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This is a link post Why is Critical Race Theory? NSFW
A calm, measured and reasonable report on a sensitive issue.

A bit sweary and screamy in places.
(, Sat 7 Aug 2021, 15:49, Reply)
This is a normal post No, can't watch this guy, regardless of the material

(, Sat 7 Aug 2021, 16:57, Reply)
This is a normal post I've seen worse presenters, though this style is nothing new
or is it something personal about him? did he back over your cat?
(, Sun 8 Aug 2021, 0:54, Reply)
This is a normal post As a Caucasian, upper working class Scotchman. This video holds absolutely no relevance to me whatsoever.
I'm so fucking bored of the whole racial equality debate. Until humanity takes an evolutionary leap forward and stops treating groups of people differently because they look, sound and/or act different, then racial prejudice is going to be a thing. We're all prejudiced to some degree, and we continue to foster those prejudices (inadvertently or not) through the continued upholding of what we regard to be our 'cultural identity'.
Racism directed towards black Americans by caucasian Americans seems to be the prejudicial gold standard against which other racial prejudice is measured, but what happens if we somehow manage to make all the whites and blacks peacefully coexist in complete, unequivocal legal and social harmony only to realise that blacks and whites both harbour prejudices towards Asians, and that Asians both harbour prejudices towards blacks and whites?
What about religious prejudice? Criticising Judaism is a massive no-no because of all the persecution the Jews have suffered over the centuries. Criticising Islam is becoming increasingly frowned upon, but isn't met with nearly as much disapproval as antisemitism. Christianity? Complete free for all. How do you balance out the prejudices and ensure a utopian society where everybody is treated on a completely equal footing regardless of colour, accent, choice of music, choice of clothing or choice of deity?

We can't. Humans are tribalistic. We've been tribalistic for the last 200,000 years. No amount of woke social engineering is going to change that. What we can do (all of us, not just the white ones), is try to recognise when those prejudices are making us act in a harmful or unconstructive manner, and do our best to look past them. But they'll still always be there.

Assuming we manage to survive for another 10,000 years or so, interbreed enough to average out the entire human population into a nice dark olive skin tone, realise that religion in all its guises is a massive fucking scam and being sharing an appreciation for a singular, entirely bland genre of music then we might stand a chance at existing in harmony. But as long as we're able to identify and express our racial/cultural/religious heritage, racism will continue to exist. And its existence will continue to influence governments, and the laws and policies those governments create. There's really fuck all we can do to change that.

Just do your best to be nice to one another. Unless the other person is a massive cunt. Thankfully, personality flaws transcend ethnicity and religion.
(, Sat 7 Aug 2021, 17:08, Reply)
This is a normal post You seem in harmony with CRT except for the defeatist perfect=enemy-of-the-good stuff.
And you seem to have a lot to say on a subject you deem irrelevant and utterly bored of.
(, Sat 7 Aug 2021, 17:25, Reply)
This is a normal post Wait till you hear me talk about Greyhounds!

(, Sat 7 Aug 2021, 17:30, Reply)
This is a normal post Do greyhounds shit more than the average dog,
or is that just the one I know?
(, Sat 7 Aug 2021, 17:37, Reply)
This is a normal post I've only known Greyhounds, so I'm afraid I'm not qualified to answer that.
Our adoptee only shits twice a day on average. We don't overfeed him, and he's petite, so his poops are almost always one-baggers.

We're fostering a girl of significantly larger dimensions at the moment. Again, about two shits a day, but a shovel wouldn't go amiss when you take her for a wander...
(, Sat 7 Aug 2021, 17:44, Reply)
This is a normal post What goes in mainly determines what comes out.
Many cheaper dog foods contain bulking ingredients like cereals and sugar beet, these aren't fully digested and so emerge as huge dog poos.
(, Sat 7 Aug 2021, 19:30, Reply)
This is a normal post If you want a good tip for next time you are at dog racing
bet on the dog that has a shit on the track just before the race...
(, Sat 7 Aug 2021, 19:45, Reply)
This is a normal post "Caucasian"
It's an obsolete scientific term so adds no precision. Maybe it's less ambiguous than 'white' when heard on US police radio
(, Sat 7 Aug 2021, 17:29, Reply)
This is a normal post No argument from me there.
I only use it out of habit.
(, Sat 7 Aug 2021, 17:36, Reply)
This is a normal post Oh Mr Penis

(, Sat 7 Aug 2021, 17:37, Reply)
This is a normal post You forgot class/caste/pecking order bullshit.

(, Sat 7 Aug 2021, 17:42, Reply)
This is a normal post And gender. And sex.
And the rest!
(, Sat 7 Aug 2021, 17:47, Reply)
This is a normal post What about colourism?
Where lighter skinned black people are given preferential treatment over darker skinned black people?
(, Sat 7 Aug 2021, 19:46, Reply)
This is a normal post Some white peoples have been considered 'more white' , 'purer' than others.
At some point it intersects with class, 'ruddy faced' farmworkers versu the pale refined types.
(, Sat 7 Aug 2021, 20:49, Reply)
This is a normal post There's a lot of that going on in India, I believe.
But we have the same thing up north. A 'Tink's Tan'
(, Sat 7 Aug 2021, 20:58, Reply)
This is a normal post parklife

(, Sat 7 Aug 2021, 18:05, Reply)
This is a normal post Why is he wearing a tie Tucker Jenkins-style,
as if he's being forced to wear one?

And why does he clearly spend time cleaning and conditioning his hair, but not bother brushing it?

He makes too much effort to look scruffy.

FAKE TRAMP. SAD!
(, Sat 7 Aug 2021, 17:08, Reply)
This is a normal post But it makes him look so non-conformist!

(, Sat 7 Aug 2021, 17:17, Reply)
This is a normal post The character he plays
is a mentally disturbed newsreader.

He's not intending to present the truest representation of himself. You might also be shocked to learn that the whole thing is scripted.
(, Sat 7 Aug 2021, 17:22, Reply)
This is a normal post To be honest, I didn't press play.
What is his mental illness?

I like this, but wouldn't want 55 minutes of it.
(, Sat 7 Aug 2021, 17:35, Reply)
This is a normal post He has a complex and highly plot-dependent combination of things.
He's regularly visited by alternative timeline/past/future versions of himself, talks to a centrist hand puppet who he hates, is obsessed with a wild boar teleportation conspiracy theory, sometimes talks to a straw man who is a drinking straw with googly eyes, and he talks about having 'the blood sweats', blood rages and other blood prefixed stuff.
(, Sat 7 Aug 2021, 17:57, Reply)
This is a normal post That sounds better than it just being American Jonathan Pie,
which I was assuming.

Still, 52 minutes...
(, Sat 7 Aug 2021, 18:03, Reply)
This is a normal post ..In 6 Quibi-sized segments.

(, Sat 7 Aug 2021, 18:42, Reply)
This is a normal post I'm getting Jack Black vibes.

(, Sat 7 Aug 2021, 17:52, Reply)
This is a normal post If Jack Black had leftist opinions and was contractually obliged to read the news largely against his will
when all he wanted to do was warn the world of the very real anti-human agenda of teleporting, kleptomaniacal, murderous wild boars, but kept getting interrupted by real world events and projections of his own insanity.
(, Sat 7 Aug 2021, 18:55, Reply)
This is a normal post Here's something to cheer you up
www.joemygod.com/2021/08/anti-vax-texas-republican-leader-dies-of-something/?__cf_chl_jschl_tk__=pmd_2c5be3f4177ae6f8e711938631a4a2b31ac160ab-1628364147-0-gqNtZGzNAiKjcnBszQdO

Comments section goes from Schadenfreude through fat shaming to talking about cocks and balls??
(, Sat 7 Aug 2021, 20:34, Reply)
This is a normal post That's not very cheerful news though.
Equal parts victim and perpetrator. It's legit hard to tell if the American Taliban people like him and MTG truly believe the shit they say.
(, Sat 7 Aug 2021, 21:13, Reply)
This is a normal post I wonder if they actually reflect on their stances at all.
Some of MTGs utterances are just bizarre, I guess it's difficult to sort out the publicity seeking lies from the denial/fantasy.
(, Sat 7 Aug 2021, 21:30, Reply)
This is a normal post I think most of them believe it.
A mixture of "doing my own research on the web" without critical thinking and the addictive qualities of the like button are a dangerous thing. You soon find your cult.

Which is why you should only ever post on social media about things you'd happily develop a monomania and leave your family for, such as Jet Set Willy, Kate Bush and Space Raiders.
(, Sat 7 Aug 2021, 22:00, Reply)
This is a normal post I'm English and white.
On two separate occasions, years apart, I've been called a 'dago' by random aggressive drunks. This is a huge source of pride for me.
(, Sat 7 Aug 2021, 17:56, Reply)
This is a normal post I think it's an interesting but minor subject
Though I'd never heard about it until rightwing commentators started bitching about it, so the video maker has a point.
If you were studying US town planning, sure they'd be some racial dimension to that, but it's a minor influence say compared to the influence of the motor car. how much time do you want to spend on it? the legal system being stacked against blacks I reckon would have been pretty self evident, what with jim crow laws and the like.
But as is usual, panicked white people get all "it wasn't me, I didn't do nothing!" and conservative commentators see an opportunity to play on that until it gets a focus way out of proportion to its importance.
Personally, I think racism and socio-economic inequity are closely linked, and if people focussed more on making the latter better the former would reduce, regardless. As a white person, I know what I'm talking about
(, Sun 8 Aug 2021, 0:49, Reply)