Members of the Academy are Racists?

[Brian Peacock]

Yeah, everyone hates Coldplay, bloody professionally sad shoe-gazing bedwetters.

[Forty Two]

they are racist and ethnocentric, period.

Only because they have a history of oppression by the dominant race.

Fail.

See the European colonial oppression of the Chinese for centuries. They can't be racist, you know. They're not white.

[pErvinalia]

Centuries of European colonial oppression? When did that happen? I must have missed that.

[JimC]

Centuries of European colonial oppression? When did that happen? I must have missed that.

It's Coito pretending to be a crazed Progressive...

[pErvinalia]

Is it? I'm not sure anymore. He does seem to not see the world the same way as the rest of us do, at times.

[Forty Two]

Centuries of European colonial oppression? When did that happen? I must have missed that.

It's not my job to educate you.

[Svartalf]

especially in stuff that did not happen... China was never colonized, though it was somewhat oppressed with the Opium wars and until the start of WWII.

[laklak]

Just because they were never colonized doesn't mean they weren't subject to Colonial Oppression By Racist European White Males. Racist European White Males are directly responsible for 94.5% of all evil in the world, and the remaining 5.5% is an understandable reaction by Innocent Minorities.

Everybody knows that.

[Svartalf]

go tell that to muslim and Indian women

[tuco]

Whether its 94.5% or whether China is to be included, colonialism (Colonialism is the establishment, exploitation, maintenance, acquisition, and expansion of colony in one territory by a political power from another territory. It is a set of unequal relationships between the colonial power and the colony and often between the colonists and the indigenous population.) per wiki was never, and probably never will be, .. paid for. We call it history. Responsibility or not.

[Forty Two]

especially in stuff that did not happen... China was never colonized, though it was somewhat oppressed with the Opium wars and until the start of WWII.

the European colonialists just liked to call them "concessions" and "enclaves."

[tuco]

We did good for ourselves. No sane person can argue that. It was hard work too. And now when we reap the benefits and some poor sods want a share (migrate), we say... are you crazy? Swim back. We call it European values, or even Christian values.

[rainbow]

When an oppressed people lash out, it's not oppression, it's justice.

Fanon?

I'm impressed.

[Svartalf]

As in Frantz fanon, I don't thing 42 even knows of him...

[Seth]

Seth, as a result of this post: http://www.rationalia.com/forum/viewtop ... 4#p1638994
and a number of other reported posts, after a recent reminder, you are suspended for a period of one week.

Thank you for that. I certainly didn't take it for a joke. It will be good to have some clear air around here for a week.

Ah! That felt REALLY good...you know, getting your goat like that after all your personal insults. Perhaps you'll have a mini-stroke or two as a result. It was worth the time off, which I used to do my taxes.

And THAT, my dear rEv, is what "trolling" ACTUALLY consists of, not merely stating contrarian opinions that you don't like and can't rebut.

Not only that, but it also highlighted again the inability of the Mods to perform their duties in a rational and even-handed manner by banning you for a week for your insults directed at me...and simply dismissing without any action whatsoever the multiple personal attacks I reported. Not that I expected them to do anything else.

So fuck all y'all.