# SDMB Bigoted Asshole Omnibus Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 29, 2012, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-bigoted-asshole-omnibus-thread/623489 "2012-05-29T22:59:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 33
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2012, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-bigoted-asshole-omnibus-thread/623489/641 "2012-06-03T23:38:30Z")
> [@New\_Deal\_Democrat](#): > > I am opposed to repealing the civil rights legislation that was signed during the 1960s. I think it should be narrowly interpreted. I oppose affirmative action and forced school busing. > > I am in favor of efforts by the government to reduce economic inequality, but I think these efforts should be made without considering race or sex. Otherwise they will jeopardize white male blue collar workers. Hey, we’ve got a new topic here! Tell us about your issues with women… ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2012, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-bigoted-asshole-omnibus-thread/623489/642 "2012-06-03T23:50:34Z")
> [@brazil84](#): > > I kinda doubt it. For example, economic populism has produced its fair share of tyranny, brutality, exploitation, and mass murder. And yet in my experience discussions of economic populism don’t produce the same kind of nastiness among people opposed to it. “Economic populism” has done a great deal of good. Racism has always been pure evil in its effects. > [@brazil84](#): > > Same thing with discussions of Islam. I don’t see those opposed to Islam getting anywhere near as nasty as the “anti-racists.” :rolleyes: Please; I hear people talking like Muslims like they are an army of demons, or some swarming hive of bug-aliens out of a sci-fi alien invasion story. Something to be exterminated without remorse. > [@New\_Deal\_Democrat](#): > > [QUOTE=Der Trihs] > Because he’s pushing a belief system that has a centuries long record of producing tyranny, brutality, exploitation, and mass murder. We already know where his ideals lead. The belief that human potential and benevolence is unlimited lead to the creation of Communist dictatorships. [/QUOTE] Oh, nonsense; plenty of communists would have agreed with you. Communism has nothing to do with racism one way or another. ---
**Author:** ![New\_Deal\_Democrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9d8465/32.png) [@New\_Deal\_Democrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/New_Deal_Democrat)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2012, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-bigoted-asshole-omnibus-thread/623489/643 "2012-06-04T00:08:35Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > “Economic populism” has done a great deal of good. Racism has always been pure evil in its effects. > > :rolleyes: Please; I hear people talking like Muslims like they are an army of demons, or some swarming hive of bug-aliens out of a sci-fi alien invasion story. Something to be exterminated without remorse. > > Oh, nonsense; plenty of communists would have agreed with you. Communism has nothing to do with racism one way or another. Those who believe that genetic and racial differences are important are often accused of having an affinity with Nazism. Communism is based on the opposite belief: that genetic and racial differences are unimportant, or non existent. I am not accusing those who disagree with me about the importance of genes, IQ, and race of being Communists, or even Marxists. However, opinions like those of Charles Murray should be evaluated on their merits, without resorting to the guilt by association fallacy. [http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/guilt-by-association.html](http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/guilt-by-association.html) ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2012, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-bigoted-asshole-omnibus-thread/623489/644 "2012-06-04T00:19:12Z")
> [@New\_Deal\_Democrat](#): > > Would you say this of the anger segregationists directed at civil rights demonstrators? Of course not. The segregationists were impeding freedom; the civil rights demonstrators were seeking it. Next? [QUOTE=New Deal Democrat] Most blacks need to be lead by the equivalent of kindly plantations owners who treat them like irresponsible children from whom little should be expected, and much forgiven. White liberals in positions of responsibility perform that role reasonably well. Unfortunately white liberals forget that irresponsible children require discipline. [/QUOTE] You are a fucking horror. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2012, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-bigoted-asshole-omnibus-thread/623489/645 "2012-06-04T00:23:06Z")
> [@New\_Deal\_Democrat](#): > > The mental abilities of black adults in Africa should not be compared with those of white adults in the United States who are mentally retarded, but with those of white children. Many children are bi lingual. Whatever we compare them too, it would be nice to actually have decent data. Lynn makes up far more data than he uses. ---
**Author:** ![al27052](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/41988e/32.png) [@al27052](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/al27052)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2012, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-bigoted-asshole-omnibus-thread/623489/646 "2012-06-04T00:23:38Z")
> [@New\_Deal\_Democrat](#): > > I am opposed to repealing the civil rights legislation that was signed during the 1960s. I think it should be narrowly interpreted. I oppose affirmative action and forced school busing. > > I am in favor of efforts by the government to reduce economic inequality, but I think these efforts should be made without considering race or sex. Otherwise they will jeopardize white male blue collar workers. Protecting blue collar jobs is only part of the equation. In the long run, people have to get better education and training, in order to be able to compete in a world that changes faster and faster. If you don’t spend some time, money, and energy on better training and education, then your workforce becomes irrelevant and obsolete. I do agree, though, that affirmative action somewhat misses the point. Poor people everywhere of every race have it bad. However, let’s not forget that welfare, food stamps, etc. are given without regard to race. And blacks have suffered generations of low expectations and few opportunities. You really think those internalized low expectations, handed down through the generations is black culture, can be reversed with a few decades of better civil rights and affirmative action? The fact is, the way welfare has been practiced has largely _destroyed_ the black family in this country. _That’s_ a big part of the problem. That’s not to say that economic help for the poor from the government is always bad; it just needs to be done better. IMHO, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![brazil84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8491ac/32.png) [@brazil84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brazil84)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2012, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-bigoted-asshole-omnibus-thread/623489/647 "2012-06-04T00:26:07Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > “Economic populism” has done a great deal of good. Racism has always been pure evil in its effects. Nice goalpoast-shifting. Your claim was that NDD’s views fall into a “belief system that has a centuries long record of producing tyranny, brutality, exploitation, and mass murder.” Same thing for economic populism. > [@](#): > > :rolleyes: Please; I hear people talking like Muslims like they are an army of demons, or some swarming hive of bug-aliens out of a sci-fi alien invasion story. Something to be exterminated without remorse. Show me one thread on this board where anti-Muslims were as nasty as “anti-racists” have been in this thread. One. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2012, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-bigoted-asshole-omnibus-thread/623489/648 "2012-06-04T00:38:40Z")
> [@brazil84](#): > > Show me one thread on this board where anti-Muslims were as nasty as “anti-racists” have been in this thread. One. You **do** see the false equivalency here, don’t you? ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2012, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-bigoted-asshole-omnibus-thread/623489/649 "2012-06-04T00:47:06Z")
> [@New\_Deal\_Democrat](#): > > Otherwise they will jeopardize white male blue collar workers. Why should we be paying particular attention to this one particular group? ---
**Author:** ![brazil84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8491ac/32.png) [@brazil84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brazil84)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2012, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-bigoted-asshole-omnibus-thread/623489/650 "2012-06-04T00:57:33Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > You **do** see the false equivalency here, don’t you? No I don’t. Care to point it out? ---
**Author:** ![New\_Deal\_Democrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9d8465/32.png) [@New\_Deal\_Democrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/New_Deal_Democrat)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2012, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-bigoted-asshole-omnibus-thread/623489/651 "2012-06-04T01:24:59Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > Why should we be paying particular attention to this one particular group? Because it has the same rights as any other. Affirmative action on behalf of women reduces strength requirements in jobs like police work and fire fighting. Affirmative action on behalf of blacks and Hispanics reduces intellectual requirements. In the process, physical and intellectual requirements are increased for white men. This does not negatively impact rich white men, but it does negatively impact working class white men. It makes it more difficult for them to get jobs with the government. Affirmative action does not create jobs. It shifts them from lower income white men to women, blacks, and Hispanics. ---
**Author:** ![New\_Deal\_Democrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9d8465/32.png) [@New\_Deal\_Democrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/New_Deal_Democrat)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2012, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-bigoted-asshole-omnibus-thread/623489/652 "2012-06-04T01:28:15Z")
> [@al27052](#): > > And blacks have suffered generations of low expectations and few opportunities. You really think those internalized low expectations, handed down through the generations is black culture, can be reversed with a few decades of better civil rights and affirmative action? Affirmative action reinforces racial prejudice because it advances blacks and Hispanics to positions where they cannot perform adequately. ---
**Author:** ![florez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b9e5f3/32.png) [@florez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/florez)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2012, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-bigoted-asshole-omnibus-thread/623489/653 "2012-06-04T01:31:39Z")
> [@New\_Deal\_Democrat](#): > > Affirmative action reinforces racial prejudice because it advances blacks and Hispanics to positions where they cannot perform adequately. Does this human cesspool ever stop spewing garbage? ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2012, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-bigoted-asshole-omnibus-thread/623489/654 "2012-06-04T01:36:03Z")
> [@New\_Deal\_Democrat](#): > > Affirmative action reinforces racial prejudice because it advances blacks and Hispanics to positions where they cannot perform adequately. Not in many places nowadays, and not with the results the anti-affirmative action proponents claimed. [http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract\_id=1324076](http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1324076) > [@](#): > > In analyzing data from a national survey of 335 students majoring in the sciences, this paper tests the three main arguments of affirmative action opponents and finds: 1. that under-represented minorities experience far more hostility at institutions of higher learning in states that bar affirmative action in admissions than in those states that permit race-based admissions; 2. that under-represented minority students encounter more external and internal stigma at institutions in states that ban race-based admissions; and 3. students who experience critical mass by never being racially isolated in the classroom encounter the least amount of overt racism and stigma. Thus, contrary to what anti-affirmative action advocates argue, students of color endure silencing, the pressure of “performing” and the hostility of “imposition” in white spaces at a far greater rate in the states that espouse a colorblind ideal. Moreover, this paper raises questions about the court’s use of a diversity rationalization, the benefits of critical mass, and the effects of stereotype threat and makes recommendations. Brilliant Disguise: An Empirical Analysis of a Social Experiment Banning Affirmative Action Deirdre M. Bowen Seattle University School of Law ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2012, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-bigoted-asshole-omnibus-thread/623489/655 "2012-06-04T01:48:41Z")
> [@brazil84](#): > > If you do not know what my point is, you only make yourself look like an idiot by responding to something you pretend or imagine that I said. Whatever, dude. I’m not really following your arguments. Of course that makes me the idiot. > [@brazil84](#): > > I don’t know what it means to assert that “the genetic idea of a race” is “meaningless.” > > Let me ask you this: Is there a test I can do to determine whether the “genetic idea” of a grouping is “meaningless”? You’re seriously playing the grammar/semantics game here? Jesus Christ, man, get a grip. I meant, there’s no set of genes that defines any one race. So races, in a scientific or genetic sense is meaningless. That is: the definition of what a race is is already pretty fuzzy. But most understand it to be a group of humans sharing similar traits. To find a basis for this on the genomic level would be preposterous. So let me ask you this: is there a genetic trait that can’t be shared/passed on from one “race” to another? > [@brazil84](#): > > And assuming that “the genetic idea of a race” is “meaningless,” so what? Does it contradict anything I have said? I have no idea. I must’ve missed some point of yours over these 650+ posts. I really don’t have the time to go over your ramblings about what your basis is on race, Leftists and other semantic bullshit. > [@brazil84](#): > > I’m not sure. Me neither, but would you two like to go bowling? > [@brazil84](#): > > :shrug: If you admit to being rude but refuse to apologize, it’s your prerogative. Giggity. ---
**Author:** ![brazil84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8491ac/32.png) [@brazil84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brazil84)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2012, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-bigoted-asshole-omnibus-thread/623489/656 "2012-06-04T02:01:19Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > Whatever, dude. I’m not really following your arguments. Of course that makes me the idiot. Sure, if you just make up stuff that I never said and attribute it to me. It makes you either an idiot or a liar. > [@](#): > > You’re seriously playing the grammar/semantics game here? Actually I think you are . . . but we’ll see. > [@](#): > > Jesus Christ, man, get a grip. I meant, there’s no set of genes that defines any one race. Is the same true of ethnic groups? Is the same true of breeds of dogs? > [@](#): > > So let me ask you this: is there a genetic trait that can’t be shared/passed on from one “race” to another? None that I’m aware of. Is the same true of ethnic groups? Is the same true of breeds of dogs? > [@](#): > > I have no idea. Then what’s your point? Why are you responding to me if you do not disagree with anything I have posted? > [@](#): > > I really don’t have the time to go over your ramblings about what your basis is on race, Leftists and other semantic bullshit. Oh, and you are saving time by just making stuff up and attributing it to me? > [@](#): > > Me neither, but would you two like to go bowling? Lol, whatever. If you are going to respond to my posts, please attempt to actually read them. If there is something which is not clear, feel free to ask questions about it. Much preferable to just making stuff up. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2012, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-bigoted-asshole-omnibus-thread/623489/657 "2012-06-04T02:12:44Z")
> [@brazil84](#): > > Is the same true of ethnic groups? Is the same true of breeds of dogs? > > … > > None that I’m aware of. Is the same true of ethnic groups? Is the same true of breeds of dogs? > … > > Then what’s your point? Why are you responding to me if you do not disagree with anything I have posted? 1. Nope, in both cases. 2. Nope, in both cases. My point is “race” is a superficial grouping of traits. If there is indeed a “dumb” gene, it can be passed onto to _any_ human, regardless of this absurd idea called “race.” Is this something you agree with? ---
**Author:** ![New\_Deal\_Democrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9d8465/32.png) [@New\_Deal\_Democrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/New_Deal_Democrat)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2012, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-bigoted-asshole-omnibus-thread/623489/658 "2012-06-04T02:23:19Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > 1. Nope, in both cases. > > 2. Nope, in both cases. > > My point is “race” is a superficial grouping of traits. If there is indeed a “dumb” gene, it can be passed onto to _any_ human, regardless of this absurd idea called “race.” > > Is this something you agree with? Blacks and whites are members of the same species. No one doubts that. Nevertheless, the differences between them are the same as the differences between sub species of the same animal. For example, mountain lions, panthers, jaguars, and cougars are sub species of the same species the same way that Mongloids, Caucasians, Negroes, and Australian aborigines are different races of the human species. ---
**Author:** ![brazil84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8491ac/32.png) [@brazil84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brazil84)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2012, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-bigoted-asshole-omnibus-thread/623489/659 "2012-06-04T02:30:33Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > 1. Nope, in both cases. Then kindly identify the sets of genes which define ethnic French; ethnic Germans; Labrador Retrievers; and Golden Retrievers. > [@](#): > > 1. Nope, in both cases. Then kindly identify what genes cannot be passed from ethnic French to ethnic Germans. And then identify what genes cannot be passed from Labrador Retrievers to Golden Retrievers. TIA. > [@](#): > > Is this something you agree with? I agree that there are no genes which cannot be passed from one race to another. And please answer my question from before: Why are you responding to me if you do not dispute anything I have posted? ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2012, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-bigoted-asshole-omnibus-thread/623489/660 "2012-06-04T02:34:45Z")
> [@New\_Deal\_Democrat](#): > > Blacks and whites are members of the same species. No one doubts that. Nevertheless, the differences between them are the same as the differences between sub species of the same animal. For example, mountain lions, panthers, jaguars, and cougars are sub species of the same species the same way that Mongloids, Caucasians, Negroes, and Australian aborigines are different races of the human species. That’s such an outmoded, simplistic and naive understanding of modern genomics and speciation. Get with the program. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-bigoted-asshole-omnibus-thread/623489.md?page=32) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-bigoted-asshole-omnibus-thread/623489.md?page=34)