| From: | Josh grimlakin@****.com |
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| Subject: | [OC and political even] Re: How much is how much...? |
| Date: | Thu, 13 May 1999 18:09:57 -0500 |
> >The IQ tests I took didn't include anything like that! The tests I
> >took were based on abstract symbols, english vocabulary and math.
> >Mostly of the "find the most similar" or "find the least
similar" type.
>
> So if English is not your first language your IQ is lower, right?
>
> >In any case, whether it's a brick of clay or a brick of cheese, I'd
> >probably ask "heavy or light relative to what?".
>
> You're not a 4 year old.
>
> >Ahem. Examine any culture and you'll find cultural bias. This should
> >surprise nobody. People live by a culture's dictates because they want
> >to (whether because they believe it's more fun or less likely to get them
> >killed doesn't matter). Obviously, it follows that no other culture can
> >be better, thus all other cultures are inferior.
>
> Ahem. The hypocrisy in the U.S. is that the dominant culture pretends to be
> accepting, pretends to be open minded, and pretends not to hold down
> minorities. If they would just come out and say, "Blacks/Latinos/Mexicans
> whatever, we don't like you, go away!" at least there's more honesty there.
> Stay on your side, I'll stay on mine. I don't have to *like* everyone I
> meet. Don't like me? I'm cool with that. Stay out of my business.
We must love generalization. I disagree with the term Racism. I think it is
Socialism. IE: Discrimination based on social status and nothing else.
> Good example of this is a joke by Martin Lawrence "One black man walks into
> a white store, they're rude to his face. A whole gang of heads walk in,
> suddenly he's helpful as can be, trying to be your best friend." Live in
> the inner city, my friend, see the violence, the liquor stores every few
> blocks, look at how the police treat minorities. It's the ugly truth. Does
> *your* neighborhood have a liquor store every block, complete with
> alcoholics hanging out front all hours of the night to set an example for
> your kids? Did you have to listen to violence, drug pushers/users, bored
> gangers, and the cries of infants while attempting to study for school in a
> system that doesn't care about your circumstance or culture?
That is a person discriminateing but then discovering fear. Simple instinct.
Does that make him a bigot?? No. It makes that person a Socialist that wants
to live.
> Shootings at Columbine? A massacre by white teenagers? All over the news.
> Now, when there's a gang war on Mission and 24th, or a black female getting
> shot by police officers in Riverside, why, is the media coverage more
> sparse. No one cares what happened to the young single Latina's little
> girl. No pictures on milk cartons for her little nina.
It is in the news because the enviroment did not promote such activity. If
that were the case then by thoes same standards people in minority enviroments
with bad social influences would be carrying the biggest and baddest guns to
school and useing them on a day to day basis. I am glad that society is not
yet that divided and I hope it never gets that way but look at the evidence.
> Everyone wants to make excuses for the disturbed teenagers, the Unabomber.
> Not so for Tupac, or the unnamed masses in the ghettos. Lock them up in
> prison, that's where they belong.
Again Socialism at its peak gotta love it.
> Cruise around Mission and 24th in San Francisco late at night, grow up in
> an inner city school where everyone packs and pushers hang around on street
> corners, view the criminal justice system and the prison industry complex
> from behind bars and count the minorites in prison; compare that with the
> so-called majority. Observe how Budweiser and Coors targets Latino/Chicano
> taquerias and youth specifically. Take a class in
> Latino/Chicano/African-American studies.
Again a victim to the enviroment not to the color of skin. The majority of
people living in for all intensive purposes a lower class neighborhod are
minorities. Or classed as minorities.
> Then come and talk to me about cultural bias.
Not Racisim though you never said it you did intimate it. It is a SOCIAL
disorder. If I look like crap dressed in poor mans clothes that are ragged and
dirty I will be treated generally worse than if I wear clean buisness clothes.
This is true anywhere. It might work the other way around depending on the
area of the world or town that I am in at the time but generally it applies.
> --Adam
GrimlakinCome see the violence inherint in the system!
