Racial Tension in the U.S.

[David.]

Re-quoting for real answer by @David. Answers to the "are some races inferior to others" questions always are interesting, especially if they answer honestly.

Do you think black people are better at sports than white people?

 

[The Oi]

As a white person in IT, if there's anyone that's taking my jobs, it's them.

They also dominate motel ownership and take up a huge portion of 7-11 franchisees. Other gas stations as well, but 7-11's in particular. And they've crushed it in the medical profession.

Indians aren't better at these things by virtue of being Indian, but they did as a community, make a mindful attempt to dominate these markets and they have done so. Much respect.

 

[Jack Brickman]

They also dominate motel ownership and take up a huge portion of 7-11 franchisees. Other gas stations as well, but 7-11's in particular.

And they've crushed it in the medical profession.

They all smoke, though, so we just have to outlast them. It's a marathon, not a sprint. And smokers can't run marathons.

 

[David.]

They also dominate motel ownership and take up a huge portion of 7-11 franchisees. Other gas stations as well, but 7-11's in particular.

And they've crushed it in the medical profession.

They're generally superior to other races in motel ownership?? RACIST.

 

[The Oi]

They all smoke, though, so we just have to outlast them. It's a marathon, not a sprint. And smokers can't run marathons.

Is smoking a thing with Indians? I have known a pretty good amount of Indian people and haven't known any of them to smoke. Then again, a lot of the ones I knew, I played sports with so they wouldn't have been smoking.

@Deezus.

 

[The Human Q-Tip]

I have a very high regard for the bravery and ingenuity of the average Southern fighting man regardless of the justice of his cause, and if his ancestors fly the Battle Flag to honor him and his fight for home and hearth I have no reason to cast aspersions on their motives.

I don't cast aspersions on their motives either, though there are some exceptions. I do think it is insensitive, however.

 

[Jack Brickman]

Is smoking a thing with Indians? I have known a pretty good amount of Indian people and haven't known any of them to smoke. @Deezus

Literally every Indian person I've worked with smokes. I haven't met a single one in IT who doesn't to this point that I can recall, and I probably know at least twenty now.

Maybe it's just Indians in IT? I don't know. I'd imagine the ones in the medical profession probably don't.

 

[The Human Q-Tip]

See I would argue it is exactly like the Nazi flag....You can't pick and choose the good thing a flag of an enemy represents when the central them is something that should be vilified. Anything else is not a credit to nuance, but a refutation of it.

I'll just say I don't agree with the argument that the Nazi flag stood for self-determination in the same sense as did the Confederate flag, and leave it at that.

To put it differently, I do not believe everyone who flies a confederate flag is a racist. I do believe that everyone who flies a Nazi flag is a white supremacist.

 

[GreasySpread36]

They also dominate motel ownership and take up a huge portion of 7-11 franchisees. Other gas stations as well, but 7-11's in particular. And they've crushed it in the medical profession.

Indians aren't better at these things by virtue of being Indian, but they did as a community, make a mindful attempt to dominate these markets and they have done so. Much respect.

People from India remind me of Jews: extremely intelligent, extremely verbal, extremely successful in diaspora, and lousy athletes.

 

[The Oi]

People from India remind me of Jews: extremely intelligent, extremely verbal, extremely successful in diaspora, and lousy athletes.

Indian women are much more attractive though.




PS: My dad's side is Ashkenazi. I can say that.

 

[GreasySpread36]

PS: My dad's side is Ashkenazi. I can say that.

My dad's side is Ashkenazi too. Sephardic women are more attractive, IMO.

 

[Wrathe]

As a white person in IT, if there's anyone that's taking my jobs, it's them.

Oracle DBA?

 

[gourimoko]

What is the "heritage of the south"? Can I tell you what I think?

The heritage of the south is an economic system where people believed that hard work and getting your hands dirty is for poor people and slaves only. This is UnAmerican. This is the opposite of the American work ethic and self determination. They believed in generational wealth and superiority a lot like England and royalty. Totally UnAmerican.

Dave said he believes in the bill of rights which is probably the most important cornerstone of democracy. Of course none of those rights were afforded to slaves and even after the war black people enjoyed basically none of them for quite some time. Totally UnAmerican

Yes Confederates are traitors. They fired on a military base. That is an act of treason by itself. Pretty unambiguous.

Notice Japanese and Germans do not glorify their horrible stances in the name of heritage. They were rightfully shamed, but some Confederates have never learned humility in the face of their "consulate evil" as qtip put it.

It's disgusting and an affront to the true flag to fly the enemy flag in this country.

Fantastic post.

 

[Cavatt]

I'll just say I don't agree with the argument that the Nazi flag stood for self-determination in the same sense as did the Confederate flag, and leave it at that.

To put it differently, I do not believe everyone who flies a confederate flag is a racist. I do believe that everyone who flies a Nazi flag is a white supremacist.

If you asked a Nazi what they stood for, would they say "White supremacy" or "to kill all Jews"? No they would say they didn't want to be under the thumb of Europe, and wanted to make Germany great again.

By your logic the loser of the war gets to make the determination of what the war was about. I can just as easily say that the states rights argument is as bs as they say freeing the slaves was an after the fact moralization. I am not buying the rationalizing of a group of people whose "rights" amount to the subjugation of an entire race of people. It is UnAmerican.

Do you believe secession is an acceptable? Let's think of another abhorrent reason to secede. Say Ohio wants to make pedophilia legal. The rest of the states say no. Do they have the right to secede to make their Utopia?

 

[gourimoko]

Do you think black people are better at sports than white people?

No.

Do you?

See the problem with this kind of thinking is how utterly overly-simplistic it is. It is commonly known why African-Americans in America play sports, historically, rather than say, look to work in other areas -- because sports, music and entertainment were open to them, again historically speaking, long before other opportunities were.

You won't learn about this by watching YouTube videos and reading Reddit/4chan; instead, you'll get someone's interpretation, who likely lacks an education to formulate such an opinion, based on their anecdotal experience.

"Oh look, there's Black people in sports, they're good -- that's what they do well, then." "Asians do well in school, so it must be because their brains are better at .. stuff." "Jews ... whatever, run the world or some nonsense;"

This is called correlation without causation, which is a phrase I'm sure you've heard in your lifetime.

Black people are in sports because of the history of keeping Blacks out of decent paying jobs. Asians do well in school because of a cultural shift post-World War II and an embracing of not only education, but that coupled with a culturally mandated responsibility to take care of your parents and even your larger family which dates back hundreds of years.

There is no, biological, or genetic trait, shared by all Asian people that makes them study hard in school. It's a cultural aspect of many (not all) Asian cultures that is largely enforced within the household; an aspect that is less emphasized in other meta-cultures.

So with that said, it's important to understand that society does not change overnight. And just because you might have started paying attention to the world around you recently, doesn't mean that you've figured it all out by looking at the world through a racial lens.

Scientifically speaking, race is a social construct; it is not biological. So to argue that "Black people" are better at sports or that "Asians" (in a generalized sense) are better at some thing, whatever you choose to stereotype Asians as doing, is a sign of pure ignorance.

And what's most startling is that to repeat this claim, after being corrected numerous times, is either a sign of unmitigated stupidity or stubborn racism - or perhaps both.

It might be a good idea to stop reading whatever content you're ingesting that's reinforcing these racial attitudes, and instead start applying some critical thinking to these .. rather asinine .. conclusions that you've come to.