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MissMonika wrote:

It hasn't aired yet, that's why. It'll air on the 19th

WOW! Miss Monika's pretty smart for a blonde!! :hehe: [/list:u]

Sorry! I forgot to say yesterday.....Congrats LittleMissFab! :thumbsup: :applaud: :victory:

On your new job of course! :mrgreen: Wishing you much success! :say_gdluck:

Enna wrote: I meant the entire white race doesn't get blamed or attacked when one white person commits a crime.

Im sorry, but I feel that is a sweeping generalization, Enna. With its own racist overtones, inadvertent or not. You have just stated all us or even most of us whites feel that way. Untrue.
First off there really isnt an entire "white race". I am white, Im also half Jewish and have regularly encountered racism my entire life.
Jews are white and were blamed by the Germans to almost complete extermination level. The Germans were also white.
Fanatical murderous creeps are fanatical murderous creeps.
That certainly does not include the entire race of anyone.
Im rather shocked that you find it that way in NY which is the most enlightened part of America IMO.

This happened yesterday at my old high school:Lockdown focus shifts to juvenile court
By Kevin Woster, Journal staff
RAPID CITY — The 15-year-old who shut down schools throughout the city Tuesday morning with a false report of a parking-lot gunman at Rapid City Central High School now faces criminal charges in juvenile court.


Because of his age, itfs unlikely the public will ever officially know who he is or what punishment he receives. But the impact of his trumped-up tale about seeing an armed person in the school parking lot gave school and law-enforcement officials a surprise test in emergency-response protocols.

After the teen told a school security officer that he saw a male with a gun in the Central parking lot just after 9:30 a.m., school officials locked down the building, and law enforcement officers swarmed around the school.

Police searched the high school, then evacuated the students across Mount Rushmore Road North to Rushmore Plaza Civic Center. All other public schools in the city were locked down until 12:10 p.m.
[/list:u] Kid has way too much time on his hands :shakehead:

bmwracer wrote:Yup... But the timing of it... :sweat:

Really bad timing indeed. Maybe they'll announce today they'll stop driving on the wrong side of the road. :sweat: I've heard he didn't make it. They had only 53 known shooting last year. source They have about the same amount of shooting for the entire country in a year, then Philadelphia has in a month, maybe even less...

Enna wrote:I know that race is an issue everywhere in the world. I meant the entire white race doesn't get blamed or attacked when one white person commits a crime.

They do. Just maybe not over here. Every time there's a crime near the military base in Okinawa, Japan or if a military member is guilty, the entire personnel is found guilty and local people wants to burn the place down. Racism and intolerance is everywhere, it's just less focus on the majority.



Congrats on your new job littlemissfab. :woot: :applaud: :yippee: :drink:

littlemissfab wrote:How come Hotelier is not in D-addicts? :puppydog:

oh yeah, got a job already. Immigration paralegal. how apt.

Congrats, girl. :hug: :woot: How are you liking it?

@Eve: I think what Enna means is that when a white individual does something, the MEDIA doesn't typecast ALL white people, whereas if a "coloured" person does something, then ALL coloured people are typecasted. Which I would have to agree with to some extent. I think it really does depend on where you're located. I mean, look at the terrorist attacks. My brother got stopped at a baseball game once and checked (patted down), even tho we're Christians... Whereas if a terrorist were white, I doubt this would have happened. Mind you, I'm in agreement with what you said. It's not always the race, but there are so many other factors.

@Enna: I get what you're saying as well, but I do see why Eve has a point. I've grown up in a racist community and I DO find myself more sensitive to this kinda thing, as you do. It's just a sticky situation and I think we all need to word what we're saying carefully. In the end, we ALL stereotype. It's part of human nature.

Gehh, if I got a dollar for every time I had to tell a noob to use the search engine, I'd be pretty well off about now.... :bleh:

Lazy kids these days. :shakehead:

I've seen a few new dupe threads in the same page as the other threads in the Learn Japanese section. Looking for something that was already answered. Obviously, some don't search much... :shakehead:

Hi littlemissfab! Nice to see you back here :woot:

Wynter wrote: Which I would have to agree with to some extent. I think it really does depend on where you're located. I mean, look at the terrorist attacks. My brother got stopped at a baseball game once and checked (patted down), even tho we're Christians... Whereas if a terrorist were white, I doubt this would have happened. Mind you, I'm in agreement with what you said. It's not always the race, but there are so many other factors.

My full brother is white, he has dark skin and black hair, (I take after a Swedish grandparent so Im fair), he is also checked, pulled aside and patted down regularly everywhere since 9/11. He and I are both glad they are taking extra pains to prevent terrorism. He allowed extra time at the airports

tabana wrote:They do. Just maybe not over here. Every time there's a crime near the military base in Okinawa, Japan or if a military member is guilty, the entire personnel is found guilty and local people wants to burn the place down. Racism and intolerance is everywhere, it's just less focus on the majority.

That's exactly what I meant, Tabana. :)

tabana wrote: Congrats on your new job littlemissfab. :woot: :applaud: :yippee: :drink:

Congrats from me too, Little Miss!! :woot: :woot:

Eve wrote:
Im sorry, but I feel that is a sweeping generalization, Enna. With its own racist overtones, inadvertent or not. You have just stated all us or even most of us whites feel that way. Untrue.
First off there really isnt an entire "white race". I am white, Im also half Jewish and have regularly encountered racism my entire life.
Jews are white and were blamed by the Germans to almost complete extermination level. The Germans were also white.
Fanatical murderous creeps are fanatical murderous creeps.
That certainly does not include the entire race of anyone.
Im rather shocked that you find it that way in NY which is the most enlightened part of America IMO.

@Eve: I think you misread what I said to begin with. I never said I knew or could predict what most white folks feel like. My initial response was to MissMonika who told us that her neice who is Asian, I presume, was harrassed, by caucasain students at her school, not even 24 hours after the VA Tech shooting incidence, because she was Asian.

I don't need a lesson or definition on who is white and who isn't. Please give me some credit. Please don't put hateful or racicst words into my mouth that aren't there. When minorities in this country commit crimes there are some caucasians who decide to take their own form of justice to whomever might be a member of that same minority. There did I say it clearly enough for everybody now?

Wynter wrote:@Eve: I think what Enna means is that when a white individual does something, the MEDIA doesn't typecast ALL white people, whereas if a "coloured" person does something, then ALL coloured people are typecasted. Which I would have to agree with to some extent. I think it really does depend on where you're located. I mean, look at the terrorist attacks. My brother got stopped at a baseball game once and checked (patted down), even tho we're Christians... Whereas if a terrorist were white, I doubt this would have happened. Mind you, I'm in agreement with what you said. It's not always the race, but there are so many other factors.

@Enna: I get what you're saying as well, but I do see why Eve has a point. I've grown up in a racist community and I DO find myself more sensitive to this kinda thing, as you do. It's just a sticky situation and I think we all need to word what we're saying carefully. In the end, we ALL stereotype. It's part of human nature.

I think I worded my first statement To MissMon very clearly. Since I have been on this MB for quite some time and I tend to keep a cool head and am polite, open and fair minded, I would have hoped that I would have been given the benefit of the doubt in my opinions. I wasn't attacking white people or trying to define who is or isn't white. If I am not mistaken caucasian is considered one of the major groups of races in this world. Isn't Jewish a religion and not a race?

My first reaction to finding out that the shooter at VA Tech was from South Korea, was one of dread, for all Asian young men and possibly women, in this country who might wind up getting attacked or even killed themselves because some fool was gonna take it upon themselves to carry out their own vigilante justice. I know that often times the media does not help in this type of situation. That is what my comments were in reference to.

This week has been tense enough. First there was the Don Imus bigoted and sexist comment. There is still fallout from that. Then some of us have had to live through a Nor'Easter storm. Then we have all experienced the sadness and tragedy of the worst massacre in the USA at VA Tech.

Now can we all just go back to being our usual silly selves? Because I am done trying to explain myself on this topic. PM me if you want to discuss it further although I hope we can all just drop it, and know that there was never any malicoius intent on my part, in any of my comments, to anyone on this message board. :)

Enna wrote:

I think I worded my first statement To MissMon very clearly. Since I have been on this MB for quite some time and I tend to keep a cool head and am polite, open and fair minded, I would have hoped that I would have been given the benefit of the doubt in my opinions. I wasn't attacking white people or trying to define who is or isn't white. If I am not mistaken caucasian is considered one of the major groups of races in this world. Isn't Jewish a religion and not a race?

My first reaction to finding out that the shooter at VA Tech was from South Korea, was one of dread, for all Asian young men and possibly women, in this country who might wind up getting attacked or even killed themselves because some fool was gonna take it upon themselves to carry out their own vigilante justice. I know that often times the media does not help in this type of situation. That is what my comments were in reference to.

This week has been tense enough. First there was the Don Imus bigoted and sexist comment. There is still fallout from that. Then some of us have had to live through a Nor'Easter storm. Then we have all experienced the sadness and tragedy of the worst massacre in the USA at VA Tech.

Now can we all just go back to being our usual silly selves? Because I am done trying to explain myself on this topic. PM me if you want to discuss it further although I hope we can all just drop it, and know that there was never any malicoius intent on my part, in any of my comments, to anyone on this message board. :)

For the record, I never said you were being racist, so I apologize if I wasn't clear that I was in agreement with you... :ashamed: :glomp:

I also don't think we should be afraid to get into debates, so power to use all. :woot:

Moving on... I think the acid from the pineapple I just ate is eating through my tongue. :beaten: :bleh:

Wynter wrote:I think the acid from the pineapple I just ate is eating through my tongue. :beaten: :bleh:

Don't dip them in battery acid beforehand.

i was listening to some health segment thing on npr this afternoon, and i think i've got some liver issues. maybe illl go pay a visit to the doc.

krim wrote:i was listening to some health segment thing on npr this afternoon, and i think i've got some liver issues. maybe illl go pay a visit to the doc.

EEP! That would be wise... :sweat:

Enna wrote:@Eve: I think you misread what I said to begin with.

My apologies if I misunderstood, Enna.

krim wrote:i was listening to some health segment thing on npr this afternoon, and i think i've got some liver issues. maybe illl go pay a visit to the doc.

Yikes. Sorry to hear that. I hope you are ok. :fingerscrossed:

From what I've heard broccoli, Brussel sprouts, cauliflower, cabbage and freshly squeezed lemon juice in hot water is good for it. Stuff like beer / alcohol and illegal substances = bad.

*looks in fridge*

it's all beer


*sigh*


maybe im just a hypocondriac... :bleh:

:hehe:

A few beers might solve the problem. ;)

A lot of shows have this effect on people. It's like every time the nurse started talking about lice in school, everybody started scratching their heads even tho we didn't have any. but hey, if you're not sure, go see a doctor. Better be safe than sorry.

tabana wrote::hehe:

A few beers might solve the problem. ;)

A lot of shows have this effect on people. It's like every time the nurse started talking about lice in school, everybody started scratching their heads even tho we didn't have any. but hey, if you're not sure, go see a doctor. Better be safe than sorry.

Yup, and if you're going off symptoms, they usually overlap a variety of things. Mebbe you just have severe gas.