More ammo for the old white guilt magic ray gun that puts an immediate end to all debate from white people!
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Over the mountain, in between the ups and downs, I ran into MC Jensizzle who doth quote:
Racism as it is taught in school is primarily driven by white guilt, not any real desire to explain racism. This is neither news nor something prone to spur any interesting argument since everyone can agree that it's retarded.
Well it IS a good example of how the misconceptions of the nature of racism are an ongoing problem that is growing to be more and more institutionalized!
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In response to the numerous concerns voiced regarding definitions posted on the Equity & Race website, we have decided to revise our website in a way that will hopefully provide more context to readers around the work that Seattle Public Schools is doing to address institutional racism. The intended purpose of our work in the area of race and social justice is to bring communities together through open dialogue and honest reflection around what is meant by racism and the impact is has on our society and more specifically, our students. Our intention is not to put up additional barriers or develop an us against them mindset, nor is it to continue to hold onto unsuccessful concepts such as a melting pot or colorblind mentality. It is our hope that we can explore the work of leading scholars in the areas of race and social justice issues to help us understand the dynamics and realities of how racism permeate throughout our society and use their knowledge to help us create meaningful change. This difficult work is vital to the success of our students and families. Thank you for sharing your concerns.Warm regards,
Caprice D. Hollins, Psy.D.
Director of Equity & Race RelationsSeattle Public Schools
Haha, no, the outrage is the result of people understanding your position.
99% of the people who live outside Seattle ignore it for a reason ;P
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Blindy. put down Tada! magazine long enough to type:
Seattle has the highest % of college graduates anywhere in the united states.
Graduates in the hard sciences, or, you know, fruity majors?
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. - John Kenneth Galbraith
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Karnaj likes to say stupid stuff like:
Graduates in the hard sciences, or, you know, fruity majors?
Computer science would be near the top i'd wager.
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Led had this to say about Pirotess:
Seattle is full of fucking fruitbats, this is news how?99% of the people who live outside Seattle ignore it for a reason ;P
You really like to generalize a lot. You probably shouldn't do that. 
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When the babel fish was in place, it was apparent Blindy. said:
Computer science would be near the top i'd wager.
So fruity majors.
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Naimah still thinks SARS jokes are topical, as evidenced by:
So fruity majors.
I was about to say. CS is a bit of applied physics, a lot of math, a bit of engineering, and a bit of ????. Definitely not a hard science.
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. - John Kenneth Galbraith
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Blindy.ing:
Seattle has the highest % of college graduates anywhere in the united states.
Outcomes-based education!
"Don't want to sound like a fanboy, but I am with you. I'll buy it for sure, it's just a matter of for how long I will be playing it..."
- Silvast, Battle.net forums
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Mr. John Q. Gainsborough Esq. III had this to say about Captain Planet:
You really like to generalize a lot. You probably shouldn't do that.
I thought Led was from that area?
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And I was all like 'Oh yeah?' and DrPaintThinner was all like:
Its odd that they would redifine racism, instead of using the word bigot.
So we should redefine bigot instead? 
"Don't want to sound like a fanboy, but I am with you. I'll buy it for sure, it's just a matter of for how long I will be playing it..."
- Silvast, Battle.net forums
"I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God."
-- George Herbert Walker Bush
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Snoota thought this was the Ricky Martin Fan Club Forum and wrote:
So we should redefine bigot instead?
It doesn't need to be redefined its already a perfectly germane word in this situation. When they say racism as it applies to oppression on an economic or political basis, thats not racism is bigotry.
These Seattle schools could have been using a general minority(Blacks, Latino/as, Native Americans, and Asians) and a general majority (Whites) to represent their point. Its not to say that a minority of America couldn't be racist towards the majority. (But I can't say for sure)
This article has a pretty reactionary and alarmist point of view, and I think they are over reacting to their certain interpretation of these quotes.
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x--DrPaintThinnerO-('-'Q) :
It doesn't need to be redefined its already a perfectly germane word in this situation. When they say racism as it applies to oppression on an economic or political basis, thats not racism is bigotry.
What they're describing is neither racism nor bigotry. "Racism" is how we describe bigotry that is based on the arbitrary physical attributes that constitute "Race", racism is a subset of bigotry.
What they're trying to do is describe racism in such a way that ONLY those percieved as dominant can be described as racist, which is of course absurd on it's face and in itself a racist ideal.
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Maradon! screamed this from the crapper:
Outcomes-based education!
But college graduates earn more money and can afford more extravagant lifestyles, so what's up with that? Or are we just indoctrinated to love paying our higher taxes?
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. - John Kenneth Galbraith
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Karnajing:
But college graduates earn more money and can afford more extravagant lifestyles, so what's up with that? Or are we just indoctrinated to love paying our higher taxes?
You're indoctrinated to believe that the personal accumulation of wealth and the act of benefitting society are two different concepts when in fact nobody can accumulate wealth without somehow directly benefitting society.
Haha, I really don't know where we're going with this line of conversation.
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The logic train ran off the tracks when Karnaj said:
I was about to say. CS is a bit of applied physics, a lot of math, a bit of engineering, and a bit of ????. Definitely not a hard science.
D&D
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Led had this to say about Duck Tales:
99% of the people who live outside Seattle ignore it for a reason ;P
So we can pretend we have a say in state government?
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Led stopped staring at Deedlit long enough to write:
No kidding. The rest of the state needs to secede
Except for the fact that King county provides a little under half of the state's property tax revenue, and a fairly significant chunk of the sales tax revenue. The greater Seattle area also accounts for over a third of the state's population, earning either two or three Representatives (of our nine).
In short, we sorta need Seattle.
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This insanity brought to you by Led:
No kidding. The rest of the state needs to secede
Oh no, I'm going to school there in the fall and I'm sure as hell not giving up the Pike Place Market.
"Don't want to sound like a fanboy, but I am with you. I'll buy it for sure, it's just a matter of for how long I will be playing it..."
- Silvast, Battle.net forums
"Don't want to sound like a fanboy, but I am with you. I'll buy it for sure, it's just a matter of for how long I will be playing it..."
- Silvast, Battle.net forums
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Maradon! stopped beating up furries long enough to write:
...nobody can accumulate wealth without somehow directly benefitting society.
There are a large number of people who accumulate wealth while damaging society significantly more than they benefit it.
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Inferno-Spirit said this about your mom:
There are a large number of people who accumulate wealth while damaging society significantly more than they benefit it.
Who?
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Maradon! had this to say about Cuba:
You're indoctrinated to believe that the personal accumulation of wealth and the act of benefitting society are two different concepts when in fact nobody can accumulate wealth without somehow directly benefitting society.Haha, I really don't know where we're going with this line of conversation.
Creating a monopoly out of a competitive market. Robbery. War. Building an incredibly profitable yet massively pollutant factory next to someone else's property. Exploiting a lack of available information to sell a product which doesn't work as exepected. Horoscopes. Faith healing. The 700 club. Good thing we have government to fix some of those, eh?
Also, someone puts a bad definition of something on a website, then revises it. Clearly the sky is falling and the educational system is controlled by racist black people and other enemies of the least powerful group of quasi-refugees in the United States, the wealthy conformist white males. All of Seattle should be nuked for this outrage.
There's good people here, there's bad people here. Every city has them.Cobalt Katze fucked around with this message on 06-03-2006 at 11:22 AM.
