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Jan 26th, 2004 10:40 PM
Anonymous Then correct you I shall, because this board is called Philosophy/Sociology/Religion/Politics/News/etc.
Jan 26th, 2004 10:32 PM
The One and Only... Excuse me, but isn't this board called I-Mockery?
Jan 26th, 2004 10:25 PM
The_Rorschach A poor mimicry of Helm followed by an equally miserable Burbankian-esque quip. . .

What is the key to comedy?

Timing. . .But originality is equally important.
Jan 26th, 2004 09:56 PM
The One and Only... That stings, Chimp. Really. I'm going to cry now.

Seriously.
Jan 26th, 2004 09:53 PM
AChimp You should also ponder the meaning of humour, and the infinite ways you just can't compare.
Jan 26th, 2004 09:52 PM
The One and Only... Suck my Southeast nuts. They're hairy, but not exotic. I'm from the Southeast. Taste the Atlantic.
Jan 26th, 2004 09:34 PM
AChimp
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Originally Posted by The One and Only...
The fact that you have an "auto-correct" feature hardwired into your brain proves that overlook the fine details regarding reality, and therefore lack the ability to logically process information.
Uh huh... well, next time you're navel-gazing and wondering how to get that stain out of your bedsheets, you should ponder the reality of being alone for the rest of your life.
Jan 26th, 2004 09:29 PM
Anonymous
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Originally Posted by The One and Only...
The fact that you have an "auto-correct" feature hardwired into your brain proves that overlook the fine details regarding reality, and therefore lack the ability to logically process information.
Auto-correct, not auto-ignore, which is what you seem to have.
Jan 26th, 2004 09:21 PM
The One and Only... The fact that you have an "auto-correct" feature hardwired into your brain proves that overlook the fine details regarding reality, and therefore lack the ability to logically process information.
Jan 26th, 2004 09:07 PM
The_Rorschach Tragically amusing
Jan 26th, 2004 08:51 PM
AChimp
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In short, Canuck, you need english lessons.


I notice how you claim the sentence only became "muddled" because of the "was" rather than a "were," and yet you change the structure at the end.

Your narrow freshman mind hasn't grasped the concept of the comma. I, on the otherhand, like Perndog has said already, can auto-correct the occassional misused word in my head.
Jan 26th, 2004 06:06 PM
Abcdxxxx Ziggy - everyone here seems to understand the kid meanti t as a joke. if it sparks deeper conversation about the fringe issues then so be it.

White South Africans aren't the most recially sensitive bunch no matter where you find them. A good number of them left for America because their families had to leave, because they were guilty of something. So it works both ways. They're also coming from a world where being racially sensitive isn't much of a priority, and their sense for such a thing might not be as pc as ours. Yeh it was a joke, but that doesn't mean the kids the next coming of Lenny Bruce.
Jan 26th, 2004 07:36 AM
ziggytrix
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i asked "you understand how offensiv it is that they have a SOUTH AFRICAN nominated for this award with SOUTH AFRICA having been the last hold out for sepratisim, and how offensive that is?"
So just because you're white and from South Africa, you supported apartheid?

Doesn't the fact that his family left the country for America mean anything?

I say fuck you to everyone jumping this kid's case. He probably meant it as a joke. If he'd been living here for any length of time, he'd know that the term African-American means something different than someone who changed their citizenship from somewhere in Africa to America. Joke or statement about the absurdity of our language or whatever, did he deserve to be suspended over this?

This is actually more common than you think. Do you know how many white kids, born in Africa, now live in the US? I've a friend who is from South Africa, and when she first moved here someone had to explain why she couldn't apply for African-American scholarships. She thought it was funny, but that was the end of it.

To think you'd have to fuckin educate someone from South Africa on racial sensitivity is absurd. No one my age was around when the serious shit happened here. Someone from S. Africa is a witness to a real civil rights movement whether they were for or against it, they LIVED it. And I mean no disrespect to anything anyone is doing right now to make our citizens more equal, but damn, we've come a long way if all we have to worry about is some white kid saying he's native African and now American, but not saying he's African-American because that makes black people mad.

WHAT THE FUCK?! This shit gets press but the shit we're desensitized to cuz it happens every day still goes on and no one says or does anything cuz no one knows what to do, but hey, here's some dumb kid, let's take out our problems with these issues on him, yeah that sounds real fucking productive.

Our species is fucking insane.
Jan 25th, 2004 09:43 PM
Emu Actually a little of both. With Animal Farm I was thinking of the "All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others" thing.
Jan 25th, 2004 09:39 PM
Suck 'n' Fuck
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Originally Posted by Supafly345
To be more equal than the other guy.

We belong together as a joint community. All that is coming out of this power struggle is a waste of money and alot of extra anger.
Is it just me, or does that flash images of Animal Farm into anyone else's heads?
You mean 1984.
Jan 25th, 2004 09:38 PM
derrida After googling "martin luther king affirmative action" I found this:

"Whenever the issue of compensatory treatment for the Negro is raised, some of our friends recoil in horror. The Negro should be granted equality, they agree; but he should ask nothing more. On the surface, this appears reasonable, but it is not realistic."

http://www.fair.org/extra/9505/king-...ve-action.html
(fortified with right-bashing goodness!)
Jan 25th, 2004 09:09 PM
Emu
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Originally Posted by Supafly345
To be more equal than the other guy.

We belong together as a joint community. All that is coming out of this power struggle is a waste of money and alot of extra anger.
Is it just me, or does that flash images of Animal Farm into anyone else's heads?
Jan 25th, 2004 08:24 PM
Perndog
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Originally Posted by The One and Only...
In short, Canuck, you need english lessons.
I guess it's just a question of who's mentally developed enough to grasp the meaning of statements even when they're imperfect instead of looking at every word literally and assuming they can't possibly just be mistakes.

You sound more like a contrary little boy with every successive post. No one appreciates anything you have to say around here anymore. Why don't you take a vacation and adjust yourself a little bit in whatever way is necessary to make yourself just a little more interesting and less of a waste of protoplasm?
Jan 25th, 2004 07:57 PM
Supafly345
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Originally Posted by Supafly345
that men like Dr. Martin Luthor King was aiming for, not equality, but supremacy.
That statement doesn't make any sense in proper english. Do you mean that King was aiming for supremacy?
Dammit are you thick headed. That was a small exerpt that belonged to a larger text. If you had properly read what I posted outside of just small slices that your mind picks up as 'idiot arguing material' than it would make perfect sense. It was a prediction of all that you saw of my previous posts, and according to the post in which I am replying, you picked up much less than that.
Jan 25th, 2004 07:56 PM
The One and Only... No, it doesn't make any grammatical sense.

Recall the statement:

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Doing it while believing that men like Dr. Martin Luthor King was aiming for, not equality, but supremacy.
Now, considering what the phrase mean meant, it should have read this:

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Doing it while believing that men like Dr. Martin Luthor King were aiming for supremacy, not equality.
The first statement might have made sense, but it became muddled because of the incorrect usage of "was" in place of "were".

In short, Canuck, you need english lessons.
Jan 25th, 2004 07:32 PM
AChimp
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That statement doesn't make any sense in proper english. Do you mean that King was aiming for supremacy?
The sentence makes perfect sense. He meant King was aiming for supremacy. It was in quotes to show a degree of facetiousness and make fun of, not just a lack of understanding in his posts, but a high degree of retardation.
Jan 25th, 2004 07:15 PM
Ant10708 If society wasn't so godamn PC then we wouldn't even need labels such as African American and the award would be for black kids and be stated as such.
Jan 25th, 2004 07:11 PM
The One and Only...
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Originally Posted by Supafly345
that men like Dr. Martin Luthor King was aiming for, not equality, but supremacy.
That statement doesn't make any sense in proper english. Do you mean that King was aiming for supremacy?
Jan 25th, 2004 05:58 PM
Supafly345 Well, I am relieved that you cleared that all up. In fact, you cleared up many different topics there as well as the one we were talking about, so I guess we are all done. Good chat everyone.
Jan 25th, 2004 05:43 PM
Abcdxxxx Well, Malcolm gave a few different messages, often in conflict with each other. Being a fan of his teaching doesn't mean you're an automatic supremacist. Same as being a student of Dr. Kings didn't stop the Jesse Jacksons and Al Sharptons from getting things a little confused.

You have to remember that "equal rights" was a buzz word term in those days that we've come to distort into meaning "i deserve more because you've put me at a disadvantage". That's not what the original feminists, or gay rights leaders wanted...and it's not what King wanted either. They all were about making changes that effected our future, while things like Reparations dwell on the past. I don't think there's any arguments in this thread in favor of that.

With that said, Supa, being Black in Washington State is a pretty individual experience. I don't know where you're from, or how much you've travelled, but I've spent a lot of time in some ghetto areas and throwing some money at the problem isn't the worst idea. Of course , fixing the system would be ideal. There are Blacks in all tax brackets, but for those at the bottom, Sports and the entertainment industry are still the only goals young kids aim for. They're not being encouraged to be pharmacists, or real estate brokers. I'm just of the opinion that Blacks have contributed enough to our culture, and have been intertwined into American communities long enough they shouldn't be compared in statistics to the recent influx of Asians (or whoever) and their needs. Nobody would pull out stats of Native Americans and compare them to Russian imigrants to prove Natives are lazy. It would be insane.
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