Systemic / Institutional / Societal Racism

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soft bigotry of low expectations

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Goddamn it I'm mostly liberal and I look like a far right extremist compared to these nut jobs

[BurtReynolds]

Pretty sure that's not real

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Might as well be

[Strat]

More racism from liberal white people

it took me 5 seconds, dude.

https://medium.com/@mitchchaiet/botspot ... 2bc9af51f9

[E.H. Ruddock]

More racism from liberal white people

Pretty sure no one is saying racism is only contained to one party, dude. What's your point?

[Strat]

More racism from liberal white people

Pretty sure no one is saying racism is only contained to one party, dude. What's your point?

also see my above post

[E.H. Ruddock]

Ah sorry. Well, we know he won't come back and admit it was fake

[Self]

Facebook is a helluva drug.

[Mickey]

Actually learning is racism, the fake trans woman said so, checkmate libs.

[4/5]

Actually learning is racism

Speaking of learning, didn't you go to FSU way back? Just found out my beloved UF's gator bait chant has been racist this whole time.

[Mickey]

Actually learning is racism

Speaking of learning, didn't you go to FSU way back? Just found out my beloved UF's gator bait chant has been racist this whole time.

I sure did, but let's not get started on Florida universities and racism...

[4/5]

Actually learning is racism

Speaking of learning, didn't you go to FSU way back? Just found out my beloved UF's gator bait chant has been racist this whole time.

I sure did, but let's not get started on Florida universities and racism...

I wonder what FSU's mascot will be this time next month. And if that coach that lies about talking to black players about racism will still be there.

Sorry, you specifically said "let's not..."

[Mickey]

Actually learning is racism

Speaking of learning, didn't you go to FSU way back? Just found out my beloved UF's gator bait chant has been racist this whole time.

I sure did, but let's not get started on Florida universities and racism...

I wonder what FSU's mascot will be this time next month. And if that coach that lies about talking to black players about racism will still be there.

Sorry, you specifically said "let's not..."

Yeah, they tend to hide behind the excuse that the Seminole Nation (or some sort of council, I can't remember and it doesn't really matter) has endorsed their use of the mascot, but of course they make *money* off of that agreement so I can't imagine it counts for much with the broader indigenous population and will be targeted soon. Which, having been at Mississippi right after they changed their mascot, will be a whole to-do that will bring out the worst kind of alumni, to say nothing of current students.

The coach, yikes, but football has been a mess there for almost a decade, starting with the Jameis rape case.

[Mickey]

As an aside I actually had no idea "gator bait" had a racist connotation, but it's almost as if the practice of racism is deeply interwoven into this country's history. If only there were a thread to discuss that...

[BurtReynolds]

To a hammer everything looks like a nail.

[Mickey]

To a hammer everything looks like a nail.

You're making your Fredo quote more and more relevant by the day.

[BurtReynolds]

To a hammer everything looks like a nail.

You're making your Fredo quote more and more relevant by the day.

A witty insult would be relevant to the topic at hand. You lack creativity.

[4/5]

As an aside I actually had no idea "gator bait" had a racist connotation, but it's almost as if the practice of racism is deeply interwoven into this country's history. If only there were a thread to discuss that...

Me neither. I was really shocked.

Actually learning is racism

Speaking of learning, didn't you go to FSU way back? Just found out my beloved UF's gator bait chant has been racist this whole time.

I sure did, but let's not get started on Florida universities and racism...

I wonder what FSU's mascot will be this time next month. And if that coach that lies about talking to black players about racism will still be there.

Sorry, you specifically said "let's not..."

Yeah, they tend to hide behind the excuse that the Seminole Nation (or some sort of council, I can't remember and it doesn't really matter) has endorsed their use of the mascot, but of course they make *money* off of that agreement so I can't imagine it counts for much with the broader indigenous population and will be targeted soon. Which, having been at Mississippi right after they changed their mascot, will be a whole to-do that will bring out the worst kind of alumni, to say nothing of current students.

The coach, yikes, but football has been a mess there for almost a decade, starting with the Jameis rape case.

Yeah, it's going to get really ugly.

...and OMG this is wonderful. Thank you for bringing into in my life. I have no memory of this happening, but...

[Mickey]

That's actually the second mascot change, which happened a few years after I left. The first one was the switch from Col. Reb to Rebel Black Bear, which did not go over well. The gas station near my house sold not this exact shirt but a variation on the theme and, well...



That same year some undergrads put a noose around the James Meredith statue (first black student), and though it wasn't articulated as part of the mascot issue it definitely came from the same atmosphere. And of course there's the ongoing state flag debate, calls for the Confederate monuments to come down (which I believe just happened today, actually), renaming streets on campus that are currently named after big slaveowners, etc. FSU doesn't have quite the same campus culture, and the mascot isn't an articulation of white identity, so I don't think it will be nearly as bad, but it will definitely get nasty.