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Originally Posted by Devils'Advocate
What I'm getting from this thread thus far:
"Damn f'n' chinks like to plow over old people causing them to die. When they get called on it, they throw out the race card. Everyone knows that white people are the most oppressed people who nobody listens to and can have no opinion and are silenced even though there are no really bad offensive slurs for Caucasians. I wish minorities would stop playing the race card and just do what they are supposed to - jump off the bridge into the ravine below whenever some white person is coming the other direction."
Seriously, I *DO* think the race card is played too often - and it is detrimental to the real cases of racism. I have a friend who works at the federal "Human Rights Commission" and he has to sort the valid claims from the invalid claims. He says the ratio is about 1:40. And he wishes that he had more time to work on the one valid case, but he's too damn busy on the other 40.
HOWEVER, the easiest way to upset my friend is to suggest that since most of his cases end up being bogus complaints, maybe his department shouldn't exist at all. You can't dismiss the rights of one victim because there are others that are making false complaints. That's like saying some rape cases are simply "the day after regret" and therefore people should stop reporting rape. Yes, false allegation are made... but you can't dismiss all victims because of that.
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According to the Word Detective evidence to connect "cracker" to whipcracking on slaves is pretty flimsy. The site says it's usually used to refer to poor southern US whites. However it also "carries the implication that the person is a racist,and is sometimes applied to any white person" thought to "harbor racist sentiments". It could also be slang for corncracker,country peole who subsisted on corn (Korn?) "Cracker" appears in documents from 1509 denoting "braggart". From Straight Dope "honky" comes from bohunk or hunky "derogatory comments for Bohemian, Hungarian and Polish immigrants. According to......'Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins' black workers in Chicago meat-packing plants picked the term up from the white workers" and started applying it to all whites. I guess "whitey" is because we all look alike
Why do I hate the band Hinder???