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yebiga

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In this discussion it's been about blackface.

Mikes examples above also fit the bill.



Not sure if this is directed to me specifically or just people in general, but I have not once said I am offended by what happened with the kid. You don't need to be personally offended to recognise that something is offensive to others.


OK fair enough, the response was short and dismissive. For that I apologise.

For using the term white privilege, I totally disagree. Judgemental? It's more like the opposite of that. Uneducated? o_O Do you agree ethnocentrism is a big problem in the inability to curbing racism in society? Can you not see how they are intrinsically linked?

For you or anyone:
http://www.cpt.org/files/Undoing Racism - Understanding White Privilege - Kendall.pdf
https://www.sinsinawa.org/peace-justice/white_privilege.pdf



I think gender and race privilege is a lot less arbitrary than class privilege but they are often all closely interlinked any case.


Sure it's not as bad as it has been historically, but that does not mean it is gone completely. Look at what's happening in the US currently, or in our own prisons.


To put some questions out there to everyone, knowing that certain actions are offensive to large groups of people, why is so hard to stop doing them or defending these actions? Should we not just take that on board and simply modify our behaviour? I mean isn't that what you would do if someone told you something was offensive to them? What's the big deal if you can't paint your face black anymore? Are we now in a place where this behaviour is carried on and defended just to make a point that we won't be told what to do?

It just makes me so sad that it seems like nobody even cares.

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Their is a difference between caring and your use of the word.
This may come as a surprise - you don't care. You think you do but any momentary logical assessment is proof positive your dealing entirely in fictions.

It quoxitic - medication?
 

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You can't be offended your white

Or so he assumes
I am beyond color.
I am Ali g in the country
My life is lived thru social media,
I meet no one real and do nothing real
I watch tv and it tells me to care and be nice to people
I am not not nice but the people I meet say nothing real just weather and sport and crap.
So I have to care about tv stories
About people I have never met
Don't know anyone really but I try to care for indigenous people from my living room I channel love towards and pray for them

I am on medication to help curb an anger I don't understand
I fear that given an opportunity I would love to kick people and goose step naked thru the park.
 

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Well done to fpcookie for trying to carry the argument about how racism manifests itself, and specifically black face. Not a bad discussion of an incredibly complex and layered issue. I thought he did pretty well without much support. Some of the counter arguments made good points too. Interesting that it morphed into disadvantage and class issues. (Disadvantage is the flip side of racism and many other "isms" - the advantaged don't usually mind what they are called as long as they can keep a hold on the wealth and/or power.)

I love that we can actually have a discussion like that on a footy forum though, even if it's off topic. I felt like I was on Big Philosophy for a while there, not Big Footy!

Cheers also to yebiga for his creative contributions ... Big Poetry!
 

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Next topic? Sick of this racism shit.

Let's try not get political in a footy forum. It will never end well

Everybody have their own opinions and have expressed them. let it be
 

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I am beyond color.
I am Ali g in the country
My life is lived thru social media,
I meet no one real and do nothing real
I watch tv and it tells me to care and be nice to people
I am not not nice but the people I meet say nothing real just weather and sport and crap.
So I have to care about tv stories
About people I have never met
Don't know anyone really but I try to care for indigenous people from my living room I channel love towards and pray for them

I am on medication to help curb an anger I don't understand
I fear that given an opportunity I would love to kick people and goose step naked thru the park.
Solid gold yebiga. Up there with choose life. Just read it out loud to Mrs Livermore in the car (she liked it but still reckons bigfooty is a waste of time).
 

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Solid gold yebiga. Up there with choose life. Just read it out loud to Mrs Livermore in the car (she liked it but still reckons bigfooty is a waste of time).
legit wisest thing expressed on these boards.
 

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I know it's not everybody's cup of tea but for those who are interested in AFL Rankings (Champion Data) ...

Here are the WB player points and overall AFL rankings after the H&A rounds.

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Here they are sorted by change in points over the H&A rounds (i.e. since pre-season):
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And finally here they are sorted by movement in rankings (number of places) over the H&A season:
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I know it's not everybody's cup of tea but for those who are interested in AFL Rankings (Champion Data) ...

Here are the WB player points and overall AFL rankings after the H&A rounds.

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Here they are sorted by change in points over the H&A rounds (i.e. since pre-season):
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And finally here they are sorted by movement in rankings (number of places) over the H&A season:
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Love it Dogwatch, but how can Stewart Crameri go down if he does
not play any football and how can Jake Stringer be ranked in the
top 100 on performance this year not even close to reality. Give me
the wise reflection of AFL fantasy price any day although your work
on the charts is excellent.;)
 
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