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I was thinkin I may have pissed off a horse too ..:nana:Well I did get real upset about it, but I just kept it to myself, cause you know us fat folks just eat when we're upset.
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I was thinkin I may have pissed off a horse too ..:nana:Well I did get real upset about it, but I just kept it to myself, cause you know us fat folks just eat when we're upset.
In this asinine, ultra-pc world we currently live in, the only way they can make sure no one is offended is to evenly hash-out the Cool and Not Cool between the colors...
That no one has complained about it until now is hardly some stamp of approval, either.
And the fact that this blew up after ONE person posted it on social media is indicative of this being nothing more than pure, manufactured outrage. The new status-quo - the perpetually offended. .
especially since it was designed specifically for "high-risk" (i.e. "ethnically-diverse") communities.
High-risk is another name for criminally motivated. This subterfuge is required to lower the standards of law abiding to were thievery is acceptable. Baby steps to lower the standard.especially since it was designed specifically for "high-risk" (i.e. "ethnically-diverse") communities.
Huh?
The campaign was designed to reduce the drowning rate in high-risk communities.
Assessing and Quantifying High Risk: Comparing Risky Behaviors by Youth in an Urban, Disadvantaged Community with Nationally Representative Youth
Monica H. Swahn, PhDa and Robert M. Bossarte, PhDb,c
SYNOPSIS
Objective
This study examined whether youth who live in an urban, disadvantaged community are significantly more likely than youth representing the nation to engage in a range of health-compromising behaviors.
I think it would be more racist if there were no African Americans in the poster at all.
So let me get this straight - and correct me if I am misunderstanding - if a study shows that minorities are more likely to engage in health-compromising behaviors, then a safety sign created specifically to warn off those behaviors should include races who do not need to be warned because they are not engaged in them?
To be fair, I think the kid that is struggling in the water is Latino, not black...
We can't just be not racist. You don't get a gold star for doing what you're supposed to be doing anyway. We all have to be anti-racist, and that means training ourselves to recognize and call out things that even subtly reinforce negative stereotypes. Because, in this PC world of ours, that's mostly all there is left... subtle reinforcement. But, stealing words from one of my local hip-hop duos, Blue Scholars, that's enough to keep the cauldron hot.
And they say desegregation was a big step forward
But integration only covered up a rotten core
The surface might've changed but the cauldron is still hot
Now we more politically correct with less real talk...
What you suggested above, to train ourselves to recognize and call out anything that resembles racism would intensify our already PC-environment.
I'm thinking maybe "call out" means something different where you are. I meant "verbally identify". Bring it out into the light. There's no other way to start a conversation.
I agree with everything else you said in this post.
That makes more sense. I was like "you wrote this, then quoted that... huh?" Call out is a harsher stance where I'm from.
Not even the same. Not at all.I don't see any fat people getting pissed about the whale in the corner :shrug: total horse shit
What?! A bunch of older white people disliked my post? Shocked. :hilarious:
Let's do the math.
2 white people identified as not cool. 2 identified as cool.
4 black kids identified as uncool. 0 identified as cool.
Of course this isn't overt racism. I don't believe there was some evil white poster artist rubbing their hands together maniacally as they pondered the race war this would set off. But we need to be careful not reinforce racial stereotypes.
An entire quarter of the white population thinks that blacks are inherently less intelligent.
54% of whites think blacks are inherently more violent.
Both are FALSE stereotypes that do an untold amount of damage to the black community. Now, with that premise in mind, does this poster dispel or reinforce those stereotypes?
It's really easy to feel like it's no biggie when you have never and will never suffer the consequences of such stereotypes. But these false stereotypes are the reason we underfund black students, why blacks have a harder time finding employment and are jailed at a dramatically disproportionate rate. It also makes black folk subconsciously feel bad about themselves, when all they see is negative portrayals. But white people see fit to sit around and talk about how the black community needs to fix themselves.
WE, white people, created and largely control this environment. The least we can do is make sure we portray them in a judicious manner. Christ.
The true harm comes from within? No, this is not a scenario in which, "You did this to yourself," applies. White people were believing black folk were stupid and violent loooooooooooong before 50 Cent came around. White people were still believing black folk were stupid and violent when Italians and Irishmen were the country's gangsters and the likes of Ella Fitzgerald or Sammy Davis Jr. graced the airwaves and stages.
But, decades later, exactly nothing black people can do convinces whites that they're not stupid, violent boogeymen. A relative handful of black folks thought, "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em," and started taking advantage of the long-established stereotype to sell records, and this is somehow their fault?
True enough, 50 Cent isn't helping. But for as long as we're still contributing to it, we can't bitch about them finally buying into it and perpetuating it. And for as long as we're still contributing to it, they have no real motivation to stop, do they?
Beyond that, no, this one little swimming poster has not done more damage to the black image than 50 Cent. But the type of negative stereotype reinforcement featured in the poster absolutely has, cumulatively. The fact that it's unintentional makes it insidious. I mean, they managed to portray minorities negatively without even meaning to. And a bunch of white people looked at it and saw nothing wrong with it. That's the part that speaks to the collective white mindset.
When racial representation is as substantially imbalanced as it is in America, it takes consciousness and a modicum of effort for the majority to be equitable to minorities. It's our duty as decent people. This poster may be a most trivial failure, but it's still a failure.
Stereotypes are a based on emotional baggage.Athena quote: There is no excuse for whites who contribute to, adopt or tolerate negative stereotypes about blacks.
@Athena said that... I was quoting.Stereotypes are a based on emotion baggage.
If projection is part of your accusation then this quote makes sense. Is personal guilt is involved? Or just an emotional mob mentality in full bloom?
Is this wise to expose your emotional instability to the world? Dignity is so over rated.
Stereotypes are a based on emotion baggage.
The same reality that is dependent on Politically Correct activism. They both require emotional dependence to form the foundation of bias.Stereotypes are based upon reality
Yeah I don't see how this poster is really perpetuating anything...
At this point if we're ever going to be a non racist society then we need to stop putting so much emphasis on race like who's being portrayed and how they're being portrayed etc.
Stereotypes are a based on emotion baggage.
If projection is part of your accusation then this quote makes sense. Is personal guilt is involved? Or just an emotional mob mentality in full bloom?
Is this wise to expose your emotional instability to the world? Dignity is so over rated.
Or even better, why don't we make pools JUST for black people.
An entire quarter of the white population thinks that blacks are inherently less intelligent.
54% of whites think blacks are inherently more violent.
Both are FALSE stereotypes that do an untold amount of damage to the black community.
:hilarious::hilarious::hilarious::hilarious::hilarious:Come on, that's silly. Everyone knows that blacks can't swim
Those of you who don't see the big deal are obviously white.
We don't get to decide if it's racist or not, okay? We don't get to blame the victims.
Black on black crime, the misogynistic, obscene, violent hip-hop culture, multi-generational welfare dependency...these are the things that are doing actual untold damage to the black community, not some fucking sign that no one but a self-loathing white liberal, or an African-American Studies major would ever even notice. Every white liberal that wants to shed a tear for the "black community," should pack up their bags and move themselves and their families into a majority black neighbourhood, and send their children to majority black schools. If you aren't planning on doing so, I don't want to hear your self-debasing rhetoric, which only appears condescending to black people anyway.
I question your reason why we shouldn't be color blind because it seems counterproductive to point out every difference while trying to create equality. I question why you believe racism against white people doesn't exist because where 60 percent the majority.
LOL I just realized that this could have been a joke about people saying "blacks can't swim".
This poster gets more entertaining the more you look at it.
Well see I don't see color so therefore I don't care. I can however understand why other people would be scared, after watching such things as black lives matter protests going awry, or the stereotypes that minorities place on themselves. Is it unfair? yes, because not all people are bad, but instead of forcing the burden on white people why can't they fix themselves? I'd take the representation issues more seriously if they didn't portrayed themselves in a bad light already.