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Topic: Race is a social construct, right? If so, why do we continue to use this social construct...

HaikerensGuide !dBGi/iH4eY started this discussion 13 years ago #29,415

...to determine employment and college enrollment? If race doesn't exist, then race wouldn't be a factor.

Meta !PARAdoxiHw joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 17 minutes later[^] [v] #430,199

We should just abolish race entirely. It's a bullshit social construct. No one that I've seen has ever been able to give a coherent definition of "race". What is "white", or "black" for that matter? Just abolish race and give everyone am equal opportunity.

kook !!32zdfdzi+ joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 8 minutes later, 25 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #430,200

Race is a factor as long as people think that race exists

HaikerensGuide !dBGi/iH4eY (OP) replied with this 13 years ago, 1 minute later, 27 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #430,201

@430,199 (Meta !PARAdoxiHw)
Let the invisible hand of the free market decide.
@previous (kook !!32zdfdzi+)
The communist institution U of M forced Affirmative Action upon us even though we voted against it and had it outlawed in the state constitution.

Meta !PARAdoxiHw replied with this 13 years ago, 1 minute later, 28 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #430,202

@430,200 (kook !!32zdfdzi+)
How can I do my part? I give everyone I meet respect and an equal chance and I've found there are good, neutral, and bad people of every race.

kook !!32zdfdzi+ replied with this 13 years ago, 2 minutes later, 30 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #430,203

@430,201 (HaikerensGuide !dBGi/iH4eY)
Before that, people used race to deny jobs, and education. Its all still believing that race exists

kook !!32zdfdzi+ double-posted this 13 years ago, 47 seconds later, 31 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #430,204

@430,202 (Meta !PARAdoxiHw)
Maybe you should talk to someone who isnt white about this

HaikerensGuide !dBGi/iH4eY (OP) replied with this 13 years ago, 1 minute later, 33 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #430,205

@430,203 (kook !!32zdfdzi+)
And now... People use race to deny jobs, and education. It's all the same shit, just done to whites and Asians.

Meta !PARAdoxiHw replied with this 13 years ago, 1 minute later, 35 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #430,206

@430,200 (kook !!32zdfdzi+)
Also, what is race? I'm 25% Native American, yet I check the box for "white" on all my forms, and no one questions my whiteness. Am I a creepy ass cracka?

HaikerensGuide !dBGi/iH4eY (OP) replied with this 13 years ago, 1 minute later, 36 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #430,207

@previous (Meta !PARAdoxiHw)
> I'm 25% Native American
Navajo?

Meta !PARAdoxiHw replied with this 13 years ago, 20 minutes later, 56 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #430,208

@previous (HaikerensGuide !dBGi/iH4eY)
Mainly Cherokee, which makes me non-white under the "one drop rule".

Meta !PARAdoxiHw double-posted this 13 years ago, 2 minutes later, 59 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #430,209

Not that this is special or anything, but fully one third of American "whites" are mongrel Indian and/or African mongrels.

HaikerensGuide !dBGi/iH4eY (OP) replied with this 13 years ago, 6 seconds later, 59 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #430,210

@430,208 (Meta !PARAdoxiHw)
Oh, you're one of those people. "Cherokee princess". *snicker*

HaikerensGuide !dBGi/iH4eY (OP) double-posted this 13 years ago, 1 minute later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #430,211

Most people that claim to be of Cherokee ancestry are 100% white. At least in MI. Or they could be Mississauga.

Meta !PARAdoxiHw replied with this 13 years ago, 54 seconds later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #430,212

@430,210 (HaikerensGuide !dBGi/iH4eY)
Yes, and if you trace it back, I'm probably Jefferson Davis' 18th cousin twice removed cause we're all related.

(Edited 14 seconds later.)

HaikerensGuide !dBGi/iH4eY (OP) replied with this 13 years ago, 2 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #430,213

@previous (Meta !PARAdoxiHw)
topkek

kook !!32zdfdzi+ replied with this 13 years ago, 7 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #430,214

@430,206 (Meta !PARAdoxiHw)
Why would you even say that? People count as white when their skin is white.

HaikerensGuide !dBGi/iH4eY (OP) replied with this 13 years ago, 2 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #430,215

@previous (kook !!32zdfdzi+)
Scandinavians with tans are not white?

kook !!32zdfdzi+ replied with this 13 years ago, 30 seconds later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #430,216

@430,211 (HaikerensGuide !dBGi/iH4eY)
But not meta, when discussing race issues he's an Injun

kook !!32zdfdzi+ double-posted this 13 years ago, 35 seconds later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #430,217

@430,215 (HaikerensGuide !dBGi/iH4eY)
ridiculous. you'd never call a tan Scandinavian a nigger

HaikerensGuide !dBGi/iH4eY (OP) replied with this 13 years ago, 1 minute later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #430,218

@430,216 (kook !!32zdfdzi+)
Yep. His great gransmother was a Cherokee princess. lol
@previous (kook !!32zdfdzi+)
"People count as white when their skin is white."

Meta !PARAdoxiHw replied with this 13 years ago, 6 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #430,219

@430,211 (HaikerensGuide !dBGi/iH4eY)
Thee Thy or Eye re: RE: thank THY for Ten Myle re: geanology research.

kook !!32zdfdzi+ replied with this 13 years ago, 2 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #430,220

@430,218 (HaikerensGuide !dBGi/iH4eY)
Both correct, but everyone can tan and in basically every society the darker people are treated worse

Meta !PARAdoxiHw replied with this 13 years ago, 1 minute later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #430,221

@430,216 (kook !!32zdfdzi+)
If you'll excuse me, I've got to hold a powwow in my teepee and smoke a peace pipe.

Anonymous D joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 5 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #430,222

@previous (Meta !PARAdoxiHw)
*penis

Meta !PARAdoxiHw replied with this 13 years ago, 1 minute later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #430,224

@previous (D)
Yes. Brb smoking ten myle penis dong in my teepee 2night
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