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Post by expat on Jul 5, 2003 4:24:49 GMT -5
Racial hatred is the fruit of multi-racial environments. The racial rage that exists to cause racially motivated murders, rapes, and assaults doesn't exist in mono-racial countries like Iceland. Iceland is an odd example to bring up, because at only 250,000 people most consider the country to be one extended family. In fact, the who country uses one phone book, in which everyone is listed by first name. The use names like Tor, Eriku's son. Tor's son would be Bjorn Tor's son, etc... Obviously, this is a closer knit society than most. I do not see how comparable it is to our nation with over 1000 times the population. By the way, viloent crime is known in Iceland and is getting more common. In the absence of immirgration, that explanation doe not hold. My university in my sophomere year, randomly paired me with a black roomate (I'm white). It took us a couple of weeks to get to know each other, but we ended up very good friends. I am now much more at home and relaxed with blacks now than ever before. This would never have happened otherwise, since most contact between races at school and are very superficially at school. At graduate school, I shared an office with a man from Japan. Same story. I played competitive volleyball with two American Indians, a Greek, and a Durze Lebanese. Then, in a later job, I and two Chinese men shared an office. I have, in fact many of international/minority freinds. So in my case a closer than "normal" contact, actually living together in the same dorm room, changed my life and helped me become mcuh more tolerant than I might have been, had I only the usual contact of only sharing a cafeteria, classroom, or dorm hall. |
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Post by Sentinel on Jul 5, 2003 14:40:20 GMT -5
Iceland is an odd example How unfair it is of someone to point to the benefits of racial purity by pointing to a country that lacks racial diversity. That's what you're arguement is when you complain that Iceland is an unfair example because everyone is so closely related. But, you can pick almost any country. Except when Americans are visiting, there's no such thing as interracial crime in Japan and Japan otherwise has a very low crime rate. When was the last time Japan had a race riot? You concede your own argument false, yet you persist with it. Again, you can pick any country. Japan has several hundred times the population. How about China? Anyway, what's your point? What does population size have to do with per capita crime? It sounds like to me you know you're wrong so you want to confuse the issue. That's exactly the same kind of reasoning of someone who if he had a bad black roomate would now like blacks even less. If you'd call that person a bigot, then you would be a hypocrite if you didn't call yourself a bigot, also. It's fortunate you had a good roommate, regardless of race. But, you want to use this as an example of a benefit of diversity. The statics I've seen actually show that whites have an increasingly lower opinion of blacks when they attend state universities with higher percentages of blacks. If your roommate was a dumb ape who got in under a racial preferences (20 points for being black, 20 points for being "socioeconomically disadvantaged", 20 points for being an athelete, 10 points for being from the state, and 0 points for his SAT score), would that boost your opinion of blacks or would you just think blacks are dumber than you thought before. Did your roommate help you with your classwork? Why is that? Oh yeah, because whites are such evil racists. Or, they're a bunch of liars when they say they value diversity. Blacks don't pretend to value diversity (unless diversity is a code word for discrimination against whites) So, have you moved into a black neighborhood? HAHA |
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Post by Bandwagon Boy on Jul 14, 2003 14:31:19 GMT -5
Expat you sound like a Liberel! Why dont you go and hang around with foreiners on you own time! We dont want to hear about how you love all them minorties you are probaly one youself!
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Post by HughDog on Aug 12, 2003 16:05:20 GMT -5
Should we go back to the good ole segregation days? I would like to know how far hour separation of races and cultures should go.
This is one idea. In fact, they were pretty good days. The separation of races should go as far as need be to allow their flourishing.
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Post by MO on Aug 12, 2003 17:37:55 GMT -5
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Post by USA50 on Aug 25, 2003 22:24:27 GMT -5
BandWagonBoy...
I know you were really kidding with your comments to Expat. You just couldn't be that blatantly, patently, down-in-the-gutter racist and be allowed to walk around without a muzzle and an SS guard to identify you.
I can vouch for Expat...he ain't no Liberel - that's a piano notation for guys with limp wrists. He might be a LIBERAL, though. Maybe we should ask him...
You conserves are soooo afraid of the world around you. Oh, look, was that a communist ducking out from under your bed? Nah, it was a black man with an Afro, or maybe it was a white woman with an executive job, or some Mexican wandering away from the migrant fields, or some regular Joe just trying to excercise his freedom of speech (no, it was the Dixie Chics afterall).
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Post by Diamondback on Sept 3, 2003 14:55:39 GMT -5
Racism will never end in this country. This was country was founded on racism. Anybody who doesn't believe that check the facts.
1. Columbus didn't discover America the Native Americans did.
2. This countries foundation is attepted genocide. The attempted extermination of the native american.
3. This countries Gov. is still trying to exterminate the native american by supplying the reservations with food guaranteed to cause health problems.
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Post by lordjulius7 on Sept 4, 2003 3:16:34 GMT -5
Just so everybody knows, this "Joseph Morgan" character does the rounds of message boards trying to inflame arguments upon race. He has already been banned from a board I moderate for persistently starting trouble. I've come across him posting identical stuff on several other boards as well.
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Post by AgentOrange on Sept 5, 2003 17:51:27 GMT -5
Negro should be given reparations for the injustice dealt to them by Whitey over the centuries. Whitey was the Nazi of the 19th century in that he treated the Negro the same way the German treated the Jew in the 1930's and 40's.
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Post by lordjulius7 on Sept 6, 2003 3:19:24 GMT -5
No, the Nazis murdered the Jews by the million.
That aside, I would be happy for any living former slaves to be paid compensation by any living former slave-owner.
However, to suggest that people of a particular skin colour should be given money for what happened 150 years ago to other people with the same skin colour is demented.
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