Joined: 10/27/2004
Posts: 1978
Location: Making an escape
As far as video games are concerned, my brother got me a hard copy of Desert Demolition. The inspiration behind that one has me kind of weirded out. (still, thank you!)
I also managed to land The Complete Calvin & Hobbes, plus Santa gave me the last two volumes of the Peach Fuzz trilogy.
Strangest gift this year? My other brother bought me a titanium spork. Yeah.
Oh, I also got my brother's old car! Still no driver's license. :(
Another round of Christmas hugs! ^o^
A hundred years from now, they will gaze upon my work and marvel at my skills but never know my name. And that will be good enough for me.
Joined: 4/20/2005
Posts: 2161
Location: Norrköping, Sweden
I won't have a steady Internet connection during the holidays, so you'll have to excuse me for being a few days early when I say: God jul ("Merry Christmas" in Swedish) och gott nytt år (happy new year) TASVideos! I hope you all enjoy your christmas holiday. May 2010 be another year with plenty of great TASes!
Happy Cha... Wait, nevermind.
Whatever you do, don't overeat!
Help the poor and go visit your relatives ― especially those of them who never get visitors.
Wow, you really do believe that white males are oppressed... how quaint. :/
"Discrimination against white people" sounds like an oxymoron in the modern politically correct world, even though white people do get discriminated en masse.
When was the last time that you heard someone non-white being accused of racism? When was the last time that you heard a white person being considered the victim of racism? Although not de-jure, the de-facto situation is that only white people can be racist and only non-white people can be victims of racism.
But that's completely ok because white people are an acceptable target (nowadays the only one), and that is not discrimination.
Wow, you really do believe that white males are oppressed... how quaint. :/
When was the last time that you heard someone non-white being accused of racism?
Famously, President Obama was accused of racism by Glenn Beck just a week ago (or did you not hear?) In right wing media it happens with startling regularity. I've seen my African American coworkers be accused of racism for putting their hair in a fro and wearing a necklace.
When was the last time that you heard a white person being considered the victim of racism?
I'm dating a South Asian currently, I've noticed people staring at us, when they've never stared at me, I've been accused of miscegenation, whereas before I had never heard of that word. My own father tried to "warn me off" from a "colored girl." Simply put, this is the stuff that my girlfriend has had to deal with every day of her life, I've had only the slightest introduction to it by dating her.
I'm sure that white people have been victims of racism. But not in America, not in any real way.
But that's completely ok because white people are an acceptable target (nowadays the only one), and that is not discrimination.
You really have no knowledge of this. I don't either, I just have an outsider's perspective.
Bisqwit wrote:
For the record, that article was not written by me.
But you agree with the sentiments, or else you wouldn't have posted it.
Build a man a fire, warm him for a day,
Set a man on fire, warm him for the rest of his life.
I'm sure that white people have been victims of racism. But not in America, not in any real way.
There have been actual cases, in the US, of white people getting beaten up by black people for the sole reason of being white, which has been made clear by the attackers using racial slurs and other insults related to skin color and ethnicity. And the police did not consider them hate crimes even with witness testimony describing the racial insults.
But of course white people being victims of racism is such a rare occurrence that it could just as well be a non-existent problem. Even if someone gets discriminated, he probably deserved it anyways.
For the record, that article was not written by me.
But you agree with the sentiments, or else you wouldn't have posted it.
I guess he only posted that link to point out how you can't just say "Merry Christmas" or anything to a general mass of people while being perfectly politically correct..
I'm sure that white people have been victims of racism. But not in America, not in any real way.
There have been actual cases, in the US, of white people getting beaten up by black people for the sole reason of being white, which has been made clear by the attackers using racial slurs and other insults related to skin color and ethnicity. And the police did not consider them hate crimes even with witness testimony describing the racial insults.
But of course white people being victims of racism is such a rare occurrence that it could just as well be a non-existent problem. Even if someone gets discriminated, he probably deserved it anyways.
http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/hc2006/table1.html
1,054 anti-white victims, 75.05% of the population.
3,966 all other victims of racial violence, 24.95% of the population.
As a non-white you're about 16 times more likely to experience racial violence directed against you.
I'm not saying that it doesn't happen. I'm saying that it has no appreciable effect on the lives of most white people. Whereas racial violence and other forms of racism have a profound effect upon non-whites.
Build a man a fire, warm him for a day,
Set a man on fire, warm him for the rest of his life.
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