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And typified her and the whole of white America as doing the same with no proof. That's applying a racial bias, assuming a behavior due to race only. Classic racism.
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"Typical White Person"
Rather an inflammatory turn of phrase, wouldn't you say?
Can you imagine the firestorm if Shrub or McCain or Clinton said "Typical Black Person"...?Comment
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Exactly. If McCain said something involving the words "typical" and "black", there'd be a ****storm.Originally posted by asleepathewheel
"Typical White Person"
Rather an inflammatory turn of phrase, wouldn't you say?
Can you imagine the firestorm if Shrub or McCain or Clinton said "Typical Black Person"...?“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
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Not if he were talking about a typical white person.Originally posted by asleepathewheel
"Typical White Person"
Rather an inflammatory turn of phrase, wouldn't you say?
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Since when is there a typical white, black, green or orange person. Who gets to define such a being?"Just puttin on the foil" - Jeff Hanson
“In a democracy, I realize you don’t need to talk to the top leader to know how the country feels. When I go to a dictatorship, I only have to talk to one person and that’s the dictator, because he speaks for all the people.” - Jimmy CarterComment
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What is a typical white person, Zkrib? What about a typical black person, or asian person?Originally posted by Zkribbler
Not if he were talking about a typical white person.
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In the context he said it, yeah it is offensive.Originally posted by Zkribbler
Not if he were talking about a typical white person.
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As I said above, a typical white person is not overtly racists but harbors some racist feeling. They are middle of the road...average...what one usually finds under close inspection...not extraordinary.Originally posted by asleepathewheel
What is a typical white person, Zkrib?
You're confusing typical, normal, etcetera, with stereotyping.Comment
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Interesting. Anything else you wish to proclaim about the typical.Originally posted by Zkribbler
As I said above, a typical white person is not overtly racists but harbors some racist feeling. They are middle of the road...average...what one usually finds under close inspection...not extraordinary.
Also Obama exemplified dear ole gran as doing more than what you describe above, but moreover voicing overt and disgusting comments behind closed doors. Far from quietly harboring racist feelings. Especially considering child rearing considerations and the need for setting the example.
In that context it pretty much spells typical americans as racist scum just waiting to have the chance to spout their filth, ehh?"Just puttin on the foil" - Jeff Hanson
“In a democracy, I realize you don’t need to talk to the top leader to know how the country feels. When I go to a dictatorship, I only have to talk to one person and that’s the dictator, because he speaks for all the people.” - Jimmy CarterComment
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I don't think he's racist (I mean he wouldn't make racist policies), but he should have chosen different words.I drank beer. I like beer. I still like beer. ... Do you like beer Senator?
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He probably meant typical white person, controlled for age. To take a random metric for racism - acceptance of interracial marriage (from Gallup):
So 14% of white people over the age of 18 do not approve (either disapprove or are undecided) of interracial marriage and 36% of white people over 50 do not approve of interracial marriage. Assuming that Obama's grandmother is 85 (just under 40 years older than he is), a linear projection would say that ~60% of white people over 85 would disapprove of interracial marriage. ~50% is a reasonable definition of typical. Now, what Obama was talking about is a far cry from telling a stranger that they disapprove of interracial marriage - rather, it's the occasional derogatory term in private, etc.
Sounds pretty reasonable to me, although the choice of words could be a ****load better.
Edit: 14% referred to 18-49. It's actually 25% for over 18, making the final result 48% for over 85. And as I was saying, it's reasonable to assume that the percentage for making racially derogatory remarks in private is much higher. Still reasonable, if impolitic.Last edited by Ramo; March 20, 2008, 18:08."Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
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Of course, this sort of **** is why honestly talking about race is probably a bad idea."Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
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And the hits just keep coming:
From the Wright-written eulogy for scholar Asa Hilliard in the Dec. 2007 edition of the Trumpet magazine: "(Jesus') enemies had their opinion about Him... The Italians for the most part looked down their garlic noses at the Galileans."
After calling Jesus's crucifixion "a public lynching Italian style" executed in "Apartheid Rome," he goes on to claim that white supremicists run the U.S. government:
"The government runs everything from the White House to the schoolhouse, from the Capitol to the Klan, white supremacy is clearly in charge, but Asa, like Jesus, refused to be defined by an oppressive government because Asa got his identity from an Omnipotent God."
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I have heard that men are genreally more OK with interacial relationships thne women.
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