What's the most racist country on the planet?

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  • Thirty Bills Unpaid
    Thirty Bills Unpaid Posts: 16,881
    the tiki bomb said:

    I'm glad that got straightened out.

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  • ikiT
    ikiT USA Posts: 11,059
    Is it Australia or Israel that is collectively the most racist? That information is pretty important.
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  • benjs
    benjs Toronto, ON Posts: 9,379
    Byrnzie said:

    the tiki bomb said:

    If there's one thing I hate it's statements designed to suppress and snuff clear and reasonable discussion.

    Some people are just uncomfortable discussing certain topics, so they focus on the person instead as a way of deflecting. It's much easier to talk shit about somebody than to engage in the discussion at hand.
    Take a look at the article by Glenn Greenwald I posted on the Chomsky thread here on page one of the train on the subject of people attacking the character of those whose views they find unpalatable.


    Funny, I was thinking the same thing. Ad hominem attacks seem to be the popular method of ending or pivoting a discussion, and that article was the perfect example.
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  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    Actually, I was hoping to hear some more from Australians on the subject of the Aborigines, as it's something I'm interested in. Personally, the only reason I'd ever visit Australia would be to see some Aboriginal communities and/or ceremonial or sacred sites, e.t.c. I wonder if any Australians here on the board have been up to the Northern territories, etc, and what they think of their native peoples, and their place in the country today. Practically every Australian I've ever talked with has expressed strongly racist views of the Aboriginals. What's the deal with that? Do Auzzies ever travel much within their own country, or are they mostly just interested in traveling abroad to places like London, or to their version of Ibiza - Bali?
  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    the tiki bomb said:

    Is it Australia or Israel that is collectively the most racist? That information is pretty important.

    Still not done with the trolling?

  • ikiT
    ikiT USA Posts: 11,059
    Yawn...
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  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    The shit bomb doesn't like this thread, so he's decided to troll here and to tell us all how bored he is.
  • ikiT
    ikiT USA Posts: 11,059
    The Grandiosity of your presentation bores me.
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  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037

    Discuss the topic, not the people discussing the topic. No personal comments. Look your comments over before hitting Submit and be sure you're debating THE TOPIC.
  • ikiT
    ikiT USA Posts: 11,059
    edited September 2014
    the tiki bomb said:

    Commenting on the OP and not the topic was out of line and against the rules...my bad.

    Did I personally insult you B by suggesting you refocus your passions?
    I was called the shit bomb...
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  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    edited September 2014
    the tiki bomb said:

    Did I personally insult you B?
    I was called the shit bomb...

    So my name's 'B' now?
    And you're playing the victim card?


    Cute.


    Why don't we ask other posters what they think?

    Did he insult me? Yes, or No?

  • ikiT
    ikiT USA Posts: 11,059
    My post....


    The institutionalized racism that ALL people of color face in the Unites States DAILY is not the same as your grandpappys overt shit or the banana throwing European brand. Take a drive through parts of Baltimore or Detroit or Los Angeles and look at it yourself.

    If racism bothers you so much Beezie, (judging by just the last 250 of your 20k+ posts, everything does...) then I challenge you to actually DO something about it. Instead of starting and then contributing to a number of inflammatory and generally unhelpful discussions about racism or war (on the Pearl Jam website ?? of all places...), then copying other peoples opinions from the web for days, why don't you actually formulate your own original viewpoint and then work toward change?

    I don't know you at all, but it seems to me like you thoroughly enjoy the sound of yourself typing...what if you refocused that energy toward something positive?

    So Beez, a year in, what are your thoughts on Lightning Bolt?
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  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    Beezie and shit bomb?

    It's like recess at elementary school.

    Grow the fuck up...please. Or take it to pm's.

    The thread was interesting, and I think most of us in the classroom would like to see it continue without this-

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    Take a time out if it's getting too hot in the kitchen.

    (and to your question, Byrnzie, yes)
  • ikiT
    ikiT USA Posts: 11,059
    I am SUCH a dick.
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  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    Clearly there needs to be a banana cream pie fight up in here.
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    I totally agree with Hedonist- this was an interesting thread.... and then yet again degraded into the boring, fucking nonsense. quibling, childish phlegm ... even after an apology and an attempt to return to the subject at hand. FOR FUCKS SAKE, LETS MOVE ON!
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  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    edited September 2014
    Good documentary here. I created a thread on it a couple of years back - http://community.pearljam.com/discussion/149382/our-generation-land-culture-freedom/p1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tcq4oGL0wlI
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  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    edited September 2014
    brianlux said:

    I totally agree with Hedonist- this was an interesting thread.... and then yet again degraded into the boring, fucking nonsense. quibling, childish phlegm ... even after an apology and an attempt to return to the subject at hand. FOR FUCKS SAKE, LETS MOVE ON!

    Apology? What apology? This is what he said: "Commenting on the OP and not the topic was out of line and against the rules...my bad."

    That wasn't directed at me. It was for the mods.

    Anyway, fuck it.
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  • chadwick
    chadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    i'll respectfully disagree w/ hedonist & mr. lux... the thread is still very interesting, not "was interesting." a bit of debate-sparring is good for the soul. i suggest more of it

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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    Byrnzie said:

    brianlux said:

    I totally agree with Hedonist- this was an interesting thread.... and then yet again degraded into the boring, fucking nonsense. quibling, childish phlegm ... even after an apology and an attempt to return to the subject at hand. FOR FUCKS SAKE, LETS MOVE ON!

    Apology? What apology? This is what he said: "Commenting on the OP and not the topic was out of line and against the rules...my bad."

    That wasn't directed at me. It was for the mods.

    Anyway, fuck it.
    Agreed. Let's move on.

    It seems the aboriginal plight in Australia is very similar in ways to to that of the American Indian. I'll watch the video you posted after work- I'd like to learn more about it. Thanks for putting it up.

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