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You'd have to know before hand the status of the employees of that specific restaurant.
If you know for a fact that everyone in a taco joint is illegal, and then you come back one day and there's a legal resident working there, that might be surprising because you know factually the specific case at hand and aren't making inferences based on race.
If you assume anyplace staffed with Mexican-Americans is going to be full of illegals, that's racist.
"Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but it dies in the process."
Imagine all of my posts being spoken by Alec Baldwin
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I think I already said that that was the case!
Also he would have poor taste in cinema.
If it's one of those movie theaters where you can also get dinner, sure.
I'm not saying targeted at whites to the exclusion of other groups.
explain
if you talk to a racist enough person they probably are
The answer to the question is yes because it is a movie about a Toby Keith song.
The fuck is that guy thinking?
"Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but it dies in the process."
Imagine all of my posts being spoken by Alec Baldwin
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its called advertising to hipsters
:^:
vulgarity, rudeness, and use of the word motherfucker?
Yes, those are negative stereotypes. Do I subscribe to them? No, but I don't have to subscribe to a stereotype to know it exists.
Do you subscribe to the stereotype that women are less intelligent than men? If not, do you deny that it is a stereotype that exists, and is harmful to women when propagated and internalized?
Then why would you say that so many movies are targeted at whites because whites are considered raceless? That whole statement clearly implies that those movies are not also targeted at blacks or hispanics or whatever. Otherwise, why make the statement at all?
Munkus I'd really appreciate an answer to this because I think I phrased this question extremely clearly and we're both on the same page here, in terms of talking about the same thing
Because there is still an explicit effort on the part of the producers to make sure white audiences will see it. Not to the exclusion of anyone else, but that whites will see it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbwNSNLPIfw
backwards doing a remarkable job of not saying stupid things despite being faced with the ever popular tactic of being snide, negative, picky, and never saying much of anything to support one's own position while nitpicking the other guy's extensively
I'm impressed!
what stupid thing did I say?
The idea that whites are non-raced and others in America are racialized is a very common and well accepted opinion among people who study race in America
it's not at all a radical, unusual, or uncommon position.
I haven't said anything inflammatory, insulted anyone, been rude or condescending, and I've been exceedingly patient. What did I say that was stupid?
So no racial stereotypes exist about white people?
That's just Bill O'Reilly's own personal racism, in that case.
I should mention that he was there in the first place with Al Sharpton, because they had exchanged angry words about some race-related issue. So it was all very much in the context of race to begin with.
Whites are not considered raceless. They are simply the majority, and therefore the default in many cases when race is unspecified.
I love this show.
The best part of it is not in song.
The bad news bears.
"Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but it dies in the process."
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i find that racist!
Again, you're the one that is assuming that he made an assumption based on race alone and not anything else.
"Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but it dies in the process."
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Racial stereotypes may still exist, to some extent, but whites are still considered "normal"
I'm not saying stereotypes about whites are OK
Race-based stereotypes are generally detrimental to everyone, even those not in the race involved. If something is stereotypically white or black, not only does it limit a white or black person, but it also can limit someone of another race who wants to embrace what's perceived as a stereotype of someone else's race.
However, just because stereotypes exist about whites, does not mean that white characters are seen as primarily or even importantly defined by their race. Black characters, hispanic characters, asian characters, and other minorities very frequently are, sometimes to the point where people in those groups can feel frustrated or alienated because they almost never see any characters who aren't defined this way.
Such definition in media and culture can spill into real life too, which even worse
Not Bad News.
Still.
Best part.
"Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but it dies in the process."
Imagine all of my posts being spoken by Alec Baldwin
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We've found scientology!
well you're a little bit too
I guess we're both a little bit racist
I know you're not really serious, but
why does every thread on the internet dealing with race always have to have one or two people pulling this lame fucking failure of a verbal judo?
"Ah, but do you see? Truly you are the real racist here!"
it's like some magic trick and they expect people to clap when the cloth is pulled away
and nobody ever does because it is incredibly stupid
The last time someone did that I made a Princess Pride joke and no one laughed.
Heathens.
we wore our hoods
By whom?
yeah dudes, where i live, being white is the minority.
If that group is a persecuted minority, historically, in the present, or both, as most racial minorities in America are, I would say that yes, such "statistics" are very harmful
Also, let's not call it "statistics" unless the person who's making the assumption is really using actual numbers.
Crossing the street when you see a black guy is not OK, based on his appearance, unless he say has a weapon, or is actively engaging in an illegal activity, or some other extenuating circumstance that you would avoid anyone in such a circumstance.
The statistics are that blacks are disproportionately poor, but not overwhelmingly, with a growing middle class. The statistics are that more violent criminals are white than black. The statistics are that criminals tend to be poor, but not necessarily.
When you see a black guy in baggy clothes, you're making a string of assumptions to get to the conclusion of fear.
The reason these guesstimations are not OK is because they hurt the people they're aimed at
It can really just be as simple as "how would you feel if every day of your life, people crossed the street because they looked at you, and assumed you were a criminal?"
It would hurt, it would make you mad, justifiably so, and it would make you feel alienated and unaccepted by your society.
Obviously those prejudices have much more far-reaching effects than the personal impact, but that alone should be enough.
i see so many white people
By advertisers, hollywood, media generally, which is what we were talking about?