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Old 04-18-2025, 06:54 PM
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Is it just me or does this appear to be racist?

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Old 04-19-2025, 12:37 AM
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The directive went out. No Latinos allowed.

The shoe yet to drop will rear its head after labor shortages become reality at harvest time. People think eggs are high now?

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Old 04-19-2025, 06:31 PM
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Yes, of course it's racist.

But be aware that there are those on this forum who say that racism is the norm and there's nothing to be done about it.
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Old 04-20-2025, 02:01 AM
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I know, man. I hate those people.
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Yes, of course it's racist.

But be aware that there are those on this forum who say that racism is the norm and there's nothing to be done about it.
You cannot compel people to be kind. It must arise spontaneously in their hearts and mind. Trying to legislate morality backfires.

Tribalism has been the norm for millions of years and still is to a large extent. Putting it aside and softening its effects does seemingly happen more and more in the modern age.

What do you suggest there is that can be "done about" racism?
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Some people lost the right to converse with me because their bigotry was more important.
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PLEASE keep your political post where it belongs-thank you
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You cannot compel people to be kind. It must arise spontaneously in their hearts and mind. Trying to legislate morality backfires.

Tribalism has been the norm for millions of years and still is to a large extent. Putting it aside and softening its effects does seemingly happen more and more in the modern age.

What do you suggest there is that can be "done about" racism?
OK, grasshopper. Try to understand that man has not made any such historical record as you fever dream. Please cite for us the first (oldest) record of tribalism. you absolutely useless freakin boinkwit ....millions of years it most certainly is not. Species is not race. get that? Understanding that you will totally fail to support your poo sammich I will advance on a reality based line: evolution is about species. Race is only anecdotal thing and has probably never before played an evolutionary role until man has had time to consider it. Much to the detriment of the evolution of man who as a species had tripped over their own dick. Jane you ignorant slut. Go look it up. diversity is a huge advantage for the survival of any species in the evolutionary grinding wheel. Evolution does speak beyond species. grasshopper, read some books
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PLEASE keep your political post where it belongs-thank you
Interesting that you seem to think racism is political? But OK, mods, please move this.
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Old 04-21-2025, 11:41 AM
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Some people lost the right to converse with me because their bigotry was more important.
You nonetheless feel free to take pot shots from behind some imagined barrier. You see bigotry under the woodpile. Harmonious relations between people is a complicated thing. It can be easily disrupted. Kindness and generosity is not automatic. It is incumbent upon all people in all racial groups to behave in such a way that does not antagonize their neighbors.
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Old 04-21-2025, 11:44 AM
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Not sure why husky chose to put that thread here. I have tried in the past to get mods to move threads, I have private messaged them asking for that.

To no avail.
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Old 04-21-2025, 03:15 PM
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OK, grasshopper. Try to understand that man has not made any such historical record as you fever dream. Please cite for us the first (oldest) record of tribalism. you absolutely useless freakin boinkwit ....millions of years it most certainly is not. Species is not race. get that? Understanding that you will totally fail to support your poo sammich I will advance on a reality based line: evolution is about species. Race is only anecdotal thing and has probably never before played an evolutionary role until man has had time to consider it. Much to the detriment of the evolution of man who as a species had tripped over their own dick. Jane you ignorant slut. Go look it up. diversity is a huge advantage for the survival of any species in the evolutionary grinding wheel. Evolution does speak beyond species. grasshopper, read some books
More fevered brain spew/mega-fail. Have you ever read about or seen videos of tribal conflict between chimpanzees? Holy Shiite , them critters play for keeps. As is well known chimpanzees will bite the face off of primates they wish to subdue.

The estimates I've read is that we peoples had a common ancestor with chimpanzees somewhere between 6 and 13 million years ago. God only knows what our ancestors were like 1 million years ago. Well actually not just God, we do have some evidence of pre-humans from about .5 million years ago, correct me if I'm wrong.

I'm sorry, speculating that we homo sapiens have had 1,000,000+ years of practice in tribalism is not really a stretch. Plus, the arrival of Euros in North America 500+ years ago gave a view on how humans in a latitude similar to that of their European homeland evolved socially.

Indigenous Americans south of approximately the Canadian border, aside from small amounts of Polynesian DNA in parts of SA, had virtually identical genetic roots. Inuit people had some infusion from later Siberian migrations.

So Indigenous American tribalism really cannot be construed as having a racist component. But it was intense nonetheless. They annihilated each other with abandon at various points.

And when the white man showed up the tribal distinctions were unmistakable. Similar in Africa - when Whites showed up in South Africa, there was no doubt who was in which tribe.
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Old 04-21-2025, 03:23 PM
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Some people lost the right to converse with me because their bigotry was more important.
Apparently you think conversing with you is some sort of privilege. You are useful in demonstrating some of the scriptures attributed to Jesus, the business about 'Judge not let you be judged' for example. Another one that you animate:

These people draw near to me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. And in vain they worship me, Teaching as doctrines the commandments of men. - Matt 15:8,9
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You nonetheless feel free to take pot shots from behind some imagined barrier. You see bigotry under the woodpile. Harmonious relations between people is a complicated thing. It can be easily disrupted. Kindness and generosity is not automatic. It is incumbent upon all people in all racial groups to behave in such a way that does not antagonize their neighbors.
so the slaves screwed up regards the masters ... interesting construct. but stoooopid.

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