Re: Black People
Now hold on there Skippy, a.k.a. Mr. Sherman,
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I noticed that you made no effort to indicate the credibility of your statements. While I am not an expert on racism (nor do I find it an interesting field of study) I find it hard to believe that my "peers created" two new forms of racism.
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I hope you will let me show you how confused your thought process is. You question the credibility of my statements but forget that I was responding to this psudo ejecta of yours [ QUOTE ]
While I do not doubt what you observed, I doubt your explanation for why. Psychologists have identified at least two new phenomon that can explain what you witnessed.
1. Covert Racism. As being outwardly racist has become more and more stigmatized, cover racism has developed. In covert racism, as the name suggests, people do not overtly express their racism. There they do so more covertly, often in simple ways which cannot be considered criminal (e.g. not holding the door for a person of another race).
2. Reverse racism. I know this isn't the exact term for it (I can't remember the psychological name for it) but it is representative of the phenomenon. In reverse racism, a person is so afraid of being labeled a racist, that he or she goes above and beyond being helpful in the way he or she would to a person of his or her own race.
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I saw no references or anything else to make me believe your statements were credible. You even admit to not knowing the name of one of your new types of racism. Am I susposed to automatically assign some type of credibility factor to any of your statements just because you are "I want to be called Dr. Skippy". And in this case Dr. Skippy is correct, we are discussing your area of study right. I know we are not in the class room and you have not recieved your PHD yet (you are not a medical doctor are you) but I honor you and your years of study even though you don't seem to know what you are talking about.
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Here are some facts based on, oh I dunno, scientific evidence:
1) Racism is real in America.
2) The number of criminal acts of discrimination (behaving in a way towards a person of another race that is unfair or harmful, simply because of his or her race) has been gradually decreasing.
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These are subjective statements of oppinion. You are trying to pass them off as objective statements. Your bio says you are involved with statistics, you should know better than to make a subjective statement like your Dr. Skippys Ten Commandments of Racism. There is no "scientific evidence" in any of your statements. I guess I was wrong. It really needs to be Mr. Skippy.
Well Skippy one more thing. Just because someone disagrees with what you have soaked up in your little school does not make them a canidate for this type of treatment: [ QUOTE ]
I can understand your sentiments though. It certainly is easier to remain ignorant to real social problems than think critically about them.
[/ QUOTE ] We have Sklansky here to do that. Remember a PHD only makes you a doctor in the classroom. Being in a doctorial only makes you a student.
Regards,
Buc
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