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The only way to get over racism is to make jokes about it. Not white fragility though; that's not funny and just complaining.
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This is it. This is Peak. http://www.ajc.com/news/local/the-red-line-daily-racial-transformation-marta/Uowu4tz4U1Qv2SLUFAIqQM/ quote:Taking the MARTA train from the mostly white northern suburbs down to the airport captures a cross section of the racial makeup, and divide, that exists in Atlanta.
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Dexo posted:This is it. This is Peak. There isn't a facepalm big enough.
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Has the word "crackers" ever been used in a story that wasn't STDH Edit: Didn't even catch the "unsavory references to f e m a l e s at first. Thank you for defending our honor, I and the other fe-males appreciate it.
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I was really hoping it was going to end with "and I realized that mixing cultures is a good and special trait of America" but I should have known better.
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Apr 27, 2017 23:50
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cis autodrag posted:I was really hoping it was going to end with "and I realized that mixing cultures is a good and special trait of America" but I should have known better. Hey now, he's all about the brotherhood of man. It's just black people need to be less offputting to white suburbanites on their way to the airport for us to achieve it.
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there wolf posted:Hey now, he's all about the brotherhood of man. It's just black people need to be less offputting to white suburbanites on their way to the airport for us to achieve it. Brotherhood of man but no brothers of the hood man.
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Gaunab posted:The only way to get over racism is to make jokes about it. Not white fragility though; that's not funny and just complaining.
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Apr 29, 2017 13:32
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As a white person in the Negrotown thread, I
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Dear White People premiered on Netflix yesterday, and I binged the whole thing. I think it's a decent watch, but not without its issues. I could have done without the appearance of straw feminists in every few episodes, alongside the constant theme of "women are their own worst enemy in the fight for equality" that pervades the whole of Coco's plotline, and I'm not sure how I feel about there being an episode centered around the white guy. The plotline involving the teacher in a homosexual relationship having a hetero affair with Troy was also unfortunate. That said, the narrator's sardonicism was positively delightful, and Lionel's treatment on the whole was, in my opinion, an improvement over his portrayal in the movie. Anyone else check it out yet?
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Plom Bar posted:Dear White People premiered on Netflix yesterday, and I binged the whole thing. I think it's a decent watch, but not without its issues. I could have done without the appearance of straw feminists in every few episodes, alongside the constant theme of "women are their own worst enemy in the fight for equality" that pervades the whole of Coco's plotline, and I'm not sure how I feel about there being an episode centered around the white guy. The plotline involving the teacher in a homosexual relationship having a hetero affair with Troy was also unfortunate. That said, the narrator's sardonicism was positively delightful, and Lionel's treatment on the whole was, in my opinion, an improvement over his portrayal in the movie. Anyone else check it out yet? I want to. It sounds like it's similar to the movie in that it's enjoyable overall but has some things that will annoy the hell out of me.
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e: i misunderstood.
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May 2, 2017 08:51
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Dexo posted:This is it. This is Peak. I hadn't embarked on a sojourn to Hartsfield International Airport in a fortnight. With trepidation I would board the people carrier, but I knew that if I would be accosted I must act without hesitation. I had prepared well in advance. Headphones at the ready, my cellular communication device had been set to display Spotify, loaded for bear with a radio station based on the works of UGK.
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May 2, 2017 13:39
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Dexo posted:This is it. This is Peak. 
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The cop who shot in the back and murdered Walter Scott has pled guilty to a federal civil rights violation charge, with a maximum sentence of life in prison. This is a better outcome than I'd expected after the initial jury deadlock and mistrial he initially got. (How does a jury deadlock when you can literally watch a video where the cop is shooting an unarmed, fleeing man to death? Oh right, racist white jurors  .)https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/05/cop-filmed-shooting-fleeing-man-pleads-guilty-to-civil-rights-charge/ I'm disappointed it is on the civil rights violation charge and not the actual murder charge, as the murder charge would have meant a minimum of 30 years to life, and the charge he is pleading guilty to does not have such a minimum sentence. It won't bring Scott (or Garner, or Castile, or Brown, or any other victims of police) back, but at least this rear end in a top hat will never get a badge and gun again.
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May 3, 2017 00:08
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On the flip side of that they killed one of our children again and the murderer of Alton Sterling will walk as well. gently caress this country.
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May 3, 2017 00:09
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Fluffdaddy posted:On the flip side of that they killed one of our children again and the murderer of Alton Sterling will walk as well. The shooting of Jordan Edwards is super hosed up. This quote from the Dallas Morning News is incredible (in a bad way): "The police account of what happened next changed after Police Chief Jonathan Haber watched body-cam footage of the shooting." It's not surprising that they would immediately back the cop's version, but maybe watch the loving footage first.
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 What the gently caress is this??? Karen Handel is running for congress in Atlanta's 6th district. Her husband retweeted this, and though it was removed and the account that he retweeted was hidden, well this is the internet and people save images all the time for posterity. This is what we're dealing with because John Ossoff missed out on 2 final percent points to prevent being contested.
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May 3, 2017 13:18
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That's what happens when this Dexo posted:This is it. This is Peak. tries some political outreach. Ossoff won handily in the black and Latino precincts and the race is close enough for someone, in this case Handel's husband, to try some ham-handed outreach on what their white friends think black people need to know.
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May 3, 2017 18:23
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there wolf posted:That's what happens when this Whitesplaining has been the absolute worst lately. White people on the left and the right spend a ton of time telling POC what they should or shouldn't do and 0 time listening to what our concerns actually are. It's baffling and exhausting and bullshit.
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Dexo posted:This is it. This is Peak.  ATLANTA: THE CITY TO BUSY TO HATEhttps://twitter.com/Anawnnemus/status/860010502352777216 BornAPoorBlkChild fucked around with this message at 07:10 on May 4, 2017 |
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May 3, 2017 20:28
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They sure as gently caress saved Spain from boring-rear end church architecture and lame guitars.
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I'm the Hard-Core Profanity. LMAO Race Realists posted:
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Edward Crawford has been found shot dead in his car. He's the 3rd prominent Ferguson activist to be found dead in a similar situation. Edit: Just read an updated article that said he was in the backseat of a car while it was in motion with 2 women in the front & died from a self inflicted wound. So not as sketchy as Darren Seals, just loving tragic. In case the name doesn't ring a bell, this is him. highme fucked around with this message at 17:11 on May 5, 2017 |
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highme posted:Edward Crawford has been found shot dead in his car. He's the 3rd prominent Ferguson activist to be found dead in a similar situation. Edit: Just read an updated article that said he was in the backseat of a car while it was in motion with 2 women in the front & died from a self inflicted wound. So not as sketchy as Darren Seals, just loving tragic. funny how all these prominent black activists and Judges are killing themselves lately guess black people are just really really depressed! 
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May 5, 2017 17:20
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Race Realists posted:funny how all these prominent black activists and Judges are killing themselves lately The judge may be suspicious, but if Crawford really shot himself while two other people were in the car I don't think we should disrespect their trauma by spinning conspiracy theories.
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May 5, 2017 17:23
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Was there anything particularly suspicious about the judge? Most the conspiracy stuff I saw was based on people who knew her saying "but she seemed so happy" which is not really that uncharacteristic for people who take their own life.
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Patrick Spens posted:Was there anything particularly suspicious about the judge? Most the conspiracy stuff I saw was based on people who knew her saying "but she seemed so happy" which is not really that uncharacteristic for people who take their own life. Yeah I haven't seen any reason to think there was foul play in that one either, but there weren't witnesses like there were for Crawford.
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On being told not to say "blacks"FizFashizzle posted:Is that really all you took out of it? That the guy who spent most of his life living in east Atlanta just sees black people as a color? I'm on lunch now, but I'll tell all the low income African Americans I'm working with on a Saturday at a my job at a nonprofit rehab hospital not to think well of me. Cause I used the less politically correct term on a message board. bbbbbbut I've met black people! 
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Was that the dude who spent pages clumsily busting out every SAT vocab word he could remember to explain why using "blacks" instead of "black people" (despite having been asked nicely to stop) was because he was all about economy of language? Good times.
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Crow Jane posted:Was that the dude who spent pages clumsily busting out every SAT vocab word he could remember to explain why using "blacks" instead of "black people" (despite having been asked nicely to stop) was because he was all about economy of language? Good times. Nah this is a fresh one from USPOL. What's the story with that dude?
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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:Nah this is a fresh one from USPOL. What's the story with that dude? It was in a USPOL thread from before everything went to poo poo, I believe. A bunch of us spent the better part of an afternoon arguing with/laughing at him. Wouldn't be surprised if it's the same dude, he didn't seem like the type to actually learn anything.
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Of course it's not okay in normal conversations, but I've seen "blacks" used in place of black people in academic research quite a bit. Usually it's demographic research and the same paper will use Hispanics, Asians, whites and such. In the interest of getting some perspective, what are you guys' take on it?
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Vegetable posted:Of course it's not okay in normal conversations, but I've seen "blacks" used in place of black people in academic research quite a bit. Usually it's demographic research and the same paper will use Hispanics, Asians, whites and such. In the interest of getting some perspective, what are you guys' take on it? Academic and journalistic writing favors a terse style that makes that usage common. I don't like it, but we can't change it until most people recognize that it's offensive to reduce somebody to an adjective.
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"The blacks" "The whites" "The gays" "The cripples" That pattern is hella dismissive.
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Anyone have any thoughts on The Handmaid's Tale choosing to not depict the patriarchal, theocratic government as white supremacist as it is in the book? The exec producer has a weakass argument about how fertility > * in the TV depiction, and then argues that it would've been too much to tackle misogyny and race. The more complicated and stickier argument is that, if true to source material, the show would be 100% lily white; by ignoring the white supremacy angle, they can include black women and their stories (which, uh, has its own issues in logic). The interviews with the showrunner makes it seem like he's thought about this, but now that I've seen the show it's even more unsatisfactory. The show hasn't had much to say about race. They're also building upon the novel and using more extensive flashbacks (and they got renewed for a second season), so it doesn't add up to me that they couldn't develop narratives about the white supremacist parts of the novel.
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i am the bird posted:Anyone have any thoughts on The Handmaid's Tale choosing to not depict the patriarchal, theocratic government as white supremacist as it is in the book? The exec producer has a weakass argument about how fertility > * in the TV depiction, and then argues that it would've been too much to tackle misogyny and race. I haven't read the novel yet, but what if the show runners are saving that for the ramping up into making things even more hosed up in Season 2: Things are worse?
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i am the bird posted:Anyone have any thoughts on The Handmaid's Tale choosing to not depict the patriarchal, theocratic government as white supremacist as it is in the book? The exec producer has a weakass argument about how fertility > * in the TV depiction, and then argues that it would've been too much to tackle misogyny and race.
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We like shows with racism as long as there's a magical white man we can latch on to who is totally not racist and that's us it has to be us. We all like to imagine we would be Forrest Gump who handed that lady her books instead of the people screaming at her. But we would be screaming.
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evil_bunnY posted:White people who watch shows don't like being confronted with or exposed to overt racism. If they don't see it, it must not happen, and they can't be bad people. The latest Brooklyn 99 ep deals with Terry Crews's character getting arrested for walking while black. It was a really good episode and a great dynamic between his and Andre Braugher's characters. Not solved by a white man at all.
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