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2018-04-14 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by Besoeker 2018-04-14 06:49|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Scripps College President Lara Tiedens sent out the following email to students this afternoon:
“The pool party has been postponed due to concerns about student safety in the wake of numerous phone calls and emails from the public expressing hostility and threatening physical violence.”

Postponed due to 'safety' issues and not because racial segregation is an un-American idea that should have been stomped out in the '70s.

Does this mean race is no longer simply a social construct and is back to being a thing again? It's hard keep up. Maybe I need a safe space to get away from all these whiny-ass self-identified POCs.

Also, is 'POC' pronounced like pock, poke or pook?

Posted by SteveS 2018-04-14 10:40|| 2018-04-14 10:40|| Front Page Top

#2 "People of color." LOL. Don't they understand that white is a color? Actually, based on luminosity, white is ALL the colors.

Posted by Scooter McGruder 2018-04-14 10:48|| 2018-04-14 10:48|| Front Page Top

#3 Scooter, you know perfectly well the label "colored" was used to discriminate against Blacks.

I don't like the reverse racism, but stop trying to pretend there wasn't real racism against Blacks that used the word.

Posted by Snoluting Phomoth8901 2018-04-14 11:32|| 2018-04-14 11:32|| Front Page Top

#4 And now they are embracing it. Instead of 'Colored' they use 'People of Color'. In the end they mean the same thing. People of a particular color.

Posted by CrazyFool 2018-04-14 11:52|| 2018-04-14 11:52|| Front Page Top

#5 but stop trying to pretend there wasn't real racism against Blacks that used the word.

A common debating technique nowadays is to hallucinate that your opponent said something and then argue against that. This is a fine example.

Posted by SteveS 2018-04-14 12:00|| 2018-04-14 12:00|| Front Page Top

#6 the NAACP could not be reached for comment.

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-04-14 12:18|| 2018-04-14 12:18|| Front Page Top

#7 Black Culture: Abortions killing black babies, black men killing other black men, single moms in poverty, rap/hiphop music with misogynist and cop-hating lyrics, drugs, crime and incarceration. And they blame Whitey and demand segregation.

Olde Southern (Democrat) KKK members would applaud

Posted by Frank G 2018-04-14 12:24|| 2018-04-14 12:24|| Front Page Top

#8 Olde Southern (Democrat) KKK members would applaud

They love when a plan comes together?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-04-14 12:27|| 2018-04-14 12:27|| Front Page Top

#9 It's all just a bit redundant and tiring in my umble opinion.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-04-14 12:38|| 2018-04-14 12:38|| Front Page Top

#10 "“Most POCs at any of the Claremont Colleges (which are historically PWIs (Predominantly White Institutions)) interact and enjoy interacting with people of all races (obviously including white people), but sometimes it’s nice to have a time to be with people who identify in the same or similar way that you do,” the student said."

You mean like in the workplace? The front of the bus?

Millennials, apparently, look to history as a reparaism punch-list rather than understanding how society's change.

Posted by Anomalous Sources 2018-04-14 16:46|| 2018-04-14 16:46|| Front Page Top

#11 Minor detail not mentioned by the college president? (found on Twitchy):

Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Title VI states, “Schools and colleges that receive federal funds must operate without discriminating when it comes to race, color, and national origin.”

Posted by JHH 2018-04-14 17:19|| 2018-04-14 17:19|| Front Page Top

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