So you Honestly think those two acts in the same small building on the same night were completely unrelated? Wow.
Let’s say they were unrelated and it was a huge coincidence. Would the fact that they did happen in concert with one another make you understand why people think both acts are offensive?
Let’s say it’s offensive. What action is appropriate ? Should that be different to if the fax said the vice chancellor is a poopy face? What if its related to the posters? What if it isn’t?
When did Islam become a “race”?
If you are being selected for additional screening it isn’t random. And military personnel do tend to get selected more often. When you purchase a ticket there is a computer program that “randomly” selects people.
This right here. I get the sense lately that people are doing so much word and psychological play and using fringe examples of people, that it’s coming to the point at which language is losing one of its functions, namely, to understand this world!
There’s always a song and dance! See my previous post here too.
GEEZ, @Jewbacca…!
After all these years of watching “Rudolph”…I never knew that these guys were Jewish!
(As always…thanks for the insights you bring to the Forum…)
To be fair, race has been on it’s way out as a viable construct for decades. Interracial couples threw a big ole monkey wrench in it
I have no reason to believe that the person who put up the posters wrote the other thing against Islam.
“University of Manitoba Students’ Union president Jakob Sanderson said security footage shows someone taping the papers on walls on Halloween night.”
Nowhere does it say the same person wrote the other message. Perhaps someone was inspired by the posters to vent their hatred of Islam, but that just shows that they are equally delusional as the people getting worked up over the poster.
What if anti-Muslim graffiti was found alongside gay pride-related posters? Would this indicate that gays are lashing out at Muslims?
The same time that all Arabs became Muslims. As in, never.
I THINK I get your point. However I don’t know how a biological construct becomes inviable. If an interracial couple has a child, the child is of mixed race. Simple?
Maybe I’m missing something or misinterpret the message of it’s ok to be white, but are those two brands comparable?
However, I’m aware that some people would/do get worked up over the slogan “Black Power” with the same vigor that some people appear to be getting worked up over the “It’s ok to be white” … again I do not see the comparison … at least a one for one comparison…
I find it odd people put as much stock into identity politics as they do … It seems to be a waste of energy, very caustic branding, divisive, and distracting from things one can actually do to improve their lives and community…it’s holding people down more than helping them up…
100% agreed.
To what extent does someone have to be mixed to no longer be a cookie cutter race?
Also, race as it’s used today is not a biological construct. As evident by this entire thread debating on what ‘white’ even means.
So would you say what we’re seeing is the death throws of racial politics? God I hope so…
There are several highly miscegenated groups in this world, Jews being one of them (obviously I’m included), as Jewbacca has pointed out.
Some people still use race in a biological sense… uh…which I believe should be obvious just from plain observation of the various people in this world. Mother Nature gave this world diversity.
I’m finding it puzzling why no one is trying to figure out what black or Asian means while figuring out what white means.
Who is white, black, or Asian? Newsflash: we have eyes and mirrors to figure this out.
And the number of people that don’t fit into one of the neat boxes grows by millions every year.
As a skin color thing? Sure. But it’s pretty low brow and insanely open to mistakes.
Fun anecdote. I went to HS with a girl who is 75% black, 25% white. She looks EASILY 90%+ white. Her 2 siblings look EASILY 75% black.
This is to the tune her father had a DNA test run because he thought her mom cheated on him when she came out so white.
For reference, dad is full black, mom has a black dad white mom. So should shake out to roughly 75% black.
My eyes tell me you’re absolutely white without question. As is the white person Loppar posted above.
The standard investigation to find out who done it, a fine/community service for graffiti, and ascertain of any violent intent or was it just a troll. That seems about what should be done, do you disagree?
I just think it’s shitty that OP intentionally left out the second part of the article, which is the context. Super, super important. He did this in order to fit his own narrative, and then an echo chamber commenced on here without anyone actually reading the article. Pretty much a microcosim of how people consume “news” these days.
since we live in bizarro world and words are violence, I’d say the chances are pretty good some kooky shit’ll be handed down
What would you consider “kooky shit”? Expulsion? Remember this is a grown man/woman intentionally using religious epithets to intimidate and offend the other students.
I’m mainly talking about the graffiti, not the flyers, FYI
Mainly something along the lines of assault for words …
Graffiti I can see destruction of property…
Very insightful post.
Johnny Marks (who wrote the Rudolph song) was Jewish. He based it on a poem by his brother-in-law (also Jewish, Robert May).
According to May, the Rudolph story actually started as a parable about a Jewish kid trying to fit in in a predominately Gentile world. More specifically, it was based on May’s recurring youthful daydream about being a star baseball player, and thus accepted by his classmates and winning the love of a girl he admired.
It’s the classic Jewish angst of being an outsider, hidden in a character of a deer (and misfit toys).