RE: Okay, White 'Murrica....
January 22, 2015 at 3:42 am
(This post was last modified: January 22, 2015 at 3:59 am by Thumpalumpacus.)
(January 21, 2015 at 3:30 pm)Davka Wrote: Which means he was assuming you were bigoted because you were white plus supporting a perceived injustice.
No, he said nothing about a "perceived injustice". And I wonder what's more unjust, having to wait a couple of minutes to pump one's gas because another car was in front of yours, or having your character slurred because of your ethnicity?
(January 21, 2015 at 4:48 pm)Davka Wrote: I don't think hate crime statistics tell us anything about how racist an area is. The highest percentage of White Supremacists is in Idaho, but they didn't even make the list.
And that's a fair point. But I think it's also fair to regard that information as one metric on the intensity of the bigotry at hand. And it certainly points out that bigotry is not a regional affair in America.
(January 21, 2015 at 4:48 pm)Davka Wrote: People will judge you by your appearance. By choosing your appearance carefully, you can - to some extent - control how people judge you.
"Appearance" is more than clothing, too. House, car, neighborhood - they all factor in.
Well, judging someone as probably racist because he drives a pickup truck and wears cowboy boots doesn't seem to make much more sense than judging someone as probably criminal because he drives a dropped 67 Impala and cops a sag with his jeans, now does it?
Me, I judge someone racist when they express racist opinions, just as I judge someone criminal when I know they have committed a crime. Your mileage may vary.
