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Re: I, Racist

#31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If whites are running everything, what policy exists for them to maintain power? Trying to keep America white by immigration? No Media favoring white people? No (they called the hispanic George Zimmerman white to further their 'white people are all rascist' narrative') Passing laws that favor the majority white religion (Christianity)? No

> If whites are running everything, what policy exists for them to maintain power? That's a whole different argument than the one you made upthread; if that's what you wanted to argue, why didn't you argue that first, instead of what you did (which you apparently aren't interested in defending.) Note that the comment you are responding to doesn't argue that whites are running everything, it argues that your previousl…

>>Zimmerman is of white race and Hispanic ethnicity.

What? Race and ethnicity are synonyms.

Maybe you can score some internet points but what's the use of a discussion if words have no meaning and you can make up distinctions where there are none.

Re: I, Racist

#32

I'm so sick and tired of the race card. My parents are immigrants. They didn't have the language privelage that [non-white] natives have. It's such a sorry excuse blaming your failure on others. There will always be inequality in the world. Somehow against the odds my parents worked their asses off and put our family in a favorable position. It took working two jobs, going to school for 8 years but somehow they did i…

Don't understand why the down vote.

Re: I, Racist

#33

If whites were 1) running the country and 2) racist then the immigration policies of this country would have kept the USA as a white majority country. Instead, white people are becoming a minority in the USA and European countries. "As Of Today, California No Longer Has A White Majority" http://thinkprogress.org/immigration/2013/07/01/2238421/cali...

> Instead, white people are becoming a minority in [...] European countries.

Do you actually believe this? It's nonsense and nowhere near true. Where did you get such a distorted fact from?

EDIT: also you may want to look into segregation and post-segregation, where white Americans were given low cost mortgages and black Americans were pushed into projects.

Re: I, Racist

#34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> If whites are running everything, what policy exists for them to maintain power? That's a whole different argument than the one you made upthread; if that's what you wanted to argue, why didn't you argue that first, instead of what you did (which you apparently aren't interested in defending.) Note that the comment you are responding to doesn't argue that whites are running everything, it argues that your previousl…

>>Zimmerman is of white race and Hispanic ethnicity. What? Race and ethnicity are synonyms. Maybe you can score some internet points but what's the use of a discussion if words have no meaning and you can make up distinctions where there are none.

> What? Race and ethnicity are synonyms.

Race and ethnicity are, perhaps, similar kinds of cultural constructs, but they are orthogonal categories.

See, e.g., https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/reic/definitions.asp

Re: I, Racist

#35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If whites are running everything, what policy exists for them to maintain power? Trying to keep America white by immigration? No Media favoring white people? No (they called the hispanic George Zimmerman white to further their 'white people are all rascist' narrative') Passing laws that favor the majority white religion (Christianity)? No

> If whites are running everything, what policy exists for them to maintain power? That's a whole different argument than the one you made upthread; if that's what you wanted to argue, why didn't you argue that first, instead of what you did (which you apparently aren't interested in defending.) Note that the comment you are responding to doesn't argue that whites are running everything, it argues that your previousl…

>Whites in the US are less likely to be Christian than Blacks.

There are more white Christians than white Athiests and white "Other" religions. Regardless if only 60% of Whites are Christian and 95% of [other race] are Christian it would still be a white majority, just not "per capita". 100% of 100,000 is still a minority compared to 55% of 100,000,000.

>By restricting immigration, and not allowing the overall quotas to align with where the people otherwise qualified and interested in coming are located? Certainly.

This has nothing to do with race and more to do with a government, "it's people", and the effects of immigration on both of those. Your argument presumes that someone can be anti-immigration but "pro-white immigration". As someone against immigration and pro-restrictive immigration, that's a bit of an absurd and out-of-touch claim to be making. I'm equally against a "qualified Irishman" from immigrating as I am a "qualified Indian".

Also what do you mean by "overall quotas"?

Open-borders also actively harms "lesser-off" countries: all their talent leaves for greener pastures. Leaving these countries with a lack of leaders and professional talent (ie. doctors). How do you value the interest of an individual over the well-being of an entire country? What if we simply took every single doctor out of India and let the people fend for themselves when it comes to health care? Should millions die so a few 10,000 could move to a "better country"? Immigration has harmful side-effects than I don't think you're fully considering.

>Why would the whites holding the majority of the power oppose having greater non-white subject populations as long as they were still subject? (One might argue that this would be short-sighted, on the assumption that minority dominance isn't indefinitely sustainable, but at a minimum this requires assuming that the white rulers were not merely racist, but also uniformly long-term strategic thinkers.)

You provided your counterpoint and then precluded racist and "strategic thinkers". It doesn't take a strategist to know that ruling over a minority that outnumbers you isn't feasible and revolt is likely when you are outnumbered. (see: history)

The counterpoint is that whites are not uniformly racist because they haven't created systems to guarantee a smaller non-white population than white population. If white people were uniformly racist, as you mentioned, they would have had systems in place to insure they remained the majority population in order to remain in control.

>Zimmerman is of white race and Hispanic ethnicity.

He's of Hispanic race and Hispanic ethnicity. Police reports, for ages, have only had []White and []Black fields for criminal reports. If you aren't black, you're white. That includes whiter-skinned blacks and is often left up to the person filing the report. So you can come from African with two black parents, be black yourself, but still be filed as White in the criminal report at the whim of the officer filing the report.

Re: I, Racist

#36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>>Zimmerman is of white race and Hispanic ethnicity. What? Race and ethnicity are synonyms. Maybe you can score some internet points but what's the use of a discussion if words have no meaning and you can make up distinctions where there are none.

> What? Race and ethnicity are synonyms. Race and ethnicity are, perhaps, similar kinds of cultural constructs, but they are orthogonal categories. See, e.g., https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/reic/definitions.asp

> The categories do not denote scientific definitions of anthropological origins

Re: I, Racist

#37
My honor is all i care about. I want respect, i see insults in every lower task i have to fullfill. So they are not done, and society crumbles away.

Most insulting of all, is that any ideology can be put to test. One can make a colony, a island, a rapture and see how far it goes. Not far, by far.

The biggest insult though is that the web is annonym. There is no gender. There is no colour. There is no countrys. There is only mind. Thus, if one puts his mind and dedication into the web, one is equal. I ve seen to many excellent black speakers at conferences. The Wall has holes, and one can step through them. Of course there is racism. And its beeing fought by now. With cameras everywhere- beneath every gun, on every drone. This will not stand, this will end.

One is free to change what one can change, or to sit and sulk about the things one can not. Years of social paintjobs have archieved nothing.

Re: I, Racist

#38
post #33

If whites were 1) running the country and 2) racist then the immigration policies of this country would have kept the USA as a white majority country. Instead, white people are becoming a minority in the USA and European countries. "As Of Today, California No Longer Has A White Majority" http://thinkprogress.org/immigration/2013/07/01/2238421/cali...

> Instead, white people are becoming a minority in [...] European countries. Do you actually believe this? It's nonsense and nowhere near true. Where did you get such a distorted fact from? EDIT: also you may want to look into segregation and post-segregation, where white Americans were given low cost mortgages and black Americans were pushed into projects.

Muslim immigration is converting Europe from a white majority to African / Arab majority.

>>Where did you get such a 'distorted' fact from? Deutsche Welle

>>Germany has one of the largest populations of Muslim immigrants in Western Europe, with a Muslim community of over 3 million. That trend is expected to continue, leading some demographic trend-watchers to warn that the country is well on the way to becoming a Muslim state by 2050, Deutsche Welle reported.

Re: I, Racist

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post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Instead, white people are becoming a minority in [...] European countries. Do you actually believe this? It's nonsense and nowhere near true. Where did you get such a distorted fact from? EDIT: also you may want to look into segregation and post-segregation, where white Americans were given low cost mortgages and black Americans were pushed into projects.

Muslim immigration is converting Europe from a white majority to African / Arab majority. >>Where did you get such a 'distorted' fact from? Deutsche Welle >>Germany has one of the largest populations of Muslim immigrants in Western Europe, with a Muslim community of over 3 million. That trend is expected to continue, leading some demographic trend-watchers to warn that the country is well on the way to becoming a Mus…

Germany has a population of 80m people.

Your figure claims a Muslim population of 3m. Even if we assume all of those people are black it's still dwarfed by the 77million other people.

Re: I, Racist

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post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Muslim immigration is converting Europe from a white majority to African / Arab majority. >>Where did you get such a 'distorted' fact from? Deutsche Welle >>Germany has one of the largest populations of Muslim immigrants in Western Europe, with a Muslim community of over 3 million. That trend is expected to continue, leading some demographic trend-watchers to warn that the country is well on the way to becoming a Mus…

Germany has a population of 80m people. Your figure claims a Muslim population of 3m. Even if we assume all of those people are black it's still dwarfed by the 77million other people.

I guess you can't follow the point.
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