Am I a "liberal"?

[Edwardo Piet]

What, DLF is the FSM??

EvF

[Kyuuketsuki]

On racism/affirmatiuve action.

Don't believe in that ... I mean it exists but I was negatively affected by it when I was in the ILEA (and I mean in a sense I would consider racist, anti-white racist).

Racism still pervades the uk.Frequent tv documentaries have shown how people with broadly the same qualifications but 1 is white, the other black, have applied for jobs and the white has got the job.

Er ... choosing the white candidate when both are equally qualified isn't racism. Choosing a candidate because he/she is the wrong colour DESPITE having better relevant qualifications might be but as anyone involved in interviewing candidates will tell you qualifications aren't the entire picture. There's a whole slew of factors to consider.

The same thing happens when landlords use agents and tell them to make sure only whites get the tenancy. In the bad old days, landlords could get away with having " no blacks " in their windows...just like America had segregation.

Obviously that is.

Racism is still alive and kicking, that's why legislation was brought in to try to counter it.

Anti-racist laws are, unfortunately necessary, but I believe education is a better way to deal with these things ... witness the fact that we are now (IMO) a far less "ist" society at least on the surface.

Mind you, friend of mine uses a walking stick and apparently gets abuse regularly hurled at him ... I genuinely thought we, as a society, had moved beyond that.

Kyu

[Edwardo Piet]

Kyu, does your friend get abused my immature stupid-assed teenagers, or is it actually other fully grown adults that are expected to be more mature? I wonder. Because gangs of teenagers are known to throw abuse at pretty much anyone who isn't like them of course. Although, it depends! (where you live, etc).

EvF

[Kyuuketsuki]

Kyu, does your friend get abused my immature stupid-assed teenagers, or is it actually other fully grown adults that are expected to be more mature? I wonder. Because gangs of teenagers are known to throw abuse at pretty much anyone who isn't like them of course. Although, it depends! (where you live, etc).

Yes and others ... chavs mostly I guess!

Kyu

[Edwardo Piet]

UK has Chav invasion???

Where are the non-chavvy regions in the UK?

I should be moving to Yorkshire in some months, currently in Cheshire.

EvF

[Violet]

What, DLF is the FSM??

EvF

Of course not, the FSM winks at us as i said that.

[Tiberius]

Anti-racist laws are, unfortunately necessary, but I believe education is a better way to deal with these things ... witness the fact that we are now (IMO) a far less "ist" society at least on the surface.

Agreed. The anti-racist movement as simply turned the whole situation on it's head, making a fuss about white people getting a job when they are the most qualified (not because of their race).

Only with education will we finally have a society that looks at a black man, a white man, and an asian man, and sees three men.

[Violet]

Even better when we look at those three... and see three humans.

[dry land fish]

I can't believe some of you don't support the death penalty. I have always supported it.

As far a racism. It goes in all directions. I took a community college class last semeter because the same class on the main campus was full. Little did I know the CC had a high percentage of black students. Also the CC is where they send the stupid kids who can't do math or read. They prepare them for college. My class was some BS history class and so I had about half White and half Black students. The Black students were constantly interrupting class, coming to class late, arguing, and fighting. We even had a shooting at the CC. No one was hurt. I had to listen to their stories about stealing TV's and going to clubs in Nashville where they had "gangs" and were planning gang fights. We have Black students on main campus but they don't act like that. They can read and add 2+2 so I'm assuming they also have manners like everyone else. Those same students at CC...the ignorant ones...were racist against Whites. I saw it all the time there. What I also found funny is that they didn't know what the NAACP was. I guess MTV doesn't talk about it much. I even saw them hitting on white girls and when they would be like "no thanks" the would walk off and call them a "white bitch". Now...if I said that about a Black person it would be a big deal. America is so into this "white guilt" trip that we allow them to act like that and it's socially acceptable. This is a Liberal idea. They never hit on me. Then again I'm pretty smart and I wore lots of metal T shirts. I guess they figured I'd not be into their rap music or their stupid antics. Not all Black people are this way...but I'm just saying that there is a large population that is this way and we usually look over it.

It makes me angry to see this type of behavior accepted by Whites. Black people in the sixties didn't fight so kids could "gang bang" and flunk out of school. They didn't fight so kids could talk in ebonics and glorify rappers. It saddens me to see how Blacks fought for the right to get a college education and then see a lot of the younger generation not give a damn. It's lke they don't even care about their heritage or what their ancestors went through so they could do something with themselves.

[Tiberius]

The death penalty is fine until you execute someone and then find out they were innocent. It is bad enough that innocent people get sent to jail for crimes they did not commit, but at least they can walk out of jail. There is no walking out of the electric chair, or a lethal injection.