The Dutch continue to be ridiculously racist and in denial about it

[jimmy olsen]

Dutch dumbasses

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2015/08/13/dutch-newspaper-uses-n-word-in-headline-of-review-of-ta-nehisi-coatess-new-book/?postshare=6031439504729840

[The Brain]

People looking for reasons to be offended are tiresome.

[Eddie Teach]

[Martinus]

Americans don't understand that world does not revolve around their cultural context. Film at 11.

[Martinus]

I love this part in particular:

What the NRC episode reveals is that as the Black Lives Matter movement increases in visibility both in the United States and abroad, American discourse about race, privilege and media representations will inevitably bump up against and illuminate the state of race relations, identity and privilege in other countries.

The arrogant expectation that the US is to "illuminate" other countries about "race relations" (while being historically one of the biggest offenders on the planet, and certainly in the Western world) is preposterous.

Also, I am coming to a conclusion that anyone these days who uses the word "privilege" in discourse is a cretin. It seems to have become a buzzword of the dumb.

[garbon]

Americans don't understand that world does not revolve around their cultural context. Film at 11.

A bit odd given that this incident stemmed from non-Americans commenting on books about US race relations.

[The Brain]

Americans don't understand that world does not revolve around their cultural context. Film at 11.

A bit odd given that this incident stemmed from non-Americans commenting on books about US race relations.

The Washington Post (and I guess quite a few of the twitterstormers) is American.

[The Brain]

Krielaars's argument doesn't pass the laugh test. How does one consciously intend to use racially offensive imagery and language, but yet say it's "stupid" to think that they were intended to offend?

Reading American books on the history of racist expression must be a strangely unsatisfying experience.

[garbon]

Americans don't understand that world does not revolve around their cultural context. Film at 11.

A bit odd given that this incident stemmed from non-Americans commenting on books about US race relations.

The Washington Post (and I guess quite a few of the twitterstormers) is American.

Which came about because of the insensitive way that the Dutch commenters handled their commenting on books about American race relations.

[Warspite]

Americans don't understand that world does not revolve around their cultural context. Film at 11.

I'm willing to make a substantial wager that if you called a European black person a nigger, they'd punch you in the face just as soon as an American black person.

[The Brain]

Americans don't understand that world does not revolve around their cultural context. Film at 11.

A bit odd given that this incident stemmed from non-Americans commenting on books about US race relations.

The Washington Post (and I guess quite a few of the twitterstormers) is American.

Which came about because of the insensitive way that the Dutch commenters handled their commenting on books about American race relations.

Yeah the American outrage industry had nothing to do with it.

[Eddie Teach]

I am outraged by Brain's slanders against my country. 

[Duque de Bragança]

Americans don't understand that world does not revolve around their cultural context. Film at 11.

I'm willing to make a substantial wager that if you called a European black person a nigger, they'd punch you in the face just as soon as an American black person.

Even if the European black person does not know English?

[garbon]

Americans don't understand that world does not revolve around their cultural context. Film at 11.

A bit odd given that this incident stemmed from non-Americans commenting on books about US race relations.

The Washington Post (and I guess quite a few of the twitterstormers) is American.

Which came about because of the insensitive way that the Dutch commenters handled their commenting on books about American race relations.

Yeah the American outrage industry had nothing to do with it.

I don't see what is outrageous in taking issue with this.

[Warspite]

Even if the European black person does not know English?

That will be one of the few English words they do know.