[quote]HoustonGuy wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]overstand wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
The hilarity of comparing one powerless crazy college student who now has much less of a bright future to an authority figure killing a kid. Yeah, both could be called racist. No, both are not on equal terms of power in society.
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It was never about the gravity of the respective incidents but the double standards and irony in people’s perception of racism.
/strawman[/quote]
Uh, but that would imply people are too stupid to recognize the “GRAVITY” of the respective incidents before they apply any standard at all.
This is an issue because it is clear blacks are at risk of greater chances of death BY PEOPLE IN POSITIONS OF POWER OR AUTHORITY. This has never just been some random issue of racism…or else every old person who lets out a racial slip would be on the news.
The previous case in that same city where a cop’s kid beat up a black man was NOT front page news.
You don’t have much of a point trying to point out double standards as if people involved in those situations are too stupid to understand who has the upper hand in a social scenario.
A bag lady calling me names is not the same as a POLICE OFFICER doing it.
a BROKE ASS COLLEGE STUDENT making some slurs is not the same as the same coming from THE COLLEGE PROFESSOR TEACHING A CLASS.
Yet you seem to think people are so dumb they can’t see this.[/quote]
Racism is racism regardless of socio-economic standing.
/bullshit[/quote]
LOL…and the response by society is not based on it simply being “racist” but on the overreaching effect it has on all of us or the majority.
Racial profiling means I am more likely to be profiled as a criminal based on my skin color by AUTHORITY FIGURES. Unless you bring an instance where whites are profiled as criminals or are being targeted by authority figures, simply running around trying to point out “racism” in other racial groups doesn’t make much sense.
It completely dismisses the fact that this is about socio-economic power and not simply whether someone is “racist” or whether they think of themselves as such.
Do you honestly think people care that “racists” exist at all?