You tell me how the first part of
this post wasn't relevant to the second part? It's a story of triumph over adversity and every news article about those awesome kids mentioned where, specifically, they lived.
This is moderation, it's racism, pure and simple.
posted by mikoroshi
on Oct 1, 2012 -
155 comments
I was afraid from the start that
this post would get out of hand. Unfortunately it seems I was right. If we have to rage, let's do it here instead. And while we're at it, maybe we can discuss whether & how a different framing could have prevented or minimized the train wreck we see before us.
posted by scalefree
on Mar 4, 2011 -
115 comments
Why are people who oppose racism often reluctant to discuss class? In the
Jackson Jive incident, five upperclass Australians, four white and one Indian, did an astonishingly racist skit that was paid for by the show's upperclass producers, yet
in the discussion on MetaTalk, the idea that this might have something to do with class was only brought up as a joke.
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posted by shetterly
on Oct 9, 2009 -
6 comments
I'm sorry, but did someone just
post that Gypsies are raised as criminals and have no moral values? Not just a literary allusion to lower-class itinerants, he calls out the Romani by name - the same Romani slaughtered by the million by the Third Reich for being a race of evil criminals. And it gets ten favorites? Really?
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posted by Slap*Happy
on Sep 3, 2009 -
1 comment
I think the deletion of
this post by indienial is a bad call. The continued destruction of all things Aboriginal is a big fat important & undercommented issue, and one which I was looking forward to reading comments about.
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posted by seanyboy
on Mar 13, 2008 -
94 comments
Delete this post Matt. Not only is it a repeat of a topic, the N-bomb is used. Totally unacceptable, even if you are a rapper. It still has the same connotation as hate. Still way too soon since the Civil War.
posted by alicesshoe
on Oct 4, 2003 -
24 comments
This thread, despite generating a huge response, is
A.) Newsfilter
B.) Racist, inflammatory, and designed as nothing more than a troll. I realize that MaddD enjoys posts that cause controversy, as evidenced by his
topic post history, but suggesting that grieving parents should be shackled to a floor because of their immigration status seems a little much.
posted by dejah420
on Feb 22, 2003 -
95 comments
"No Likey"? I hate that phrase and think it perpetuates a racial stereotype. I've seen it a couple times in comments and it blasted me on the front page today. I'm not saying anyone that uses it is racist, nor am I asking that anyone be condemned for using it. I just wanted to make my feelings known. You may disagree.
posted by girlhacker
on Apr 6, 2001 -
37 comments
Anybody have a problem with the word
"niggling"? We already decided "fuck" was no problem amongst adults, will we shoot down innocent words?
posted by thirteen
on Mar 22, 2001 -
56 comments
I want to apologize for any part I had in prompting the explicitly racist comments some have posted in
this thread and others, if there were any. I'm beginning to wonder whether I should continue advancing my perspective in light of reactions like this. I don't want to encourage those kinds of posts.
posted by sudama
on Jan 5, 2001 -
8 comments
