All things Racist...USA edition (1 Viewer)

[Farb]

I was looking for a place to put this so we could discuss but didn't really find a place that worked so I created this thread so we can all place articles, experiences, videos and examples of racism in the USA.

This is one that happened this week. The lady even called and filed a complaint on the officer. This officer also chose to wear the body cam (apparently, LA doesn't require this yet). This exchange wasn't necessarily racist IMO until she started with the "mexican racist...you will never be white, like you want" garbage. That is when it turned racist IMO

All the murderer and other insults, I think are just a by product of CRT and ACAB rhetoric that is very common on the radical left and sadly is being brought to mainstream in this country.

Another point that I think is worth mentioning is she is a teacher and the sense of entitlement she feels is mind blowing.

https://news.yahoo.com/black-teacher-berates-latino-la-221235341.html

 

[bird]

What speech is outlawed or what speech do I want to be outlawed?

Anything to do with your boogeymen.

 

[bird]

By injecting a made up word into state/legal documents you are in fact forcing Hispanics to use a label they don't like. Why? So some middle aged white people can feel better about themselves? That is racist.

All words are made up. Try again. You know that people of Latin American descent don’t like Latinx? Or maybe you are just another scared, old, white person.

 

[Optimus Prime]

About two weeks after the end of World War II in Europe, French women were serving U.S. soldiers coffee and doughnuts in a Red Cross tent in France. Two Black soldiers went inside to get some.

This was a breach of norms: In a segregated army, many White American soldiers did not want Black men talking to French women.

The Black soldiers — Allen Leftridge and Frank Glenn — were challenged by a White sergeant, according to a witness. When a White armed guard arrived, he fatally shot the two men. A third soldier — a White man just released from a German prison camp who was not named in documents related to the incident — was caught in the crossfire and killed, a newspaper from the time reported.

These deaths, briefly touched upon in a 1984 oral history, were not widely chronicled at the time beyond Black publications. Documents in the Library of Congress archives — including pleas from civil rights advocates and responses from military officials — reveal details of the case and further evidence of how White U.S. soldiers fighting fascism abroad brought racism overseas. The consequences were fatal — and some victims of racial violence were robbed of compensation.

Two White soldiers were acquitted in a court-martial over the deadly incident. Leftridge’s widow was denied military benefits because her husband’s death was ruled not in the line of duty “due to his own misconduct.”

“They weren’t breaking a law — unless there’s a law against being a Negro soldier,” a legal advocate for the slain Black soldiers wrote in 1946. “They were visiting a Red Cross tent — on the post on which they were stationed — and were shot down by trigger-happy guards who had prejudice[d] orders not to allow Negro soldiers to talk to French women.”

“That’s not how people think about World War II,” said Matthew F. Delmont, Dartmouth University history professor and the author of a book about African American troops in World War II. “Incidents like these between Black and White troops really spotlight that things were not unified in any real way.”

However, there may be a remedy. In another case from the same period, a Black soldier slain in a Jim Crow incident in Georgia was wrongly blamed for the circumstances that led to his death until his record was corrected last year. This didn’t just clear his name, but may also make it possible for his family to receive financial benefits.

More than 80 years after World War II, some racial injustices endured by Black servicemen are finally being addressed............

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[coldseat]

By injecting a made up word into state/legal documents you are in fact forcing Hispanics to use a label they don't like. Why? So some middle aged white people can feel better about themselves? That is racist.

Says a middle aged white person to a Hispanic person

Nobody was forced to use Latinx as a racial descriptor. Latino/Latina/Latinx isn't even a race.

 

[Optimus Prime]

About Scotland, but definitely an issue here
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In the academic year 2020-21, there were 1,198 instances of racially motivated bullying reported in Scottish schools – up from 409 in 2016-17. These are the highest recorded figures to date.

My research, carried out with colleagues, explores the impact of racist bullying like this – bullying motivated by prejudice against someone’s race, ethnicity, culture, citizenship or religion.

We conducted what is known as a systematic review: examining existing research studies to look for trends and patterns. We pulled together the results of 73 existing research studies on racist bullying from around the world. We wanted to know more about what happens to young people who experience racist bullying.

We found that racist bullying increases the risk of poor mental health. It can cause loneliness and lead children to drop out of school. It can result in alcohol and substance misuse.

We also found that young people feel their teachers are dismissive of racist biases and stereotypes. The way teachers handle complaints about racism could be critical for children and young people’s mental health.

Trying to cope​

Children and young people often try to cope with racist bullying by “filtering out” incidents and trying to protect themselves with indifference. They try to laugh it off, taking insults in a joking manner.

But 18 studies included in our review found that racist bullying contributes to depression, anxiety, lower self-esteem and feelings of anger. These effects have been found among teenagers and younger children. In some cases, racist bullying can be so severe that it is linked to PTSD symptoms and suicidal thoughts.

Our research found that there are several factors that could influence whether a child gets bullied because of their race or cultural identity.

Racist bullying is strongly influenced by ethnic, racial and religious stereotypes that have developed as a result of negative media representations of ethnic and religious minorities. For example, media representations of refugees as illegal migrants or “economic refugees”, whose aim is to take advantage of benefit systems, influence how children from migrant backgrounds are treated at school.

Some children bullied due to their race, ethnicity or culture at school also reported experiencing racism and discrimination in other situations, such as by strangers in public places.

Markers of difference, such as speaking a native language at school, can also increase the risk of racist bullying. For example, one study reported that students who were using Spanish in a school in Texas, USA were told that they were “strange” and that they should “go back to Mexico”...............

Children and young people who are bullied due to their race or culture may feel that their teachers have double standards in dealing with incidents. In one study conducted in Austria, an eight-year-old child said that when ethnic majority children complained about bullying they were taken seriously, while when he was bullied it would be dismissed as “just play”. This suggests a link between institutional racism – the attitude of the school towards the children – and the racist bullying they experienced from their peers..........

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[SystemShock]

All words are made up. Try again. You know that people of Latin American descent don’t like Latinx? Or maybe you are just another scared, old, white person.

There aren't people of "Latin American descent". "Latin American" isn't an ethnicity. It is a label, given to the area of the continent below the U.S. border by Napoleon during the French invasion of MX. I'll reiterate once more, no self respecting Mexican should ever call himself "Latin American".

And Spanish speakers overwhelmingly dislike the term "Latinx", partly because it doesn't make sense for languages intrinstically based on male-female, partly because they don't want Anglos telling them how they should speak.

 

[bird]

There aren't people of "Latin American descent". "Latin American" isn't an ethnicity. It is a label, given to the area of the continent below the U.S. border by Napoleon during the French invasion of MX. I'll reiterate once more, no self respecting Mexican should ever call himself "Latin American".

And Spanish speakers overwhelmingly dislike the term "Latinx", party because it doesn't make sense for languages intrinstically based on male-female, partly because they don't want Anglos telling them how they should speak.

Fine with me. Perhaps you can provide a link? I am curious. My issue isn’t with that. It is with another reactionary white person the the form of Sanders. Perhaps she researched how peoples from the Global South of the Western Hemisphere wish to be addressed. Perhaps but I doubt it.

 

[bird]

There aren't people of "Latin American descent". "Latin American" isn't an ethnicity. It is a label, given to the area of the continent below the U.S. border by Napoleon during the French invasion of MX. I'll reiterate once more, no self respecting Mexican should ever call himself "Latin American".

And Spanish speakers overwhelmingly dislike the term "Latinx", party because it doesn't make sense for languages intrinstically based on male-female, partly because they don't want Anglos telling them how they should speak.

Never mind the request for a link.

 

[Farb]

All words are made up. Try again. You know that people of Latin American descent don’t like Latinx? Or maybe you are just another scared, old, white person.

They don't. I have told and shown you this several times but you are not interested in the truth.

 

[Farb]

Says a middle aged white person to a Hispanic person

Nobody was forced to use Latinx as a racial descriptor. Latino/Latina/Latinx isn't even a race.

Then why the emotional response from the progressives about Gov. Sanders banning it from legal state documents? No big deal right?

 

[coldseat]

Then why the emotional response from the progressives about Gov. Sanders banning it from legal state documents? No big deal right?

Emotional? Was it emotional simply because I responded? Or because I'm gay?

Sanders is stupid for signing that law. Just virtue signaling for middle aged white people that are part of the rabid red meat base, like yourself.

 

[MT15]

Then why the emotional response from the progressives about Gov. Sanders banning it from legal state documents? No big deal right?

Why should the government ban a word? Sanders didn’t do it because people told her they didn’t like it, I feel pretty sure. She did it so she could crow about being anti-woke. Which is exceedingly stupid, but here we are.

If people asked her not to use the word, a ban wouldn’t be needed. All they would have to do is ask.

 

[bird]

They don't. I have told and shown you this several times but you are not interested in the truth.

You have shown me? Nope. I looked it up and responded to System Shock. Try again.

 

[samiam5211]

Then why the emotional response from the progressives about Gov. Sanders banning it from legal state documents? No big deal right?

Did Arkansas have a law acknowledging LatinX on legal state documents?

She banned something that wasn't even officially allowed. She is restricting freedom, by forbidding a person from choosing to use LatinX.

Sarah is just virtue signaling. Something i thought you were against.

 

[RobF]

You have shown me? Nope. I looked it up and responded to System Shock. Try again.

Added, perhaps more nuanced, perspective:


Personally, while I think it's entirely reasonable for people to dislike any particular term for themselves, at the same time, I don't think it's reasonable to take that dislike and attempt to apply it to others who do use the term for themselves.

 

[bird]

Added, perhaps more nuanced, perspective:


Personally, while I think it's entirely reasonable for people to dislike any particular term for themselves, at the same time, I don't think it's reasonable to take that dislike and attempt to apply it to others who do use the term for themselves.

Agreed. I bowled on a team with A guy whose last name was Lopez. We got to chatting and I said something out of ignorance regarding Hispanic. He corrected me immediately but not angrily that he was Spanish from Spain. Which shows how aware we should be about people.

 

[coldseat]

Hispanic, Latino, Latina and Latinx are all terms mostly coined and who's use was popularized here in the Untied States to represent the Latin American diaspora from the Caribbean, North America, Central America and South America. They were all coined for the same purpose of uniting a wide and diverse group of people that had some common history and language for the purpose of amassing political and social power to address common concerns from that wide group of people. None of those terms are used widely outside of the US.

Latinx is no different in that context, with the caveat that it came out of and is mostly used by LGBTQ+ Latin American diaspora here in the US (and used by academia as well). It is linguistically odd for Spanish speakers sense it's not gendered, but that was also the point of creating it. Which is why some people hate is so much and why people like Sarah Sanders see it as juicy political red meat to get involved in when her opinion on this subject is unwanted and irrelevant. None of this is a surprise though, LGBTQ+ community is marginalized, whether it's in the US or Latin America.

 

[Bigdaddysaints]

I'm sure she's not racist.. The coach should have just ignred the text and quit being woke..SMH..

High school secretary ‘no longer employed’ after referring to MLK Day as ‘N-word Day’​

Fontana is said to have used the racial slur when she texted the school’s coach to remind the players that there would be no school because of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. “[N-word] day lol mark Luther king,” Fontana texted, per News Star.

The coach, who appeared to be taken aback, replied, “Huh? Say what? Where did that come from?” Fontana then went ahead to let the coach know that there would be no school on Monday because of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

“Remind your plays Sunday where off Monday. For Mark Luther king day Monday,” she texted before adding, “Players I ment”

Fontana later sent another text to the coach where she apologized for her use of the racial slur. “I’m very sorry coach I didn’t mean to send that first text to u please forgive me,” she texted.

I have an Aunt who got fired from Walmart years ago for something similar. She was head cashier or whatever they call it. In the preshift meeting, someone made a comment about MLK day and wished they could have it off, and she says, you mean "Dead N(word) Day?" All the cashiers there were white, so i guess she thought they wouldn't tell on her..

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