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07-08-2020, 09:24 AM #25Veteran Poster
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Re: I'm sorry this is racism and this woman needs to be fired.
In point of fact, the revolution very nearly did not happen, as Northern States insisted upon language which would have defacto eliminated slavery. The South held out repeatedly, with South Carolina in particular holding the vote hostage to the removal of the language.
The institution of slavery has visited nothing but woe upon the country.
Even now... it is a tool for division, when no one has experienced it for 150 years.
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07-08-2020, 09:30 AM #26Veteran Poster
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07-08-2020, 09:42 AM #27Hall Of Fame Poster
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07-08-2020, 12:54 PM #28Legendary RSR Poster
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Re: I'm sorry this is racism and this woman needs to be fired.
And genocide. Can't believe you forgot that.
This is actually where I feel that the toppling of statutes and such is misguided. Need to find the medium between whitewashed history and trying to eliminate historical figures because of their flaws. Mobs aren't really known for nuance though.
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07-08-2020, 12:57 PM #29Legendary RSR Poster
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Re: I'm sorry this is racism and this woman needs to be fired.
Slavery was not fully abolished in the north until 1804. While it was not as widespread as the south, it did exist. Remember reading that was the origin of redneck. It's what the poor farmers were called because they had to work their own fields.
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07-08-2020, 02:34 PM #30Veteran Poster
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07-08-2020, 03:23 PM #31Legendary RSR Poster
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Re: I'm sorry this is racism and this woman needs to be fired.
Slavery Abolition Act
United Kingdom [1834] :
"abolished slavery in most British colonies, freeing more than 800,000 enslaved Africans in the Caribbean and South Africa as well as a small number in Canada. It received Royal Assent on August 28, 1833, and took effect on August 1, 1834"
Of course the Brits still held onto their "colonies" (now called Commonwealth" ... Bc
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07-09-2020, 10:12 AM #32Regular 1st Stringer
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Re: I'm sorry this is racism and this woman needs to be fired.
BustofPallas, you seemed shocked at what this woman said.Why?
Can you imagine the outrage if a newspaper hired a white writer who said these things about minorities?
Well-meaning white liberals such as those women and your daughter are being used by the left. However, there are POC in those movements who utterly despise whites. You think this nonsense they spout about "white privilege" and "whiteness" won't inflame hatred of whites and even lead to violence-whether that's the intent of these campaigns or not?
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07-09-2020, 10:24 AM #33Hall Of Fame Poster
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Re: I'm sorry this is racism and this woman needs to be fired.
I remember the NYT woman and her racist pablum as well.
I just call them like I see them. I don't think a person who would stoke racial resentment like that, lump in all people of one color and gender for punishment (or mercy here which implies punishment/retribution would be justified.) like she did here, is qualified to be a newspaper editor at a big paper like WAPO. Not that I read it. I just think it's dangerous.
Assigning blame to people for what others have done based on them having the same color and gender is precisely what racism is. It's assigning a characteristic to a group based on the actions of some of that same group. In this case it's also going back through history and assigning that guilt. It's reprehensible, wrong, racist and she should be fired. It's incredibly dangerous and irresponsible.
It's stoking racial hatred.
I can remove myself from my whiteness and see what she was trying to do with that statement, I just think it's incredibly dangerous and irresponsible in any circumstance to talk like that. "They should be thankful we are not calling for revenge". That's crazy and indefensible coming from a newspaper editor.
It's equivalent to saying "Revenge on white women is justified for the things white women have done in the past".Last edited by BustOfPallas; 07-09-2020 at 10:29 AM.
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07-09-2020, 12:00 PM #34Veteran Poster
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Re: I'm sorry this is racism and this woman needs to be fired.
I'm thankful that BOP can remove his whiteness from the situation and explain.
MP have you ever noticed that black people almost never call the police on white people doing random things. It's literally almost always white women calling the cops on black people for no reason. They do it because they know white people, and especially white women have been able to get away with so much concerning their protection under the law.
They know that more than likely, that historically, the black person would be assumed guilty. As funny as the whole "Karen" thing is, imagine what happened when cops came for one of these bogus calls before black people were able to film these interactions.
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07-09-2020, 12:03 PM #35Hall Of Fame Poster
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Re: I'm sorry this is racism and this woman needs to be fired.
Lol, I do the best I can, but I understand that's not the same.
You don't have to try to defend her statement you know.
It's perfectly acceptable to condemn it.
We all know it's not okay to blame people for things people that look like them did.
You get that right?
There are places we should never go and this woman went there.
She could have made that point without the reprehensible, irresponsible, dangerous language she used.
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07-09-2020, 12:14 PM #36Veteran Poster
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Re: I'm sorry this is racism and this woman needs to be fired.
I believe she is echoing a poem from Langston Hughes:
"“Negroes
Sweet and docile,
Meek, humble, and kind:
Beware the day
They change their minds!
Wind
In the cotton fields,
Gentle breeze:
Beware the hour
It uproots trees!”
Black people have through so much in this country and civil rights leaders have tried the peaceful thing for so long, yet we still have things like what I posted yesterday where cops who have 60 filed complaints, and 11 lawsuits still receive a combined total of 14 promotions/raises. Colin Kaepernick still did the most peaceful thing you could imagine and was still shredded for it, and black people still just want to do things the peaceful way, but it's just very frustrating.
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