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Today a german court convicted 70 years old pensioner and peace campaigner Irmela Mensah-Schramm for having damaged public property. In a pedestrian tunnel in Berlin she had painted afresh the slogan "Dispose Merkel" with the words "Don't hate."
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Decided to start this thread after my reply in the Oscar 2016 thread started going way off topic. So to kick this off we'll use the issue of "no black people nominated at the Oscars" and I'm sure that will bring us around to other issues as new stories arise. As the mods would probably say, keep it civil, and that goes for me too. Off to the races! (See what I did there? Ok, no more bad puns.) Why is it so important for black people to get nominated above all other ethnic minorities? Why weren't there any Asians nominated? What about Arab people? Or Indians? Or Native Americans? No one complains when those groups aren't nominated. Our society is becoming ever more obsessed with skin color. What happened to MLKs dream of judging people by the content of their character and not the color of their skin? If we're all just people, if we want to be equal, what difference does it really make if a black person gets nominated or not? At the end of the day they're just a person who didn't get nominated. Tons of people who may have deserved it did not get nominated, but we somehow only notice if that person's skin has some "color" (in quotations because white people also have a color). It's dehumanizing. Can't we see this? Can't we see how we've created a form of inverted racism? This mentality that only sees black people as victims of white oppression is what is keeping us in arrested development. It still perpetuates a view that they are inferior. It is a form of white supremacy, except in this inverted version white people feel guilty for being superior and they virtue signal by flagellating themselves for being white with this notion of "privilege" as if having a good life is a bad thing. As if white people don't have to work for anything and success and money just rains from the sky. "White privilege" is just a modern/secular equivalent of original sin. It's a classic religious guilt complex. If you're white you bare the burden of all the crimes of all white people in history. It is a collectivist view of race that seeks to put all people of the same race into neat little homogeneous categories. It is the anti-MLK. The notion of "white privilege" throws MLK's dream out the window and drops a nuclear bomb on it. If white and black people can't disassociate being black from being a slave or from being oppressed how can we end all this racially charged non-sense? I'm not suggesting we forget history, but we need to move on. That isn't to say there aren't racial inequities that need to be addressed, but complaining about not having a multi-millionaire successful black person in the film industry nominated for a golden trophy is absurd and is a distraction to any genuine cause of social justice. Sorry if that was a bit rant-y.
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Brazil football club Gremio banned over racism incident
JP Schriefer posted a topic in Current Events
The event took place last week, but only had time to come here now. Finally a drastic measure was taken against racism in Brazil, and serves as an example for all of Latin America, which generally do not harshly punishes racists. Racism occurs worldwide in the same way, the difference is that in North America and Europe penalties are severe, hopefully here are severe from now too. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-29052037 -
Black client disparages white agent. Somebody didn't get the message about the colour blindness of Canada.
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http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nba/clippers/2014/04/26/donald-sterling-clippers-audio-recording-racist/8202135/ Very disturbing to read an article like this. The nerve of some people.
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This is very déjà vu for me. I wasn't old enough to realize what was going on, but I think it has echoes of extremism that arises when times get tough. Not only are these people anti-Semitic (which means they hate Arabs, too), but the also are conducting a campaign against the Roma people. This party is in third place in Hungary. A little engineering could get them into government, and what then? 1933 all over again? I hope we, as a people, are not that stupid.
