[Re. black teens who attacked a white veteran]
It’s almost like those old, evil, southern segregationists had some valid points. These types of attacks occur constantly. We had three black-on-white several-on-one beatings on the Portland transport system LAST WEEK !
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Black on white violence doesn't justify white on black racism, especially since it promotes white on black violence, which is no damned better.
Hell, white on white and black on black violence sucks!
@Argle Bargle:
Here in the UK it's kind of the other way around:
One white guy beating up a black guy is a "racist attack", even if there's no indication race had any part in it at all.
However, if the black guy beats up the white guy no mention of racism is made.
Any incident with a white guy and black guy is reported as racist, so long as the white guy was in the wrong, if the black guy was in the wrong then every effort is made to gloss over the race of the participants.
This lopsided reporting angers many people, because it implies that white people are always racist, even when there's no evidence to suggest it, but it doesn't apply the other way around.
The problem with racism and other forms of bigotry is not that they're wrong, but that there are grains of truth that they use essentially as human shields to protect their considerable lies from direct attack.
They harp upon cases of anti-racism going too far to the opposite extreme as excuses to stay true to their own bigotry.
@Balthazar The Wise:
Absolutely, there's no meaningful dialogue about what racism actually means.
As a result, the accusation of racism is used a as weapon far more often than it is used to denote genuine prejudice.
The result of that being that the term racist or racism carries little weight anymore, it's seen as something that just gets pulled out to gain the upper hand in an argument.
This is bad for everyone, because it means real racism is less likely to be properly dealt with, as everyone is so sick of being accused of it that they just don't care anymore.
Blacks do this all the time, ho hum, move on.
White people deserve it, especially the cowardly gang attacks on the elderly white, who deserve it the most !
As if black-on-white violence is the only violence that happens. The majority of hate crimes are anti-black (you can look it up on the FBI's website) but you don't see me (a black man) advocating the segregationist urges of the Nation of Islam and labeling all white people as "devils". My white friends (who account for almost half of my friends) wouldn't like that. Lol
Quit ur whinin'. And before trying to appear that you're not racist yourself stop only complaining solely about black criminals (to the "Jack Black" idiot).
Fun thing about hate crime laws- if you're assaulted for being white, straight, or Christian, they protect you too. So maybe, just maybe, those old, evil segregationists are still dead wrong. (SPOILER) They are.
And I live in Portland, asshat. There were no beatings reported back in January, let alone three in a week.
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