I've had people say it's a hardening, actually ~ US presidential election 2016 part 9/11 never forget

Yeah, they should freshen up those stereotypes! How lazy.

How long have Chinese people been living in America, have they only just moved there or something?

just under 200 years, very new arrivals

According to the book I just finished, 1493 by Charles Mann, some Chinese were living in Mexico from the early 1500s onwards. So, more like 500 years.

Man, fuck yooooooooou Fox News

Aimless i think you mean 1491 and yes it is the bomb

no there is a 1493 too

1491 II

"the hardening"

man that book likes exactly what i have been wanting, thanking u

actually every time aimless mentions it i think for a second he's reading that debunked book about zheng he that's also 14something

hah soZ dudes - guess i will read it

https://twitter.com/jenniferjjacobs/status/783726612743270400

I'M NERVOUS

lol dying

@jessebwatters
As a political humorist, the Chinatown segment was intended to be a light piece, as all Watters World segments are.

My man-on-the-street interviews are meant to be taken as tongue-in-cheek and I regret if anyone found offense.

just a little light racist humor, nbd

what a lying liar he doesn't regret a thing

Has "regret if you were offended" always been a thing, or is it just really noticeable these days?

Difficult to say, been a thing for a long while now though.

I love the notion of conditional regret. "If ____, I regret ____"

I regret if you felt murdered by my bullet

sorta related - Pence's schtick at the VP debate made me think about how right-wingers perceive the word "racist" primarily as an insult, a pejorative, and divorced from any objective description of behavior. Like whether or not something is racist is just a matter of opinion and, as such, totally subjective. "YOU say it's racist, but *I* say it's not, there's just no way to be sure! Don't call me names!" It's inconceivable to them that the word is actually a descriptor of a power relationship, or the exercise of power. Or that a member of a minority might have (or should be given) the benefit of the doubt in deploying it.

I regret if you felt murdered by my bullet

legit lol

it's weird and depressing! like if someone threw a punch, people might agree that they are not "a violent person" and that the punch was a bad move. if you say someone said something racist, they refuse to acknowledge it's not the same thing as saying the person is a racist, and that you should be chastised for saying this.

people occasionally do violent things or say/do racist things! you try not to, generally

yeah my #1 wish for that debate was that Kaine jumped on Pence's pearl-clutching over the "deplorables" comment

conservative understanding of "racism" is as a personal character flaw--and can only be judged by examining the heart and conscience of the person being described as racist, which, surprise, is only available to that particular person. infinite deniability. all flaws are character flaws, structural racism is impossible because capitalism is just.

way more people than just your typical dummies view racism as this obvious, extreme form of antagonistic expression, where to see it is to know it. i.e., they think you either have to verbally accost someone of color with the previously agreed upon worst-of-the-worst racial slurs, or cause them physical harm/death in order for it to be 'racist'. some even only consider the latter - I actually had a race argument when I was 20 with a dude who said, with no sense of irony, "I hate the KKK, cos they kill n****rs!"

isn't it kinda 'funny', though, that the same folk who decry how "PC" and "overly sensitive" everybody is seem to always be the most hair-trigger defensive when tagged with any minor criticism involving race?

classic of the genre:

https://twitter.com/Ribeye18/status/783710204412198912

"regret if anyone FOUND offence" is a new one.

if offence found, please return to me at the address below

lol at how much the "you're the real racists!" folks have escalated this over time. soon it will be "if you accost a guy of mild racial insensitivity on Twitter, you're like a mini-Goebbels!"

xpost

offence is always found, never lost

they're like...if you went to a street race and someone siphoned all of the gas out of your car before the start of the race and you refilled it but by the time you finished, you were so far behind you finished 5th and the dude who won goes "hey man your car has gas NOW, why are you still whining about how unfair this is?"

xposts

offence was lost, but now it's found
the real racist is thee-eeee

realizing some of your ideas might be racist takes a level of introspection

not necessarily a high level, but a level

real racists brush it off by claiming the left accuses anyone and everyone as racist so theyre inherently full of shit and wrong

xpost I took a Racial PSychology class my second year of college that was actually quite helpful in that regard, and actually led to me changing my mind about the negative feelings I had about Affirmative Action, but even people who voluntarily took the class got butthurt at many of the assignments

you are wrong, I am not making this snap judgement based on race but instead my deep knowledge of human nature

affirmative action might help some people but it is not perfect, see these cases where it elevated someone who was less qualified and a bad choice

we should instead rely on a non-affirmative action system which is so much better because it doesn't attempt to address the problems at all

I don't see color, but it's with an attitude!

with AA though, the problem is largely that the narrative got set in the 90s as "minorities are given extra points on a test", as if AA was this universal concept that didn't have a large variety of methods of implementation, most of which weren't anything like that at all.

which lead to stupid things like that one College Republican group at a university who had a bake sale and set difference prices for different races to make a 'point'

https://twitter.com/jenniferjjacobs/status/783726612743270400

I'M NERVOUS

― gwyneth anger (patron sailor), Wednesday, October 5, 2016 5:29 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

So good.

"See Anna, I told you his hair wasn't orange."

Have any blogs simply referred to Trump as "Garfield on a Monday" yet

"minorities are given extra points on a test"

I have literally never heard this interpretation but it makes some weird things make sense

omg Raymond

The Clinton rapid response video guy quoted in this story

https://www.wired.com/2016/10/vp-debate-rapid-response-video-saw-coming/

is a high school friend of mine. They're pretty darn quick.

Why are people saying that Lyin, Crooked, Disgusting and Goofy Mike Pence won this debate? Just because Kaine was jittery? Pence was fucking gaslighting him half the time