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Rate-up.

I was talking about the actual LDS underwear, but that sounds even worse.

So you're saying you don't use the LDS sanctioned underwear? If you were you'd be happy to laud it. :P

I find it funny, just like the rest of the LDS.

People's underwear aside, I don't rate anyone down for their political views and I doubt many people rate me up since it'd be a pretty empty gesture at this point.

oops, wrong button terribly sorry.-xsarus

Edited, Sep 2nd 2010 3:11pm by Xsarus

I think there are a lot of other factors there besides skin color perception, but I can't think of any factors that the perpetuation of said perception through non-race-blind policies would help alleviate in the long term.
Can you name any? I've tried to sit through his show a couple times, but I always end up changing the channel after a few moments out of absolute contempt. Even point I've seen him attempt to make relies primarily on false or misleading information tied together with faulty logic and association gaps so ridiculous that it boggles my mind why anyone would listen to the lunatic. Five minutes of fact checking or a rudimentary knowledge of culture, economics, history or political process is more than enough to completely rip through anything I've ever heard him say.

As long as it had plenty of pictures.

The problem is that she doesn't distinguish between Conservative and Republican.

You're American, aren't you?

Ah well I am old and sick today so my mind does tend to wander a bit today a little like the thread.

There is a big difference between rationally disagreeing with someone and just copypastaing "<insert insult here> <insert opposing political party>!" over and over. I don't have any issues rating the latter out of existence.

Last Post on the Subject of Race:

I leave you with the following thoughts regarding Obama's election:

Is it not true that if a white person said or thought that "race mattered" during the last elevtion & voted for McCain, that they were racist? Sure, other factors may have played a part, but if "race mattered" to a white person & they voted for McCain one can easily make the conclusion that said person was, in fact, racist.

On the flip side, if an African American said race mattered & voted for Obama (9 out of 10 did btw), using the textbook definition then that black person too would be considered a racist.

But they aren't. As African Americans, their subordination has continued to be institutionalized, so voting for Obama because of his race makes sense. It's a reaction TO institutionalized racism, not racism itself.

Even if an African American voted for Obama for no other reason than they hated white people (so voted against McCain), that's still a reaction TO the institutionalized racism said African American (and their ancestors) have been subjugated to over generations. If that institutionalized racism was never there, that African American wouldn't have the resentment of white people that they had when they went to the voting booth. Yes, that black person is prejudiced and/or a bigoted, but not a racist.

Edited, Sep 3rd 2010 4:31am by Omegavegeta

You can't even begin to know if that's a true statement, and it seems to be pretty much the crux of your whole theory. Frankly, it looks like a great deal of mental gymnastics to try and validate white guilt, more than define racism. Sorry you bought into it when whatever professor you had a crush on started evangelizing. He must have had a huge **** and muddy complexion, I reckon.