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‘These Stereotypes Are Ridiculous’: New Video Mocks Un-Fair Campaign‘s ’White Privilege’ Ad

Remember the Un-Fair Campaign, that august collection of enlightened and thoroughly non-racist individuals who believe that whites have an irrevocable privilege that gives them an advantage in society (and that, by extensions minorities will always need special favors to get a leg up)? Well, if you don’t, for the purposes of this story, it may be advisable to rewatch this ad of theirs:

As you can see, the Un-Fair Campaign is aptly named. Their perspective on race is deeply unfair. Fortunately, at least one group has set out to make a video that rebuts the above, and shows how the perspective involved is unfair not just to whites, but to minorities as well. The resulting effort may cause you to spontaneously break out into applause:

What with the refusal of the University of Minnesota-Duluth, one of the Un-Fair Campaign’s biggest institutional sponsors, to defund the organization, this variety of outraged mockery is perhaps the best response. For our part, we can only remark that it is a breath of fresh air for someone to point out so wittily that the idea of white privilege is about as real as the idea that African-Americans have an innate disposition toward pursuing crime. Any way you slice it, both ideas are prejudiced, and the incredulous amusement that radiates from this latter video is the best response to those ideas.

Or, as the participants in this response video put it, “These stereotypes are ridiculous. Dividing people by race does not help me. Offensive. Condescending. Racist. Wrong. I am a part of society, and I get to decide my own life.”

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  • Lt_Scrounge
    Posted on June 27, 2012 at 11:53pm

    My dad was a coal miner. I challenge all of these “White privilege” BS shovelers to stand outside the entrance to any under ground coal mine and tell the predominantly white miners coming out how they are so privileged that they should funnel a portion of their paychecks to the welfare queens sitting in their tax payer funded housing watching big screen TVs. Why do I have a feeling that they’d find themselves taking an unplanned and unwanted tour of the interior of a coal mine?

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    • myway2112
      Posted on June 28, 2012 at 1:02am

      Amen to that.

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    • calypsocoral
      Posted on June 28, 2012 at 1:26am

      I hear ya. My ancestors migrated to Pennsylvania back in October 8th, 1732. My Grandfather, Great Grandfather, and the rest of my ancestors worked on farms, or, when the harvest was bad, they’d rent a single-room apartment in Steelton, PA to work in the steel foundries to provide for their families.

      In 1977, after 245 years of my family being in the United States, my father was the first of our family name to graduate college.

      Don’t talk to me about “white privilege,“ or that cow crap about Affirmative Action being set up because ”minorities” can’t take advantage of Alumni Legacies in higher education– many non-“minorities” can’t take advantage of Alumni Legacies either.

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    • loriann12
      Posted on June 28, 2012 at 6:33am

      Amen. I’m white and my grandpa was a migrant farmer, farming for other people. My mom went to 4 different highschools HER SENIOR YEAR. The only meat they had was what grandpa SHOT, squirrel, rabbit, deer, etc. To this day mom won’t eat game. My mom picked cotton as a kid to help support the family. My grandma is still alive, living in a nursing home that all her kids have to give money to her for extra things because the nursing home takes ALL of her social security except about $15 a month. All the kids (7 of them) busted their butts and made a good living. The priviledges you get in this society are the ones you WORK for. If you sit on your butt and do nothing, you should get nothing. I know someone on disability (I’ve mentioned her before), who has 4 kids by different fathers, yet all she and all 4 kids have blackberries. I saw her walking the other day, 3-4 miles from her house. I can’t walk that far, if I expect to make it home again.

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    • Anti_Spock
      Posted on June 28, 2012 at 7:37am

      Ad courtesy of spoiled liberal rich kids who mooch off their liberal parents. Maybe if these people held real jobs they would think differently about what skin color really means in America.

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    • js1964
      Posted on June 28, 2012 at 7:52am

      Agree!

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    • johnjamison
      Posted on June 28, 2012 at 8:26am

      My dad worked two jobs to keep food on the the table for us and pay his child support and alimony to my mom and sister. Liberals and blacks look at whites who have a nice house and car and see priviledge I can say without a doubt it’s debt not priviledge. It’s takes time,hard work and sacrifice to move up in a company to commands a good salary that affords better living.

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    • IndyGuy
      Posted on June 28, 2012 at 8:30am

      Every one of these idiots that allowed their faces to be written on by racists should be shunned in our society….Shame on them…

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    • JohnGalt
      Posted on June 28, 2012 at 9:21am

      Skin color means nothing, that means reverse discrimination as well. White, black, green orange, just give me someone who believes in the U.S, who will stand up for her, for who we are.

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    • FedUpWithLibs
      Posted on June 28, 2012 at 9:34am

      You people couldn’t be more right. In my younger years I wasn’t exactly law abiding. I was treated with suspicion by normal everyday people and rightfully so. I’m about as white as it gets, by the way. These things have nothing to do with race. It is about what attitude you project and it’s not necessarily a conscious thing. I wised up and have been a good citizen for about 5 years now and the change in the way I’m treated is totally different. People can tell, most of the time anyway, when someone is a criminal. I know it sounds funny but it’s true.

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    • PubliusPencilman
      Posted on June 28, 2012 at 9:57am

      “I’m doing fine.”

      Why do conservatives always think that personal. anecdotal accounts trump statistics and actual history? An anonymous character on an internet video “doing fine” means that racism isn’t a factor in limiting the economic and social mobility of large segments of our population (as it has in every other point in the history of this country)?

      LT_Scrounge,

      Yeah, and I’m tired of my tax dollars going to subsidize coal, and industry that destroys the environment in this country. My tax dollars also go to fund the Federal Black Lung Program, which uses public funds to support victims of that disease. My tax dollars have also gone to the inspection of mines and enforcement of safety regulations that make coal mining a lot safer than it used to be.

      Your dad benefited quite a bit from federal “welfare.”

       
    • PubliusPencilman
      Posted on June 28, 2012 at 10:12am

      Fedupwithlibs,

      Sorry, but your story doesn’t really make sense in this situation. So, you broke the law and you were treated with suspicion even though you were white. Ok… But now, you are on the straight and narrow, and people trust you more. Good for you.

      The point is that if you were black, chances are people would be a lot less inclined to trust you, particularly if you had a criminal past. If you don’t agree, go through these boards and take a look at how many Blazers like to quote crime statistics that “prove” blacks are more violent.

      In fact, your case is a perfect example of white privilege. You were given the benefit of the doubt partly because your are white. If you were black, it is far less likely that you would be so lucky. That’s not because of conscious racism–it’s a more subtle societal trend.

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    • Independent4233
      Posted on June 28, 2012 at 10:15am

      If anybody is unfamiliar with Cultural Marxism, he/she should look it up, as explained by Bill Lind

      These anti-American radical leftist academics who are responsible for the anti-white, hate video are purveyors of critical theory which is a ploy of cultural Marxists to criticize whites, their systems, accomplishments, their country, their traditions, their heroes, their history, their institutions, and their people, all basic ingredients necessary for the purpose of destroying whites and the capitalist system from the face of the earth. The whites in the video are stooges who are so naive and gullible they have easily been programmed to accept these outrageous lies.

      Part of the ploy is to hold whites responsible for all the failings of non-whites, especially blacks, and to inculcate the idea into white people’s heads that black failure…as a group….is due strictly to whites….as a result of slavery (two hundred years ago) and racism (which doesn’t exist to any significant degree against blacks.) It goes from there to promote ALL non-whites over whites.

      Cultural Marxism got its start at Columbia University by Cultural Marxists from the Frankfort School in Germany. They fled the nazis and were given sanctuary at Columbia. To show their gratitude, they poisoned our system.

      If there any any whites you will want to avoid in the construction of a new society, it is these gullible CM converts depicted in the video. They’re just too stupid.

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    • 123456beatriz
      Posted on June 28, 2012 at 10:34am

      Good commentary! The important is the character no the color of the skin. Those moron Liberals in the universities! still sleeping under Marxists idiology. But the truth is Marx was a miserable racist the same with El Che Guevara so. Wake up morons!

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    • Independent4233
      Posted on June 28, 2012 at 10:39am

      PubliusPencilman
      “The point is that if you were black, chances are people would be a lot less inclined to trust you, particularly if you had a criminal past. If you don’t agree, go through these boards and take a look at how many Blazers like to quote crime statistics that “prove” blacks are more violent.”

      Gee, I wonder why.

      I’ve got a better idea. Why not surf the web and see for yourself how many white posters are fed up with black criminality and behavior, and be sure to make note about how this sentiment has grown so greatly in the last three years. The Blaze is only one of thousands of web sites that reveal a growing white discontent that is a reflection of growing white rage.

      But, I have an even better idea than that. Why not just wait a while and take it all in in living color as the dominoes continue falling in the EU, heading this way, with tumultuous rioting and fighting in their wake, which will also manifest themselves here, only at a MUCH MORE intense level, as this rainbow utopia explodes into armed conflict.

      You won’t believe that, of course, because you live in a fantasy world.

      But let’s see what the situation looks like this time next year.

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    • HappyStretchedThin
      Posted on June 28, 2012 at 11:25am

      @Publius
      Here you are up to misrepresentation and logical fallacy again.
      The point of this response video is not to make an empirical argument, but a moral one. Even you should admit it‘s wrong for whites to feel like unless they’re properly contrite and pity the other races, those other races have the deck stacked against them. They artfully and potently demonstrated, by testimonial, that their choice to pursue behavior proven to succeed does not depend on the color of their skin, no matter what vestiges of “subtle social tendencies” may remain from past codifications of real racism into law.
      No one claims other people and their attitudes are not a factor, but when individuals can claim fairly regularly that their success depends on themselves and not other factors, then we can safely say the demon has been beaten. Your empirical evidence of that ALSO abounds:
      1. Black owned business increased at triple the national average: http://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/business_ownership/cb11-24.html
      2. All national media outlets screen for racial bias
      3. Even formerly racist entities have renounced racism and elected black officials to high office (anecdote plus more generalizable analysis here: http://townhall.com/columnists/jeffjacoby/2012/06/27/america_the_nonracist/page/full/)
      Furthermore, LT and fedup’s comments ARE applicable despite your protests because they referenced outcomes not opportunities-you’re left without logic or evidence.

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    • PubliusPencilman
      Posted on June 28, 2012 at 11:48am

      HappyStretchedThin,

      “Even you should admit it‘s wrong for whites to feel like unless they’re properly contrite and pity the other races, those other races have the deck stacked against them.”

      Oh please. It doesn’t speak much for you when your argument relies on caricaturing mine and misrepresenting what I am saying. I have never said anything about “contrition” or “pity.” I always enjoy a good debate, but I will ask you again to afford me the basic courtesy of not making up things.

      Now, as to your evidence, the funny thing is that much of it proves my point rather than your. The fact that there are statistics at all on “black owned businesses” suggests that the lack of such was recognized as a problem and that this growth had to be understood and encouraged. If you had your way there would be no statistics on this at all, and no way to mark the growth of minority businesses.

      Points 2 & 3 are in the same vein: this social advances are a recognition of and an attempt to correct a historical problem. If there was no racism out there, why would the national media need to screen for it?

      We have made immense progress, but the progress that has been made hasn’t come from denying the legacy of race relations in this country. Just the opposite–and that’s what I am saying.

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    • PubliusPencilman
      Posted on June 28, 2012 at 11:51am

      And really HappyStretchedThin,

      Who do you think is the real threat here? Me, who thinks that we need to continue to recognize the historical consequences of race relations in this country, or actual racists like Independent who posted above?

      Something tells me you will continue to argue with me because I’m a “liberal,“ while you will continue to tolerate Independent because he is a ”conservative.”

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    • ChiefGeorge
      Posted on June 28, 2012 at 12:42pm

      My White Father was a city Bus driver for 31 years! He put his three kids through public schools! One went to college to be a nurse on her own dime, one went to to have a successful 20yr career with the Navy and then started a second career in the human info field, and the 3rd became a Police dispatcher. Their grandchildren children you ask? Two university grads so far who worked to put themselves through college, 1 4.0 straight “A” high school junior, 1 in college and another on the way. Its called moving up by embracing and trusting in the American system of fair play for hardwork and commitment. Something very lacking in todays society. Stereotyped much? You bet! Because of the way I carried myself, most thought I came from a family of wealth and privilage, never saw hard times when in fact we all grew up on the Westside of Cleveland and went to crappy public schools. Thank God my parents had pride in themselves and passed it along to us. They never complained and worked hard to give us what little they could which was plenty enough…a rented roof over our heads, food in our bellies, clean and decent clothes to wear. Advice! Don’t act like where you came from…be you and go after what you want in life and disregard the BS programming that says you can’t make something of yourself because what class you come from.

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    • badkarma060
      Posted on June 28, 2012 at 12:53pm

      Excellent post.

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    • HappyStretchedThin
      Posted on June 28, 2012 at 1:00pm

      @ Publius
      “Even you should admit it‘s wrong for whites to feel like unless they’re properly contrite and pity the other races, those other races have the deck stacked against them.”
      This was NOT a caricature of YOUR position. It was the SERIOUS point of the VIDEO (re-watch).
      Please stop trying to make other people feel guilty for your own lack of ability to contextualize.
      Also, stop PROJECTING: YOU’RE the one making things up. It’s not “my way” not to collect stats on race. We measured it, we improved it. You can’t deny it, so you try to co-opt it as part of your point. But that doesn’t stand either, because you’ve falsely assumed MY point is racism never existed (read closer and you’ll see I already dealt with that), and that I don’t promote better race relations (completely fictional straw dog you made up). My point is it’s better now, I’m right, and you will still refuse delivery in the face of facts and logic.
      @ Independant: you’re a racist menace, and I want you to stop posting on the Blaze.
      @Publius: Your ideas are a slow poison to liberty, his are a direct threat to it. You’re still wrong, and your solution boils down to SOME whites imposing self-flagellation on OTHER whites-it’s racist too. I denounce you both.

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    • Independent4233
      Posted on June 28, 2012 at 2:19pm

      HappyStretchedThin
      “@ Independant: you’re a racist menace, and I want you to stop posting on the Blaze.”

      Oh, really? And what delusions of grandeur are you working under that makes you think you have the authority to order anyone from posting?

      Also, there is nothing I write or have ever written that isn’t true. You didn’t bother to try to rebut my posts, because you can’t. I seriously doubt you even know what cultural Marxism is or the influence it has had on this society and people like you.

      And for those like you who stand by while your culture and people are being demonized with lies, and calling people who fight back with the truth racists, relegates you to an ass-kissing status that is truly disgusting.

      You think by calling someone racist you have enforced your desire to be thought of as an honest purveyor of facts…morally superior above all other things….and that gives your views the credibility you think they aren’t getting, because your arguments to Pencilman are flawed.

      Did you check out other posts from other sites as I suggested?

      Your desire to feel morally superior is based in years of PC hammering and brainwashing we’ve all endured that has been effective in intimidating you…and others like you…. from thinking objectively.

      You’re no more than a Pavlovian dog that has been trained via mind control techniques to respond on cue to anything that is against what you have been programmed to believe.

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    • Independent4233
      Posted on June 28, 2012 at 2:39pm

      PubliusPencilman
      HappyStretchedThin,

      “Who do you think is the real threat here? Me, who thinks that we need to continue to recognize the historical consequences of race relations in this country, or actual racists like Independent who posted above?”

      There‘s not one word I’ve written that you can honestly prove incorrect. Not one. You CAN give airhead assertions that is based on your idea of prancing fairies in your delusional quest to usher in a grand rainbow utopia that embraces homosexuals and your other perversions, but real life as it unfolds is proving you wrong.

      What you hope to achieve with your baseless insults is to prompt posters into giving you some help in demonizing me, because you fare so badly when you try.

      “Something tells me you will continue to argue with me because I’m a “liberal,“ (homosexual) while you will continue to tolerate Independent because he is a ”conservative.”

      Many people agree almost 100% with what I say, but they’ve been intimidated so greatly for years into believing that even honest criticism of blacks is racist even after a black on white mob attack occurs for about the thousandth time.

      But the number not afraid to speak out is growing in leaps and bounds. Up to about a couple of years ago, no one would hardly utter a peep. Now the forums are full of white outrage of criminal black conduct, most of which is FAR more critical than what is found on this site.

      Civil war II is near.

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    • PubliusPencilman
      Posted on June 28, 2012 at 2:45pm

      HappyStretchedThin,

      “Please stop trying to make other people feel guilty for your own lack of ability to contextualize.”

      Ha. You must have some serious guilt problems my friend. You seem to think everything is designed to make you feel guilty!

      “you’ve falsely assumed MY point is racism never existed”

      And where do I say that? I know you know that racism existed. I just don‘t think you are taking into account the fact that it hasn’t suddenly ceased to exist. That is where we differ. This is something I have said all along–please tell me you understand this simple point.

      “and that I don’t promote better race relations (completely fictional straw dog you made up). My point is it’s better now, I’m right, and you will still refuse delivery in the face of facts and logic.”

      Again, I take you at your word that you are entirely against racial conflict–as much so as I am. That was never what was at issue. Nor have I denied that racial relations are “better” now than they have ever been–this is pretty clear. Now, pay attention, because you continue to miss this simple point: race relations are “better” now than before, but to assert that we don’t have to continue to improve as an equal society and that we can ignore racism now is completely illogical.

      Now, I know that you are not saying that disparities don’t exist–but I am saying that your insistence that we don’t have to face them is ethically and not productive.

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    • PubliusPencilman
      Posted on June 28, 2012 at 2:47pm

      Whoops:

      That last sentence was meant to read: “ethically wrong and not productive.”

      Meanwhile, you insist on calling the concept of “white privilege” racist, and yet you haven’t proven that point with any kind of reasoned argument. I have argued with you in good faith, while you have flung charges at me and not even attempted to support them.

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    • Independent4233
      Posted on June 28, 2012 at 4:08pm

      PubiusPenciman

      “I just don‘t think you are taking into account the fact that it (racism) hasn’t suddenly ceased to exist.”

      No, it certainly has not. And upwards of 90% of the MANY people I speak with in my area and my business, in person and by telephone, readily admit that black racism is a far bigger threat than any other.
      Anybody who doesn‘t admit to that is either living in a cave or is so brainwashed with political correctness he wouldn’t admit it if his life depended on it.

      It is people like you who are living in a make-believe world who can’t seem to correctly understand the ramifications of what is occurring around them. Your entire premise is based on a kind of game that is based in a fantasy that involves pretending things are as you want them, and, because of promoting the delusions, those things will come about.

      But your rejection of reality could be VERY dangerous, because it will leave those unprepared to survive who do not pick up on the many warnings coming from a plethora of top-notch economists. We’re heading toward the bottom of our the financial barrell very quickly now, and with the eruption of large scale conflict comes the destruction of the liberal agenda.

      Tom Chittum in his book, Civil War II, The Coming Break up of America, will tell you what to expect. He’s survived three civil conflicts himself.

      Ignore the warning signs at your peril. http://www.Trendsresearch.com

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    • PubliusPencilman
      Posted on June 28, 2012 at 4:53pm

      “And upwards of 90% of the MANY people I speak with in my area and my business, in person and by telephone, readily admit that black racism is a far bigger threat than any other.”

      Well, clearly that’s a scientific sampling. Incidentally, I’m curious as to what kind of business you are in that the issue of black racism comes up so often in conversation. Now, what exactly are you saying this threat is?

      Here‘s a nugget of fun from your favorite author Tom Chittum’s wikipedia page:
      “He also says that he plans to move to upstate New York because it would likely still be a Caucasian-controlled area after the American Southwest effectively becomes part of Mexico due to immigration by 2020″

      Hahahahahahahahaha……………………………

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    • Jwmajic
      Posted on June 28, 2012 at 5:37pm

      “JohnGalt
      Posted on June 28, 2012 at 9:21am

      Skin color means nothing, that means reverse discrimination as well. White, black, green orange, just give me someone who believes in the U.S, who will stand up for her, for who we are.”

      There is no such thing as “reverse discrimination” racism is racism the color of the person doing or on the receiving end of it isn’t going to change the meaning of the word, call it what it is. By using the term “reverse discrimination” you are spreading the stereotype that only whites can be racist.

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    • HappyStretchedThin
      Posted on June 28, 2012 at 5:46pm

      @Independant
      Read clearly, sir. I’m not a dictator, censor, or commander. You commit endless fallacies of confusing association with causation, and then claim I can’t refute your facts. You‘re right that I won’t engage you on race, but not for the reason you think: it‘s because you don’t have the standing. I wish you‘d quit posting your drivel about it because it’s not convincing to anyone, and only distracts from the real causes and effects of things. And despite my wishes, I leave you entirely with your freedom to be as offensive as you please. Adieu.
      @Pub
      Indie’s no more conservative than David Duke. His ideas are antithetical to freedom, because he thinks an arbitrary skin color determines behavior. He’s an essentialist. And although he may use rhetoric he learned with conservatives who are also quite concerned about the direction American culture is heading, our solutions are very different. He ultimate logic ends in wanting a small group of whites to determine the lives of all other colors. True conservatives know that allowing EVERYONE the freedom of choice is the only way to call everyone to account for their own use of their freedom, and therefore tends to create more harmonious, more tolerant, and more responsible societies.

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    • HappyStretchedThin
      Posted on June 28, 2012 at 6:00pm

      @Pub,
      “you’ve falsely assumed MY point is racism never existed”
      And where do I say that?
      I refer you to your own words: “If you had your way there would be no statistics on [black owned businesses] at all”
      Words mean things. You have implied that my “way” is to willfully ignore the existence of racism from the time they started taking those stats. You can try to weasel out of the implication by getting all huffy when I call you on it, but you can’t un-say what you said, and it DOES inevitably imply that you think I’m a racism-denier. Now if you want to walk that back to the truth and re-state that you don’t doubt that my arguments have been fact-based and history-based, and have not turned a blind eye to anything, just straight up say so man-to-man, instead of doubling down on the distortion. What do I mean? Since I know your memory’s short, I’ll quote it for you:
      “I just don‘t think you are taking into account the fact that it hasn’t suddenly ceased to exist. That is where we differ.”
      When you say “suddenly ceased to exist” you’re implying that I think Americans flipped a switch and magically wished all racist thoughts out of all racist hearts, which is illogical.
      You are the one who is constantly failing to demonstrate understanding: It wasn’t magic, it started with ideas from our founders which had the effect of making certain kinds of oppression no longer tenable at certain historical junctures. The cause of limited govt led to the effect o

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    • HappyStretchedThin
      Posted on June 28, 2012 at 6:14pm

      …the most level playing field of opportunities for all races ever created in the history of the world. And when the Civil Rights movement came to a head, there were generations of whites all ready to embrace it (who had in fact already embraced it) and a dwindling and discredited (mostly Democrat) minority whose power was instantly zapped with an Act of Congress, and whose only remaining influence is their voice and their own property (which is as it should be, because even racists should have property rights and freedom of speech). No one serious listens to them anymore, and if deep-seated discriminatory hearts still constrain choices, legal recourse and media recourse is overwhelmingly effective (remember Don Imus vs. Al Sharpton?).
      (p.s. that last paragraph is what reasoned argument and justifying evidence look like…they were also present in abundance in my first post…if you can’t remember as you form pseudo-rebuttals accusing me of intellectual laziness, and improper debating standards, please just scroll up-you’ll look less like a fool that way)
      Furthermore:
      “race relations are “better” now than before, but to assert that we don’t have to continue to improve as an equal society and that we can ignore racism now is completely illogical.”
      Who said we have to “completely ignore racism”? Endless distortions with you. The REAL difference between you and I is something you can’t admit to yourself.
      cont…

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    • HappyStretchedThin
      Posted on June 28, 2012 at 6:30pm

      There are 2 real differences in our opinions on race. One is how we argue about it, the other is in our implied solutions.
      1. You can’t accurately describe my side, or you are forced to admit you’re either lying or wrong, whereas I can be honest about both our sides. I neither ignore racism (I actually teach college courses on it), nor have I asserted there’s no improvements to make. YOU have put those words in my mouth-falsely.
      2. You can’t escape the implication that “working on racism” in your idea means addressing whites (a racial group by definition), asking them to feel guilty (yes, that IS what you want-it’s what it comes down to) about the fruits of the right choices they’ve made, and, at the ultimate end of your logic, setting a group up to determine for everyone what’s racially fair. MY solution is that of MLK: stop LIMITING thought to racial terms, delink behavior and arbitrary skin color, recognize that obstacles can be overcome by responsible people using freedom to choose to reach their goals, independently of color. Looking real racism square in the eye can be a part of that-dwelling on it, implying it “holds people back” as if the power doesn’t lie within themselves to rise above is profoundly cynical and mean-spirited, and lacks the very faith in humanity required for a real belief in “improving as an equal society”. My position IS the ethical one, and letting all be proud of their successes is the only way around what’s left of racism.

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    • Independent4233
      Posted on June 28, 2012 at 8:51pm

      HappyStretchedThin
      @Independant
      “Read clearly, sir. I’m not a dictator, censor, or commander.”

      Read clearly? Methinks it is you, old boy, who can‘t read clearly or understand what you’ve written, because if you think you didn‘t order me to quit posting you’re in the same LA LA land that our boy Publius is in.

      ” You commit endless fallacies of confusing association with causation, and then claim I can’t refute your facts.”

      Association with causation? I confuse nothing. What I said is factual. And, whether it involves causation or association doesn’t exempt either topic from being rebutted if you really do have a point of view to express. You don’t do so, because you can’t. Your only method of response is to hurl baseless insults.

      “You‘re right that I won’t engage you on race, but not for the reason you think: it‘s because you don’t have the standing.”

      Have the standing? Ha! You don’t offer opposing argument to what I say, because you can’t, and I’ll go one step further here and tell you that very likely you agree with everything I wrote, but you’re too cowardly to say so and have some kind of half-assed desire to come across as morally superior.

      It is do gooder fools like you who are too timid to speak out who have brought this country to the sorry position it is in right now.

      “And despite my wishes, I leave you entirely with your freedom to be as offensive as you please.”

      Thank you, commander, or is it “You

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    • Independent4233
      Posted on June 28, 2012 at 10:23pm

      PubliusPencilman
      Posted on June 28, 2012 at 4:53pm

      “Incidentally, I’m curious as to what kind of business you are in that the issue of black racism comes up so often in conversation.”

      Race can’t be avoided when racial incidents are constantly in the news. Whether it’s the Black Panthers wanting to kill blond-haired, blue-eyed babies, or threatening people at the polling place, or Calypso Louie wanting to basically do the same, or Jeremiah Wright hating America and white people, as his congregants applaud and cheer, or whether it is Obama coming out in favor of a black arrested for disorderly conduct by the police, admitting before hand he didn’t know what happened, there’s always a hot racial topic brought up by black racists in this administration and throughout the entire country, as well.

      And, how about Holder refusing to adjudicate the case of the Black Panthers intimidating people at the polling station, saying they were there to see a black man get elected. He called them “his people.”

      Or how about this story just posted on here:

      “New Black Panther Declares: We Will Hunt ‘Pink A**es’ Down, ‘Kill ’Em, Dig ‘Em Up & Kill ‘Em Again & Again & Again!’

      Or, how about black on white mob beatings that occur with regularity? http://violentflashmobs.com/

      Only someone living in a “Let’s pretend” rainbow utopia would wonder where anybody would find racial situations in the news to talk about.

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    • Independent4233
      Posted on June 28, 2012 at 10:40pm

      Happystretched
      “I wish you‘d quit posting your drivel about it because it’s not convincing to anyone, and only distracts from the real causes and effects of things. ”

      Drivel? The only real drivel on here comes from the likes of you. Your rambling discourse makes you appear to be someone who is borderline senile. You can’t seem to offer any real clarity to what you want to say and seem bent on elaborating on matters of little consequence in the face of a growing racial situation that threatens to explode into chaos.

      It is people like you who have brought us to the situation we are now in with your abysmal, incompetent attempts at do-gooderism, rambling about one disconnected thought after another.

      You’re part of the problem, and you certainly haven’t offered anything resembling a solution.

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    • dezmyster
      Posted on June 28, 2012 at 11:34pm

      This ad is a joke!! Ethnic groups need to be responsible for their own reputation. There is a reason why one might get followed by security in a shopping mall, and their are a certain type of whites that would be followed just the same, and its not cause the majority of a stereotype hasn’t proven itself to society. Cm’on!! Arrrrg….frustrating……

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    • Independent4233
      Posted on June 28, 2012 at 11:49pm

      publius

      “Here‘s a nugget of fun from your favorite author Tom Chittum’s wikipedia page:
      “He also says that he plans to move to upstate New York because it would likely still be a Caucasian-controlled area after the American Southwest effectively becomes part of Mexico due to immigration by 2020″

      That’s a well-known fact to most aware people. You wouldn’t know that, because you live in your pixie bubble where prancing ponies are the things you concentrate on.

      This multicultural pig sty is on the verge of implosion from many tribal factions, as well as political ones, and when it goes your fantasy of a rainbow wonderland will be blasted into oblivion.

      All that work for nothing.

      “The American Southwest seems to be slowly returning to the jurisdiction of Mexico without the firing of a single shot.”

      Excelsior, Mexico City

      “We are practicing La Reconquista in California.” — Jose Pescador Osuna, Mexican Consul General

      Republica del Norte,” the Republic of the North, which would include the present U.S. states of California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, plus southern Colorado, along with several current Mexican states, is “an inevitability.“ The new ”Hispanic homeland“ should be brought into being ”by any means necessary.” — Charles Truxillo, professor, University of New Mexico

      http://www.aztlan.net/
      La Voz de Aztlan….La Reconquista

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    • PubliusPencilman
      Posted on June 29, 2012 at 7:49am

      “that last paragraph is what reasoned argument and justifying evidence look like…”

      No, that’s what a STORY looks like. You set up a narrative with a a few common sense points, but at a key moment you simply drop in a whopper of an assumption–that the power of racists was suddenly “zapped” (your word). Again and again you focus on explicit expressions of racism (your media examples), when that’s not actually what “white privilege” is about.

      But, to address your points:
      1) I understand your side quite well. Your “honesty” about my side of the argument seems to involve calling things I say racist and not backing them up, and then complaining that I am making people feel guilty. Claiming “honesty” is just a poor way of justifying your assumptions and unsupported claims.

      2) And enough with claiming MLK for everything. As I explained, my view is just as in line with an MLK-type ideal as yours. There is just more work to do on a social level.

      “Looking real racism square in the eye can be a part of that-dwelling on it”

      Not looking at it is a way of ignoring it and allowing it to perpetuate itself. At what point in the history of this country has the ethical answer been to simply not think about racial inequality?

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    • PubliusPencilman
      Posted on June 29, 2012 at 7:58am

      But here’s a question:

      Why is it that you see “White Privilege”as so threatening? If you made all the “right” decisions, the concept of White Privilege does not take anything away from your success. It’s not a tax, and it’s not a penalty. Obviously, it is still the best idea to make good decisions.

      It’s a concept that draws attention to disparities (which people do NEED to continue to think about) and hopefully gets people to think about policies that disproportionately affect African Americans and other minorities. As simple as that.

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    • PubliusPencilman
      Posted on June 29, 2012 at 9:21am

      And just for extra measure, how about this argument:

      It’s a statistical fact that the percentage of blacks under the poverty level is about double that of whites. When narrowing the statistics to those under 18, black poverty is about triple that of whites.

      Now, you may go by the idea of a “rising tide lifts all boats,” but those tides–even when entirely equal, which they typically are not–do nothing to affect racial disparities. If poverty levels dropped across the board equally, blacks would still be disproportionately poor.

      Now, it is also a statistical fact that the disadvantages of being born into poverty (lack of early age nutrition, quality education, job opportunities, need to financially support your parents or other family) are exactly the factors that severely limit the chances of an individual to get out of poverty. Statistics (and simple observation) support the claim that those born in poverty are far more likely to end up there than those not born into poverty.

      So, we can logically assume that without addressing it specifically, a much higher percentage of blacks will remain in poverty than whites, regardless of any “rising tide.”

      Now, the higher percentage of black in poverty feeds into erroneous assumptions of black inferiority, and these negative social assumptions thus in turn affect the chances of success for any individual black person.

      Continued…

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    • PubliusPencilman
      Posted on June 29, 2012 at 9:33am

      In other words, erroneous assumptions of black inferiority are reinforced by poverty levels that are in part influenced by erroneous assumptions of black inferiority (a cycle that started when those assumptions were very much a part of actual law).

      In short, my solution to this vicious cycle is to RECOGNIZE that it is happening, and not deny that stereotypes still exist. How long do you think it takes to rid a culture of a stereotype? Far less prevalent stereotypes that were never part of the legal structure of the United States still exist in our culture. They continue to exist even when by-and-large society condemns them.

      But so then why are whites privileged in terms of stereotypes? After all, there are all kinds of old and enduring stereotypes concerning different ethnic groups–Irish as drunkards, Polish as stupid, etc. The difference is that black people are easily identified as black. I doubt there is any adult in the country that hasn’t learned at some point that there are black people and there are white people, despite the invalidity of these as distinct biological or essential categories.

      If you are black, you are still seen as such, and that makes it possible for people to apply stereotypes to you. If you are white, well, what stereotypes can people attach to you? Are there prevalent stereotypes out there that have a negative impact on the perception of white people?

      Continued…

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    • PubliusPencilman
      Posted on June 29, 2012 at 9:43am

      In some minority communities, there certainly are negative connotations with being white and white people. However, we have no grounds at all to suggest that these stereotypes or prejudices have any impact at all on the social or economic mobility of people perceived as white. Now, you may be Irish or Polish, but you are not likely to be perceived as such right off the bat. Even if you were, the stereotypes assigned to these groups have far less of an impact on mobility than the difference between black and white.

      Just so we’re on the same page: would you agree that “whites” as a category are subject to fewer negative stereotypes than “blacks”?

      Here is the unfortunate reality of racial perceptions in this country:
      Blacks are seen, right off the bat, as “Black.” When someone sees a black person on the street, they are far more likely to associate that person with a community with higher crime rates, drug use, poverty levels, etc. than if they see a white person.
      Whites are seen as “normal,” and not immediately subject to stereotyping. This is white privilege.

      If we want to correct these issues, we need to first recognize them. Plain and simple.

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    • Independent4233
      Posted on June 29, 2012 at 11:29am

      PUBLIUS

      “If we want to correct these issues, we need to first recognize them. Plain and simple.”

      That’s the problem. You can’t identify the important, most pressing issues, most of which involve human nature. And both of your so-called “arguments” are lost in a morass of useless B.S. You begin from an incorrect premise, overlooking major factors, then arrive at a conclusion that has no basis in reality. In fact, reality reveals just the opposite of what you perceive.

      But the subject is a moot point any way, because this society is rapidly imploding. No multicultural society in the history of the world has endured, and this one will eventually be laid to rest on the scrap heap of history.

      Add the ingredient of a rapidly financial meltdown and the recipe is complete for the emergence of large scale conflict, with each tribal group battling for its share of this decaying carcass.

      Homogeneous societies like Japan, Korea and China, are the only ones that will successfully move forward after the first quarter of the 21st Century. The decadent West will be torn apart with ethnic and racial fighting on a grand scale.

      Try to tell these people that they must multiculturalize their societies, because diversity would be their strength and they would roll around the floor laughing.

      There WILL BE civil war in the near future. And the rainbow utopia will be gone the instant the first shot is fired.

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    • HappyStretchedThin
      Posted on June 29, 2012 at 2:28pm

      @Pub
      I’ll have to get back to you here in a couple days. Travel getting in the way of internet access.
      Zapped is a pretty good word though, as a neutral descriptor of what happened in the civil rights movement. Anti-discrimination got enforced, new structures were put in place to make legal recourse easy, and so successful that now it’s rare to have a civil rights case tried (loser pays, so parties settle with complainants as a matter of course), and affirmative action began.
      It wasn’t an assumption I was making: I was relating facts to which you had already stipulated in another conversation.
      Your argumentation is wiggling, and I’ll show you why when I can post next.
      Stay still, and you’ll convert to conservatism. You’re closer than you think…;-)

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    • PubliusPencilman
      Posted on June 29, 2012 at 5:17pm

      Sorry to disappoint, but you have no chance of a conversion here. We still clearly disagree on the fundamental issue at hand. Meanwhile, you have yet to prove any of your claims of racism on the part of the concept of White Privilege or in my argument.

      Anyway, I’m sure we will pick this up again.

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    • HappyStretchedThin
      Posted on July 3, 2012 at 5:59am

      This is probably too late but I’ll post anyway because writing it out helps me think through things.
      The 2 points: 1. At every post, I have demonstrated I understood your assertions before going on to demonstrate how illogical they were (scroll up). In the very act of discussing how we argue, you ASSERT that you understand (without DEMONSTRATING anything, despite ample demonstration of the opposite in this thread), and proceed to claim I back up nothing (I’ve backed up everything, scroll up), and come at you sideways (no, I’ve straight-up shown that you’re own assertions are wrong, and that you’re just not admitting the racism behind your own assertions).
      2. MLK wanted a day when black men and white men would congratulate each other’s successes, and where the content of one‘s character would determine one’s success in life, rather than the color of one’s skin. His goal implied a certain color-blindness, where human beings no longer felt either limited or privileged by racial factors. His solution was for human beings to be guaranteed equal rights under the political institutions that guaranteed those rights-and then let the chips fall where they may. His solution was to allow the equality of opportunity inherent in the idea of equal rights to produce the individual results it could. He never condoned trying to paint whites as guilty by race of structures holding blacks down. That was how Jesse Jackson hijacked the movement.
      cont…

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    • HappyStretchedThin
      Posted on July 3, 2012 at 6:14am

      …The MLK philosophy frustrates you because you want to claim his legacy, but don’t subscribe to his philosophy, which is not merely that racism should not be a de jure factor influencing individual success, but that races are de facto equal, such that individuals should be responsible for their own success or failure before God. It is anathema to his philosophy to maintain any race as having a structural influence over any other, because his philosophy was an individualistic one, and didn’t speak to equality of outcomes. This is what you deny at each turn: that the very concept of “white privilege” inevitably assumes that since races are unequal on the basis of outcomes, the inequality is an intrinsic quality of race. You try to weasel around it by maintaining a notion of the “social structures” which affect opportunities because they contain vestiges of a historical racism that are difficult to eradicate from an entire culture. (how’s that for a re-statement of what you believe?). The problem is that every time you are pressed to define what those social structures are, your argument comes apart at the seams and is revealed as containing gross errors of logic, of overgeneralized assumptions, and of essentialist, racist implications. You’re obliged to shift argument fields in order to maintain your theory where due rigor would reign you in. Let me demonstrate:
      cont…

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    • HappyStretchedThin
      Posted on July 3, 2012 at 6:27am

      Contrary to your assertion, I have neither condoned nor supported the idea that people shouldn‘t become educated about the racism in America’s past, or that racial stereotypes present in current-day society shouldn’t be addressed.
      I just think they should be addressed differently-rather than calling on one race to shoulder a burden for its guilt, we should be focusing on equal rights and responsibilities for individuals. The implication of drawing “attention to disparities”, is that the blame for failure gets placed on a race, rather than on individuals. And by unavoidable logical extension, responsibility for outcomes becomes a property of racial structural dominance. Getting people to think about real and statistically demonstrated disparities, in YOUR logic, therefore amounts to asking whites to reflect on why they’re still (perhaps only vestigially, perhaps not individually anymore, but nonetheless) racist. The video amply shows one evil underpinning of this philosophy of “white privilege”, which is that its flip-side insinuates that OTHER races CAN’T succeed WITHOUT HELP. I‘ll add to that by showing that it also implies that other races aren’t RESPONSIBLE for their successes OR their failures.
      You launch into a statistical fact about poverty, cite disadvantages to being born poor, then move to stereotypes being reinforced by higher rates of poverty among blacks, concluding it’s a vicious cycle.
      cont…

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    • HappyStretchedThin
      Posted on July 3, 2012 at 6:40am

      But you remain blind to the fact that there is no necessary link between poverty and blackness. You cling to static models of statistics, then cite them as reason, without clearly identifying the root causes or inevitable consequences of the behaviors influencing social mobility. Once again, you demonstrate that your logic hangs entirely on essentialist assumption about the inherent abilities of one race or another, as if the individuals involved don’t have the power within themselves to come out of their poverty.
      Under an individualistic theory where the statistics rise to dynamic models, climbing out of poverty has NOTHING to do with race, privilege, starting point on the socio-economic ladder, or history. The causes and effects are completely and totally explained by behavior, not “white privilege”. The Brookings Institute study (HARDLY a bastion of conservative thought, btw) played with your static models (which DO produce, nevertheless, stable associative factors) from census data, and converted them into dynamic ones-asking, what would change if X factor, and Y factor were modified. The results showed that NO MATTER what race you came from, the only pertinent CAUSES of poverty are CHOICES people make: 1. to quit high school, 2. to have children out of wed-lock and/or before high school ends, 3. to quit a minimum wage job.
      By moving to a racial stereotypes argument you’ve completely missed cause and effect, and have imputed poverty to race
      cont…

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    • HappyStretchedThin
      Posted on July 3, 2012 at 6:53am

      But even in so doing, your logic is inconsistent, and although it doesn’t threaten me or my worldview, it DOES threaten society by inventing non-causes for effects, and by calling for wasted resources, and for continued divisiveness along racial lines.
      IF your theory about white privilege was correct, what explains: 1. the success of black individuals who claimed to rise above it by ignoring it.; 2. the other racial disproportions you conveniently ignore (whether on prison populations or poverty, it would be hard for you to claim a historic ORIENTAL privilege in the US, given attitudes on Chinese railroad laborers and the Japanese during WWII which is removed by only 1 generation from the civil rights struggle you want front and center-such that if you admit attitudes have changed, you are consequently admitting to the possibility that 3 generations is all it takes to fully change racial stereotypes) because they show the opposite of what you impute to white privilege, and support, rather, the individualistic, dynamic reading of the stats.; 3. the fact that white simply isn’t a racial category in the same way that black has historically been (there’s never been a generalized feeling of white “brotherhood” comparable to that of blacks in the US, despite the best efforts of the Klan, and the regional success of the “good old boys” in the South-whose ideas are now soundly defeated.
      And perhaps most damningly, your analysis of stats leading to stereotypes…
      cont…

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    • HappyStretchedThin
      Posted on July 3, 2012 at 7:06am

      …relies on some odd idea that individuals subscribe to static statistical models when ascribing meaning to their reading of visible minorities. You’ve shifted onto a HUGE new assumption when you claim: “When someone sees a black person on the street, they are far more likely to associate that person with a community with higher crime rates, drug use, poverty levels, etc. than if they see a white person”
      What about statistics on race INEVITABLY leads to stereotypes? What about large-swath statistics INEVITABLY translates into INDIVIDUAL likelihood of imputing negatives to some races and not others? Don’t you find it utterly naive and simplistic to claim that because statistical disparities exist, people automatically peg judgments to those stats? Can’t individuals choose to see the negatives in the stats as belonging to behaviors OTHER than racial, such that DESPITE the statistical disparities, judgments about what is/isn’t associated with a race remain neutral? Or better, that the judgments don’t get associated with RACE AT ALL, but rather with behavior?
      For all your disputing the fact, the assumptions behind all your explanations lie revealed as HORRIBLY essentialist, as profoundly anti-American, and as utterly illogical. The idea that whites are seen as “normal” ignores that what is “normal” is NOT what’s “white” about them, and that “normal” isn’t a quality of race at all. You, sir, are an ANTI-MLK in your philosophy.

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  • Bamabelle
    Posted on June 27, 2012 at 11:48pm

    Can I sue them for being racist against whites?

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    • js1964
      Posted on June 28, 2012 at 7:55am

      Agree! Or sue the black panthers for threatening us.

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  • steveh931
    Posted on June 27, 2012 at 10:53pm

    American Citizens setting the record straight, what’s not to like.

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    • MRMANN
      Posted on June 28, 2012 at 5:01am

      Yes, agreed, setting the record right. The Unfair video was so deeply disturbing, am so glad to see this accurate rebuttal which stated the case much better than I could have.

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  • Hugh Akston II
    Posted on June 27, 2012 at 8:59pm

    Thank you. Maybe there is hope for us yet.

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  • michael48
    Posted on June 27, 2012 at 8:53pm

    I am a white devil…the sun came up in the East this morning and it is my fault…therefore I am a racist…cannot stand white trash…minn-ta-soak-ya..elects ms.alvin franken and wants to be taken seriously?????…

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  • sbenard
    Posted on June 27, 2012 at 8:21pm

    I LOVE that rebuttal ad!

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  • Joe_2112
    Posted on June 27, 2012 at 8:14pm

    It was not nearly as good as it could’ve been. Are you serious? They couldn’t come up with a blacker actor or a more Latina looking female? If you’re going to spend the money, time, and effort, don’t choose the whitest looking “minorities” you can find. Kind of defeats the purpose.

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    • TiocFaidhArLa
      Posted on June 27, 2012 at 10:53pm

      wat the fk did you just say?

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    • Walter Scott Hudson
      Posted on June 27, 2012 at 10:59pm

      I’m not black enough? Thanks for perpetuating another ridiculous racial meme.

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    • jg2pto
      Posted on June 28, 2012 at 1:14am

      Wow Joe_2112, I think you’ve just been put in your place quite nicely there.

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    • cmonnow
      Posted on June 28, 2012 at 1:51am

      LOLOOLLLOL !!!! haha at you Joe. Good Lord…. gimme a break. Blazers are typically ignorant, Walter – you will have to get used to this if this is to be a place where you dwell. The ignorance is quite pitiful – but sad if you think about it too much.

      But really, Walter, you are free as a black man to deny that white privilege exists, but if you are a Blazer the kind of idiocy that Joe has just demonstrated is the standard fare of the right-wingnuts who gather here.

      The original video does not label minorities with broad stereotypes. It simply states that there is a certain privilege with being white in our society. I am a white man who lives in DC. I am upper-middle class, I have a $100k law degree and a prestigious job. I have worked hard in a sense – but believe me, I have had many advantages that I am not afraid to recognize.

      I’ve never been followed around by security in a store, nor have I ever had a problem getting a taxi. Can’t say the same for my beautiful fiancée who happens to be black. She can hardly hail a cab, she is often followed while shopping, and she experiences many more things that a majority of black Americans endure.

      You may be light-skinned Walter, but I can guarantee that it’s easier for me to hail a cab than you. Likewise, I would bet my life savings that it would be you who gets pulled over more than me in the “nice neighborhoods” of DC. As we all know “nice” = “white”. This is a coding for privilege in case yo

       
    • Silversmith
      Posted on June 28, 2012 at 8:46am

      @Cmonnow Discrimination exists everywhere for all kinds of reasons and only your experience of it is what you can share. If you think you are where you are because you are white, then you sell yourself short. We are all discriminated against in our daily lives for the most trivial of reasons from fashion to politics to sexuality to the possibility that you remind someone of a cousin they don’t like. Race? it’s just another tool for politics. If you buy into it, you perpetuate it. That choice is before us all and each person‘s choice shapes our children’s future.

      Silversmith

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    • Joe_2112
      Posted on June 28, 2012 at 1:23pm

      You guys don’t see my point? You wanna spin what I said? Go right ahead. Choosing light skinned black and a white looking Latina, doesn’t quite get the point across like it could have. You’d have to be a moronic idiot not to get that.

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  • patricius
    Posted on June 27, 2012 at 7:58pm

    Awesome. Awesome, awesome, awesome.

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  • ThoreauHD
    Posted on June 27, 2012 at 7:14pm

    Man, that video reminds me of Joseph Goebbels in reverse. What in the hell is happening to this Country?

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    • NeoFan
      Posted on June 27, 2012 at 7:57pm

      The people in this video should do the right thing and get Euthanized for the good of the races.

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    • NeoFan
      Posted on June 27, 2012 at 10:03pm

      The original video is the one I was speaking of.

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  • blazetoo
    Posted on June 27, 2012 at 6:35pm

    My Dad is probably French/German, from Kansas, my mom is German from Texas. We were so rich that the five of us had government cheese on a regular basis. I am not complaining as I believe that hard knocks make you stronger and more appreciative of what you have. I have never asked for anything based on my sex, skin color or whatever. (A hard thing in a town that is 75% Hispanic)…..I have earned my position in life with blood sweat and tears.
    Do you want to know what is unfair? Someone who expects the world to be spoon fed to them because “they deserve it”

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  • nocomment
    Posted on June 27, 2012 at 6:34pm

    White Progressives and Liberals are the most racist of all…. have been for a long time.

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    • loriann12
      Posted on June 28, 2012 at 10:18am

      white progressives and liberals take in the message and have guilt to deal with. My BIL is one of those guilt ridden liberals. I don’t feel guilty that I was born white. And I don‘t think it’s wrong to be proud of my heritage. Everytime I hear whites getting accused of bringing the slave trade here, I remind them that they “slaves” were sold by their own family members first to the slavers. AND, the Irish were slaves, too. Should everyone with Irish heritage get reparations? And would I pay myself these reparations, since I’m part Irish, and part “other” whites? And how do you justify being paid reparations if you’re only part black? I had a really good friend in bootcamp who had this beautiful golden sking tone, though she “looked” black (her facial features). I commented on her skin tone, and she told me she was Black, Indian and white. Blacks wouldn‘t accept her because she wasn’t black enough and whites wouldn’t accept her because she was too black. I thought she was beautiful (and I’m not gay). She was also a beautiful person inside.

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  • WaterTheTree
    Posted on June 27, 2012 at 6:29pm

    I occasionally have an opportunity to have this discusion with friends about supposed “white privilage” and how society is organized to keep minorities as an underclass. The sad truth is that, the world is uncaring, not malevilent. Excluding a small number of bigots who are not permitted into polite society, no one will waste time making your life harder because of your ethnicity. Life is hard for all of us, and you are not doing yourself any favors by thinking that it’s because the world hates you.

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    • virgie morgan
      Posted on June 27, 2012 at 7:18pm

      I couldn’t agree more. You said it very well. People don’t lose sleep worrying about how they are going to hurt one group or another.

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  • orlandojon
    Posted on June 27, 2012 at 6:04pm

    Duluth Minnesota has a black population of 1%, most of these white kids in the video may not have ever spoken to one.

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    • Al Gator
      Posted on June 27, 2012 at 6:43pm

      This whole “white privilege” myth is nothing more than extremist white-hating bigotry used to take the focus off the failure of certain minorities to achieve.

      Let me see, Japan circa 1865 was living in a first century culture. But they were smart enough to realize that western civilization had run rings around them. Instead of complaining and whining, they took up that baton wholeheartedly and in less than 50 years, made the entire world sit up and take a real sober look at what they achieved. White Privilege? The Japanese would have none of it. They learned western technology so well, they almost kicked whitey’s butt.

      (Unfortunately, when they attacked Pearl Harbor and overran China and Southeast Asia, they still had that Samurai mentality. Which when in possession of modern technology was a recipe for disaster.)

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  • prkw
    Posted on June 27, 2012 at 6:02pm

    Did Tim Wise write that “White Privilege” ad?
    He’s the white Rev Al.

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  • Bruce P.
    Posted on June 27, 2012 at 6:01pm

    The response video is outstanding.

    Too bad the message will be lost on most here.

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  • lobo2525
    Posted on June 27, 2012 at 5:43pm

    I will start a video, “My people can on a boat from Europe, they were so rich my dad worked 3 jobs……… and did this crazy thing called raising a family.. I was so Privilege, I worked making Pizzas and wash dishes when i was 15.. Now a believethats punishable by dead. My mom was so rich she was a Nurse and a mother. I was so rich I paid my own college….With the Standard rich trick of “working thru school, this way I had zero debt. I then paid for numberous Tech schools ….while still working, saving even more, and getting experience. Now Im what they call a self made man something a billion dollars of government handouts cannot make.

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  • RepubliCorp
    Posted on June 27, 2012 at 5:39pm

    I thought that “Un-Fair Campaign“ is when a ”neocon” wont vote for Ron Paul

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    • SocialistSlayer
      Posted on June 27, 2012 at 5:47pm

      Minnesota should be ashamed of their universities! You people make me sick! Whites that feel guilty over something. I worked for every single thing I got and the government has given me nothing. The only thing I’m ashamed of is what liberals are doing to America!

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  • WiredRight
    Posted on June 27, 2012 at 5:32pm

    Excellent response video!

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  • Prosecute_Constitutional_Treason_In_Washington
    Posted on June 27, 2012 at 5:29pm

    Blacks and minorities are privileged by gov. Whites are discriminated against. What a shame.

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  • Prosecute_Constitutional_Treason_In_Washington
    Posted on June 27, 2012 at 5:27pm

    Jesus Christ was a Jew probably of a coffee colored or milk chocolate complexion. Many of us in America serve Him as our Lord. And we are racist?

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    • Bronco II
      Posted on June 27, 2012 at 5:53pm

      Very well said thank you for thruth.Bless you

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    • BOUNCESoff
      Posted on June 28, 2012 at 10:54am

      Not so fast..

      Yes many White people serve Jesus as their Lord. But when was the last time you looked inside of a Bible in the home of a white person and saw a picture of Jesus without long brown hair and blue eyes.

      EXPLAIN WHY THE NEED TO CHANGE THE APPEARANCE OF THE LORD AND SAVIOUR.

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    • 5Star
      Posted on June 28, 2012 at 10:56pm

      My Bible has no drawing of Jesus at all ???

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  • SLEAZYHIPPOs ILLEGITIMATE OFFSPRING
    Posted on June 27, 2012 at 5:21pm

    Liberals only have a platform when they stir controversy and encourage division. They must always have a social injustice to “fix” that justifies their ultimate motive in shaping and controlling society as they see fit. In their goal to “equalize” minorities they only keep them enslaved to the “it isn’t my fault” & “it isn’t fair” mentality that dispatches the notion of personal responsibility and makes them an effective ward of the state. Certainly, most fair minded people do not want policies or attitudes in place that discrimnate based on race, but that pendulum swings both ways, especially when it is used to justify current PC ideas and social programs that are in themselves a form of social injustice keeping minorities in prisons without bars.

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  • RightUnite
    Posted on June 27, 2012 at 5:16pm

    DAMN!! Now that‘s what I’M TALKING ABOUT!!

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  • flagkeeper
    Posted on June 27, 2012 at 5:14pm

    Outstanding!

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  • thegreatcarnac
    Posted on June 27, 2012 at 5:10pm

    Minnesota is full of white wimps. They hate their own selves. They live in a state with comparatively few blacks so the ones the meet are usually polite. Let them be inundated with them like most of America’s cities and then let me see their commercials. Minnesotans are stupid to put up with this crap.

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  • copatriots
    Posted on June 27, 2012 at 5:09pm

    Love it!!! Excellent!

    Stating the obvious but……liberals are the most hypocritical group of people who exist.

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