Completely ridiculous, but this pitting is not about Markxxx. This pitting is about Stan Shmenge. Stan came into the thread to defend Mark against accusations of racism. Apparently, Mark’s comment was perfectly acceptable because, well…
That’s right. Black people, clearly, are animals, and violence is part of black culture.
Oh my god, The Blacks! :eek: They’re taking over!
Stan, until you start acknowledging that
a) yes, poverty DOES make people more likely to commit crime, it’s not because black people, oh sorry, I mean “the blacks”, are violent “animals” that need to be controlled from infesting the poor innocent south side, which actually had MORE crime before white flight
b) your comments are showing some really disgusting racial bias,
I am going to look at you with even more disdain than you have for your fellow humans. Welcome to the Pit.
I took his comment of, “of course now we have an urban popular culture that glamorizes violence and mistreatment of women,” to mean the collective “we” and not Chicago specifically.
He’s right. Poverty does not excuse crime. Crime in black culture is socio-economic, not racial, and excusing it or turning a blind eye to it in a misguided attempt to avoid racism only makes the problem worse. The more people are allowed by a society to misbehave, the more they will.
I was ready to excuse the first comment about “urban culture,” because thugs are not bound by any race, but the comment about the McDonalds “bringing in the blacks,” and said blacks, “taking over 53rd street…making for a very frightening scene, especially at night.” is race specific, and offensive.
So it’s ok to saying that being black makes people “frightening,” but not ok to acknowledge the undeniable fact that poverty correlates with street crime?
I don’t believe I said a word about black people being frightening. Still, since you brought it up, it’s only logical that people be at least somewhat frightened by people from a culture that contains a disproportionate amount of criminal activity. It’s a double-edged sword for most black people: they get victimized by black on black crime, and then get fear from whites because they might be criminals themselves. It’s a bad deal and it’s not going to get better until people stop excusing and glamorizing ghetto crime culture and letting black criminals off the hook because punishing them would be racist.
I specifically said that crime in black culture is socio-economic, not racial. How did you miss it, it wasn’t that large of a post?
Not proportionate to their numbers. And you know it. (Why else point to the fact that the black crime rate is due to poverty, not race, hmm? Frankly, to a degree it’s people with attitudes like yours that have enabled ghetto culture and its subsequent criminal activity to flourish. Unthinking support isn’t support at all.)
Anyway, is it just me, or is “Ghetto/thug culture” just a way for people to complain about blacks and then backtrack and say that they don’t mean ALL blacks, just the ones making a bad name for the rest of them? It’s getting so old.
You’re quoting the wrong person, Stan Shmenge said the bit about blacks taking over 53rd st, not Starving Artist. I don’t like SA or really anything he says, but if you misquote him it gives him more fodder for his persecution complex.
Thank you for providing a textbook example of typical American liberal thinking which equates criticism of any black as an indictment of all blacks.
It’s “ghetto/thug” culture is a perfectly obvious element of black culture that is creating great difficulty in the struggle to create a color-blind society.
What is it with liberals? Even when you’re on the right side of an issue you go about it in the wrong way. Anyone with half a brain should know that excusing misogyny and criminality is a harmful thing to do, but you’re so eager to avoid the “racist” tag and/or to pin it on someone else that you totally abandon discrernment and critical thinking and adopt the position that you have to support anything and everything that comes out of the black community, good or bad. This attitude is self-defeating in terms of creating an unbaised society and it only make things harder for those who you oddly accuse me of calling the “good” blacks, as though living a crime-free existence is somehow insulting.
Liberals! Ya gotta love 'em!
ETA: I thought FS was speaking to SS and me. I’m going to leave my post up though because it says things that I believe need to be said.
“Thug culture” is not an “element of back culture,” it’s a result of poverty, and it includes all races. I can go to North Minny and see White thugs, Asian thugs, black thugs, Hispanic thugs and mixed race thugs. It doesn’t “come out of the black community.”
And I said as much. This makes twice that you seem to have missed it.
Of course it does. But it’s the thug culture in the black community that is causing problems for the black community.
So what? They aren’t who we’re talking about and they aren’t the ones causing overarching difficulties in the struggle of blacks to live in a color-blind society.
This is exactly the point I’m trying to make with this pitting. I am not trying to excuse crime. I am saying that the problem of crime is made worse by people assuming that it stems from black culture, not poverty.
The real problem with the south side is that gentrification has created ghettos. Violent crime in ghettos is a problem that extends far beyond the south side and far beyond white/black divisions, and there is no solution so far that we know of.
If I were to say that it was acceptable for black people in poor neighborhoods to commit crime, because that’s just what they do, yeah, that would be racist. What I’m saying is that Stan seems to think crime comes from black “gangsta” culture (a position that seems to confuse effect with cause), and that bad areas are black areas, and that doesn’t solve the problem either.