30/7/13

[identity profile] meus-ovatio.livejournal.com
Pennsylvania Judge Sentenced For 28 Years For Selling Kids to the Prison System.

Given this community has now come up with a sound and truthful distinction between "racism" and "culturalism" (because one is OBVIOUSLY ok, and the other ISN'T lolwhut?), I figured we might as well start the same old fight all over again. Cuz we can do this as long as we need to. Everything still applies. White culture is a culture that trafficks children, sexually, for profit, legally, for profit, starves orphans and widows, destroys families, and trains lawyers. If you don't take this as a microcosm of the American paradigm, you are a racist. If you deny that white culture has enslaved and destroyed an entire people, conceived in mass rape, you are a racist. If you deny that white capitalism has criminalized millions of people along racial lines, you are a racist. If you deny that this country was built on a foundation of bones and slavery, you are a racist. If you deny that this country was built upon the dead infants of the First Nations, you are a racist.

If you don't ask yourself why the NRA isn't saying that Trayvon Martin would be alive today if he had only carried a handgun, you are a racist. If you don't ask yourself why, you are a racist. If you think that smoking weed should be a crime, you are a racist. Cuz that's the thing about racism, you don't have to acknowledge it. You could go your entire life without ever hearing or knowing of a concept of "racism", and you could still be racist. That's how it works, you see. There was no concept of racism in 2300 BC, but you bet your ass they were racist. The idea that one can be racist based upon whether or not one explicitly adopts the label is the silliest sort of White People Thinking you can come up with. It's like saying you're not a Criminal unless you accept the label. Well in that case, no one in prison is guilty either, geniuses.

I mean, do you guys think you're clever? Oh we'll just throw all the black people in prison and then argue about how that depicts a certain cultural characteristic. Yes, genius, it's a certain cultural characteristic called, "being prone to being thrown in jail." Are these depths of self-delusion and obtuse reasoning hard to attain, or are people just acting this disingenuously? (You can't say "stupid", you have to say "disingenuously.")

Yes I know, every single racist that ever lived had very good reasons for their racism, backed up by statistics and facts, and every racist who ever lived was certain that they were simply dealing with the facts, however disingenously cherry-picked, or viciously slanted, or intentionally obtuse. I mean, really, you're trying this again? What, you all thought we forgot how this worked? JEWS HAVE MORE MONEY, FACT! JEWS RUN A LOT OF BANKS, FACT! Take this grade-school conspiracy thinking back to where it belongs- in the grave.
[identity profile] nairiporter.livejournal.com
He said, "I am an expert with a Ph.D."
She heard, "I am Al-Qaeda."


This is a comment under a BuzzFeed article following last Friday's FoxNews show, Spirited Debate, where the host Lauren Green interviewed the theology scientist Reza Aslan, and it pretty much sums up what happened on screen. The whole interview may not only be a contender for the Most Provocative and Absurd TV Shows award, but also an eloquent manual of How Not To Do Journalism. And it speaks a lot about prejudice, and cultural insensitivity, and tolerance. Or rather, the lack thereof.

The guest Reza Aslan was introduced by Green as "a former Christian who turned to the religion of his ancestors (Islam), and authored a new book about Jesus Christ". The book, entitled Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, quickly became subject to criticism and accusations, primarily due to the religious affiliation of its author. And naturally, that was Green's first question to Aslan: why had he written a book about the founder of Christianity, if he himself was Muslim? After that introduction, the Iranian-American author decided to politely provide some clarifications about his background. He is a theology scholar with four PhDs (one of them, specifically on studying the Old Testament), he is fluent in ancient Greek, and has researched for decades on the foundations of Christianity. So he is "not just a Muslim writing about Jesus, but rather an expert on the history of religion".

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