I never found that credit unions eliminated ATM fees. Sometimes the fee comes from the ATM operator themselves, which means that the credit union would need to compensate you for it.
It's pretty cool that you don't have the fees, but I'm not sure that's universal.
I've gone my whole life without being mugged, and that includes time spent in third world countries and dangerous places.
I would think you should look at the percentages and assess the risk.
In my case, I've been the victim of credit card fraud about 5 times I think. In the worst case, against my better judgement, I lost around $150 in a PayPal transaction. That was because they are a criminal organization that encourages fraudulent merchants. PayPal doesn't give two shits about the consumer and the lack of regulation allows them to be extra shitty.
In all the other cases, the bank made it quite easy for me to get my money back.
OTOH, I've actually lost a couple hundred dollars over the years simply by dropping money, flying away in the wind, and losing my wallet.
It's really about the same risk for me when I look at all the incidents together.
P.S - All of that being said, I lean towards cash so the government can't review my purchases and further categorize me into their "subversive" categories.
That's a danger the government represents through its corruption.
The only reason a credit card is different is they have lobbyists and can purchase influence. The government may rob a plebe for their cash, but they're not going to mount a full frontal assault on the privileged corporations.
It's really no different than the risk of being mugged. Actually, it's exactly like the risk of being mugged.
You will be the victim for the rest of your life, and you will make your children the victim, and you will teach them that other innocent children that were born with a specific skin color are evil and receive unjust benefits.
Keep blaming white people on a continuous basis for your problems. Just don't be surprised when one of us cracks one day and beats the ever loving shit of you because you kept bashing us our whole lives based on race.
When they beat the shit out of you because the of the vileness that leaks from your pie hole, continue to be the victim and think it was about racism directed towards you instead of racism coming from you.
Racism not only doesn't cure racism, it BREEDS it.
I was born white and I deserve to die, or at the very least, have my wealth (which I don't have anyways) stripped from me and distributed amongst the people of different non-white colors.
Are you going to walk around with some Pantone color swaths and distribute my body and my belongings based on it?
Nothing changes the fact that you wish me punished based on the color of my skin today, and I NEVER did ANYTHING to deserve it.
Those benefits you think I receive I don't.
So why don't you just end this now and start the fucking race war? Let's kill each other till there is only one color left. You've made it abundantly clear your completely incapable of moving forward.
I'm not guilty of shit. Yet you clearly want me punished.
Well stop being a pussy, go get some weapons, and make something happen. That will be better than living in this cluster fuck right now where you act like a victim continuously and I have no means to defend myself either.
This. We get to become victims of racism and can't even complain about it.
You're the joke. You're a racist that thinks he isn't racist because your target has a specific skin color. Why do you evil fucktarded people think that ONLY white people can perform acts of racism?
It's logically precluded by the very definition of the world itself.
Don't let logic interfere with your white man bashing though. Why don't you just take it a step further and start the race war now? If it does happen, you will only have yourselves to blame.
You deserve all of it too. What happened in the past is horrible, but you continue to punish young men for their skin color, and have not stopped the game. You just switched sides on the board.
Instead of being intelligent and mature about it, YOU have created an entirely new generation of angry young men.
that a lot of young white men get butthurt when the concept of white, male privilege is broached in the least way
Why shouldn't they get butthurt?
You're telling them to their face that they somehow have privileges based on the color of their skin (which is wholly untrue), and you associate them with that based on something that they have no control over at all.
Then you teach them that we use racism in Affirmative Action to balance the white privilege that is an illusion in of itself. You simply cannot convince them, or me, that the white privilege exists when we do nothing to perpetuate it. We don't even benefit from it.
It's wholly negative too. White privilege is an absolutely terrible thing to say. You just associated them with something incredibly negative and detrimental towards society, and they have no means to defend themselves at all . They're not adults, and probably lack the sophistication and maturity that comes with age to moderate an emotional response. I do, and I still get very emotional over this because I believe it is the true face of racism today. To make it worse, people call it "reverse-racism". What the heck does that even mean? Not only are we victims of racism, but we can't even call it racism!
They are guilty without trial, or hope for appeal, and they will spend the rest of their lives in the prison of white privilege. You get an emotional response from this situation. Why are you shocked about it?
Those young white men are trying to create a future for themselves in a world that makes it clear that they can't qualify for tons of scholarships and socialist assistance programs because, somehow, that assistance is provided by the color of their skin.
I genuinely want to know. Where is this white power world the rest of you are alluding to? Those young men don't live in it. Neither do I.
I've had to fight twice as hard with my education and work my ass off with no sympathy or help from anybody.
Just like it hasn't cured the pain that any "black" person goes through either?
Protest too much?
Just how much protestation about racism directed at yourself is considered too much?
I just love how the moment I defend myself, and condemn clear and present racism towards white people, that I am in fact, performing racism against another group of people.
According to your logic, MLK was a racist too for having the audacity to defend himself?
The poster brought up an extremely valid point about censorship on digital devices, which are becoming more and more used in school settings by the day.
You then slammed them, being the troll *you* are.
I defended that position. Censorship on digital devices is not unrelated to the discussion at hand, is proven to be true, and has nothing to do with Tin Foil Hats.
Not to mention censorship on digital devices has the potential to be far more damaging. Many many orders more so.
If you can't figure out the difference for yourself, you have issues.
What issues do I have, and what difference can I not figure out?
That doesn't make them me, and the only person who needs to realize that is me
No. Everyone else needs to realize it too, or they will blame problems in the present on you based on that skin color or ancestry.
To flip it around, what you are saying is that a young black man 80 years ago only needed to realize for himself that his skin color made no difference. We know that's not true. It was very important for everyone else in our society to realize it too.
It's personal to me because I'm part Native American. I've traced my ancestry through the Cherokee and Lakota. Yet, the only thing about me that people take away from a picture is "white man".
I don't like it. I can't do anything about my skin color or how I was born with a penis. All I ask is that I am not judged based on my skin color. Yet, very much, that is exactly what I find in my society today. I don't want young white men to grow up with that pain either.
We should be able to get past all of this, and I'm so sick and tired of the white man bashing. Not because I am white, but because it's so counterproductive and stupid.
This whole thing started because I responded to a post where the reasons behind the ban were said to be unreasonable.
Banning the book doesn't help, but the negative bullshit that prompted the ban should be explored, as it is a genuine problem that needs to be addressed.
Stop bringing up bullshit that has nothing to do with white people.
There are plenty of black people that have said nasty things about immigrants as well. Heck, even Mexican Americans say that shit sometimes. It's even more tragic when an Irish person says it.
All of those examples you post, speak to ALL Americans. Not just white people.
This water you swim in is as big as an ocean, the problem is that you just don't know what its like to be a fish out of water.
The fuck I don't.
I'm being judged for the color of my skin today, AND NOT TO MY BENEFIT EITHER. You're a fucking hypocrite and you still owe me an apology. I AM NOT PART OF INSTITUTIONAL RACISM AND I DON'T GIVE ONE FUCK ABOUT YOUR PROBLEMS WITH IT. I DIDN'T DO IT. I HAVE NEVER, NOT ONCE, EVER, PARTICIPATED IN THE OPPRESSION OF ANOTHER PERSON BASED ON THEIR SKIN COLOR. I don't really like the jokes either.
If a woman gets raped, am I somehow responsible because I got a penis?
If a black man gets beat up in Alabama in a hate crime, did I participate in it or condone it?
If a gay man gets denied a job, did I deny it?
You're a fucking clueless moron. I'm being told today that I don't qualify for any kind of social assistance whatsoever for my lack of employment and medical conditions because I'm white, mid 30s, and I have a penis.
I worked damn hard for my education. At the moment, things are pretty damn tough. I probably fall into the poor category now after losing my primary house, and my investment house that I was renting. Worked damn hard to go full doc on it too, so fuck you if you think I got it somehow by oppressing the "minorities". I got them through hard work, keeping my credit score way up (paying my fucking bills on time), and suffering. I went without many days to save for a better future.
When I moved into a condo afterwards, I got punished like a mother fucker for my credit and had to shell out over a thousand dollars in non refundable fees. My whiteness did not save my cracka ass that day.
In the last couple of months volunteering at homeless shelters I personally witnessed that white men were TOLD TO GO TO THE BACK OF THE LINE. No shit. Told... by a black priest. They were last in line to get food. The woman and children I understand, but white men don't get shit. So if you do become homeless and poor, god fucking help you if you are white and have a penis. Society apparently looks at you like a demon that can't protect itself, and now is the time to take out all the rage on it.
What fucking world do you live in?
Apparently your world continually tells me that some fucking mythical white superhero brigade exists that will pull me aside anytime I get into trouble with easy money, less consequences for my actions, and preferential treatment.
That's not my world. My entire life I've been told that I am at the back of the line for any kind of assistance. That people with a different skin color than me deserve, solely based on their skin color, preferential treatment.
No, my world has shown me that I get treated worse predicated on a simple idea that my life somehow made better by being white.
Prove me wrong you insufferable asshole. I dare you. Show up my front door tomorrow with that fabulous wealth, opportunities, and hot women that are begging to be draped over my white male shoulders for nothing.
Please. I'm waiting for my white power world. Where is it?
It is, in fact you, that is oppressing me. Why? Cuz I'm white right? Right? Am I right?
You are not trying to say that white men are responsible for that are you? Only white men buy those clothes? ONLY white men make financial profit from it?
How much you wanna bet that if we did a study on all people wearing textiles from that country, that it would represent multiple countries, races, genders, etc.?
I got news for you. Practically NOBODY agrees with the bullshit that is carried out to bring us (and I do mean all of us) our iPhones and designer jeans.
You're being a complete fucking moron. Stop. The 1% that have all the wealth, are not a single skin color, and the 99% that are oppressed and taken advantage of, happens to have a huge white male population as well.
Bringing up that over half the world lives in economic slavery to the other half as an example of white men being evil?
Now you are just playing their game. Divide and conquer, and what better way to do it then to incite and perpetuate racial divides?
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I'm not defending white men you racist offensive fuck.
I'm defending the hearts and minds of children from your vile spew that would single them out and hurt them based on their skin color
In this particular case, the victims are young white men. Yes, I am defending them at the moment, because nobody will defend them, because according to you... they don't deserve a defense.
All based on what?
You're just as ugly and abhorrent as some white redneck 60 years ago looking to hang a black man
You misunderstand like most other people here. It's not about covering up history. It's 100% about the delivery and the attitudes of those that would impart the information to our youth.
First, teach about how we made useless, baseless, and extremely harmful distinctions between people based on their skin color, religion, gender, etc. You don't need to single out white people to do it at all. We can reference a huge amount of history and disparate races and cultures. The Greeks, Romans, Celts, large parts of Africa, the Dutch slave trade, indentured servitude laws, religious persecution in Europe, the Inquisition, the Mongols, and yes, slavery in the US. Teach that slavery and racism are not the exclusive domain of white men, but very old practices that we no longer tolerate in evolved societies.
Secondly, emphasize that this is not how we do it today. It's 100% not acceptable behavior at all. All forms of racism, including gender related behavior. That they may notice some older people still doing it, but that they are not as mature, and yes, have fallen victim to old bad habits. Make it abundantly clear that the children in the room don't bear any of the responsibility and blame for what happened in the past, and they're our future. The best way to stamp out racism is to refuse to participate. Literally, stop thinking about it and it will stop.
Thirdly, be proactive in NOT making racial distinctions as much as possible. When you do reference it, be sure to reference it as something from the past. Anytime you speak about a contemporary person, don't mention race. Children don't need to know Obama is black and the first black President. Why? There should be no value whatsoever in the information, and to find value, means to find value in those racially supported distinctions. All they need to know is that he was/is President, and was a complete and utter fucking disappointment, which had nothing to do with his skin color. That's left up to history to judge though. I have my own opinions about that total pussy.
Fourthly, and this isn't hard, fill text books with examples of great people from all over the world and different cultures. When you show children that our greatest and most revered people came from so many different backgrounds, and look so different, it subtly reinforces the idea that skin color really doesn't matter. You and I know that it doesn't. We need to show them that great people come from all walks of life equally.
Fifth.... DON'T BRING THE DIRTY LAUNDRY AND NEGATIVE FILTH FROM YOUR OWN PAST AND LIFE EXPERIENCES INTO THE CLASSROOM TO INFECT AND TAINT THE YOUTH OF TOMORROW.
I'm sorry. I just can't fucking stand it. When I hear about some liberal piece of shit trash woman (yes, she is black) shit talking and going on and on about the "white man" in a classroom in 2013 with children in there it drives me insane. How dare she harm those young children and inflict her own bullshit on them.
I learned about the word nigger when I was almost a teenager, and it was the most confusing day of my life. I actually told the boy that it was okay. I was a nigger too, as I thought it meant something like nerd. I grew up not understanding anything about skin color, or racism. The more people wanted to teach me, the more I found them having resentment towards white men in the present and then, as ridiculous as it sounds, conflating it and associating it with me.
Then I learned about the complete logical fallacy that was Affirmative Action. Why I was being punished because of my skin color? Why does Greg get all of these things, not because of his accomplishments, but because of his skin color?
No. I refuse to participate in the rest of many people's delusions. I will teach kids about the logical fallacy that is racism and I will do it in such a way that I don't associate them with events of the past.
Never said I condoned banning of any information whatsoever.
What should be regulated, or in this case heavily punished with dismissal, is any teacher found to be engaging in such abhorrent behavior.
Teach kids about history. Don't do it in such a way though to single out some of them in such a highly disruptive and hurtful way towards their well being.
These teachers should be guiding the classroom through critical thinking discussions. Not going on and on and on about the evils of the white man, with young white men in the room, in a contemporary context.
I spoke to the reasons and emotions behind that particular ban. Banning the book itself does not address the fundamental problem, and the book isn't even part of the problem.
You can shift this shit around as much as you like too, btw. It works with any particular groups of people that have ugly history between them that needs to be healed.
Bringing up the past, labeling and singling out the youth that is our future, isn't a successful strategy towards healing in any community.
TL;DR - Stop being the Hatfields and the McCoys about it and just let it fucking go for once.
In this particular case I should be working for Sony apparently.
While those bastards may be black evil to the core... at least they were able to secure their console (and it's theirs, not the person who paid for it) from those pesky hackers that pay them hard money for the opportunity.
How can Apple say industry leading security in a discussion about iPhone with a straight face?
Come on. It has nothing to do with fanboism, shills, or any other bullshit.
The iPhone is so full of security holes it gets a jailbreak for each and every attempt they make at securing it. It's not like they have anything that can defeat law enforcement or a forensic team either.
Really. It's like a screen door manufacturer saying they're leaders in home security products. ROFL.
Amazon has performed FAR more censorship of books than any school board could hope to do. That was in a single day. They have the ability to not only remove a book from sale, but remove the book from consumer owned equipment.
It's not unrelated, and is indeed, very much pertinent to the discussion at hand.
Keep calling me an idiot and stick your pedantic, entirely unnecessary, and baseless restriction of the scope of this discussion.
I'm not talking about the book. I was speaking to the behavior of teachers using the book in the classroom.
It's not that a book about racism is being read (that can be a very good thing done correctly) only that some teachers in question completely fail to frame the discussion about racism appropriately.
I distinctly remember the story about a teacher this year that got into trouble because she was clearly using language that made white male children in her classroom feel as if they are part of the problem currently.
Apparently the very concept of non-white bigotry is offensive to even utter in society. Calling the proponents of it out, and questioning their logic, reasoning, and tools they use to indoctrinate young white men into a culture of self hate doesn't work either.
It's having disastrous consequences. The tragedy is that the SPLC fights to keep track of hate groups when they can't see that their very actions are creating a new wave of hate and resentment.
The pendulum of racism needs to stop dead center. Not swing to the other side...
You just said that because I am a white male that I *must* be benefiting from past slavery.
I NEVER HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH IT.
Right there. That's the problem. You want to hold me to account for actions that were never mine just because I'm white and have a penis. How fucking hypocritical are you?
At some point you have to let it go, or we just need to go fucking kill each other in a field.
Which is it?
You want to meet me in a field and I'll fucking kill you to settle old debts from old men that are dead and gone, or do you want to not judge me by the color of my skin?
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I never found that credit unions eliminated ATM fees. Sometimes the fee comes from the ATM operator themselves, which means that the credit union would need to compensate you for it.
It's pretty cool that you don't have the fees, but I'm not sure that's universal.
Budget wise, it's a good process that you have.
I've gone my whole life without being mugged, and that includes time spent in third world countries and dangerous places.
I would think you should look at the percentages and assess the risk.
In my case, I've been the victim of credit card fraud about 5 times I think. In the worst case, against my better judgement, I lost around $150 in a PayPal transaction. That was because they are a criminal organization that encourages fraudulent merchants. PayPal doesn't give two shits about the consumer and the lack of regulation allows them to be extra shitty.
In all the other cases, the bank made it quite easy for me to get my money back.
OTOH, I've actually lost a couple hundred dollars over the years simply by dropping money, flying away in the wind, and losing my wallet.
It's really about the same risk for me when I look at all the incidents together.
P.S - All of that being said, I lean towards cash so the government can't review my purchases and further categorize me into their "subversive" categories.
That's a danger the government represents through its corruption.
The only reason a credit card is different is they have lobbyists and can purchase influence. The government may rob a plebe for their cash, but they're not going to mount a full frontal assault on the privileged corporations.
It's really no different than the risk of being mugged. Actually, it's exactly like the risk of being mugged.
Then you're still racist. You just hate yourself.
How sad.
Those privileges are entirely a product of your own delusions. They don't exist.
I don't complain about people of any color keeping me down. I complain about racism directed towards me. It happens to be coming from you.
You can't stop being racist can you?
You will be the victim for the rest of your life, and you will make your children the victim, and you will teach them that other innocent children that were born with a specific skin color are evil and receive unjust benefits.
Keep blaming white people on a continuous basis for your problems. Just don't be surprised when one of us cracks one day and beats the ever loving shit of you because you kept bashing us our whole lives based on race.
When they beat the shit out of you because the of the vileness that leaks from your pie hole, continue to be the victim and think it was about racism directed towards you instead of racism coming from you.
Racism not only doesn't cure racism, it BREEDS it.
Then just kill us all you evil mother fucker.
I was born white and I deserve to die, or at the very least, have my wealth (which I don't have anyways) stripped from me and distributed amongst the people of different non-white colors.
Are you going to walk around with some Pantone color swaths and distribute my body and my belongings based on it?
Nothing changes the fact that you wish me punished based on the color of my skin today, and I NEVER did ANYTHING to deserve it.
Those benefits you think I receive I don't.
So why don't you just end this now and start the fucking race war? Let's kill each other till there is only one color left. You've made it abundantly clear your completely incapable of moving forward.
I'm not guilty of shit. Yet you clearly want me punished.
Well stop being a pussy, go get some weapons, and make something happen. That will be better than living in this cluster fuck right now where you act like a victim continuously and I have no means to defend myself either.
None of what you find in the past is a justification for racism today in any way, shape, or form.
It's not about being right.
It's about stopping racism today, and that means that YOU have to stop.
Stop being racist and get rid of your illusions of white privilege.
You deny me my honor, my dignity, erase whatever perception of compassion and empathy I might possess in others, and all due to my skin color.
You pollute yourself with that negativity as well.
What you don't understand you horrific piece of shit, is that you make victims out of us both when you engage in such petty, hurtful behavior.
I'm white. I was born white. I can't change that. I'm not racist.
You would take from me because of the color of my skin, and nothing you say will change the facts. Your statements support racism today.
You are the problem.
Said the racist.
I would deny you nothing based on your skin color.
You would deny me plenty based on mine.
Who fits the definition of racism?
This. We get to become victims of racism and can't even complain about it.
You're the joke. You're a racist that thinks he isn't racist because your target has a specific skin color. Why do you evil fucktarded people think that ONLY white people can perform acts of racism?
It's logically precluded by the very definition of the world itself.
Don't let logic interfere with your white man bashing though. Why don't you just take it a step further and start the race war now? If it does happen, you will only have yourselves to blame.
You deserve all of it too. What happened in the past is horrible, but you continue to punish young men for their skin color, and have not stopped the game. You just switched sides on the board.
Instead of being intelligent and mature about it, YOU have created an entirely new generation of angry young men.
But... it is I that is lacking in humanity huh?
that a lot of young white men get butthurt when the concept of white, male privilege is broached in the least way
Why shouldn't they get butthurt?
You're telling them to their face that they somehow have privileges based on the color of their skin (which is wholly untrue), and you associate them with that based on something that they have no control over at all.
Then you teach them that we use racism in Affirmative Action to balance the white privilege that is an illusion in of itself. You simply cannot convince them, or me, that the white privilege exists when we do nothing to perpetuate it. We don't even benefit from it.
It's wholly negative too. White privilege is an absolutely terrible thing to say. You just associated them with something incredibly negative and detrimental towards society, and they have no means to defend themselves at all . They're not adults, and probably lack the sophistication and maturity that comes with age to moderate an emotional response. I do, and I still get very emotional over this because I believe it is the true face of racism today. To make it worse, people call it "reverse-racism". What the heck does that even mean? Not only are we victims of racism, but we can't even call it racism!
They are guilty without trial, or hope for appeal, and they will spend the rest of their lives in the prison of white privilege. You get an emotional response from this situation. Why are you shocked about it?
Those young white men are trying to create a future for themselves in a world that makes it clear that they can't qualify for tons of scholarships and socialist assistance programs because, somehow, that assistance is provided by the color of their skin.
I genuinely want to know. Where is this white power world the rest of you are alluding to? Those young men don't live in it. Neither do I.
I've had to fight twice as hard with my education and work my ass off with no sympathy or help from anybody.
All over the color of my skin.
I think my butthurt is pretty damn justified.
Just like it hasn't cured the pain that any "black" person goes through either?
Protest too much?
Just how much protestation about racism directed at yourself is considered too much?
I just love how the moment I defend myself, and condemn clear and present racism towards white people, that I am in fact, performing racism against another group of people.
According to your logic, MLK was a racist too for having the audacity to defend himself?
It's you that is the troll.
The poster brought up an extremely valid point about censorship on digital devices, which are becoming more and more used in school settings by the day.
You then slammed them, being the troll *you* are.
I defended that position. Censorship on digital devices is not unrelated to the discussion at hand, is proven to be true, and has nothing to do with Tin Foil Hats.
Not to mention censorship on digital devices has the potential to be far more damaging. Many many orders more so.
If you can't figure out the difference for yourself, you have issues.
What issues do I have, and what difference can I not figure out?
That doesn't make them me, and the only person who needs to realize that is me
No. Everyone else needs to realize it too, or they will blame problems in the present on you based on that skin color or ancestry.
To flip it around, what you are saying is that a young black man 80 years ago only needed to realize for himself that his skin color made no difference. We know that's not true. It was very important for everyone else in our society to realize it too.
It's personal to me because I'm part Native American. I've traced my ancestry through the Cherokee and Lakota. Yet, the only thing about me that people take away from a picture is "white man".
I don't like it. I can't do anything about my skin color or how I was born with a penis. All I ask is that I am not judged based on my skin color. Yet, very much, that is exactly what I find in my society today. I don't want young white men to grow up with that pain either.
We should be able to get past all of this, and I'm so sick and tired of the white man bashing. Not because I am white, but because it's so counterproductive and stupid.
This whole thing started because I responded to a post where the reasons behind the ban were said to be unreasonable.
Banning the book doesn't help, but the negative bullshit that prompted the ban should be explored, as it is a genuine problem that needs to be addressed.
Stop bringing up bullshit that has nothing to do with white people.
There are plenty of black people that have said nasty things about immigrants as well. Heck, even Mexican Americans say that shit sometimes. It's even more tragic when an Irish person says it.
All of those examples you post, speak to ALL Americans. Not just white people.
This water you swim in is as big as an ocean, the problem is that you just don't know what its like to be a fish out of water.
The fuck I don't.
I'm being judged for the color of my skin today, AND NOT TO MY BENEFIT EITHER. You're a fucking hypocrite and you still owe me an apology. I AM NOT PART OF INSTITUTIONAL RACISM AND I DON'T GIVE ONE FUCK ABOUT YOUR PROBLEMS WITH IT. I DIDN'T DO IT. I HAVE NEVER, NOT ONCE, EVER, PARTICIPATED IN THE OPPRESSION OF ANOTHER PERSON BASED ON THEIR SKIN COLOR. I don't really like the jokes either.
If a woman gets raped, am I somehow responsible because I got a penis?
If a black man gets beat up in Alabama in a hate crime, did I participate in it or condone it?
If a gay man gets denied a job, did I deny it?
You're a fucking clueless moron. I'm being told today that I don't qualify for any kind of social assistance whatsoever for my lack of employment and medical conditions because I'm white, mid 30s, and I have a penis.
I worked damn hard for my education. At the moment, things are pretty damn tough. I probably fall into the poor category now after losing my primary house, and my investment house that I was renting. Worked damn hard to go full doc on it too, so fuck you if you think I got it somehow by oppressing the "minorities". I got them through hard work, keeping my credit score way up (paying my fucking bills on time), and suffering. I went without many days to save for a better future.
When I moved into a condo afterwards, I got punished like a mother fucker for my credit and had to shell out over a thousand dollars in non refundable fees. My whiteness did not save my cracka ass that day.
In the last couple of months volunteering at homeless shelters I personally witnessed that white men were TOLD TO GO TO THE BACK OF THE LINE. No shit. Told... by a black priest. They were last in line to get food. The woman and children I understand, but white men don't get shit. So if you do become homeless and poor, god fucking help you if you are white and have a penis. Society apparently looks at you like a demon that can't protect itself, and now is the time to take out all the rage on it.
What fucking world do you live in?
Apparently your world continually tells me that some fucking mythical white superhero brigade exists that will pull me aside anytime I get into trouble with easy money, less consequences for my actions, and preferential treatment.
That's not my world. My entire life I've been told that I am at the back of the line for any kind of assistance. That people with a different skin color than me deserve, solely based on their skin color, preferential treatment.
No, my world has shown me that I get treated worse predicated on a simple idea that my life somehow made better by being white.
Prove me wrong you insufferable asshole. I dare you. Show up my front door tomorrow with that fabulous wealth, opportunities, and hot women that are begging to be draped over my white male shoulders for nothing.
Please. I'm waiting for my white power world. Where is it?
It is, in fact you, that is oppressing me. Why? Cuz I'm white right? Right? Am I right?
What a total bullshit argument.
You are not trying to say that white men are responsible for that are you? Only white men buy those clothes? ONLY white men make financial profit from it?
How much you wanna bet that if we did a study on all people wearing textiles from that country, that it would represent multiple countries, races, genders, etc.?
I got news for you. Practically NOBODY agrees with the bullshit that is carried out to bring us (and I do mean all of us) our iPhones and designer jeans.
You're being a complete fucking moron. Stop. The 1% that have all the wealth, are not a single skin color, and the 99% that are oppressed and taken advantage of, happens to have a huge white male population as well.
Bringing up that over half the world lives in economic slavery to the other half as an example of white men being evil?
Now you are just playing their game. Divide and conquer, and what better way to do it then to incite and perpetuate racial divides?
Congratulations.
The Ugly Racist is revealed, and the name is tpstigers
I'm not defending white men you racist offensive fuck.
I'm defending the hearts and minds of children from your vile spew that would single them out and hurt them based on their skin color
In this particular case, the victims are young white men. Yes, I am defending them at the moment, because nobody will defend them, because according to you... they don't deserve a defense.
All based on what?
You're just as ugly and abhorrent as some white redneck 60 years ago looking to hang a black man
You misunderstand like most other people here. It's not about covering up history. It's 100% about the delivery and the attitudes of those that would impart the information to our youth.
First, teach about how we made useless, baseless, and extremely harmful distinctions between people based on their skin color, religion, gender, etc. You don't need to single out white people to do it at all. We can reference a huge amount of history and disparate races and cultures. The Greeks, Romans, Celts, large parts of Africa, the Dutch slave trade, indentured servitude laws, religious persecution in Europe, the Inquisition, the Mongols, and yes, slavery in the US. Teach that slavery and racism are not the exclusive domain of white men, but very old practices that we no longer tolerate in evolved societies.
Secondly, emphasize that this is not how we do it today. It's 100% not acceptable behavior at all. All forms of racism, including gender related behavior. That they may notice some older people still doing it, but that they are not as mature, and yes, have fallen victim to old bad habits. Make it abundantly clear that the children in the room don't bear any of the responsibility and blame for what happened in the past, and they're our future. The best way to stamp out racism is to refuse to participate. Literally, stop thinking about it and it will stop.
Thirdly, be proactive in NOT making racial distinctions as much as possible. When you do reference it, be sure to reference it as something from the past. Anytime you speak about a contemporary person, don't mention race. Children don't need to know Obama is black and the first black President. Why? There should be no value whatsoever in the information, and to find value, means to find value in those racially supported distinctions. All they need to know is that he was/is President, and was a complete and utter fucking disappointment, which had nothing to do with his skin color. That's left up to history to judge though. I have my own opinions about that total pussy.
Fourthly, and this isn't hard, fill text books with examples of great people from all over the world and different cultures. When you show children that our greatest and most revered people came from so many different backgrounds, and look so different, it subtly reinforces the idea that skin color really doesn't matter. You and I know that it doesn't. We need to show them that great people come from all walks of life equally.
Fifth.... DON'T BRING THE DIRTY LAUNDRY AND NEGATIVE FILTH FROM YOUR OWN PAST AND LIFE EXPERIENCES INTO THE CLASSROOM TO INFECT AND TAINT THE YOUTH OF TOMORROW.
I'm sorry. I just can't fucking stand it. When I hear about some liberal piece of shit trash woman (yes, she is black) shit talking and going on and on about the "white man" in a classroom in 2013 with children in there it drives me insane. How dare she harm those young children and inflict her own bullshit on them.
I learned about the word nigger when I was almost a teenager, and it was the most confusing day of my life. I actually told the boy that it was okay. I was a nigger too, as I thought it meant something like nerd. I grew up not understanding anything about skin color, or racism. The more people wanted to teach me, the more I found them having resentment towards white men in the present and then, as ridiculous as it sounds, conflating it and associating it with me.
Then I learned about the complete logical fallacy that was Affirmative Action. Why I was being punished because of my skin color? Why does Greg get all of these things, not because of his accomplishments, but because of his skin color?
No. I refuse to participate in the rest of many people's delusions. I will teach kids about the logical fallacy that is racism and I will do it in such a way that I don't associate them with events of the past.
Racism does not cure racism.
Never said I condoned banning of any information whatsoever.
What should be regulated, or in this case heavily punished with dismissal, is any teacher found to be engaging in such abhorrent behavior.
Teach kids about history. Don't do it in such a way though to single out some of them in such a highly disruptive and hurtful way towards their well being.
These teachers should be guiding the classroom through critical thinking discussions. Not going on and on and on about the evils of the white man, with young white men in the room, in a contemporary context.
I spoke to the reasons and emotions behind that particular ban. Banning the book itself does not address the fundamental problem, and the book isn't even part of the problem.
You can shift this shit around as much as you like too, btw. It works with any particular groups of people that have ugly history between them that needs to be healed.
Bringing up the past, labeling and singling out the youth that is our future, isn't a successful strategy towards healing in any community.
TL;DR - Stop being the Hatfields and the McCoys about it and just let it fucking go for once.
In this particular case I should be working for Sony apparently.
While those bastards may be black evil to the core... at least they were able to secure their console (and it's theirs, not the person who paid for it) from those pesky hackers that pay them hard money for the opportunity.
How can Apple say industry leading security in a discussion about iPhone with a straight face?
Come on. It has nothing to do with fanboism, shills, or any other bullshit.
The iPhone is so full of security holes it gets a jailbreak for each and every attempt they make at securing it. It's not like they have anything that can defeat law enforcement or a forensic team either.
Really. It's like a screen door manufacturer saying they're leaders in home security products. ROFL.
You're the idiot. What tin-foil? These are facts.
Amazon has performed FAR more censorship of books than any school board could hope to do. That was in a single day. They have the ability to not only remove a book from sale, but remove the book from consumer owned equipment.
It's not unrelated, and is indeed, very much pertinent to the discussion at hand.
Keep calling me an idiot and stick your pedantic, entirely unnecessary, and baseless restriction of the scope of this discussion.
I'm not talking about the book. I was speaking to the behavior of teachers using the book in the classroom.
It's not that a book about racism is being read (that can be a very good thing done correctly) only that some teachers in question completely fail to frame the discussion about racism appropriately.
I distinctly remember the story about a teacher this year that got into trouble because she was clearly using language that made white male children in her classroom feel as if they are part of the problem currently.
Talk about racism. Don't perpetuate it.
Apparently the very concept of non-white bigotry is offensive to even utter in society. Calling the proponents of it out, and questioning their logic, reasoning, and tools they use to indoctrinate young white men into a culture of self hate doesn't work either.
It's having disastrous consequences. The tragedy is that the SPLC fights to keep track of hate groups when they can't see that their very actions are creating a new wave of hate and resentment.
The pendulum of racism needs to stop dead center. Not swing to the other side...
Racism will never cure racism.
How the FUCK am I benefiting from oppression?
You owe me an apology.
You just said that because I am a white male that I *must* be benefiting from past slavery.
I NEVER HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH IT.
Right there. That's the problem. You want to hold me to account for actions that were never mine just because I'm white and have a penis. How fucking hypocritical are you?
At some point you have to let it go, or we just need to go fucking kill each other in a field.
Which is it?
You want to meet me in a field and I'll fucking kill you to settle old debts from old men that are dead and gone, or do you want to not judge me by the color of my skin?
You choose