Racism

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God's hotel is a dump and his monopoly is pathetic

Nope, still not funny.

I do not understand Kilroy, is the song itself racist, or is it just that being amused by the particular sign is a proof that the amused person is racist?

the video was seen by some as racist though it was intended to be satire
same with the lyrics

I have not seen the video (dial-up connection), but I also cannot see what is racist about the song. Do you know on what basis it has been described as racist? I'm a bit confused.

well when Genesis (the album by Genesis) was released many critics thought the song Illegal Alien was racist, mostly because the video (you have to see the video to get the full effect)
it was the 80's everyone hated everything music wise then
it was insane

I think racist jokes are ok as long as the person telling them is not using them to offend people, unfortunatly, however, everyone is offended easily by everything these days.

South Park somehow seem to be getting away with it though - good!

I also think it's stupid that black people can generally make racist jokes against white people and it's just fine!

This is just another way society is screwed.

well white people have done some bad s**t (holocaust, the american slavery, the crusades,, the inquisition-need I continue)

Interestingly enough, lately I've been conversing with my fellow faggoteers via chat and I've found that a large portion of homosexuals in St Louis are indeed racist. How in the world can people who have encountered many hardships themselves be, blantantly racist? The answer is, I don't know. Makes me wish I could infiltrate their central heating systems with my smelly farts. Mwa ha ha.

I'm not racist by any means. However, I do become very nervous/shy around people of other races/ethnicities/nationalities, because I'm afraid of offending them.

It would be quite surprising if there were no differences between "races" other than the obvious surface ones... our different sets of ancestors were exposed to totally different conditions, and thus faced entirely different selection pressures. In Africa, with abundant natural resources and mild conditions, the best reproductive strategy for a male was to impregnate as many women as possible, and they'd be able to look after the children well enough. In the more hostile north, the most effective reproductive strategy for both genders was a small family and maximum dedication to it. Is it any surprise that this pattern is more or less replicated in modern times? We have less than a hundred generations of civilisation, and before that many thousands of generations of hunter-gathering, there just hasn't been time for natural selection to catch up with our changed conditions.

Could it not be argued that the falling birth rates among "white" people may be a form of self limiting behaviour triggered by a scarcity of space/resources? Whereas that was never an issue in Africa, so the people with that ancestry are carrying on reproducing willy-nilly.

Also, to the extent that personality is influenced by genetics, how could there fail to be a difference between, for example, someone who's ancestors consistently stayed right where they were for thousands of generations (Africans), and someone who's ancestors were nomadic the whole time and moved as far from their original location as it was possible to go (South American Indians and Pacific Islanders)? Don't try to tell me that genes have no influence on personality, because that's just silly. Without our human genes we wouldn't have a personality.

And to those who pointed out the confusion about who is allowed to call who a n****r/n***a, and why, well, hello! Social conventions being wierd and inexplicable? There's a first!

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