Conor Daly loses Lilly Diabetes sponsorship over remark his father made over 30 years ago
It makes me sad when people are racist, as though it's a natural truth that people are different races. Ethnicity, yes, but race -
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Due to European colonialism, racial hierarchy became a defining element of social, economic, and political life throughout the globe — the concept White supremacy attempts to capture that process. According to Ania Loomba’s Colonialism and Postcolonialism, though the particular content of racial ideology is always contested, and changes to the prevailing racial logics occur over time, “the race relations put into place during colonialism survive long after many of the economic structures underlying them have changed“.
In fact, colonial era configurations of social and economic relations exist synergistically with contemporary dominant articulations of power — namely capitalism — they never actually disappeared. If we begin to understand the colonial foundation of racism, then it becomes much easier to see how racial hierarchy functions today.
From racism’s earliest formations under the Spanish inquisition to its emergence during the trans-Atlantic slave trade, it’s clear that colonialism played a key role in the creation and promulgation of racial hierarchy. Unfortunately, colonialism has been all but erased from our modern conceptualizations of racial hierarchy. Instead, racism has become understood as a character issue best remedied through interpersonal dialogue and education — with virtually no attempt to challenge the entrenched material dynamics that make racial hierarchy possible.
Fortunately, with the release of Concerning Violence: Nine Scenes from Antimperialistic Defense, Swedish filmmaker Göran Hugo Olsson’s follow-up to the Black Power Mixtape, it seems that anticolonial theory is making a comeback in popular culture. Until we understand and acknowledge the colonial roots of racial hierarchy, we will find it nearly impossible to successfully combat it.
Most of the stories you've heard of barbaric witch trials, with people forced into insane tests to demonstrate innocence, burning to death at the stake — mostly persecution of lefthanders.
Oh? Where did you get this information from Scrotie?
Most of the stories you've heard of barbaric witch trials, with people forced into insane tests to demonstrate innocence, burning to death at the stake — mostly persecution of lefthanders.
Oh? Where did you get this information from Scrotie?
Books. In terms of the specific claim "most" I'm having trouble refunding a source, but this paints a general picture; I disagree with its modern-times alarmism, but significant numbers of people have certainly been burnt alive for left-handedness.
My point, however — or perhaps the point behind my point — is that ideas that are useful to the end user are not often repeated. Such ideas are valuable tools and thus sellable — people will pay good money to learn them. Ideas that are not useful to the end user, however, are easy to come by. Because they're not actually useful, they aren't naturally preserved, and must be refreshed by constant repetition to be sustained. Such repetition takes human time and effort, so it has an economic cost — it costs money. But why sustain such ideas at all? Because they're useful to someone other than the end user. Obviously the interests behind repetition expect an economic benefit that is (more than) sufficient to cover the costs of repetition. In this way it's not difficult to figure out which ideas are, in fact, advertisements — simply measuring the frequency that you hear the idea is sufficient. I'm not saying mainstream media never report real news on occasion, but they simply don't have the incentive to do so more than occasionally — the more you need to wait for it, the more advertisements they can get you to watch while waiting. The repeated-hourly 24x7 news cycle is not there to educate you, it's there to sell you something. These are for-profit corporations, after all. So the real question is: what are they selling you?
When Stephen Colbert was killed by HYDRA's Project Insight in 2014, the comedy world lost a hero. Since his life model decoy isn't up to the task, please do not mistake my performance as political discussion. I'm just doing what Steve would have wanted.
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I can assure you that what scrotie said about left handed people is true. My mother is actually a victim of this persecution of left handed people by religious institution. (Imagine being 8-9 years old and being told that you are a child of the devil because you are left handed, that shit can traumatize a child).
Build of the week #9 - Breaking your face with style http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_EcQDOUN9Y
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You'd like to be held responsible/accountable to the view of someone in your family?
My father is racist and my mother too (to a lesser extent). I'm not. I actually often tried to get them to change their view and never agree with them when they use race as a reason and I actually tell them it's unrelated and so on.
The idea that I could be held accountable for something they said is repugnant to me.
Build of the week #9 - Breaking your face with style http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_EcQDOUN9Y
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I can assure you that what scrotie said about left handed people is true.
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My mother is actually a victim of this persecution of left handed people by religious institution. (Imagine being 8-9 years old and being told that you are a child of the devil because you are left handed, that shit can traumatize a child).
Did you mean you also agree with this part?
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ScrotieMcB wrote:
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1453R wrote:
Would you say that, perhaps, a society which was initially built on the bones of one of the most brutally repressive slavery regimes in (relatively) recent history, and which still shows very clear signs of its collective societal overmind being influenced by those bones, should perhaps enact policies designed as much to ensure no one forgets that inherent bias in the system as anything else?
Such a society should not enact such policies, because people should, by and large, forget…
Could you imagine… peace if CNN reminded lefthanders every news cycle that their kind were mercilessly burnt to cinders by bigoted righthanders, complete with images of the flames? Do you think we'd have moved on if "sinister" was singled out as politically-incorrect hate-speech, spoke of euphemistically as the S-word, and any righthander who dared utter it would be hounded by a digital outrage mob until fired? What if righthanded wiccans were found by the court of public opinion to be guilty of cultural appropriation? Do we really need a Lefthander History Month to annually remind lefties how persecuted they were, just in case they'd gone eleven months without reliving the pain of their ancestral past?
Can't you tell when war is being sold to you?
Look, I'm not saying we need to 1984-memory-hole any of this stuff — it's not like we can't research the horrible things right-handers did to left-handers — but a huge part of moving on from trauma is shutting the fuck up about it. I want a society where the vast majority of both black and white children grow up completely unaware that one group's ancestors held the other's ancestors in shackles, and only tiny numbers of historical bookworms point out that such things ever happened — not as a point of collective guilt or reparation-seeking, but as a point of trivia, a sign of not really how evil but of how hilariously stupid our ancestors were about such things. I want a future where anyone who tried to sell a war between whites and blacks, using historically accurate facts, would have his words drowned in mocking laughter.
Fuck Black History Month. It's about pouring salt in the wounds. Facts aren't some magical panacea that solves all problems. What we need is peace, and you won't find that looking backwards.
When Stephen Colbert was killed by HYDRA's Project Insight in 2014, the comedy world lost a hero. Since his life model decoy isn't up to the task, please do not mistake my performance as political discussion. I'm just doing what Steve would have wanted.
I think it's still very relevant because the issues still exist and are still current. Eventually, it should be forgiven, when the issues that come directly from the main problem aren't present anymore. Until then, actions need to be taken.
Build of the week #9 - Breaking your face with style http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_EcQDOUN9Y
IGN: Poltun
You'd like to be held responsible/accountable to the view of someone in your family?
My father is racist and my mother too (to a lesser extent). I'm not. I actually often tried to get them to change their view and never agree with them when they use race as a reason and I actually tell them it's unrelated and so on.
The idea that I could be held accountable for something they said is repugnant to me.
To a certain extent I think someone's liable for family members, but that's more along the lines of admonishing them if they say something in public while with them because they insult someone else without good reason.
But to say Meghan Markle is responsible for her dad's outbursts... she didn't choose her parents and clearly she's got no control of what he has to say.
Edit - forgot a word
Yep, totally over league play.
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Most of the stories you've heard of barbaric witch trials, with people forced into insane tests to demonstrate innocence, burning to death at the stake — mostly persecution of lefthanders.
Oh? Where did you get this information from Scrotie?
Books. In terms of the specific claim "most" I'm having trouble refunding a source, but this paints a general picture; I disagree with its modern-times alarmism, but significant numbers of people have certainly been burnt alive for left-handedness.
Mm, it was "most" that I wondered about. I'd imagine that the sinister aspect was noteworthy after the fact, in many cases - or telling in people who refused to adapt / had never changed hands to the right one. The idea of left-handedness being a sign in and of itself worthy of most persecution - no. Old, female, rural, herbalist, male, eccentric, middle-aged, child, heretic, petty criminal, wilful, argumentative, these are the ones that seem to be common traits.
My dad was beaten across the hands at school for being a Lefty, and physically forced to write with the right one, so yeah, I was aware of the stigma.
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From medieval witch hunts in Europe to contemporary “witch doctors” in Tanzania, belief in witchcraft has existed across human societies throughout history. Anthropologists have long been fascinated by the phenomenon, but have struggled to study it with quantitative methods – our understanding of how and why it arises is therefore poor.
But a study we conducted of one Chinese region provided an opportunity to test the most common hypothesis – that witchcraft accusations act as punishment for those who do not cooperate with local norms...
