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Originally posted by Raist
Well I’ll just share some examples of my experience from my own life, you can take this how you will but discrimination is all across the board and the equal opportunity hiring process is a joke.
There is a company here in my town that will for the most part only hire white Catholics. Very few who works there are not one of the two mentioned. The owner has flat out said women are better off answering the phone.
Another place here who is also a global company hires less white males than females or minorities. A person in the hiring process and many others have explained that it goes like this. The applications are separated by male and female. After that they are separated by race. The last to be chosen for the same job are white males even though they may be more qualified. This company has a certain quota of other than white males it wants to meet.
Most places that require any sort of physical fitness testing place the men and women in different categories for the same job. Women are expected to do less in the physical fitness than men for a job that will require the same amount of fitness from both.
As I said you can take this however you choose, but discrimination is on all sides. The equal opportunity thing is a joke. And for those who think that other races or women have to appease the white male to get some where I ask this. I am a white male but I have not gotten anywhere I have not worked my butt of to get to, why is it that I have not gotten my dues since the white male is on top? Either you work to get what you want or you don’t. I have worked my butt off and I am still lower middle class white working male. Discrimination is across the boards the biggest discrimination is of the money you are worth. If you don’t have a lot of cash you are screwed regardless of sex, race, or religion.
Raist
You keep mentioning guilt yet I've never asked any modern day white man to feel guilt!
So I ask again, why do you feel a need to bring up a non-issue?
Let me ask you this...
Are you saying that america does not have enough nukes to explode the planet earth into ash?
This is the threat that hangs over all non-white nations and your pretty language can't disprove anything that my not so cute english has brung to the table!
marxism? Come'on dude, you're smarter than that!!
If you cannot deny that the white man has set up this state of world affairs, why not just say so and be happy that you're on the "winning" team and let the chips fall where they may?
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This is a capitalist society and that means the society must have POOR PEOPLE to function!
Prove that the white man's violence against non-whites is NOT the reason he is on top!!
I don't know what religion you are claiming to have brought white man up from ignorance, or lack of civilization, but it can't be the catholic religion, which set western man back essentially a thousand years.
The way I was taught history in school in the midwest of the U.S. is that western Europeans were essentially without civilization until around the 1500's. This is complete nonsense,
I see a very logical reason why the people who have gained control over the U.S. knock down our enemies, and then pick them back up, because they use this as a weapon against the middle class. Prosperity for the common man is not what the elites of the world want. This is why they encourage discrimination, and racism, and the race baiters.
Originally posted by Yoda411
I'm so sick of the Equal Opportunity Act.
Listen, in America at least black people finally have their day. We have a true black president. I say it's time we abolish the E.O.A. because we are beyond those times. We need 21st century legislation that prohibits real discrimination against race, sex, and religion.
Originally posted by Raist
reply to post by Grand Puba
Let’s look at what you just told me.
“This way when the non-whites and women complain, the majority can point to a small flock of success stories to produce the ILLUSION of equality!”
Well technically you cannot have everyone in the minority as a success either. There are less that makes them a minority, there for we must look at the percentage not the actual numbers. Just like not all whites such as myself can succeed, not all in the minorities can either. I am sure the numbers are pretty close to the same.
Not to sound stereo typical but look at the numbers of the races in professional sports. The numbers point more to some than to others. I would say they are very successful due to the amount of money even the worst paid get. The percentage of artists as well springing up in the past ten years also point to more minorities including women. Again they are successful due to the amount of money they make. Are these people often smart enough to stay on top with their cash? Not really, but that is their own personal choice. The numbers point to a great many successes within women and minorities. Look across the board and look at the percentage of cash people are bringing in and you can see the success is pretty much even. Look at the number of movie people that are women or minorities, again they are successful. Oprah is one of the world’s richest people she is both a woman and a minority. The list could go on and on. Actually more women and minorities are probably house hold names than most white men. Not that that has to do with success per say but it does say something to the fact of success.
Your argument seems out of place to me. I am sure if we could find an accurate scale to show income v. race, sex we could see how off that argument is.
Really I think I am not on top because while true not everyone can be on top, I think I took too long in making the correct choices for myself. So I believe self responsibility does play a large role in the success of a person despite their race, sex, or religion. Not that discrimination does not happen as I said it happens across the board more so depending on one’s income level and overall financial status.
Raist
Originally posted by orangetom1999
reply to post by Grand Puba
Grand Puba,
This is really ignorant and also counts on others not knowing any different so as to play through unchallanged and undebated.
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This is a capitalist society and that means the society must have POOR PEOPLE to function!
All nations have poor people and they are not all capitalist economic structures. Do they have to have poor people to function??
There are lots of poor people in Asia, in the Mid East, in Europe.
I told you and the readers here that you have textbook Marxist thinking and values. These other nations have poor people...therefore they too must be capitalist societys. After all..they too have the Lakers, Redskins, Dancing with the Stars and Snoop Dogg to keep them capitalist.
You know Grand Puba...it is interesting to me that in Russia under the Communists you had mostly two groups of people. The ordinary people or slobs...and the party favorites ..who lived more affluently than the ordinary Russian. For a Collectivist society it was not far removed from Feudalism. A few people lived well off the labor and risks of others and the rest had very little. Dont expect this line of thought to be presented for what it is in American Public schools..or through the media. You have more Marxists in American Public education and the United States State Department than you ever had in Soviet Russia.
If it were not for the United States...Soviet Russia would have collapsed long ago...of its own dead feudal weight. America was the greatest supporter of Soviet Russia to keep their economy going. This is something I have known years before the Iron Curtain fell.
Thanks,
Orangetom
Originally posted by poet1b
orangetom1999
I don't know what religion you are claiming to have brought white man up from ignorance, or lack of civilization, but it can't be the catholic religion, which set western man back essentially a thousand years.
The way I was taugh history in school in the midwest of the U.S. is that western Europeans were essentially without civilization until around the 1500's. This is complete nonsense, and if you bothered to study history more deeply, you will find that Western Europeans had a very rich culture and society before catholism destroyed it, along with the spiritualism of Western Europe. Western Europe once had a very rich natural medical technology, a mastery of craftsmanship, and were also skillful farmers and builders, they simply didn't put a whole lot of effort into building city states, or huge monuments to emporers who claim to be gods, because they did not live in highly heirarchial societies.
I see a very logical reason why the people who have gained control over the U.S. knock down our enemies, and then pick them back up, because they use this as a weapon against the middle class. Prosperity for the common man is not what the elites of the world want. This is why they encourage discrimination, and racism, and the race baiters.
Originally posted by orangetom1999
reply to post by Grand Puba
Grand Puba,
You cannot possibly be serious about your post in reply to my last!!???
Where is the guilt you are working on spreading around to others??
Try this...
You keep mentioning guilt yet I've never asked any modern day white man to feel guilt!
So I ask again, why do you feel a need to bring up a non-issue?
Let me ask you this...
Are you saying that america does not have enough nukes to explode the planet earth into ash?
This is the threat that hangs over all non-white nations and your pretty language can't disprove anything that my not so cute english has brung to the table!
marxism? Come'on dude, you're smarter than that!!
I like to think that you are smarter than this Grand Puba.
Who are you trying to make feel guilty here? I think you need much more practice at it. You are failing.
Oh..while we are on the topic of "NUKES"....you do know that I am a nuclear fueler?? I install fuel cells into nuclear reactors. Are you sure you want to take up this topic line with me??
I told you you need practice.
You are quite correct...propaganda wont work here.
You did not say in your first post on the topic ...that the planet would be turned to ash..you said a planet erased from existance. No men do not have enough nukes to destroy the planet...no nation has this. A planet turned to ash is not a destroyed planet or a planet erased from existance.
If you cannot deny that the white man has set up this state of world affairs, why not just say so and be happy that you're on the "winning" team and let the chips fall where they may?
Grand Puba,
My read of the history is that only Americans are stupid enough to create their own enemies..finance them...arm them...give them technology ..then go to war with them...only to rebuild them at taxpayer expense...and then continue on for another cycle of this stupidity at the cost of hundreds of thousands of American lives. You call this the winning side?? Dude ..you need some serious work.
Like you said Puba...propaganda does not work here.
But hey!!...did you see those Redskins this week. The Lakers?? Bulls?? How about American Idol?? No??? How about Dancing with the Stars??? Snoop Dogg???
Dude..isnt it great to be an American??
I surely can deny that the white man/Americans have set up this state of world affairs.
He has become so stupid he bleeds and rebuilds it over and over and over again in war after war after war..yet he brings home no spoils nor new territorys. The victors are supposed to get the spoils...carte blanche.
The white man is so stupid he is obviously fighting someone elses wars and paying for them. Even after they are long over. You have to be stupid to do such a thing....over and over and over ..and not catch on.
Only white men/Americans can be that naturally stupid..because most other nations will never be that dumb as to defeat a nation and then rebuild them.
Do you know of any other nation with such a historically dumb fingerprint or historical track record Grand Puba??? Is this what the Japanese did with their conquering of other nations. How about the Gemans...were they that stupid?? The Russians...the French?? The Chinese?? The Mongols?? The African peoples??
I call this White mans/American stupidity Grand Puba.
Are you sure you want to make a point out of this with me Grand Puba??
This is the winning side??? What are you thinking?? This is the losing side.
Crime...I just described a hellacious crime pulled off on the American people and most of them are way to dumb to think it through. Why should they?? ...they have American Idol or whatever drivel is next to come down the de evolutionary pipeline.
Thanks,
Orangetom
Originally posted by poet1b
reply to post by Grand Puba
ROTFLMAO
Sorry, but the ability to commit violence is a long, LONG ways from being perfected.
Prove that the white man's violence against non-whites is NOT the reason he is on top!!
Um, that's not the way it works, at least not anywhere with any credibility. You have to prove white man's violence is the reason he is on top. I could say, prove to me that minories are not on the bottom because they are inferior, if I was as racially biased as you seem to be.
Development of the atomic bomb does not prove that white man is more violent, only that he is more technologically advanced. You are only proving the superiority of the white man.
As has been pointed out, no nation has the powre to blow up the whole planet. It is not white mans ability to wipe out humanity and possibly all life on Earth that can prove him to be so violent, it is white men not using this ability to ruthlessly rule over the planet as we could easily do that poves that white men are for the most part a people of peace.
Originally posted by ofhumandescent
reply to post by dntwastetime
Multiculturalism isn't about raising other races to white standards, it means lowering white culture to meet the lesser cultures.
[edit on 14-12-2008 by ofhumandescent]