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I have a question that I've been curious about for a while and this seems like the appropriate place to ask - Why has "people of color" become one of the more acceptable terms for referring to black people and other minorities, when "colored people" has historically been pretty awful?
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Koalas March posted:They did the right thing  I wonder if it's the same dude who gave out the avatars in the QCS thread or a different idiot.
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Nov 8, 2016 18:31
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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:"Teeny Broonosie?" Totally divorced from the context of the post, these are hilarious. Also I am totally that guy except I do it exclusively to special snowflake white name spellings instead, and I'm not sure if I should feel bad about it or not.
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Nov 8, 2016 20:43
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Nov 8, 2016 20:44
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Doctor Butts posted:That just makes no sense. How else would you pronounce it? Mel-ay-nee-a? But yeah that's the way it's pronounced in all the news things where I've heard her name. 
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Nov 8, 2016 20:48
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Doctor Butts posted:OTOH Melania should just be called Melanie. Uhhh... what? It's a real name that's been used for centuries in various places, mostly southeastern Europe (where Melania Trump is from). There's a christian saint with that name, even.
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Nov 8, 2016 20:57
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woke wedding drone posted:Oh, hunting hunting LOL. Never mind I read that the same way you did because of the topic and wasn't sure how to call that out. Whoops.
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Nov 8, 2016 21:52
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negromancer posted:If you look like this in one... It's like that one middle-aged guy who always wears Hawai'ian shirts except so, so much worse.
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Nov 8, 2016 22:10
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...How bad is Song of the South? My grandmother has mentioned it before as being one of her favorite Disney movies but I know literally nothing about it other than that one annoying song. She's horrendously racist though, so I suppose that speaks for itself. Fajita Queen fucked around with this message at 23:10 on Nov 8, 2016 |
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Nov 8, 2016 23:07
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A Winner is Jew posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47ak4vjiNzw Welp. Yessssssss
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Nov 8, 2016 23:14
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I am so, so sorry that white people are terrible. Please be safe.
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Nov 9, 2016 15:48
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xthetenth posted:So is this becoming the red text thread courtesy of one man on a crusade to prove everyone right about white fragility? Looks like it. It's okay though, when mods wake up and start processing the toxx bans most of the D&D posters are gonna lose their avatar/titles anyways!
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Nov 9, 2016 19:30
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Lightning Knight posted:FYI conservative posters now feel bold enough to just straight up use racial slurs now so be prepared for that. He got a 31 day probie, thankfully. EDIT: Well the one I know about, there could be more. gently caress that it's come to this, though.
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Nov 9, 2016 19:32
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Koalas March posted:Vote me as your I give you NH's pittance of electoral votess toward your IK election. 
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Nov 9, 2016 19:45
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teen witch posted:There is someone seriously burning some money today for red titles. A whole bunch of people who toxxed for Trump had  sitting around waiting to unban themselves and suddenly no longer needed to do that.The fact that they're using that money to instead poo poo on minority posters and allies is telling.
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Nov 9, 2016 22:05
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Truly the thread of the thousand cropped anime porn avs.
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Nov 10, 2016 10:10
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Sharkopath posted:I wasn't around for the Primary, were white sanders dudes talking about how identity politics and race are unimportant and the only thing that matters is economics back then. Yep. Baronjutter posted:Basically, comfortable white folks don't want to deal with any "drama" in their lives over purely intellectual matters that don't effect them in any way. Yep.
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Nov 10, 2016 18:48
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Is Afro Samurai any good or is it really racist?
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Nov 11, 2016 08:49
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Forceholy posted:Most red text titles say more about the person who bought it than about the person who has it. It's true. I take a little bit pride in mine, knowing I most likely got it from telling some GBS racist to gently caress off in USPOL. Something Awful has always been kind of a hellhole re: race, but goddamn is it becoming visible nowadays.
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Nov 13, 2016 02:42
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That kind of thing is sort of similar to the "Washington (or whoever) treated his slaves well" meme, where there's this enormous misconception by modern white people that things were way less bad for black people than they actually were and that white people were not generally awful. loving Texas-based public education.
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Feb 25, 2017 20:19
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That's fuckin dark, TB.  Dexo posted:Yo. Get Out is real loving good 
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Feb 28, 2017 06:08
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Squashing Machine posted:I'm sorry, but that's insane. You're legitimizing a terrible state of affairs because in this particular case it works out in a way that you're okay with. The US prison state is a holocaust inside our own borders and acting like it's okay in any way is excusing it. loving hell That's great, but that it just so happens the one time this poo poo hits a white couple it gets a stink raised over it when nobody bats an eye at black teenagers getting massive sentences for dumb poo poo like weed possession is kind of the entire problem.
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Mar 2, 2017 06:40
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The common non-insane answer to that is usually something like "He would have won PA, WI, and MI and everything else would have stayed the same, which would be a narrow win for him" which is probably at least plausible. Maine's fourth vote might have gone to him as well. Of course, VA, NV, and NM might have been much more vulnerable to flipping red, so I liked a lot of what Bernie had to say, and tend to think a lot of criticism toward him should be more directed at his batshit insane supporters, but him talking mostly about the white working class and the "Oh yeah, this will totally help minorities too!" attitude was a massive warning flag that should not in any way be discounted, and I feel like a lot of his supporters do just that.
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Mar 28, 2017 22:11
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The idea that the left can achieve ~true socialism~ in the US if only we'd drop that pesky identity politics junk really needs to die in a fire, imo. If it isn't actually helping people other than the "white working class" then it isn't really progressive, at all. Fajita Queen fucked around with this message at 03:30 on Mar 29, 2017 |
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Mar 29, 2017 03:22
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HotCanadianChick posted:Not to mention the BPP is, to this day, the only socialist party in American history to successfully implement actual socialist programs run by the people of the community, for the community (the breakfast for schoolchildren initiative and the Chicago chapter's free medical clinics). Aren't they also responsible for WIC?
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Mar 31, 2017 04:32
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"not all or even a majority of black people voted period" because the party that Hillary was running against stopped many them from voting.
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Mar 31, 2017 19:29
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Moridin920 posted:You think voter turnouts are so low solely because of disenfranchisement? There's no possible way many people just felt like both parties were hosed and screw it anyway? Disenfranchisement is definitely a thing obviously but it isn't the only factor at play here. Certainly not solely, and many non-black people were also prevented from voting, but voter disenfranchisement was enormous. Indiana alone tossed out tens of thousands of voter registrations, and that's just the ones reported.
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Mar 31, 2017 19:36
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Gaunab posted:I was watching TV and a commercial for this website came on. It was a what the gently caress moment. The commercial: Abortion doesn't kill babies or people though 
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Apr 20, 2017 04:44
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I want so bad for this to be a long take of making GBS threads all over racism but deep down I know it won't.
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Jul 19, 2017 22:53
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I think the correct plural is Jesupodes. A straight up God of White America might be a bit too on the nose even for American Gods, we'll have to see.
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Didn't Finn go into a coma at the end of TFA?
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