a little reminder... on differences...

[sunny]

There is certainly plenty of batting of eyes regarding interracial marriages today.

Maybe so, but surely some credit is due people who have evolved their attitudes?
I mean, I've lived through a changing atmosphere that has gone from dismissive and contemptuous of other races to accepting and integrated. This is an enforced change I fully admit but by the act of enforcing it the changes have become internalized, at least for the majority. This is what we want from societal rules about racism, right?

[Nordic]

FWIW. My stepdaughter, who is 16 now, and seemingly all of her peers are really into black guys. Many of them are already dating black guys. And its not because mommy and daddy disapproves, or because its rebellious or anything like that, but because (as far as I can tell) because black guys tend to be bigger and stronger and have better bodies than the scrawny white boys they go to school with. These girls are really into the physical appearances of the boys, their bodies, almost in ways that we associate with how boys look at young women. They're really into muscles and especially "abs" and the "sixpack". Also many of them actually watch those godawful Kardashian sisters, and that's had a big influence. Also the status of the black sports stars such as Kobe Bryant and Lamar Odom is a big part of this new acceptance.

Its very different from when I was their age. Very different. Granted this might be in part due to my location, on the white westside of los angeles, I don't know.

[compared2what?]

There is certainly plenty of batting of eyes regarding interracial marriages today.

Maybe so, but surely some credit is due people who have evolved their attitudes?
I mean, I've lived through a changing atmosphere that has gone from dismissive and contemptuous of other races to accepting and integrated. This is an enforced change I fully admit but by the act of enforcing it the changes have become internalized, at least for the majority. This is what we want from societal rules about racism, right?

Right. But that's exactly why we don't want to pretend that this isn't what it is:

Fox News Commenters Respond to Whitney Houston’s Death With Deluge of Hatred and Racism
What right wing racism?

Charles Johnson

I don’t even know what to say about this any more. There’s a real sickness running rampant in the right wing; the Fox News comment thread on Whitney Houston’s death is yet another disgusting deluge of outright racism: Singer Whitney Houston Dies at 48 | Fox News.

There are almost 5000 comments posted in the thread — these are from the first few pages. Notice that the racist bastards deliberately misspell their slurs or insert random spaces, so they aren’t caught by word filters. And many of the worst comments have numerous “likes” from other commenters.

A tragedy is when someones passes away from a terminal disease or something else that no one saw coming.Whitney is just an inferior lo w life ni gg er that needed to go,no tragedy,no loss.

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Any death is a tragedy you heartless bástard.

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not nignogs their death is a plus

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SHe couldn’t even sell issues of “the national enquirer” anymore. Everyone was tired of the TNB. Niqqer flaps her lips and screeches, niqqer becomes rich. Niqqer ends up nearly broke after spending all of her money. Niqqer in constant fights and drug binges. Niqqer ODs when she learns she’s nearly broke and she is so wasted physically she can’t make another album. Niqqer hit the end of the road, niqqer thinking and niqqer behavior led her to where she had nothing. She couldn’t face life without the “bling bling”, she knew she would never have any more “kaching kaching”

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I am now patiently waiting for the grand messiah Obama to have a blk fundraiser in honor of Whitley with Kevin Costner as guest of honor with all the Hollywood elites invited along with Alan Colmes, Al Sharpton, Jeremia Wright, Charles Rangel, etc. with a menu featuring blk eyed peas, grits, Imported Kobe steak, Dom Perignon, sweet potato pie and a mus lll im scarf as a momento of this great occasion.

Of course the door prize will be an all expense paid trip to Kenya to visit the Obama tribe and birthplace of his ancestors while the American people still look for this imposter’s birth certificate in Hawaii !!!

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This is typical of the blk gene pool; it happens all the time. They cannot handle fame and fortune whether it’s derived from music, acting, sports or just plain entertainment. Too much fame and too much money at one time will ki ll ll you.

How many blk people have died from drugs including alcohol that have been in the sports and the entertainment industry or screwed up their married lives like Tiger Woods or worse, OJ Simpson !!!

This is the same disease that got Obama voted into the White House.

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i don’t even consider them to be included in the human race let alone on a pedistal. the people that do are a bunch of loosers.

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Story goes Obama sh0ved to much cr@ck up the wh0res @zz when he was going to sniiff it…

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Obvious the use of to much hair strengthener did her in.That s__t will peel paint!

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unfortunately like most nignog crack hoes she was able to apply her trade on “da streets”

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Another nignog off the public social rolls

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BIack females are the fattest segment of the population. BIack males are the most murderousss segment of the population. Africans have the lowest IQ of all people.

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Like most of her species, she suffered from chronic stupidity.

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tough break niqqer.

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Nothing wrong with Coors, what is good about it most_n i g g e r s_ don’t like it

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oh niqqa please,nigga please.

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one of the only b l a c k chics i would have ever banged…..once you go c r ack er…..you dont do cr a c k

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Woo Hoo One less obama voter

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Whitney who?!? some /\/iggress music artist that had a couple of hits in the early 90’s. She’s since been forgotten and now she’s dead.. Who cares..

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Africans love their drugs.

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Jungle Buggie ??

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This is a good lesson for all of you God loving Christian girls out there, stay away from “Jungle Love.”

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One less bIack crack addict in the world today. Not such a big loss.

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We Whiteys dont care about some monkey crackhead, change the headline!

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How funny would it be if they fuckedup the tombstone.

WHITEY HOUSTON

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Their are B L A C K S and their are N i G G A S, which class do you put her mentor Bobby Brown into??? Whitney chose ???

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Who cares? Black_trash gone is enough.

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She is just like any other gh e tto queen.I hope the rest of these worthless piles in the inner cities follow her act .

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What a waste of a good slit.

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HER REAL NAME SHOULD BE KUNTA KINTI OR MOGUBA MAGABA, WHY AFRO-AMERICANS ARE USING ENGLISH NAMES AND LAST NAMES?….SHAME ON THEM!!

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You know what you call Whitney Houston in a bathtub? A dead n i g g a h

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Another buckwheat supporter bites the dust, oh well.

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hatesandniqqers 3 hours ago

phuk you w hore,,,,,,,,,

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Buckwheat is ne gro trash!

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Bammy should not have given her crack from his personal stash!

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B l a c k s have little to brag about about so they strut and crow about anything. The politically correct whites whine and cringe and try to be b l a c k themselves and identify with their “brothers”. Great singer but as stupid as her pal, the malignancy in the white house

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she still be voting for the head niggg this nov

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To bad it wasnt the monkey in the White House

There’s more. A lot more. But I have to stop now because it’s making me physically ill.

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And that's from a blog by one of the co-founders of Pajamas Media, not by some freaky hippie.

Plus, there really, really is a lot more. It's not just about Whitney Houston's death, either, as one can see from browsing around a little here.

[Nordic]

C2w, you got a link for that blog piece above? This shit needs to be shared as much as possible. Scary.

[wintler2]

^^umm, wow. That sort of hate needs .. what? re-education camps? contraceptive implants? I thought i lived in a fairly rednecky rural area but have never heard anyone sink as low as those comments go.

[Nordic]

The anonymity of the internet lets people express how they truly feel.

[Saurian Tail]

Here is the link to the Fox News article:

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/20 ... ies-at-48/

It looks like comments have been disabled.

My guess is that the article was probably linked by Drudge. Click on almost any Drudge headline and you will find these idiots posting the most fucked up comments you can imagine.

I take it for granted that people are paid to "influence" public opinion by controlling the comments on articles based off of Drudge links. It's probably a group of 5 losers controlling 10 or 20 personas each. I know that is not the whole story, but I'd bet the mortgage it plays a role.

[Nordic]

Just got on my big computer (as opposed to my blackberry) and found out it was originally from Little Green Footballs.

You would expect those kind of comments at LGF, not a column bemoaning them.

But that's Fox News' "base". It needs to be exposed as much as possible.

[82_28]

Just got on my big computer (as opposed to my blackberry) and found out it was originally from Little Green Footballs.

You would expect those kind of comments at LGF, not a column bemoaning them.

But that's Fox News' "base". It needs to be exposed as much as possible.

It's quite amazing the amount of progress, as it were, that Charles Johnson has made since he realized he was surrounded by crazzeee azz wingnuts.

He is kinda why, I see more eye to eye with conservatives than liberals anymore. Oh, have no doubt about it, me be liberal, but we're all noticing everything, little by little being whittled away. There are smart people, people who intend on understanding and those who are completely batshit insane who do anything they are told.

So it occurred to me after reading most of LGF's comments and from just life in general, the people who really give a fuck are beginning to coalesce.

We're sick of douchebags.

We're sick of racism.

We're sick of corporate greed.

We're sick of people telling us cons and libs that gay people are fucking evil.

We're sick of the "wars".

We're aware of our history.

And we're wired.

You can't fucking re-stupid a population of people who already know under an antiquated rubric.

I, for instance hated soldiers -- anyone in the military -- in like 2002. Now I know many and it just isn't an issue anymore -- war. They are humans and boy do most seem emotionally beaten and/or reserved.

This country has been psychologically fucked with and we all see this in each and every one of our's sadness we all carry.

There is something arising. Humanity wins. . .

As long as we stick together, through thick and thin.

But we don't want to "win". We want it to change to something more natural. Much like when a bird or squirrel is born, it simply lives and sings free from the constraints of the bullshit of time. . .

[compared2what?]

C2w, you got a link for that blog piece above? This shit needs to be shared as much as possible. Scary.

Sorry not to have responded more promptly, I was offline....I had the link embedded in the text, at the beginning. (In the word "this.") And I do that pretty often. But I don't think I'm going to do it anymore!

So. Live and learn. My apologies for the delay.

[Iamwhomiam]

Sim, has your friend ever visited when you had other friends over, or invited you to a gathering of his friends? Just wondering. I wonder how he would act if you approached him at church, when he's with his peers? Perhaps he's really locked firmly in the closet? Many possibilities, and no need to doubt you or to doubt your friendship with the fellow.
Perhaps you'd be so bold as to ask him how he feels about voting for someone who would wish harm to befall you, you know, just because you're you?

Sorry, but I had to skip over the blog comments, though I did catch a few.

I need to preserve my illusion of being able to reach out and sway the opinions of such folk. You know, to convince them that it's in their best interest to love my gay brothers and lesbian sisters, my daughter and her black husband and my darker skinned than mine grandchildren, my Jewish and Spanish speaking inlaws, my atheist anti-nuke pacifist Quaker friends, and my Muslim friends and their supporters opposing their preemptive prosecutions.
We're all God's Children, after all, and She loves us all.

"They Fucking Hate You!"

[compared2what?]

Here is the link to the Fox News article:

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/20 ... ies-at-48/

It looks like comments have been disabled.

My guess is that the article was probably linked by Drudge. Click on almost any Drudge headline and you will find these idiots posting the most fucked up comments you can imagine.

I take it for granted that people are paid to "influence" public opinion by controlling the comments on articles based off of Drudge links. It's probably a group of 5 losers controlling 10 or 20 personas each. I know that is not the whole story, but I'd bet the mortgage it plays a role.

It's not an aberration though. In accordance with my new LINKING policy, please allow me to reiterate:

It's not limited to stories about Whitney Houston. Try browsing around a little here:

http://foxnewscomments.com/

Sorry, but I had to skip over the blog comments, though I did catch a few.

I need to preserve my illusion of being able to reach out and sway the opinions of such folk. You know, to convince them that it's in their best interest to love my gay brothers and lesbian sisters, my daughter and her black husband and my darker skinned than mine grandchildren, my Jewish and Spanish speaking inlaws, my atheist anti-nuke pacifist Quaker friends, and my Muslim friends and their supporters opposing their preemptive prosecutions.
We're all God's Children, after all, and She loves us all.

Oh, I agree. I didn't at all post those comments as a way of saying: "Look at these awful people, don't you just HATE them?" That's not how I think or feel about it at all. On the contrary, I think and feel that they're my brothers-and-sisters-in-humankind. Some of them are probably very much like people whom I've known to be lovely individuals within the very limited sphere of our shared interactions. Because I have known some people who thought and spoke that way. Although not at length in my presence, since my standard response to first usage of hate-speech in my hearing (under circumstance in which I believe -- for whatever reason -- that argument would be futile or harmful) is a polite but very clear and unambivalent request not to use those words when speaking to me.

But still. I have encountered it. I mean, there are just some parts of the country (and the world) where you can't really entirely avoid it, in my experience. And besides that -- for reasons that I wish I knew, so that I could do something about them -- I've always been the kind of person that random strangers suddenly decide to tell their innermost thoughts and comprehensive life stories to without being asked.

Anyway. What I think and feel is that they're just fucked-up people, for the most part. IOW: Same as me, but different.

I don't know. Maybe that's just my way of preserving the illusion that I can reach out and make a difference of some kind for the better. But fwiw, it wasn't at all my intention to be divisive, or to stir the shit, or anything along those lines. I'm actually rooting for the solution, not the problem. Believe it or not.

And here's a song for you:



It's a personal favorite.