Xenophobic backlash

[shuriken]

http://usuncut.com/news/9-hate-crime...media-ignored/

I think it's super messed up the way some of these bigots are going about hurting and assaulting people for their beliefs and or appearance. On a lighter note this: (9th article snippet)

“It’s a teachable moment,” Ahmadiyya Muslim Community spokesman Salam Bhatti told the Associated Press. “As we do raise awareness of attacks in mosques, we will see mosques do not respond in violence. Islam teaches us to teach peace.”

Also anybody think the U.S. state governors denying refugees are ever going to change their stance? Can they even do anything legally to stop them?

[CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy]

For a nation that was heavily populated by immigrants over the years, parts of America's population have always been astonishingly racist and/or xenophobic.

Locking Japanese up in internment camps during WWII, the plight of the Chinese in San Francisco, Jim Crow laws and "separate but equal"... the list is long and embarrassing. I used to think America wasn't racist anymore, but I grew up.

[Powder]

What about "No political or religious topics" don't you guys get?

[Prowler]

Originally Posted by Powder

What about "No political or religious topics" don't you guys get?

This...

Originally Posted by CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy

For a nation that was heavily populated by immigrants over the years, parts of America's population have always been astonishingly racist and/or xenophobic.

Locking Japanese up in internment camps during WWII, the plight of the Chinese in San Francisco, Jim Crow laws and "separate but equal"... the list is long and embarrassing. I used to think America wasn't racist anymore, but I grew up.

Well, multiculturalism isn't exactly a cakewalk. Whenever you put people of different ethnic groups, nationalities and religions together in one country there's bound to be some conflict at some point or another. You don't hear or read about racism in a country like Estonia, per example, because pretty much everyone there is white and an ethnic Estonian. So who'd they be racist against?

[snake]

Xenomorphs need to leave our system

#deportthealiens

[CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy]

Originally Posted by Prowler

This...


Well, multiculturalism isn't exactly a cakewalk. Whenever you put people of different ethnic groups, nationalities and religions together in one country there's bound to be some conflict at some point or another. You don't hear or read about racism in a country like Estonia, per example, because pretty much everyone there is white and an ethnic Estonian. So who'd they be racist against?

Man, I haven't even heard of Estonia.

Originally Posted by snake

Xenomorphs need to leave our system

#deportthealiens

Snake's got the right idea.

[Prowler]

Originally Posted by CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy

Man, I haven't even heard of Estonia.

Really? I know it's small, but it's not exactly in the end of the world. It was once part of the USSR.

Nations I forget that exist are places like Tuvalu and St. Kitts and Nevis, per example.

[CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy]

Originally Posted by Prowler

Really? I know it's small, but it's not exactly in the end of the world. It was once part of the USSR.

Nations I forget that exist are places like Tuvalu and St. Kitts and Nevis, per example.

I freely admit, the smaller satellite nations don't really stick in my memory until they end up in the news.

[Papenbrook]

This is why we are getting a World War III. It's so sad.:'(

[snake]

Originally Posted by Purple Kraken

This is why we are getting a World War III. It's so sad.:'(

Someone preordered a world war three?

[CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy]

Originally Posted by snake

Someone preordered a world war three?

The Free Republic of Antarctica is on the rise...

[snake]

Originally Posted by CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy

The Free Republic of Antarctica is on the rise...

F*cking penguins are at it again trying to claim Antarctica as their own

[CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy]

Originally Posted by snake

F*cking penguins are at it again trying to claim Antarctica as their own

Pretty sure the Emperor Penguin has already orchestrated the slaughter of all human scientists. As soon as he brokers an alliance with the Polar Bear Kingdom, that's it; it's all over.

We'll be f***ing doomed.

[Leo656]

Racism isn't going away, it's ingrained in human DNA. Human beings all evolved from tribal cultures, and that tribalism, that "Us Vs. Them" is too big a part of how we existed for thousands of years to suddenly evaporate in a few decades just because "we all know better now". Since people first crawled out of caves, things like "They look different than us," "they have more stuff than us," or even, "We live Over Here and they live Over There" were good enough reasons to storm in and kill everybody you saw, anywhere in the world. It's really only the last little while that it's been much different.

People can co-exist for a while, but when things are particularly bad for one group of people, they'll inevitably lash out at another, "more different" group of people. Maybe that will go away eventually, but that's not going to be for a long, long time.

I mean everybody's smart enough to know better, it's just easy to lash out when you're pissed off. It's too much a part of who we are as a species.

[Klunk1234]

[QUOTE=CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy;1521799]Man, I haven't even heard of Estonia.


Cylons, then you need to take Geography classes or buy an Atlas.

[CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy]

[QUOTE=Klunk1234;1521922]

Originally Posted by CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy

Man, I haven't even heard of Estonia.


Cylons, then you need to take Geography classes or buy an Atlas.

Uh huh. I sure do. My life is in irreparable ruins due to a lack of Estonian knowledge.

Tell me, Klunky, how will knowing about Estonia improve my financial situation, my sex life, my interpersonal relationships, or my sense of morality?

Sherlock Holmes says it best:

Spoiler:

"You see," he explained, "I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Now the skillful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain-attic. He will have nothing but the tools which may help him in doing his work, but of these he has a large assortment, and all in the most perfect order. It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones."

"But the Solar System!" I protested.

"What the deuce is it to me?" he interrupted impatiently; "you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work."

[Prowler]

[QUOTE=CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy;1521971]

Originally Posted by Klunk1234

Uh huh. I sure do. My life is in irreparable ruins due to a lack of Estonian knowledge.

Tell me, Klunky, how will knowing about Estonia improve my financial situation, my sex life, my interpersonal relationships, or my sense of morality?

Sherlock Holmes says it best:

Spoiler:

"You see," he explained, "I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Now the skillful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain-attic. He will have nothing but the tools which may help him in doing his work, but of these he has a large assortment, and all in the most perfect order. It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones."

"But the Solar System!" I protested.

"What the deuce is it to me?" he interrupted impatiently; "you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work."

It might not be relevant to those aspects of your life... but then again what is? So you think the only knowledge that people need in life is how to socialize, manage money and know that stealing and killing are wrong? As a Turtles fan, I doubt reading and watching every different adaptation helsp any of those aspects of your life either, but yet you probably still do it. If people only knew about stuff that is related to their job, then mankind would be even more ignorant, and ignorance is dangerous. Plus, knowing where a European country is on the map is something you can learn in a couple of seconds. It's not rocket science. Sounds like you're just making up excuses for your ignorance.

I speak for myself, but I find it odd and sad when someone who's well educated doesn't know simple facts like pointing France on a map or who Leonardo da Vinci was.

[Cure]

Dude didn't know about Estonia. Is this really an argument worth having?

[Candy Kappa]

As much fun it is to ridicule american's knowledge about outside of America, maybe consider that USA is huge. With 50 states as mini countries of their own, a hand full of US Territories, Canada, Mexico and the many other countries In North and South America continents.

So a stab and a jest is fine, but don't go full douche about it...

[Prowler]

Originally Posted by Cure

Dude didn't know about Estonia. Is this really an argument worth having?

Originally Posted by Candy Kappa

As much fun it is to ridicule american's knowledge about outside of America, maybe consider that USA is huge. With 50 states as mini countries of their own, a hand full of US Territories, Canada, Mexico and the many other countries In North and South America continents.

So a stab and a jest is fine, but don't go full douche about it...

I didn't ridicule him, despite being surprised he hadn't heard of it ever.

And who knows if Klunk isn't American? His location doesn't reveal his country.