Are You A Racist.

[JPGhost]

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Oh the pun ^^

 

[peeonme]

I'm white so obviously I'm a racist.
I'm also part Mexican so I can't be a racist.

...I'm confused.

TBH, your just hot
I believe that people are prone to be untrusting of those who seem different, when referring to them they point out the difference,
hence we get , "the black, the Mexican, the white etc"

 

[hylas]

If you use the word "chinkies" in front of me, I'd give you the side-eye deluxe at the very least, and probably wouldn't want anything to do with you anymore. Don't care what you meant by it.

Does it make you a racist? Not relevant to me because I'm long gone.

 

[pat grimshaw]

...Also, blacks are the majority in South Africa, but face persecution from the minority white population. Guess South African whites can't be racist either...

It's different in Tanzania.

In the last three years over 70 albinos have been killed, but only ten convictions have been made.
There is a belief among some in Tanzania that the body parts of someone with albinism bring wealth.

 

[Agent Provocateur]

It depends on who you ask.

 

[Ram]

If you don't want to date me, you are a racist. Boom.

 

[MakeDigitalLove]

If you use the word "chinkies" in front of me, I'd give you the side-eye deluxe at the very least, and probably wouldn't want anything to do with you anymore. Don't care what you meant by it.

Does it make you a racist? Not relevant to me because I'm long gone.

Near my old neighborhood there was a place called "Chinks" and I remember there being an article about the owner changing the name because it was an insensitive racist remark. I also remember people claiming that the name had nothing to do with racism. Yet it was named that because the owner was called a "Chink" because "he looked like one."

I really couldn't believe that people had a huge problem with the name being changed, but as per usual when something doesn't offend one personally it doesn't matter to others.

First world white people problems I guess.

 

[Benvolio]

Chinks is no more racist than Chinese. Both simply refer to the fact that he is, well, Chinese.

 

[MakeDigitalLove]

I'm not going there.

 

[pat grimshaw]

...First world white people problems I guess.

Take up the White Man's burden, Send forth the best ye breed
Go bind your sons to exile, to serve your captives' need;
To wait in heavy harness, On fluttered folk and wild--
Your new-caught, sullen peoples, Half-devil and half-child.

Take up the White Man's burden, In patience to abide,
To veil the threat of terror And check the show of pride;
By open speech and simple, An hundred times made plain
To seek another's profit, And work another's gain.

Take up the White Man's burden, The savage wars of peace--
Fill full the mouth of Famine And bid the sickness cease;
And when your goal is nearest The end for others sought,
Watch sloth and heathen Folly Bring all your hopes to nought.

Take up the White Man's burden, No tawdry rule of kings,
But toil of serf and sweeper, The tale of common things.
The ports ye shall not enter, The roads ye shall not tread,
Go mark them with your living, And mark them with your dead.

Take up the White Man's burden And reap his old reward:
The blame of those ye better, The hate of those ye guard--
The cry of hosts ye humour (Ah, slowly!) toward the light:--
"Why brought he us from bondage, Our loved Egyptian night?"

Take up the White Man's burden, Ye dare not stoop to less--
Nor call too loud on Freedom To cloke your weariness;
By all ye cry or whisper, By all ye leave or do,
The silent, sullen peoples Shall weigh your gods and you.

Take up the White Man's burden, Have done with childish days--
The lightly proferred laurel, The easy, ungrudged praise.
Comes now, to search your manhood, through all the thankless years
Cold, edged with dear-bought wisdom, The judgment of your peers!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Man's_Burden

 

[zoltanspawn]

Take up the White Man's burden, Send forth the best ye breed
Go bind your sons to exile, to serve your captives' need;
To wait in heavy harness, On fluttered folk and wild--
Your new-caught, sullen peoples, Half-devil and half-child.

Take up the White Man's burden, In patience to abide,
To veil the threat of terror And check the show of pride;
By open speech and simple, An hundred times made plain
To seek another's profit, And work another's gain.

Take up the White Man's burden, The savage wars of peace--
Fill full the mouth of Famine And bid the sickness cease;
And when your goal is nearest The end for others sought,
Watch sloth and heathen Folly Bring all your hopes to nought.

Take up the White Man's burden, No tawdry rule of kings,
But toil of serf and sweeper, The tale of common things.
The ports ye shall not enter, The roads ye shall not tread,
Go mark them with your living, And mark them with your dead.

Take up the White Man's burden And reap his old reward:
The blame of those ye better, The hate of those ye guard--
The cry of hosts ye humour (Ah, slowly!) toward the light:--
"Why brought he us from bondage, Our loved Egyptian night?"

Take up the White Man's burden, Ye dare not stoop to less--
Nor call too loud on Freedom To cloke your weariness;
By all ye cry or whisper, By all ye leave or do,
The silent, sullen peoples Shall weigh your gods and you.

Take up the White Man's burden, Have done with childish days--
The lightly proferred laurel, The easy, ungrudged praise.
Comes now, to search your manhood, through all the thankless years
Cold, edged with dear-bought wisdom, The judgment of your peers!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Man's_Burden

I remember when I first read this poem in innocent high school I found it so preposterous that I thought it was satire.

 

[Benvolio]

I remember when I first read this poem in innocent high school I found it so preposterous that I thought it was satire.

Actually, it is a very liberal/socialist philosophy. Most liberals would argue that "we" are obligated to feed, cloth. Educate and give health care to the poor people of the world. They simply would not be honest enough to admit that the "we" of their philosophy are, in fact, affluent white countries. Try substituting "rich man's burden" and see how much you agree with it. Many liberals would argue that the whites owe all that to the world because of supposed oppressions of the colonial area, so the philosophy of the poem--the burden--is largely unchanged from Kipling's time. Only the rationale has changed.

 

[Benvolio]

The actual thrust of the poem is that of service to others without their thanks, including filling the mouth of famine and bidding the sickness cease. In the Ebola crisis, it has been the white countries who responded. I did not hear of Asian countries pitching in. And often the African responded with hostility-- sullen people, half devil, half child--the hate of those the guard.

 

[bankside]

And often the African responded with hostility-- sullen people, half devil, half child--the hate of those the guard.

Maybe they just don't like all that socialism.

 

[johaninsc]

Chinks is no more racist than Chinese. Both simply refer to the fact that he is, well, Chinese.

 

[Benvolio]

The poem would apply as well to Ferguson, MO, where no doubt, a large percent receive welfare.

 

[pat grimshaw]

I remember when I first read this poem in innocent high school I found it so preposterous that I thought it was satire.

Don't worry! The Chinese Empire is taking up the 'Burden' in Africa. Hillary Clinton says so here—

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/aug/03/hillary-clinton-china-africa-investment

 

[bankside]

Oh Africa appears to be a very light burden by some standards..

As of September 2014, foreigners owned $6.06 trillion of U.S. debt, or approximately 47% of the debt held by the public of $12.8 trillion and 34% of the total debt of $17.8 trillion.[40] The largest holders were China, Japan, Belgium, the Caribbean banking centers, and Oil Exporters.[42] The share held by foreign governments has grown over time, rising from 13% of the public debt in 1988[43] to 25% in 2007

from wikipedia.

 

[zoltanspawn]

Don't worry! The Chinese Empire is taking up the 'Burden' in Africa. Hillary Clinton says so here—

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/aug/03/hillary-clinton-china-africa-investment

I wonder in what terms does the Chinese Empire justify its enterprise there?

Could the remarkable Belly translate a relevant Chinese text revealing its motives in similarly justifed terms?

That is, some comparison to Kipling's poem?

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Seriously.

 

[pat grimshaw]

Oh Africa appears to be a very light burden by some standards....

China's burden is light compared to 'ours'?