Duke wrote:Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote:I believe the preferred term is "Alabaster-American", you pathetic troglodyte.Bobzilla wrote: I'm a ginger.... so I'm whiter than all the other white people. I'm like the supreme whiteness.So you are a whiteness supremacist then? Maybe you should go with alabaster instead. It will incite less criticism until you get your movement established.
Amongst ourselves, we call each other "Pasties." But if you're not a Pasty, don't you DARE use that word.
Trans_Maro wrote: In reply to Morbid: It's colder in IL than it is in the part of Canada I'm in. Silly Americans.
That's what I said!
By the way I prefer United Statesian, not American.
Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote:ScreaminE wrote:This one?Swank Force One wrote: I'm confused. Am i white or not?Maybe. Maybe not. You a supporter of Elizabeth Warren?
That one.
Trans_Maro wrote: In reply to Morbid: It's colder in IL than it is in the part of Canada I'm in. Silly Americans.
Impossible. Canada is further north therefore is required to be colder. I said so.
That's my story and I'm sticking to it, so there!
GameboyRMH wrote: Black people are only "African-(Nationality)" in the US. Elsewhere...they're just "black." I for one wouldn't use "African-American" even in the US, I know it's acceptable to all parties there but it's just such a strange term that seems intended to remind that black people are foreign. They don't call white people "European-Americans." I hope that also helps explain why it can be seen as offensive outside the US.
I call one of my friend's African-American cause she was born in South Africa but she is one of the whitest people I know.
I happened to catch that smarmy berkeley that looks through the top of his glasses all the time on MSNBC last night, you know that one that used to hang out with that other agenda driven ass clown Rachel Maddow?
All I caught was something something... I didn't read the entire autopsy report but... something something... some witnesses said... something something... so there's still a possibility that the grand jury came to the wrong decision. I then turned it off.
Is this seriously what passes for news in this country now days? This is why I stick to ArsTechnica and what I hear second hand from you guys. Even Quartz had a few articles about how I wouldn't understand Ferguson because I'm white and the lens I see things through is different, and they're supposed to have an economics focus. It's better if I don't watch the news, it's embarrassing that it even goes by the guise of news anymore.
(you are forgetting about it)
please stay tuned for the next outrage
Drama sells, and if it bleeds it leads.
aircooled wrote: ###EBOLA!!!!!! (you are forgetting about it)
It's because only a few thousand Africans have died from it recently. It's on the back burner again until someone at least dies from it on US soil.
I think a lot of this latest outrage has a lot to do with the "new" media (new new?).
And, no, I am not talking about cable news, or online news (that's the old new media). I am talking about the twitter / blog / ect. verse. They are capable of transmitting pure drama with absolutely NO consideration or compulsion to adhere to any sort of facts or reality.
It's about the drama people!
Honestly, this is not a new thing, just a different form:
(you can not see the date, but note is says "secretary" Roosevelt, and we ain't talkin' Franklin either)
93EXCivic wrote:GameboyRMH wrote: Black people are only "African-(Nationality)" in the US. Elsewhere...they're just "black." I for one wouldn't use "African-American" even in the US, I know it's acceptable to all parties there but it's just such a strange term that seems intended to remind that black people are foreign. They don't call white people "European-Americans." I hope that also helps explain why it can be seen as offensive outside the US.I call one of my friend's African-American cause she was born in South Africa but she is one of the whitest people I know.
Does she have that really awesome south african accent? Somethign about that is sexy.... not sure why.
In reply to 93EXCivic:
I did that years ago during a survey at the mall where the take you in a room and show you commercials.
The kids running it were very confused. I have them some name like VanDerPloop or something and told them father had made money in diamonds but we fled when I was a kid because the country started falling apart. They didn't remember the 80s so they kept calling someone and then asking more questions.
"The Bubbleheaded bleachblond comes on at 5. She can tell you about the plane crash with a gleam in her eye. It's interesting when people die......give us dirty laundry."
Pressure's on, New York...
GameboyRMH wrote: Black people are only "African-(Nationality)" in the US. Elsewhere...they're just "black." I for one wouldn't use "African-American" even in the US, I know it's acceptable to all parties there but it's just such a strange term that seems intended to remind that black people are foreign. They don't call white people "European-Americans." I hope that also helps explain why it can be seen as offensive outside the US.
That's pretty much it. The fact that nobody can call black people Negro, yet white people are routinely referred to as Caucasian, is part of the same story.
The0retical wrote: It's better if I don't watch the news, it's embarrassing that it even goes by the guise of news anymore.
…and all that drivel is spewing into outer space at 186,000 miles per second.
Won’t be long now until a representative from the Supreme Council of Galactic Elders shows up and submits the Six O-Clock News as irrefutable proof that the universe would be a far better place without us.
I'm a native Honky American and have been around long enough to see that the current name preferred by African-Americans is only the latest in the changing of terms asked for by them. I remember when the accepted term was Negro, I also remember when the PC term was black. Hell, I can't really keep up. I just try to avoid the subject completely.
Joe Gearin wrote: "The Bubbleheaded bleachblond comes on at 5. She can tell you about the plane crash with a gleam in her eye. It's interesting when people die......give us dirty laundry."
Heard that song the other night, Don Henley was spot on. IIRC he wrote it because some local news outlet repeated allegations about him very similar to what is happening to Bill Cosby right now.
Anything involved with the Eagles is never right.
Oh, look, a traffic stop went very badly for this RCMP officer and the news is very quiet about it.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/kamloops-rcmp-cpl-jean-rene-michaud-shooting-suspect-arrested-1.2858668
Ferguson could have very easily gone this way and the media would have been way less excited.
Sounds like Brown's step-father has been charged with inciting a riot. Family says it won't stick because he is covered by his right to free speech. 
He damn near yelled fire in a theater. That's the test phrase for freedom of speech, right?
In reply to OHSCrifle:
Wifey just didn't have to heart to tell her.
N Sperlo wrote: Sounds like Brown's step-father has been charged with inciting a riot. Family says it won't stick because he is covered by his right to free speech.
Actually, he has not been charged as of yet. The police department is investigating whether he incited a riot, and he's not the only on their looking into (he's the only one the media cares about, though). Either way, he did really help to incite that riot... I don't know if there will actually be charges, but that would not be covered under free speech.
Trans_Maro wrote: Oh, look, a traffic stop went very badly for this RCMP officer and the news is very quiet about it. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/kamloops-rcmp-cpl-jean-rene-michaud-shooting-suspect-arrested-1.2858668 Ferguson could have very easily gone this way and the media would have been way less excited.
This certainly isn't the only example of where the media decided to turn a blind eye to the other side of things.
I'm very worried to know how many officers were killed in the line of duty in 2014... I'm sure it will be larger than the total has been for many years.
I get the sense Ferguson would.have burned regardless, but he sure as hell shouldn't have said what he did. But, the white man made him say it.
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