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Topic: Serious Discussion / The "Tolerance" Movement

Straw man. Just because some fags don’t know how to protest doesn’t make their stance fallible. Homosexuality is a thing you are when your sex is with someone who’s shaped like you, and cannot be treated differently than the sex you have simply because it makes you uneasy. The clerical issue is in favor of law needing to be clear, not discriminatory. Please waste your categorical arguments on a legal system based on the foundation of religion. Proposition 8 is unconstitutional, and a step towards the dark ages. It is qualitative proof that the Mormon religion is a cult (You’ve got to hear the story about the wife who threw away some of the book of Mormon. Woman was a feminist idol, in my opinion.) and that black people have terrible memory.

Topic: Collaborations / Be a part of something...

I’d like to mention that I am the founder and lead designer of 49 Maids. I have studied Game Theory and Design Theory at DePaul University, and have extensive research into character development, visceral control mechanics, and game flow and balance. Along with my background in game design, I am a published poet and writer, professional Editor and Director, and web designer. I believe these skills and my leadership experiences can be combined to design and produce award winning flash games. I would like to fill 49 Maids with individuals who have the same potential and drive that I have so that we might make our own success, together.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Hooked: Illegal Drugs

To add to that point: The overflowing prisons are not an indication of our failing morals, but the prosperity of a rich privatized prison system capitalizing on the socialization of its inmates ensures a constant profit on tax payers’ expenses. An intelligent conservative would be in whole against the illegalization of soft drugs.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Proposition 8 in California, 2008

I get very frustrated with this topic. Considering the only grounds to banning gay marriage is religious, it’s interesting that you’re inherently infringing on the religious rights of others by being discriminate about it. Simply because an individuals Christian faith doesn’t believe in homosexual marriage doesn’t mean another Christian faith that does is wrong. This would be a government showing obvious bias towards a faith, something that can quickly lead to a national religion, which might start alienating the beliefs of people who consider themselves to be Christian. We have a separation of church and state for a reason: So that government can’t dictate how we live our individual moral lives.

I love how we have entitlement complexes up the ass in America, and always about some of the stupidest freedom arguments. Suddenly when a real human right is being contested, and religion is literally the deciding factor, no one’s showing their entitlement to religion.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Leaving the Country

I’d move out of the country because of a presidential candidate. That was the plan if Hilary became president. It was more of a driving force to move to canada, more than anger. Not to mention, it’d just be a safer bet, financially.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Will obama be killed when he becomes president?

There are several attempts made on presidential candidates, and they’re all very nil and inconsequential. It’s likely there will be many attempts, but highly unlikely that any will be successful. It’d take a group of highly intelligent, highly capable, highly connected individuals to successfully assassinate a president. White supremacists are nearly non existent in circles competent enough to pull off an assassination attempt.

Topic: Serious Discussion / We are screwed

Obama was a community developer, a student at Harvard, and the opponent of both John McCain and Hilary Clinton, two very hard hitting opponents. Not to mention, he’s going to make all kinds of decisions he can actually sleep with at night, as opposed to the deaths and inhumanity that McCain would have to deal with. Did he torture anyone in the prison camps? Could he handle doing the deeds he’d ask soldiers to do?

Topic: Serious Discussion / Proposition 8 in California, 2008

what happens to the men and women already married?

They just can’t do it in the pooper anymore.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Proposition 8 in California, 2008

Actually, it’s kind of a good thing. If this is passed to the Supreme Court, it’ll likely require them to make a statement about legalizing gay marriage, and thus open very heavy doors for a bill in the National Congress.

Topic: Serious Discussion / We are screwed

Man, I wish I made all of my political decisions based on uncertainty and gut reactions. God gave us impulse so we wouldn’t have to think.

Topic: Serious Discussion / FCC Approves BroadBand Use of White Space

Fantastic. This should’ve been done a long time ago.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Whats Obama thinking RIGHT now?

I’m willing to bet he’s thinking about his Grandmother, honestly.

Topic: Serious Discussion / R.I.P Senator Obama's Grandmother

This thread is pretty goddamned bleak, holy shit people. Some old lady dies and you complain about it? Seriously, empathize. In the calm before the storm, something potentially life-shattering happens (This is like his mother, remember) and he’s got to show some kind of leadership tomorrow? Even if it were me and my Grandmother, who didn’t raise me, I’m absolutely certain I couldn’t function properly the next day. There’s no way. It’s got to be really really difficult for him and his family right now. It’s only going to get worse as the poll controversy and accusations arise. Imagine if we have any kind of recount for the next week? While mourning the loss of the woman who raised you, you’re worried about recounts.

Empathize if only for the thousands of idiots who are going to post on their blog about it, and the youtube comments, and the inconsiderate things that will be said.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Who thinks Obama is gonna get Assassinated

Obama will not be assassinated. Racial prejudice is still strong in America, but it’s become far less militaristic. Furthermore, much stronger measures are taken to protect presidents. President Bush has had several threats and close-encounters, but it’d create problems in America if we heard about it every day, and it’d just encourage more.

Topic: Serious Discussion / White People: The Target of Racism

There’s a difference, in my opinion. Being prejudiced is shitty, but being racially discriminated to the point of being considered a lesser being is a lot more than shitty. White people have very little places in the world to go where they’ll feel that kind of discrimination. I’m not arguing either one is right, but real racism is a humanity issue, where prejudice is a social or (and in the case of broken equal opportunity laws:) government issue.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Poetry

Poems don’t have to be coded messages in order to be excellent either. There’s a certain pretension there.

Poetry is hardly unnecessary or frivolous. In teaching writing to my 9th graders, they all begin honestly admitting their disdain for poetry. By the end of the class, once they’ve learned the process of a poem, and they have a piece they’ve written, suddenly they become far more quick to call themselves poets, and most of them go on to study poetry outside of school. Why? I don’t do anything special besides show them how poetry can be compelling and powerful where other mediums cannot. Once you understand how to use concrete language to invoke ideas and concepts in a palatable meter or rhyme (or lack there of), you understand how powerful a poem can truly be.

Topic: Serious Discussion / White People: The Target of Racism

That’s not racism. It’s reverse prejudice however ineffective, but it’s not racism. At least not on a social level. It’s supposed to be a fiscal social bandage instead of a genuine equalization.

Real equalization would be making an individuals income and race have nothing to do with their ability to go to a school.

Topic: Serious Discussion / White People: The Target of Racism

I wrote this two years ago as a challenge piece for my notebook, never intended for more than an exercise (It’s one single rhyme with loose meter). Then there was a poetry slam (at my school in Chicago) about race and I was asked to read. I brought it, got a really good response and now it’s in my book:

History of Hatred

Do not stereotype my white skin in some category,
where history is a prophecy
of your inequality and my superiority,
and these notions are supposed to be destiny
so you hate me,
and the hate you breed is hypocrisy.

Yes, I agree:
Culture is indeed definitely something we need,
but not before individual identity.
I am far more than my ancestry
and that is part of the beauty,
because I am me – I can be
beyond my parents legacy.
I am only a seed fallen from my family tree
and although in close vicinity,
I do not necessarily retain the same conformity
set before me by the previous canopy;
In my time I will rise to a higher story,
my leaves will be wider and a brighter green,
I am my own tale on my family tapestry.

I should be speaking free of inherited animosity
passed down to me from my ancestors tendency for slavery,
so that you can be angry for what my conceited forefather couldn’t see.
He who chained black feet and raped red land and spread like disease;
A man that was — but will never be me.

Skin tone shouldn’t dictate how you are received
and the same right should belong to me
regardless of the history.

So yes,
I do see the need for a strong sense of dignity in one’s cultural creed,
but not at the expense of your individuality
and ability to succeed in creating a world that is free
from the hypocrisy of these.

Topic: Serious Discussion / White People: The Target of Racism

Just to clarify: I think the above poster is responding to the thread title in saying that prejudice against whites is warranted, not that treatment of slaves was warranted. But I could be wrong.

Topic: Serious Discussion / The Moon Landing. True or fake?

All of the gear could’ve been planted there later. Not that I believe that, but that’s a pretty weak argument. The question is whether or not the first moonlanding was staged or not. There’s overwhelming, conclusive evidence that it did happen without needing to argue about it anymore. No one seriously thinks of it as a hoax anymore except teenagers and middle aged internet whizzes.

Topic: Serious Discussion / What is the most fundamental science?

It seems we came to a similar conclusion on the other site, that Logic and Math are inherently the same thing, and the sciences are just different applications of logic itself. I might agree then that, of the sciences (considering we assume logic is not a science, but perhaps is science) Physics is the most fundamental.

Topic: Serious Discussion / White People: The Target of Racism

I agree that the initial word wasn’t negative in connotation, but that popular usage has given it a negative slant. (The father of the household I stayed at explained how if someone called me a Gaijin while I was there that they were likely insulting me) I also think that the cultural inclusiveness of Japan makes a word like “outsider” more inherently offensive. The topic is even more complex because of how “polite” Japanese insults are. Negative connotation is highly contextual.

Topic: Serious Discussion / White People: The Target of Racism

I never disagreed with that, but the controversy of the word and its usage is indicative of some kind of prejudice. I feel like the article is also sort of lacking, considering the word Gaijin got its negative tone from early 1900 Japanese isolationism (which was just winding down, so as more foreigners came to Japan, the more xenophobic the Japanese people became). I think there’s a lot more to be said about this topic, and I don’t feel like my googling is coming up with enough articles that even address the issue of racism in Japan, in my favor or not.

Topic: Serious Discussion / White People: The Target of Racism

Yeah, I wouldn’t argue that most Japanese people hate Americans at all. I would argue that there is an overall and generic Xenophobia, and that some parts of Japan are far less comfortable with a white male walking around than others. The white male in Japan can be compared to a black man in America in that there are certain places where he would be immediately suspected if a crime were to happen, and other illogical assumptions about foreigners, and in particular Americans. There’s a lot less overt hate for Americans than there was earlier in the 1900s, but there are still places, as ee80 mentioned, where Foreigners are literally segregated and avoided.

The sad part is that a black man in Japan would probably get the same, if not worst treatment. When I went to Japan, the people I stayed with used the word “nigger” in their Japanese conversations very casually for dark skinned people. The son who spoke the best English and was the most familiar with it explained that American Rap had introduced a number of words that have become common slang for the younger generation.

Topic: Serious Discussion / White People: The Target of Racism

No, my argument is facilitated by my anecdotal evidence precisely because my argument pertains to anecdotal experiences. The argument is: Comparable prejudice is not likely experienced by most white individuals on this website that seem to argue that they in-fact experience prejudice. I have spoken to individuals that have experienced genuine prejudice who are white, and it’s not the same as what’s being talked about in this thread. That’s my argument, and no, it doesn’t require I cite some clever paper about the increase in Japanese Xenophobia or the cultural effects of South American extortion. My argument isn’t that these places are completely polarizing and anti-American, but that there isn’t a lot of racism against whites in the world, and that you’d have to go to those countries to even hope to experience something comparable to the experience of a black individual in America.

Dalewyn, go read the wikipedia article about how the word Gaijin has changed and follow all of the cited sources.