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Part of why racism won't go away

bubbabgone said:
A helpful note from me to you in passing ... you sound like a caricature of too self-aware student activist in a pretentious 60's movie.
And you never really had a chance to get off the ground anyway by thinking SW Virginia is somewhere in West Virginia.
Unless, fingers crossed here, you think there's a State called South West Virginia ... that would be so cool.
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It's but one among those elusive 57 states.
 
CycloneWanderer said:
To be fair, West Virginia kinda is South and West of Virginia.
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I draw the line at confusing West Virginia with any part of Virginia. That's completely unacceptable, and West Virginians have a similar view of such confusion. If they don't, it's because they're short a bunch of teeth, lost half their family to drowning when the pick up bed got flooded and the tail gate stuck, or sumthin unfortunate like that which has addled their ganglions, er, brains.
 
soot said:
What would you require in order to establish empirically whether or not something is "a truth"?

It seems to me that you require links to academic research published in peer reviewed journals at a minimum.

I looked for that kind of "proof" but wasn't able to find it, and understand that I have a lot of research resources at my disposal...
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Well then, if there isn't any academic studies supporting the claim that racism is being trumped up in the US, perhaps it is because there is not much evidence to support it and what is going on with the anecdotal, subjective, biased POV's by low intelligence folks with their own prejudices is that they are trying to rationalize their racist views....by blaming "the media" and projecting, falsely claiming that the media is making a big deal out of nothing as a means to minimize and distract from themselves.

When you hear a middle aged professional with a graduate degree and a Dominican wife making those comments in Newark, NJ your ears sort of perk up a little.
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A (assumed) White Prof with a Dominican wife is not by default a person who is without prejudice, nor is living in NJ some sort of badge of racist-free lifestyle.....if he is expressing racist views....well.....he might just hold racist views. You can call claims made "imagined", but then you would not KNOW they are....and you might be revealing something about yourself.
 
humbolt said:
Well damn. My location is right there under my name. Reading difficulties? For where I live my situation is as I described and accurate. It's anecdotal only in that because nothing racially significant happens here, it's not reported, which is, not coincidentally, the subject of the OP. In fact, the vast majority of this country doesn't have the racial problems generally alluded to, and that's why you never hear about them. It's really rather simple.
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Aryan Nations LA
Bedford, Virginia

Christian Action Network
Forest, Virginia

Virginia Publishing Company
Lynchburg, Virginia

Creativity Alliance
Virginia

National Socialist Movement
Chesterfield, Virginia

Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan
Virginia

American Nazi Party
Virginia

https://www.splcenter.org/hate-map

I can go on, let me know.
 
Lutherf said:
You say I don't want to examine the level of racism in this country and that isn't the case at all.It's difficult, however, to have that conversation with an individual or a group who come at the issue from the perspective that absolutely everything has a racial component to it.
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Yes yes, the vast body of my posts here at DP show that I frame EVERYTHING within the perspective of race. Again, this is further proof that the problem is your reading and comprehension, not with the content of what you are reading.
 
Lutherf said:
The media is promoting it. Period.

Why is this story even in the news? - 6 Passengers Kicked Off Plane At LAX Accused Of Being Unruly Claim Discrimination « CBS Los Angeles

You've got one side of the story and nothing else. The cops POV isn't presented, the airline's POV isn't presented and no other passengers have weighed in but a major market "news" outlet decided to push the story anyway. Why would they do that? Where is the journalistic integrity?

I'll tell you why any semblance of journalistic integrity is missing...it's because the "news" outlets are now in the business of fomenting outrage. Outrage sells, bottom line. If these so called journalists can put a story out that starts a Twitter and Facebook frenzy then more people click their page and their advertising opportunities become more attractive.

It's pretty ****ing sad.
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I see two sides of the story. One side said they were being disruptive, they said they were taken off because they were black. Which is bull****.
 
Gimmesometruth said:
Aryan Nations LA
Bedford, Virginia

Christian Action Network
Forest, Virginia

Virginia Publishing Company
Lynchburg, Virginia

Creativity Alliance
Virginia

National Socialist Movement
Chesterfield, Virginia

Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan
Virginia

American Nazi Party
Virginia

https://www.splcenter.org/hate-map

I can go on, let me know.
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You and the SPLC can go on and on. The SPLC is a joke, completely dominated by the far left in conception, at inception, and in practice. If you have a credible source, you would have used it. You don't.,,,, The "Hate Map". Heh. There's just a ton of irony in that whole idea. A ton.
 
humbolt said:
You and the SPLC can go on and on. The SPLC is a joke, completely dominated by the far left in conception, at inception, and in practice. If you have a credible source, you would have used it. You don't.,,,, The "Hate Map". Heh. There's just a ton of irony in that whole idea. A ton.
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I could give a rats what you think of the Southern Poverty Law Center, you are not able to deny the existence of these racist groups in VA and instead go ad hominem. Go ahead and dispute the groups.
 
Gimmesometruth said:
Yes yes, the vast body of my posts here at DP show that I frame EVERYTHING within the perspective of race. Again, this is further proof that the problem is your reading and comprehension, not with the content of what you are reading.
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I picked vanilla ice cream for dessert last night instead of chocolate. ****, now you probably think I'm a racist.
 
Gimmesometruth said:
I could give a rats what you think of the Southern Poverty Law Center, you are not able to deny the existence of these racist groups in VA and instead go ad hominem. Go ahead and dispute the groups.
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Well, see I don't give a rat's ass about the SPLC. If you take a look, they've identified "hate" groups in every state, including Massachusetts - the most liberal state in the country. So exactly what all of that crap has to do with where I live amounts to less than nothing. I'm surprised they haven't identified the Boy Scouts as a hate group.
 
humbolt said:
You and the SPLC can go on and on. The SPLC is a joke, completely dominated by the far left in conception, at inception, and in practice. If you have a credible source, you would have used it. You don't.,,,, The "Hate Map". Heh. There's just a ton of irony in that whole idea. A ton.
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I know only on SPLC employee, an attorney. He is extreme far left, and I mean really, really extreme.

I think there's not nearly so much racism in this country as the media would have us believe.
 
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humbolt said:
For example, there is virtually no racism in the area in which I live
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Gimmesometruth said:
you are not able to deny the existence of these racist groups in VA and instead go ad hominem. Go ahead and dispute the groups.
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humbolt said:
If you take a look, they've identified "hate" groups in every state, including Massachusetts - the most liberal state in the country. So exactly what all of that crap has to do with where I live amounts to less than nothing.
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nota bene said:
I know only on SPLC employee, an attorney. He is extreme far left, and I mean really, really extreme.

I think there's not nearly so much racism in this country as the media would have us believe.
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That's been my experience. SPLC is very far over the edge of the left. Since they're all consumed with mapping "hate", I assume the areas not noted for their hate are consumed with love, and why, that would be the vast, vast majority of the country, by golly. And I agree that racism sells for the media, which is surely just a coincidental advantage for the political left.
 
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