 2, 2014 Because they watched django unchained? I'll be shocked if anyone besides Birddog even attempts to explain their position, because they know there's no objectively reasonable rationale underlying their self-serving sanctimony.
Deranged Rhino Posted May 2, 2014 Posted May 2, 2014 I'll be shocked if anyone besides Birddog even attempts to explain their position, because they know there's no objectively reasonable rationale underlying their self-serving sanctimony. Even though it's a loaded question, and I disagree entirely with your choice of qualifiers, I'll answer. But only for myself, I'm not speaking for anyone but myself. It's a deeply personal issue for me and a re-occurring theme in my life. Not to get too philosophical, but Joseph Campbell talks a lot about inner demons and patterns that we all face, and will continue to face, until we confront them. Not sure I buy that entirely, but with this issue in my own life I see its merits. And I've seen enough first hand, personal damage caused by it to believe it's just a myth or that we now magically live in a post-racial America. It's my experience that we do not, and I have the scars to prove it -- emotional and physical. Pretending we do live in this mythical post-racial world is every bit as damaging as it is to inflate every verbal slight to mob-inciting decibels... again, in my opinion. Until it affects your life directly it's easy to brush off.
OCinBuffalo Posted May 2, 2014 Posted May 2, 2014 (edited) Because they watched django unchained? Yes. It appears that we need a slavery movie every 4 years, for the same reason we need a Holocaust movie every 1 year: liberals are so afraid of the public eductation system, they tell us is infallible, yet, may FAIL to correctly educate us on the disgusting and horrific reality of both historical occurances, that they need to interrupt our free time with remedial studies programs. EDIT: I should have said Hollywood Liberals, and then blamed GreggyT, since he's around, and, he's from Hollywood. Edited May 2, 2014 by OCinBuffalo
Deranged Rhino Posted May 2, 2014 Posted May 2, 2014 EDIT: I should have said Hollywood Liberals, and then blamed GreggyT, since he's around, and, he's from Hollywood.
OCinBuffalo Posted May 2, 2014 Posted May 2, 2014 (edited) Even though it's a loaded question, and I disagree entirely with your choice of qualifiers, I'll answer. But only for myself, I'm not speaking for anyone but myself. It's a deeply personal issue for me and a re-occurring theme in my life. Not to get too philosophical, but Joseph Campbell talks a lot about inner demons and patterns that we all face, and will continue to face, until we confront them. Not sure I buy that entirely, but with this issue in my own life I see its merits. And I've seen enough first hand, personal damage caused by it to believe it's just a myth or that we now magically live in a post-racial America. It's my experience that we do not, and I have the scars to prove it -- emotional and physical. Pretending we do live in this mythical post-racial world is every bit as damaging as it is to inflate every verbal slight to mob-inciting decibels... again, in my opinion. Until it affects your life directly it's easy to brush off. How about I make this entirely simple for you: we cannot live in a post-anything anything when it comes to human behavior. So let's stop lying/trying, shall we? (EDIT: IF we could live in a post-anything anything, no re-make of a movie would ever work, and most of your town would be screwed, because they'd have to be original all the time) Example: I'd love to be living in a post-idiot America. But, as long as more than a few somebodies thinks Nancy Pelosi is a leader, and is qualified to be a Congressman, never mind the leader of the House Democrats, I am prevented from doing that, through no fault of my own. (Make no mistake, we need a qualified leader of House Democrats) Joe Biden prevents me from living in a post-yammering idiot America. Who can objectively argue that Pelosi is not a blithering idiot, when we have terrabytes of data that confirms it? Biden? See how this works? So, one yammering idiot rancher, or yammering idiot NBA owner prevents us from living in a post-racial America, and that means we fold up the tents? Great. Now what? I guess we just forget about the other (I don't know, let's say 280, because we probably can find 10 million a-holes who were a jerk to somebody of another race, for no good reason today, and I'm doubling it just to be sure)...280 million people who made good choices today? Who weren't racist towards anyone, who didn't make anyone feel bad because of what they look like/how they dress/their name/gender, etc.? So, for the sake of argument, let's say ~94% of our people didn't do anything racist today. If this is 1870s North, never mind the South? That % goes down to 10%, and there's more than enough data to back that up, or, are you telling me you've never heard a Polish joke? 80+ points of positive movement in an entire population, an entire culture, in 150 years....is hardly cause for tears. So, shouldn't we press on, and be happy that we can all(if we are being objective, and don't have NAACP $ to raise/the next Rainbow coalition shakedown to start) see which way the country is going? The fact that practically EVERYBODY instantly agreed with the NBA's decision on this issue should tell you where we stand on racial progress. We cannot have everything go our way all the time, and, we cannot ever expect to live in a 100% post-racial country, and neither can anyone else(ahem, especially people in EU countries, despite all their self-congratulation, they are more racist than we). That is because: we have 300+ million people, and none of them doing/saying anything stupid, ever, being the standard we test for, and that test being pass/fail, with FAIL meaning: we are still a "racist country".... ...is just about the dumbest thing there is. If we are going to prejudiced against something? That sort of dumbness is the best candidate. Edited May 2, 2014 by OCinBuffalo
Deranged Rhino Posted May 2, 2014 Posted May 2, 2014 How about I make this entirely simple for you... :wub:
OCinBuffalo Posted May 2, 2014 Posted May 2, 2014 :wub: Hey, if you're going to make fun of your own guy? Then, I'm real winning, not Charlie Sheen winning. Or should I call that "Hollywood Winning"? How come the biggest grossing movie, and sequel, is about a white country girl that's handy with weapons, and stands up/defeats to the overly-centralized government that exploits her and her neighbors? ....and not about this person or that one being a racist, a slave, or a Holocaust survivor? Who's winning, given those #s, do you think? :D I think "man, all those pots of messages, all that straining to make them relevant to the story, and then Hunger Games comes along and drives its message home, and blows up the 10k pots they threw in over the last 5 years, in one sitting....it must drive them all nuts".
Deranged Rhino Posted May 2, 2014 Posted May 2, 2014 Hey, if you're going to make fun of your own guy? Then, I'm real winning, not Charlie Sheen winning. Or should I call that "Hollywood Winning"?
OCinBuffalo Posted May 2, 2014 Posted May 2, 2014 (edited) What else you got? And, the Katniss says: "Hello, Hollywood. Goodbye, Leftist Message". Edited May 2, 2014 by OCinBuffalo
OCinBuffalo Posted May 2, 2014 Posted May 2, 2014 (edited) I see your Nicolas Cage fake "regular guy in store" pretentious photobomb(apparently ALL of you attach 2 pair of sunglasses to your person/bags? Is this now cool? Should we expect to see it in every movie going forward?), and raise you Hollywood photobomb with Al Gore lookalike component: Edited May 2, 2014 by OCinBuffalo
3rdnlng Posted May 2, 2014 Posted May 2, 2014 "A colored guy" Really? I'll give you the benefit of the doubt here, and assume you meant "person of color", but try not to make it so difficult going forward. I wouldn't have guessed you would be the first to take the bait. "Colored guy", really?
Deranged Rhino Posted May 2, 2014 Posted May 2, 2014 I wouldn't have guessed you would be the first to take the bait. "Colored guy", really?
OCinBuffalo Posted May 2, 2014 Posted May 2, 2014 (edited) Hmmm....Super hero... or one-man-show song and dance performer? I'm gonna say you were going for super hero, so this is my reply. Also, the Jackman photos are very exploitable. They could be used to make a comparison....say: US Foreign Policy: Before Obama After Obama. ****Fixed**** Edited May 2, 2014 by OCinBuffalo
OCinBuffalo Posted May 2, 2014 Posted May 2, 2014 (edited) There can be only one.... ....response, on any of the boards here, to blatant flippage of the bird: We're just doing things in reverse order this time around. Edited May 2, 2014 by OCinBuffalo
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