Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!us.feeder.erje.net!xmission!news.alt.net!not-for-mail From: owl Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: OT: Ignorance about racism Date: Mon, 5 May 2014 04:53:35 +0000 (UTC) Organization: OK by me, so long as it doesn't get out of hand Lines: 39 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: boom.rooftop.invalid User-Agent: tin/1.9.2-20070201 ("Dalaruan") (UNIX) (Linux/2.6.24-32-generic (i686)) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.advocacy:241954 Snit wrote: > On 5/4/14, 8:24 PM, in article ghufa0.3a@rooftop.invalid, "owl" > wrote: > >> Snit wrote: >>> [Political Blind Spot] >>> ----- >>> Study Finds White Americans Believe They Experience More Racism >>> Than African Americans >>> >>> There's a saying that "the new racism is to deny that racism >>> exists." If that is the case, it may explain a study conducted by >>> researchers from Tufts University's School of Arts and Sciences >>> and Harvard Business School. Their findings claim that >>> self-described white Americans believe they have "replaced blacks" >>> as the primary victims of racial discrimination in contemporary >>> America. >>> ... >>> An astounding 11% of Caucasian respondents assigned the maximum >>> rating of 10 to the seriousness of anti-white discrimination. >>> Compare that with only 2% who reported the same of anti-black >>> racism. Caucasians, the study found, often believe that racial >>> equality is "a zero sum game," where one group gains at the >>> expense of others. >>> ----- >>> >>> Makes me think of the fools in COLA who think they know what it is like to >>> have their rights denied to them because, oh no!, some people find it hard >>> to pronounce their names! Or those who just want to sweep the facts of >>> racism under the rug. I mean, really... just stupidity. >> >> Blacks are the most racist of all races. > > Even if true, in the U.S. they clearly do not have the power to do much > about it. And, of course, it is a completely unsupported claim. > They have shown that they have the power to completely ruin society.