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tinker_190
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The Cleveland Caucasians has a nice ring.
After a while it would lose all meaning just like every other name.
GO CAUCS! BEAT 'EM, CAUCS!!
The Cleveland Caucasians has a nice ring.
After a while it would lose all meaning just like every other name.
What I will say, is that nobody gets treated as badly as the Natives, when it comes to plain old open and accepted racism. The Cleveland Indians logo is absurd, the Redskins name is ridiculous, and that's just the tip of the iceberg. That kind of shit wouldn't fly with ANY other race of people. It's got nothing to do with "white privilege" though. Our society by and large of all races just doesn't give racism towards Natives a second thought. It's not complex. It's just accepted racism among everyone.
“Basically, I was being shamed as a black person for wearing a non-disrespectful shirt with a white person logo on it,”
Lol so true. You can watch a homeless person taking a dump on a pigeon and New Yorkers would walk right by it
Heck a New Yorker would push your grandmother down for a cab during the winter months and not think twice bout it
Break it down for us then. Using the quote function, show us all the posts itt that have you taking an activist/marketer (who includes links both to solicit money for his company and to sell this very t-shirt) at his word (and absolutely nothing else) that he couldn't walk down the street in Manhattan of all places wearing this tepid shirt without repeatedly being hassled and getting dirty looks. None of which he was able to get on video, as if he and everyone he knows doesn't carry a smartphone. I think if you read through the Twitter thread, think about it for a second, and most importantly take yourself out of the "team left vs team right" bullshit online mentality for a moment you'll realize that this story is bogus and the guy is a hustler.
"Caucasians" though? Ain't nobody getting mad at that. He could've at least made a "Crackers", or "Honkies" shirt.
What I will say, is that nobody gets treated as badly as the Natives, when it comes to plain old open and accepted racism. The Cleveland Indians logo is absurd, the Redskins name is ridiculous, and that's just the tip of the iceberg. That kind of shit wouldn't fly with ANY other race of people. It's got nothing to do with "white privilege" though. Our society by and large of all races just doesn't give racism towards Natives a second thought. It's not complex. It's just accepted racism among everyone.
White people became so thin skinned in the last decade, I'm not that surprised to see even mild reference to them by a black guy setting some assholes off.
I doubt he's getting harassed by people on their way to work, but cities are filled with idle people looking for free entertainment, and an argument counts.
Point is, saying redskin is a racist term while using the term "black" in the same statement. It felt weird.
I get that. My point is that black is not a racist term in my country.
More weird triggered rationalizing. Digging that hole deeper.
I gave a reasonably small range of posts, they included plenty of denial, deflection and false equivalence.
One of the more debatable statements made on here . . . folks can twist many words into fitting their personal racist stance. Many of us just have a different opinion on what is actually hurtful to ourselves and others.
Such as? Blackskins? Kosherskins? Yellowskins?
We are . . . but we often don't help our own cause by focusing on crap like this instead of actual issues.
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/bla...pose-hypocrisy-white-privilege-220329924.html
Apparently it’s white privilege to wear Washington Redskins apparel and this dude walked around in a “Caucasians” shirt to try and offend people. I have a feeling most of his stories of those who got offended are fake. Without video evidence he has no proof anyone said anything. Pretty lame social experiment if you ask me.
Thanks!Scientific.
Who is getting set off by this? Actually set off by the guy wearing the shirt, and not just laughing at how stupid the whole experiment is?
I doubt anyone gave this guy a second look. The shirt is inoffensive. At worst, I see a few people maybe chuckling at it as they walk by. I guarantee nobody is getting in his face over that shirt.
So you have nothing you can point to. Just a few people saying online that they don't believe the story is compelling enough for you to buy that people hassled him in Manhattan? Have you actually read through his version of events in his Twitter thread?
This is what I was referring to by the team left vs team right bullshit. Let me ask you this then: do you at least think that he has any incentive to lie or embellish? If he said that he walked down the street and nothing happened, do you think that would affect the sales of the shirt he's hawking? Do you think that he would get more donations to his agency if he said nothing happened, or less? And finally, why do you think that he was unable to capture a single negative reaction on video?
He cited a few examples, for some reason the first response by a lot of people has been to blanket deny rather than engage with what he's reported.