Yes, because only white people are racist and no one is ever racist towards white people.Quote:
Originally Posted by diffusionx
Probably is, but I've only been here for a year and a half.Quote:
Really, San Francisco is a bubble in and of itself...
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Yes, because only white people are racist and no one is ever racist towards white people.Quote:
Originally Posted by diffusionx
Probably is, but I've only been here for a year and a half.Quote:
Really, San Francisco is a bubble in and of itself...
Just how many times have you been discriminated against? Or your white friends? Ever felt the burn of the "reverse affirmative action", where a supposedly less-qualified black guy got a job over you because the company had to fill their quota? Hmm. Or was it more likely that you went to totally decent public schools, moved on to a fine college, and got a job that is letting you move up in the world?Quote:
Yes, because only white people are racist and no one is ever racist towards white people.
Im not trying to be one of those self-hating white guys, just trying to point out that race never really factors into the life of people like me, say, because my skin color isnt a problem.
That wasn't my point, though. I already said that the closest thing to racism I witness in life is people looking for it in retarded places. I was just commenting on Saint of Killer's apparent assumption that racism is by whites only and never towards whites.Quote:
Originally Posted by diffusionx
Went to school with whites/blacks/Mexicans, went to college with the whole melting pot and got a job working among the entire ethnic spectrum.Quote:
Hmm. Or was it more likely that you went to totally decent public schools, moved on to a fine college, and got a job that is letting you move up in the world?
I didnt say, "went to school/college/work with all white people",, I basically asked if you grew up as a regular old middle-class suburban kid, with a good school and a good college and good job opportunities. Which appears to be true.Quote:
Went to school with whites/blacks/Mexicans, went to college with the whole melting pot and got a job working among the entire ethnic spectrum.
Im not claiming you've been shielded from minorities your entire life, Im claiming that you havent known or experienced racism because youve never been part of the population that would know and experience it.
But all that has to do with economic class and where I lived, not with me being white. There were plenty of non-white dudes and dudettes doing the same thing I did.Quote:
Originally Posted by diffusionx
What part of the population would that be? Just curious.Quote:
Im not claiming you've been shielded from minorities your entire life, Im claiming that you havent known or experienced racism because youve never been part of the population that would know and experience it.
It sounded a whole hell of alot more like the usual, "Racism doesn't exist anymore. That shit ended in the 60s. The only racism we see anymore is affirmative action/from minorities/whatever," crap that so many suburban white boys like you tend to spew.Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkRyan
Yeah, I never said anything even remotely approaching that.Quote:
I was just commenting on Saint of Killer's apparent assumption that racism is by whites only and never towards whites.
You said:Quote:
Originally Posted by Saint of Killers
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The point is that you, being a white guy, aren't going to experience a whole lot of racism first hand (holy shit what a revelation).
I love it when a bunch of white guys get together and talk about racism.
That a racist statement? "Oh, looky here, it's a bunch of whiteys talking about racism. This amuses me to no end being the black guy around here..."Quote:
Originally Posted by Brisco Bold
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Originally Posted by diffusionx
Personaly, I have a few times, casual examples are the times I have been in fast food resturants and treated like shit while the black customers get treated like family.
Even been in a situation where someone was threatening you because your the only "white boy" around? I have.
Maybe Sphere79 could relate the time he was in a fender bender in an all black neighborhood.
Or how about this poor guy was shot in the face because some guy wanted to "Kill White People" ?
Just because I'm white, doesnt mean I can't discuss racism, let alone have never experenced it.