No, I just conceded that if you’re advertising and handing out business cards, you’re a business. I did not concede that businesses shouldn’t have redress in the courts if the business is a religious business and it’s being asked to violate that religion.
Well, then, you’re a racist, and the OP was right all along.
Then the entire Congress is racist, because they supported a racist law that allows just that.
Oh, here, let’s revive* this *thread.
Adaher is hijacking the SRIOTD thread, again. I responded to him twice and realized that that was stupid. So I found a thread about adaher and racism! Good!
Or, you know, stay in the White House. :rolleyes:
Trump has Fuck You Money. Any average American who expresses even mild racist views is going to stay poor, which is why almost all outspoken racists are poor.
I’d also note that he got elected because we have a little problem in this country. For the first time in most of our lifetimes, racism is getting worse. The trendline has generally been towards it getting better. I suppose we can just stick with the normal strategy: “Trump supporters are racists, we’ll purge them from our society!”, or we can address the root causes that have turned your neighbors into resentful folks.
Oh wait, foolsguinea, you think they SHOULD be resentful, you just would prefer they hate different people. Funny how encouraging people to be angry doesn’t always work out as planned.
Do you have a cite for this? Richard Spencer and David Duke (and Steve King, for that matter) all seem to be doing well for themselves (while not rich, they don’t appear to be poor either). There exists a whole genre of white supremacist music – so there are obviously enough consumers and customers to support some non-zero amount of professional white supremacists.
This is one theory – another is that these folks expressing racist stuff more openly now always felt that way, they just feel like now they can publicly express their beliefs without as much pushback.
If it wasn’t focused on such specific issues, issues that even Democrats have not always been afraid to race bait on, you might be right. But 21st century xenophobia is about very specific things, both here and in Europe. Here it’s primarily economic, and in Europe it’s primarily about the incompatibility of cultures. Plus the small matter of European countries actually being homelands for a particular race of people, which gives them more of a leg to stand on when wanting to maintain the character of their country. France isn’t some ideal like America, it’s literally the homeland of the French people.
You’re just making assertions – I don’t think it’s “primarily economic” here; that might be some part of it, but I see no reason to believe that it’s significantly different than the most common forms of racism and bigotry through American history, which certainly weren’t about economics.
No.
“Racism” is getting worse because liberals have decided that it is now “racist” to expect or even assume that minorities should TRY to find success and advancement in life through assimilation/becoming productive members of society. Ironic, given that for generations, whites have been blamed for impeding that kind of success.
Do you see much “racist stuff” being expressed in Arlington?
What liberals make this claim?
Where are you getting this information?
Good point. I’ve always found it absolutely astounding that most all the relatively small European countries bordering each other for centuries have maintained such distinct and different cultures and languages.
No, this is actually a racist statement because you are generalizing about every individual that is party of a minority group. Your statement assumes that members of minority groups are not currently trying to “find success and advancement in life through assimilation/becoming productive members of society”.
What on earth makes you think this is a true statement about every single person you are making it about? Also, what liberal have you ever heard say anything like this? I think you need to offer some citations on that or it won’t be taken seriously.
Well if we want to maintain the original American culture, wouldn’t that be the Native American culture? We already changed the culture of this land, so why the assumption that it should never change any further?
This might be true of fantasy liberals, but not the vast majority of real world liberals. Perhaps this is the explanation for why fantasy-racism has worsened in fantasy-land. For more discussions about fantasy worlds, I suggest you start a new thread – discussion of fiction usually goes in Cafe Society.
Maybe a bit more lately, not that I have any idea how this is relevant.
I’m wondering if you’ve ever been to Europe or whether you’re aware of the high proportion of Europeans who fluently speak more than one language.
Well, there really isn’t much of an American culture, it’s whatever our melting pot produces. With one exception: our Constitution and Bill of Rights, the concepts of limited government, that’s unchangeable. It’s the basic compact of this nation and immune to cultural changes, as it should be.
But I don’t consider any part of our culture outside the makeup of our government to be sacred, not even the English language.
No, I do not generalize about all members of any minority group. Liberals do, and consider them all victims.
My statement assumes nothing.
Stationed there for a few years while in the Army.
How does the fact that many Europeans speak multiple languages negate my observation?