"No Racists Allowed"

[listener]

and nobody here said confronting racism is unimportant. But you also won't change peoples minds with only fighting right-wing-extremists.
It needs all together and as I mentioned earlier, we need solutions how to really combat racism because up to now nobody really knows an answer.

[Libber]

Originally posted by RNK@July 14, 2007 07:31 am
I'd just like to point out the fact that this apologetic, counter-productive bullshit is, in many cases, more hurtful than what the Nazis can say themselves; to you nay-sayers who seem to think that confronting racism is unimportant, I urge you to live as a visible minority for a year. Then perhaps you will understand what it is like to be discriminated against, and perhaps you will come to realize the importance of insuring that all minorities are given the right to live in safety and comfort without being harassed in the street (which my family members are), or being the target of some muttered joke or insulting yell.

I'm going to guess that you're quite young, because it's generally only the young (and the rightwingers, which I don't suppose you are) who are so obliviously self-centered.

I'm visibly a member of a pariah group, and experience discrimination every day because of it. Every interaction with strangers is a chore, making it quite hard to keep in mind that when people behave badly it's usually only because they were raised to be superstitious, ignorant, competitive work units for the ruling class.

And I haven't seen or heard from any of my birth-family for over 45 years, because they were the first ones who let me know that I didn't measure up, that I was Other, as Listener puts it. That's a little extra that with any luck no one in your family will ever have to deal with, no matter how bad it gets in the street.

[luxemburg89]

Yes, this was his obedience study, the one that revealed how disconnected from reality our perceptions of our autonomy are. Before the experiment, everyone was sure that USAians are much more autonomous than the "weak, easily led" Germans, and that only a psychopathic 1% or 2% would obey to the end. The terrifying reality was that 2 out of 3 obeyed to the end, that it cut across all spectra except class (interestingly, no ruling class people ever seem to have volunteered), and the study has been replicated in Europe and elsewhere with the same results.

Yeah. It was 65% in USA
64% in UK
60% in Germany
and yeah you get the picture lol.