Businessweek Warns That Minorities May Be Buying Houses Again

Started by garbon, March 01, 2013, 02:14:28 PM

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PDH

Quote from: fahdiz on March 01, 2013, 07:12:44 PM
Even the notion - voiced by a white person - that there is a rational set of criteria which do not include race for judging merit, performance, etc is seen, rightly or wrongly, as racist. The very state of being "white", which once meant that we were the only ones who got a vote on these things, now means that not only do we not get a vote but the very notion that we would feel entitled to an opinion on the subject is racist.

It doesn't actually preclude white people from *having* opinions, of course, since we obviously do - but it does affect what happens if we choose to voice them.

:rolleyes:  racist
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
-Umberto Eco

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"I'm pretty sure my level of depression has nothing to do with how much of a fucking asshole you are."

-CdM

fhdz

Quote from: CountDeMoney on March 01, 2013, 05:49:57 PM
Go fuck yourself

Well, there goes 2 minutes of my day. What am I supposed to do with the rest of it?
and the horse you rode in on

fhdz

How is it that Louis CK puts it? "I'm not saying that white people are better. I'm saying that BEING WHITE is better."
and the horse you rode in on

fhdz

Quote from: PDH on March 01, 2013, 07:15:08 PM
Quote from: fahdiz on March 01, 2013, 07:12:44 PM
Even the notion - voiced by a white person - that there is a rational set of criteria which do not include race for judging merit, performance, etc is seen, rightly or wrongly, as racist. The very state of being "white", which once meant that we were the only ones who got a vote on these things, now means that not only do we not get a vote but the very notion that we would feel entitled to an opinion on the subject is racist.

It doesn't actually preclude white people from *having* opinions, of course, since we obviously do - but it does affect what happens if we choose to voice them.

:rolleyes:  racist

:D
and the horse you rode in on

garbon

Quote from: fahdiz on March 01, 2013, 07:12:44 PM
It doesn't actually preclude white people from *having* opinions, of course, since we obviously do - but it does affect what happens if we choose to voice them.

Sorry but I'd go further and say that if you are going to have opinions (even unvoiced) then your very existence is racist. :(
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

fhdz

I hope to have died peacefully of natural causes before the tables are turned and white folks are on the receiving end.
and the horse you rode in on

garbon

"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Razgovory

Quote from: fahdiz on March 01, 2013, 07:29:05 PM
I hope to have died peacefully of natural causes before the tables are turned and white folks are on the receiving end.

I can help!
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

fhdz

Quote from: Razgovory on March 01, 2013, 07:30:28 PM
Quote from: fahdiz on March 01, 2013, 07:29:05 PM
I hope to have died peacefully of natural causes before the tables are turned and white folks are on the receiving end.

I can help!

Peacefully.

Of natural causes.
and the horse you rode in on

Admiral Yi

Quote from: garbon on March 01, 2013, 04:14:46 PM
I'd like to know why the black people have white people noses.

Article says they're supposed to be Latinos.

PDH

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
-Umberto Eco

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"I'm pretty sure my level of depression has nothing to do with how much of a fucking asshole you are."

-CdM

Razgovory

Quote from: fahdiz on March 01, 2013, 07:41:20 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on March 01, 2013, 07:30:28 PM
Quote from: fahdiz on March 01, 2013, 07:29:05 PM
I hope to have died peacefully of natural causes before the tables are turned and white folks are on the receiving end.

I can help!

Peacefully.

Of natural causes.

It'll be naturalish.  How much Americium do you think you need to eat before you get cancer?  That's fairly natural.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

fhdz

and the horse you rode in on

CountDeMoney

Quote from: fahdiz on March 01, 2013, 07:15:51 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on March 01, 2013, 05:49:57 PM
Go fuck yourself

Well, there goes 2 minutes of my day. What am I supposed to do with the rest of it?

Oh, please.  I've told you to go fuck yourself plenty of times.  You'll figure something out.

derspiess

"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall