All things Racist...USA edition

[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

 

[DaveXA]

A Black student is suspended twice for his hairstyle. The school says it isn't discrimination

After serving an in-school suspension over his hairstyle, a Black high school student in Texas immediately received the same punishment when he arrived at school Monday wearing his hair as before in twisted dreadlocks.

apnews.com

Smh, why is some rando's hair an issue? Good grief. People are stupid. Geez.

 

[bird]

Sounds like virtue signaling to me

Not possible to give a flock about anything Eloon has to say.

 

[Optimus Prime]

This school district is really going to die on this hill
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CNN) — A Black Texas high school student who was suspended because his loc hairstyle violated the district’s dress code was suspended again upon his return to school Monday, an attorney for the family told CNN.

Darryl George has been suspended for more than two weeks because his loc hairstyle violates the Barbers Hill Independent School District dress and grooming code, according to his family.

The code states that “male students’ hair will not extend, at any time, below the eyebrows or below the ear lobes,” CNN previously reported…….

Black Texas student given additional suspension for loc hairstyle | CNN

A Black Texas high school student who was suspended because his loc hairstyle violated the district’s dress code was suspended again upon his return to school Monday, an attorney for the family told CNN.

www.cnn.com

 

[Bigdaddysaints]

Jurors, witnesses in synagogue massacre trial faced threats from this white supremacist​

Hardy Lloyd attempted to obstruct the federal hate crimes trial of the deadliest antisemitic attack in American history,” said Attorney General Merrick Garland. “His guilty plea underscores that anyone who attempts to obstruct a federal trial by threatening or intimidating jurors or witnesses will be met with the full force of the Justice Department.”

MSN

 

[bird]

No, it's not an ideology and the brain developed L O N G before Rome and Greece. For the human brain, antiquity in Rome and Greece is just a few minutes ago.

How the Human Brain Evolved to Be Racist

Racism is an evolutionary-conserved emergent property of brains.

www.psychologytoday.com

How the Human Brain Evolved to Be Racist​

Racism is an evolutionary-conserved emergent property of brains.​

Posted May 2, 2021 Reviewed by Devon Frye
According to the dictionary, racism is antagonism directed against a person on the basis of their membership in a racial or ethnic group that is different from your own. As a neuroscientist, I view racism through a unique, but not necessarily clearer, lens.

Given the apparent universality of racism around the world, it stands to reason that racism must be an essential emergent property of brains that has survived throughout our evolution. Given that brains evolved to perform only two things—survive and procreate more brains—then racism must have been conserved as a behavior that supports one of these two goals. The most obvious choice is survival. How does being aggressive towards others that do not share your physical or genetic traits improve your survival?

The answer, from the standpoint of the brain’s functioning, depends upon knowing about the function of a small almond-shaped structure, the amygdala, and its companion, the hippocampus. They both live on the lateral sides of the brain, not far from each ear. The amygdala and hippocampus receive information from your eyes and ears (as well as many other inputs).

These two brain regions assess the information and answer a simple question: is this familiar? If what you are seeing or hearing is unfamiliar according to your hippocampus, the amygdala generates fear. For example, if you are in an unfamiliar location and you see people you do not know or look unfamiliar, then your brain may generate fear. If the information you are seeing or hearing is ambiguous or inappropriate, the amygdala may generate fear. If you notice that someone you do not know is staring at you, your brain may generate fear. Humans hate being stared at. Giving a speech in front of a crowd is horribly frightening to most people. If you were seated with friends in a familiar location and a small child kept staring at you from across the room, you may become fearful. We fear the unknown, the unfamiliar, or the unexpected. Because of this, we may fear people who do not share our appearance or genes or behaviors.

Almost without fail, and regardless of the nature of the information gathered by your vigilant brain, the amygdala usually comes to the same conclusion: be afraid.

Fear of the “other” is found in the development of the brain. Racism is institutionalized policy based upon a social construct called race. Thus it is ideology. That fear was the underpinning does not change the fact that institution of laws, belief structures, usually religious but not always, developed from the ideology of racism. Bigotry, otoh, is fear based and is not ideological. Racism arises from power position. The doctrine of discovery is, imo a crucial point in the development of the ideology of racism.

 

[bird]

This country is circling the drain thanks to conservatism.

 

[Optimus Prime]

Very interesting article
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It is a sad aspect of public life that a quick route to success and notoriety for minorities in the UK is to express the most reactionary opinions imaginable. Witness Kwasi Kwarteng randomly and needlessly blurting out slavery apologia on Piers Morgan’s show, or the careers so far of Priti Patel and Suella Braverman. They will have their own views as individuals, but at the same time powerful people and institutions are aware of how useful it is to have their own prejudices mirrored, rendered acceptable, laundered perhaps by a minority voice, with the effect that it ostensibly shields them from criticism.

That regrettable effect is particularly concerning when a doubt is raised as to whether the views, as presented to the public, are a true reflection of honestly held opinion or a distortion designed perhaps to further advance the toxic culture wars.

A couple of weeks ago, the young rightwing commentator Dominique Samuels, who is Black, claimed on X (formerly Twitter) that the MailOnline had asked her to be “the face of a ghostwritten, negative, verging on racist piece” about the Notting Hill carnival last year.

Samuels also claimed that a Daily Mail article from 2021 with her byline, about racism accusations by Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, against the royals (“This clash of the royals was about culture … NOT colour”), was in fact ghostwritten for her, although she says it did broadly reflect her opinions “at the time”.

I spoke to Samuels, and we had a very enlightening conversation about her experience. According to her, after declining the opportunity to put her name to the ghostwritten draft produced for her, she has not heard back from the Mail’s main comment desk.

She was under the impression that ghostwriting in this fashion was “pretty much standard” practice. It is not. Although she had the chance to discuss her views on the content of the pieces, and of course to turn them down, the episode has caused considerable disquiet on social media and in the Black press, with many concerned that the entire practice of using a Black person to be the face of deliberately controversial articles on race that they haven’t written and that may ultimately, through that unsatisfactory indirect process, not wholly reflect their views, feels opaque and wrong.

When asked for comment, a representative for the Mail said that when commissioning comment pieces they “always discuss the points to be raised with the authors and sometimes supply help with drafting. This applies to all contributors including politicians and other public figures. Articles are not published without the author’s cooperation and approval. On this occasion, a year ago, after an exchange of drafts, Dominique Samuels decided that she did not wish to proceed, and nothing was published.”

If there is anxiety about it all, that’s partly fuelled by the context: a concern that a practice known as racism laundering is widespread and goes well beyond the media

A potent cocktail of moral licensing, commerce and identity politics, racism laundering is a process in which the skin colour of an ethnic minority appears to facilitate policies, practices and narratives that would otherwise be condemned as bigoted. Those involved may indeed hold bigoted views themselves. They may be seeking advancement, or simply be reckless. They may be used as part of a wider agenda. But in any event, whatever the motivation, the effect is that they become a defence mechanism against clear instances or accusations of racism...........

We need to talk about ‘racism laundering’: what it is, who benefits – and how to be vigilant | Nels Abbey

The row over claims of ghostwriting at the Daily Mail has sparked debate about how toxic policies are pursued, says writer and broadcaster Nels Abbey

www.theguardian.com

 

[Optimus Prime]

Of interest:

Not just a star athlete but one with multiple concussions

“it’s not his fault! He’s literally not in his right mind”

 

[Optimus Prime]

I agree with this approach

every single person and politician who says slavery and racism shouldn’t be taught in schools because some (read: white) kids may feel sad needs to be asked about this and forced to answer

 

[DaveXA]

every single person and politician who says slavery and racism shouldn’t be taught in schools because some (read: white) kids may feel sad needs to be asked about this and forced to answer

Jmo, but white kids should be sad and hurt when reading about slavery and racism. Any kid capable of an ounce of empathy would and should react appropriately to reading the horrors Native Americans, blacks and other minorities faced throughout our country's history. If your feelings are hurt, that's actually the normal response to those horrors.

 

[LA - L.A.]

every single person and politician who says slavery and racism shouldn’t be taught in schools because some (read: white) kids may feel sad needs to be asked about this and forced to answer

Jmo, but white kids should be sad and hurt when reading about slavery and racism. Any kid capable of an ounce of empathy would and should react appropriately to reading the horrors Native Americans, blacks and other minorities faced throughout our country's history. If your feelings are hurt, that's actually the normal response to those horrors.

In my opinion, the effort to stop teaching slavery and racism in schools to allegedly protect white children from feeling guilt and shame about slavery and racism is really about trying to prevent white children from developing empathy for those who are discriminated against for not being white.

The same thing is going on with the gender and sexual preference issue. It's not about protecting children, it's about keeping children from developing empathy for those who are discriminated against for being different.

 

[DaveXA]

In my opinion, the effort to stop teaching slavery and racism in schools to allegedly protect white children from feeling guilt and shame about slavery and racism is really about trying to prevent white children from developing empathy for those who are discriminated against for not being white.

The same thing is going on with the gender and sexual preference issue. It's not about protecting children, it's about keeping children from developing empathy for those who are discriminated against for being different.

That's a pretty good thought process there. Makes sense.

 

[SaintForLife]

The frauds are exposing themselves