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Racism on display at University of Virginia

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Where you respond to any point with random tangents and aren't willing to process obvious realities, where is there to go? It just becomes a pointless quibble over details.

Random tangents? I'm not the one who brought up lynching and incarceration rates.
 
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Here is your quote. It sure sounds like you are asking us to understand her reaction based upon the past. All we are asking you to do is tell us how long we should be understanding of her behavior? At what point can we say that was in the past and it's no longer an understandable reason for your behavior?
 
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In this post you are saying history has a relevance in the present.

And since this topic is about this girl's racist comments you are saying history has relevance to her comments and behavior. At what point does history no longer have relevance to her racist behavior? How long are people able to use history as a relevance to support their racist behaviors?
 
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Sure, quoting wikipedia proves your assertion of a 'forced famine' that 'killed millions'.

It has links to sources lol. How many sources did you want?

While absentee landlords and tenant farming was an unjust and often brutal practice, it certainly wasn't unique to Ireland .

The famine it created was. It's arguably the worst famine of the decade.

It's interesting how the mere possibility that a judge sometimes may make a racist decision is a problem that allows you to dismiss racism....

...yet you're completely hand waving away the British stealing land from the Irish, forcing them into servitude, and leaving them with literally one option to feed themselves.

Would it be fair to say that you only recognize the oppression of some races and not others?
 
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Aha - now you’re starting to get it. Many people at the time offered up the same arguments as you do to explain away the effects of centuries of slavery; The conflict in Ireland was over three centuries before, all this ‘oppression’ is nonsense, look at how they behave, it’s their own fault and blah blah. The arguments about the actual, technical reasons for famine, as seen at the time were no less widely accepted than the notions people have now about other issues, like the descendants of slaves in the US.
 
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At what point does history no longer have relevance to her racist behavior? How long are people able to use history as a relevance to support their racist behaviors?

So keen to see everything that riles you as racist? There are far more egregious demonstrations of racism you could find. It seems a rather odd question to me. If your country were invaded and you and your people were removed en masse, and you and your people were put to work basically until you died from it to build someone else’s nation, in which you were then not welcome in much of it, would you expect those who came after you to just forget about it? Who can decide when others should just forget what happened to them? People either do, or the don’t. Who are you suggest some sort of arbitrary time limit should be put on it?
 
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Then why did you say that we needed to understand her position? Her position is a racist view. Did you not say we needed to try and understand?

Well, to state the glaringly obvious, that would seem to be normal behaviour, yes.
 
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Aha - now you’re starting to get it. Many people at the time offered up the same arguments as you do to explain away the effects of centuries of slavery;

I never once "explained away the effects of slavery"...I just don't use them to excuse racism today.


The conflict in Ireland was over a century before, all this ‘oppression’ is nonsense, look at how they behave, it’s their own fault and blah blah.

The conflict in Ireland, arguably, happened until the 1990s.

The arguments about the actual, technical reasons for famine, as seen at the time were no less widely accepted than the notions people have now about other issues, like the descendants of slaves in the US.

So if I were to say a bunch of racist beliefs....let's say I tried to exclude people from the forum because of their race....you'd come to my defense by pointing out that the Irish were oppressed?
 
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I never once "explained away the effects of slavery"...I just don't use them to excuse racism today.

The idea that the vid in the OP is some sort of spontaneous result of ‘racism’ is daft in the extreme.

The conflict in Ireland, arguably, happened until the 1990s.

There you go - there have been three periods of conflict, the first, in the 1600s, led to the other 2. I wonder why that is? It’s almost as if things that happen then have later consequences in history...who’d a thunk it?

So if I were to say a bunch of racist beliefs....let's say I tried to exclude people from the forum because of their race....you'd come to my defense by pointing out that the Irish were oppressed?

Bit of a feeble analogy.
 
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The idea that the vid in the OP is some sort of spontaneous result of ‘racism’ is daft in the extreme.

What do you call it when someone tries to exclude people from a place based upon their race?



Bit of a feeble analogy.

It's exactly what you're doing here...what's the difference?
 
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I'm not surprised that you don't know...

Actually I was wondering what you think. What do you think? What have been the effects/affects of slavery in the US?
 
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Do you have a different definition of racism? Your first sentence makes it sound like you don't thing the OP girl shared anything that was racist.

As long as your racist there will be no healing between races. As long as you hold a grudge there will be no healing.

And there is no reason to hold a grudge over things that you weren't a part of. Should the Jews hold a grudge towards the germans and not want to allow them around?

How about the Irish, should they not want to be around the English?
 
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What is my analogy?

You're excusing her racism because of things that happened to other black people in the past.

I'm just asking if you do the same for every ethnic/racial group? Can jews be racist or does the holocaust mean they can say whatever racist things they want?
 
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That kind of basic thinking is far more of a problem than some young girl saying there should be more cultures in a multi-cultural meeting.
 
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