What Breeds Racial Intolerance?

[STM]

So today I read an article on BBC news talking about the copyrights being revoked on The Redskins by the US Patent Bureau. In the comments I saw people saying about how this was PC nonsense and all that. So I thought, hey I'll come out in support of sanity.

Basically I equated having a team named Redskins to openly calling black people niggers, and that both were bad things. Any way the comment was promptly removed by one of the website moderators, presumably because I didn't write n*gger or something. Obviously the idea behind my comment couldn't have flown higher over their head.

That also brings up a point, why is writing n*gger fine but nigger is offensive? The connotations of the word are terrible regardless of whether or not you stick a fucking asterisk in there.

[MeechMunchie]

Lampshading. Something is fine as long as you accept it's not.

[Varrok]

F*ck you n*ggers.

I'm politically correct.

[Bullet Magnet]

The point is, if a minority group is under-performing in society, take a look at how they are treated in society before you write them off as lesser.

[Varrok]

Doesn't that still mean they're lesser? With the (big) difference being they're lesser because of us?

[Bullet Magnet]

If you hold someone down, they can't walk. But that is conditional on their situation, they are not handicapped. The reasoning of the racist would insist that they are handicapped. And that if they lash out, it's because they are inherently criminal.

[Varrok]

I guess it's true. I thought we were talking about permament damage, not just holding somebody down. I mean, if you bully somebody for a long, long time, that person might never fully recover

[MA]

racism is bad, children.

are we done discussing that now? what can we talk about next? drugs? religion? sex? let's have another fucking kiddy-fiddler thread!

[Varrok]

let's talk about how religion is harmful to society and why the fuck christianity still exists

[MA]

let's talk about Varrok's mom.

[Varrok]

That's also fine, I guess

[MeechMunchie]

I think Varrok's mom is pretty cool.

[MA]

too cool. possibly necrophilia.

[Nate]

racism is bad, children.

are we done discussing that now? what can we talk about next? drugs? religion? sex? let's have another fucking kiddy-fiddler thread!

Why do people keep asking what thread we should have next instead of just making a thread?

[Varrok]

Well, MA did make a thread about my mother...

And I'm still not sure why WoF negrepped me for posting there.

[Slog Bait]

Because you fed MA plentiful stuff things and that was 1000% unacceptable

[Varrok]

I've learned my lesson never to be on-topic again.

[OANST]

let's talk about how religion is harmful to society and why the fuck christianity still exists

More and more, I come to the conclusion that believing in religion is an absolutely bat shit thing to do, and that the people who believe it should no longer be coddled by people worried about hurting their feelings. It's like letting someone walk into an algebra exam thinking that 7 multiplied by 2 is 9. It's not the responsible, or nice thing to do.

I took the bait.

[Varrok]

That's true.

[MeechMunchie]

I govern a lot of my life by the idea that good people don't deserve to be wrong.

[OANST]

I don't hate them, or even dislike them. If I did I wouldn't bother telling them. It's compassion that creates the need to tell them. And I desire to live in a better society that doesn't promote bigotry based on outdated ideologies.

[Varrok]

I have a question to UK residents: Polish media says stuff about UK having a problem with too many muslims there. Is it true, or just an overstatement?

I govern a lot of my life by the idea that good people don't deserve to be wrong.

What exactly do you mean by that? A lot of nice people are wrong about many things.

[OANST]

I had to think about it for a minute, but I think he was implying that I'm implying that if you're wrong about something, you can't be a good person.

[Bullet Magnet]

More and more, I come to the conclusion that believing in religion is an absolutely bat shit thing to do, and that the people who believe it should no longer be coddled by people worried about hurting their feelings. It's like letting someone walk into an algebra exam thinking that 7 multiplied by 2 is 9. It's not the responsible, or nice thing to do.

You know, some religious people have tried to convert me explicitly for this same reason.

[OANST]

I realize that. But only one of us are actually right, and only one of us has the historical and empirical evidence to back that up.

[Varrok]

i kno bro jesus was documented in bible rite and ppl saw that shit

[OANST]

There are actually no eye witness accounts of Jesus in the Bible, strangely enough. Or anywhere else. In any historical document. Ever.

Saul of Tarsus is the only account that comes close to being an eye witness. And he saw Jesus well after his "death," and while he was struck blind while traveling on the road with a large group of people who saw nothing. So, yeah. No eye witness accounts.

[Varrok]

I think there were some historical documents that kind of proved Jesus existed. At least I've heard so in TV at some point. I have no idea whether it's true.

[OANST]

No. There aren't. In fact, recent findings suggest that even the man never existed, crazy or not.

[Varrok]

It is a bit suspicious that he had never written anything himself.