Paul Cavins wrote on Mon, 13 December 2010 05:51 |
My post is not at all racist. The charge of racism is the first refuge of poopy-heads.
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No, your post was not racist, but claiming that some people are "behind in the race of human development" smacks of racism. This has been one of the main arguments of racist since the beginning of time... You went as far as to suggest that India is where it is today because of it's colonization by England which gave them "a shot of western culture". Yes, a shot of (superior) western culture gave them what they needed to progress.
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You people need to get past this whole resentment mentality and get on with life. No one is defending what happened centuries ago. We are past that, just like we are past slavery and other past behaviors we see as sins today.
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"Poopy head", "you people" you really are laying it on Paul. Maybe if you people had suffered through generations of colonization, slavery and constant racism you would not be in such a hurry to to "get past this whole resentment mentality" (as you call it). "You people" profited (for the most part) from that little stain in human history, no wonder you want everybody else to just forget about it as if it didn't happen. And in case you haven't noticed 'we people' are getting on with our lives, the evidence is all around you.
Maybe after you have spent a day in the shoes of 'us people' you will earn the right to tell us how to deal with this tragedy that is only just an annoyance to you...
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It is a plain fact that different parts of the world have developed at different rates. Is Afghanistan as far along as Sweden? Do they even have a Starbucks?
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What is a plain fact is that you keep moving the goal posts; you make statements and when challenged you redefine their meaning. Glad to know that Starbucks is the yardstick we use to measure 'human development'...
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Save the racism bilge for someone else. It bores me.
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Racism is a constant and seemingly permanent fact of life for some of 'us people', its existence has been the bane of our existence for several hundred years now. Does it concern you one bit that some of your remarks do more than just bore other people? Think about that for a second or two.