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Originally posted by Illumina Drathiran'ar:
We don't need White Entertainment Television. 90% of television IS White Entertainment Television. Ever ask someone what Seinfeld is about, or Friends, or any other sitcom? They tell you it's about a group of friends that do such and such. Ask what Family Matters is about, and you get, "It's about a black family..." or "It's about an African American family..." Part of white privilege is the invisibility of race. Nobody says, "My white friend, John..." or "It's about four white people..." Or are you going to go ahead and say that all races are completely equal and are treated equally by the media? Media exists to cater to specific groups. Do you feel that TV HASN'T catered to your views? Are white people ever in danger of flipping through TV stations and NOT seeing other white people, just like them?
Furthermore, we don't need a United Caucasian College Fund because few white folks have been systematically denied access to education and employment based on race.
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It's not a question of whether you "need" something or not. I should be free to open any fund I want. But if I open a college fund only for Caucasians I would be called a racist at best. At worst (and more probable) I would be sued and forced to shut down.
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Originally posted by Illumina Drathiran'ar:
But it sure makes it easier to kill people when you have a gun.
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Not really. It is much harder to kill a person who has a gun, than a defensless one.
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Originally posted by Illumina Drathiran'ar:
Perhaps, but when you figure out where the gay boys are supposed to go, please let me know.
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I didn't get what gay boys have to do with it.
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Originally posted by Illumina Drathiran'ar:
The Oxford English Dictionary defines homophobia as " Fear or hatred of homosexuals and homosexuality." Fear. It's right there in the definition. If it wasn't a phobia, we wouldn't CALL it a phobia. My only problem with the word is that it doesn't carry the same stigma that the word "racism" carries.
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If I say using a hammer to eat is wrong, it's not a phobia... So why "homosexuality is wrong" is a phobia?
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Originally posted by Illumina Drathiran'ar:
Right, because it's not like this is a nation of immigrants or anything. We should switch to the languages spoken by the true residents of this land mass. Starting tomorrow, I'm going to begin learning the various American Indian languages and dialects.
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No. If you can get along without speaking English, good for you. But otherwise you should adjust to us and not the other way round.
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Originally posted by Illumina Drathiran'ar:
I find this collection of ideas abhorrent, but I would die to protect your right to say it.
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I would die to protect my ideas, not others'. Especially ones I don't agree with. In fact, I think it's immoral to sacrifice oneself for
others' ideas. Does that make me worse?
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Originally posted by Illumina Drathiran'ar:
The opinion that nobody has responsibility to help others is a common one, and I certainly can't argue with it. I just wish people would be consistent with it. Everyone who feels like that should be pro-choice and should have protested the Iraq war.
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How so?
If people support war in Iraq because they feel it's USA's responsibility to protect/help others then I agree with you that it is inconsistent. But I don't support war for that reason. I support war because it is USA's duty to protect
itself.
Whether this particular war was warranted (i.e. whether Iraq posed enough of a threat to USA to warrant one) is a different matter. But anyway I'm saying this clearly: the only reason a nation should wage war is to protect itself. Never others.
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Originally posted by Illumina Drathiran'ar:
And if you don't like MY point of view, tough.
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Ok. But it's people of your opinions who enforce their point of view on others. You can get away with defiling Christian religious symbols in the name of "art" or "freedom of speech". But try defiling the rainbow flag...
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Originally posted by Illumina Drathiran'ar:
Because the Constitution of the United States does NOT exist to protect the majority. It exists to protect the MINORITY
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Complete bullcrap!
Constitution does not exist to protect minorities or majorities but to protect JUSTICE and TRUTH.
And for those of you who talk about protecting rights of minorities, remember also that the smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights, cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
As an individual, I should have the right to emply whomever I want. Even if I refuse to employ a Black. So long as I'm not using coercive force I'm not violating his "rights". he can go and find employment elsewhere. If he's really good it's I who'll lose.
Similarly he can choose not to work for white people only black.
If a government prevents me from not hiring him (and government is always using coercive force), the it is violating my individual rights.
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And I believe I skipped seven or so "fine", "agreed" and the like.
[ 11-22-2006, 07:51 PM: Message edited by: ZFR ]