@countingbeans Yes, you are correct regarding what I stated.
@EyeDentist I can’t say whether there is less racism in America according to your definition of racism because I have no idea what the heck is going through people’s minds and you stated that racists are people who “think their race is superior to others”. You never stated whether you include people who are pretty much minding their business, obeying rules and laws, attending work, and raising families but manage to segregate themselves from those of others races all while not mistreating anyone! As I said, I know many people who think their race is superior to others. I should know, considering that there are plenty like that of my own kind, those that consider themselves to be literally “chosen” over all others. But despite their ethnocentric feeling, many employ plenty of people not of their kind and don’t mistreat them. Do you have a problem with their thinking?!
As for racism lessening, I highly disagree. I believe race and gender and orientation relations are worse than they ever were. If race relations were so damn great now, then I wouldn’t turn on a television or radio and hear almost nothing but, “race, race, race” and "gender, gender, gender!"I turn on The Call on NY1 every other night: “race, race, race” and “gender, gender, gender”.
Do you ever get into discussions on voting with people not of your kind? I have… many times. They vote based on race! That is, although there might not be a candidate who shares their ethnicity, they vote for a candidate that will do for them specifically. And when someone does something for one group, it comes at the expense or ignorance of another group considering that different groups want and value different things!
@anon71262119 I’d say inherent concern for safety is not a “lower function” but rather a necessary mechanism that natured imbued upon us for our survival. Some of those who believe that they can circumvent or ignore this mechanism to become “enlightened” or have conversations–called dialogue-- with “unenlightened” and “undemocratic” people and “backwards” people in other parts of the world have wound up in big trouble at best or dead at worst. Liberal news reporters and naive vacationers have paid a hefty price for their naiveté and silly ideas of trying to converse with and visit people who largely do not give a damn about what they have to say and hate them: severed heads, kidnapping, and sexual assault come to mind. And to tell you the truth, although I do feel sorry for the deaths of innocent people, it is at times VERY difficult to have sympathy for grown adults who at their age should have realized that there are people on this crowded earth who hate them and don’t care what they have to say and to go over to their turfs where they like to run things their way is actually pretty nervy!
Besides this world will never be a pink-and-blue padded nursery room despite the fact that Americans have deluded themselves into thinking so because of overabundance of time, wealth, and comfort. That’s exactly why we can mush our brains around with purely abstract ideas! And if someone thinks that waving a flag of their homeland is a sign of ethnocentrism of a feeling of superiority then that’s his or her problem! I don’t say this to criticize you, but this ridiculous “make nice” sentiment is reaching a stupid, suicidal degree and no group, no nation survives without a feeling of community or duty and such a feeling is expressed by the example of waving a flag.
Regarding incessant bitching and moaning, we can go back to the original topic of the thread, people like Kroc, who continue to post angst-laden sentiments about how Western society is continuing mistreating him and “boxing in” him and his kind. You don’t like Western society’s way of doing things, I got an offer for ya: try pulling the same angst-laden, weepy shenanigans in other parts of the world and see where it gets ya! Then you’ll really see what it’s like to be “boxed in” alright, in an actual box that is, what we call a coffin… or perhaps hanging from a rope or wearing and dying by a burning rubber tire around one’s neck in public! Northern Europeans used to drown homosexuals. In Ancient Judaism, the punishment for homosexuality is stoning, just as it is in the Middle East today (or being thrown off a building).
Instead of saying, “Hey, I am grateful that in this day and age and country, in American and most other Western societies, I can and did reach all my aims. I served in the Marines and got to meet our President, became a well-paid pharmacist, got to pursue my hobby and passion at an elite level (and with that, consumed all the food and other modern chemical aids to do that that I wanted to), got to travel, and on top of that, am now even allowed to pursue my desire for a sex change using modern technology invented by mostly Western people! Apparently I was never ‘boxed in’”. I’m sure Kroc and others like him are grateful for such gifts and luxuries, but to then have the nerve to top if off with “society” mistreating them is damn disingenuous. And let’s get this straight. Just who is referred to as “society”. Most people in our society are working, earning a living, raising families, and are concerned with their own families and well-being. Just who out of these benign people are mistreating or “boxing in” anyone?!
In a sense, there is less institutionalized racism or anti-homosexual workings because we now have multi-millionaire gay and diverse individuals, not to mention the millions who are living ordinary middle-class lives, many of whom I work with. And if Western society is so damn oppressive, then why not get the hell out? See what other place will suit your tastes and needs. Good luck! And people who feel so damn guilty about the Indians and cry “this land belongs to the Indians” (according to who?) and about having been defeated by Europeans, do me a favor: turn in your home, your cell phone, your car, your surround-sound entertainment system, medicine, and whatever the hell else you use that was created by Europeans or Northern Asians or whoever and get the hell out if you’re so guilty! You sure will start to cry real tears and your bleeding heart will in fact start bleeding real blood with your weepy shenanigans!
This is one way in which the world works that people seem to be forgetting around here: when two groups are sharing the same space, the more dominant, powerful group ALWAYS mistreats the weaker group! Good luck trying to change this phenomena. We can fuck around all day with abstract, make-nice sentiment, but it doesn’t change anything–the sort of sentiment that echoes, “we are failing as a human race,” “ewww, human beings are terrible,” blah, blah, blah, weep, weep, weep! Do me a favor: don’t include me and other civic-minded people who are not mistreating anyone into that supposed failure. Liberals have goddamn nerve when they freely bark, “You’re part of the problem.” ME, I’m part of the problem–someone who minds his business, treats people with courtesy and respect (unless reason for otherwise), married, paying my bills, saying money, wanting to raise a family, and so on. Yes, people like me are the problem. THANKS!
To think that dialogue will work on about 320 million Americans or seven billion people on earth–most of whom do not give a rat’s ass about our ideas or what we have to say–is likely the tallest order of all mankind, and it won’t be done! And why should it?!
As for American women who continue to moan about mistreatment, try elsewhere too! There are only a few places you can get away with this on earth and instead of being grateful, they continue to complain. I mean, there is so much mistreatment that we now have female millionaires, female celebrities who get paid millions for existing and breathing, CEO’s, female teachers, female nurses, female LEO’s, and so on and so forth. Some mistreatment, not to mention legions of desperate men who salivate over and worship females on social media. How terrible!
I’m done for now, but there sure is a foolish and ungrateful lot amongst us in America. My opinion.
By the way, I do not mean to insult anyone here, and if people prefer that I don’t share my feelings and views, then I will stop. But I am making no apology for reflecting on real life.
