Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Snit Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,sci.physics Subject: Re: I simply enjoy it too much, as Americans do. Date: Mon, 7 May 2018 12:40:09 -0700 Lines: 93 Message-ID: References: <90h0fd1p43hj5a83st8t93963ugp2q9unh@4ax.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net ClVssVGzF/2SqHNHWKnpEAiwU1tlbwwuaEjUpf/xOO77vITTGV Cancel-Lock: sha1:PB6A4iJhqZC+JZ4EDYMcK+0rWpw= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.13; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.7.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.advocacy:450760 sci.physics:684172 On 5/7/18 12:20 PM, Doomsdrzej wrote: > On Mon, 7 May 2018 17:23:08 +0000 (UTC), owl > wrote: > >> In comp.os.linux.advocacy chrisv wrote: >>> owl wrote: >>> >>>> chrisv wrote: >>>>> Doomsdrzej wrote: >>>>>> Chris Ahlstrom wrote: >>>>>>> owl wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> That's funny. The oppressed groups I see in the US are whites and >>>>>>>> Christians. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> LOL You one funny mofo >>>>>> >>>>>> You probably haven't experienced it yet but it will be hard to ignore >>>>>> in the coming years. You seem like a nice guy so I can only hope that >>>>>> you won't have to face any kind of violence. >>>>> >>>>> Even if some violence (or other crap) happens, that's a long way from >>>>> whites and christians being "oppressed" in the US. >>>> >>>> Affirmative Action is institutional racism against whites. >>> >>> You're going to cherry-pick *that* issue, and claim that it means that >>> whites and christians are "oppressed"? >>> >>> Is anyone fooled by simple simple-minded propaganda? >>> >>> I hate to break it to 'ya, but there are actually advantages to being >>> white/christian, in the US, also. >>> >> >> Like what? > > I'd think that the advantages have a lot to do with pre-existing > perceptions of white people. They'll imagine that we're all boring, Who does? > poor athletes, uncool, poor in bed and so on but they'll also not hold > onto their wallets or lock their car doors when they see us. You are twisting not being seen as being as much of a thread as blacks into a bad thing. Good grief... how pathetic! > It's that > latter part that a lot of people of colour consider "advantages" of > being white but they conveniently ignore that in every form of media, > whites are painted as the lamest type of person Whites are shown as EVERY type of person. Again you are playing victim. > you can be whereas > being black is automatically synonymous with cool What? > _despite_ also being > associated with degenerate behaviour. All too often, yes. And this is not just movies and TV but the news. > I can imagine the drawbacks of > being seen as a criminal despite no record but No need for a "but" after that! > I hope that the > supposed victims can also see the drawbacks of the media constantly > telling the world that being white simply _cannot_ be anything other > than safe and dull. A think you fabricated so you can play victim. > It should be noted that these perceptions were actually spread by the > media in favour of black communities since the 1970s and were not > based on any kind of realities even though their effects are > persistent and impossible to suppress. And something you fail to show. -- Personal attacks from those who troll show their own insecurity. They cannot use reason to show the message to be wrong so they try to feel somehow superior by attacking the messenger. They cling to their attacks and ignore the message time and time again.