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1. Gaians need to stop comparing racism against blacks to racism against Asians and discrimination against Jews. That's like saying "Oh I broke my toe but at least I didn't get hit by a car like that guy." Okaaaay, I feel sorry for him, but I need to help myself, too.
You don't put someone else's issues before your own, so why do you expect the black community to be more concerned about Asians than themselves? Making your point by playing other ethnicities' race cards doesn't make you a matyr or the Mary Mother of Jesus. It makes you a user and manipulative. You're pulling their race card to trump ours. Like racism is some freakin' game.
rolleyes We're all selfish, stop acting like you're so friggin' immune to it.
Actually, thats completely false. I said that black transexuals have it worst. Im neither black, nor transexual. Nor am I Jewish, Asain, etc. those are all the examples I used, and I belong to none of those minorities.
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2. OP: Saying that Asians or Jews have had it worse is so self-serving. Stop it. You know damn well you don't care about Jews or Asians..Irish, whatever one you wanna pick. Otherwise, you'd be making posts about them and their problems instead of complaining about some sorry coloreds. If that's (Asians or Jews) your race or ethnicity, then I feel sorry for them. You'd rather lament about us, than think about your own.
i know I don't care about Jewish or Asains? Sorry, but i really really do. i think that what they face is horrific. And again, I don't belong to those groups, so Im not sympathyzing with myself. im looking at it from as unbiased a perspective as possible. In fact, the only time that I mentioned my opressed group at all (until now) was to say that I could kind of relate to how black people were opressed.....that kinda goes against your claim that everyone only concentrates on their minority
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3. Take a look around. Most threads about blacks are posted by non-blacks. If you're expecting blacks to stop responding to posts about us, sorry. If you're expecting us to all have the same opinion, sorry. Some blacks are going to post about being discriminated. That's on
them. Take that up with
them. But you know, saying "all" or "even" most feel persecuted ISN'T fair. It's like you're expecting us to all have the same voice and not respecting our own individual voices. Just because one Asian person does this doesn't mean they all do that. But when it comes to blacks, we're all the same way: lazy sons of "bitches" or "bitches" who just complain about the "white man." That's what I find most offensive on Gaia.
Most of the ones I've seen were actually posted by blacks. Throughout my entire post, I have been VERY scrupulous about NEVER making claims about blacks as a whole, or even "MOST". I repeatedly said that some of them didn't fit into the catagories I mentioned, and had every right to complain about persecution. I don't know how I could specify it more clearly.....I really did repeatedly say (if you bothered to read my post), such things as
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That said, those blacks that do not fall into those categories have a right to complain about their oppression
I was very clear in specifying that not all blacks fit into that category, and those that did not had every right to complain. Don't slander me.
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4. Not everthing is an attack on you. If I say that Nordic features are the pennacle of American beauty, somehow that = "she's calling me racist." I'm NOT. Would you like to be?
I never claimed that anyone was attacking me, or that black people were racist. Don't put words into my mouth.
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5. I think Gaians just jump with excitement to be called racist. It makes it all the more easier to dismiss black peoples' comments. 'Cause then you're just a lazy black person who sits around shaking his fist at the Man all day. Then black people go on the defensive trying their hardest not to call anyone racist, so they won't be labeled. It's a "hush" tactic. I'm not even falling for it and I hope other blacks won't avoid speaking their minds just to avoid a label.
They shouldn't not speak their minds to avoid a label. However, their minds are sometimes racist. If someone actually said "'Cause then you're just a lazy black person who sits around shaking his fist at the Man all day," and you responded to that, it would be fine. However, when comments like "you white people all make our lives crap and you don't understand anything about what we have gone through" are made, yes, thats racist.
