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turtledove
2016 Jul 15, 5:54pm
Let's give her a Darwin award.
I'm pretty sure her case of "female pattern baldness" says it all.
turtledove
2016 Jul 15, 6:24pm
There isn't really white privilege. There's is, however, charm privilege... I know, it's a shocker. People are nicer to people they like. AND, people have a tendency to like people who don't act like assholes.
The one accident I ever got into... It was totally my fault... The (African American) cop apologized to me several times for having to give me a ticket. Now, that's charm privilege.
In simple brains, you might think it's because I'm a girl. But that's not it. In situations where I know I'm wrong... I never have an attitude. I'm totally respectful. I genuinely want to understand what I did wrong. The look of contrition is written all over my face. I naturally mirror the feelings of the people I'm talking to. I'm concerned about others and I'm not obsessed with recrafting history to make my actions the right ones despite evidence to the contrary. Believe it or not, people want to be kind to people they like. The people who I got into the accident with -- the accident that was totally my fault -- didn't even sue me. The statute of limitations has long run out.
If people spent less time trying to demand respect and more time trying to be the kind of person who deserves respect... they would find that the respect comes more easily.
RC2006
2016 Jul 15, 6:34pm
If people spent less time trying to demand respect and more time trying to be the kind of person who deserves respect... they would find that the respect comes more easily.
In the real world mindfulness is something severely lacking in some people.
We need to clone Larry Bird
The NBA is much more exciting when Boston fields a competitive team. Most of the "point forward" type players are more European these days, but Bird just had supreme confidence along with the ability to shoot the 3 and good court vision.Rin says
, Manu Ginobili is a fake Latino as his father was Italian,
basically. Many of the Brazilian players are either Black or German while most of the Argentinian team is Italian, with couple Germans and an Arab thrown in.
Even the best tennis player to come out of Argentina, Gabriela Sabatini is Italian. But Argentinian tennis isn't as dominated by Italians as Basketball is
Why don't we have Affirmative Action for sports
or the spelling bee which is now televised on ESPN; I guess that makes it a sport now
turtledove
2016 Jul 15, 7:29pm
Only if it includes Jello wrestling while spelling
Like super model, high-stakes Scrabble?
Only if it includes Jello wrestling while spelling.
I was thinking more like adjusted for income and grasp of ebonics and various other regional dialects. But yeah, jello wrestling might work too.
Like super model, high-stakes Scrabble?
One of the contestants this year, a Japanese-American kid from Culver City, was a high-stakes scrabble player, but not really super model material. I think he was one of the finalists
turtledove
2016 Jul 15, 8:03pm
m Culver City, was a high-stakes scrabble player, but not really super model material. I think he was one of the finalists
But we want super models who can't actually spell, the ones who confuse real words from made up words, betting YUUUUGE! It would be not only exciting to see someone betting her mansion on the word "imaginate," BUT funny as hell.
RealEstateIsBetterThanStocks
2016 Jul 15, 10:46pm
now everyone knows she would want to mate with only white males, meaning she's a racist.turtledove says
In simple brains, you might think it's because I'm a girl. But that's not it.
yeah right...
just_passing_through
2016 Jul 16, 12:37am
or she is just saying that because she is extremely ugly and can't get laid
Exactly what I was thinking.
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Both sides of my family arrived in the US post 1900, from oppressive conditions in Europe. One side literally starving in Germany in the aftermath of WWI, one side fleeing religious persecution from the Czar in Russia.
Nobody had money enough other than to make the trip. My Grandparents were children during these trips. No one from either side had finished school any higher than eight grade and that went for my grandparents once they were here. Everyone, all brothers, went through the depression and were in combat in WWII or Korea. One died on a naval ship in the Mediterranean, two had bad enough PTSD that they were functional cripples for the rest of their lives and never had a job beyond menial work nor had a relationship after that though one remained married in name.
My dad was the first to graduate college in his family...maybe even in his entire religious sect as they were somewhat Luddites. Both his sisters followed. After growing up in a tough neighborhood in a 2bd/1ba house(that's 6 people living in that 2bd/1ba house if you weren't counting. On my moms side things were better but still blue collar. Nobody got rich, though my grandparents were so frugal that they saved a surprising sum in their life. The first person graduated from that side of the family in the 70's. It wasn't until 2 years ago that the second one did.
But both me and my brother did. We grew upon a very ethnically diverse area in a suburb of Los Angeles. I'm finding it very hard to discern exactly our white privellege was or came from. I got to make more mistakes than most people, only because of my dad. None of it was anything to do with legal things...more bouncing around low end jobs during college. My brother didn't make those mistakes and actually completed college in a field he really didn't have a strong aptitude for. He just worked incredibly hard and that continued once he was in the work place. Again, not seeing how white privellege did anything.
I've worked for Asian, black, white, Latino, straight, gay, male, females bosses in my life. No one that I know of ever helped me due to my skin color. My first gov boss was black and was really hard on me. It wasn't due to skin color though...it was because I was a suburban born kid who was about to work in a tough area(like literally there were shootings while I was at some of my worksites). He needed me prepared and able to be aware of my surroundings and that wouldn't happen if he wasn't a hardass on me.
Again, what is this magical white privellege I have benefitted from?