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Postby slamminshaun on Wed May 16, 2012 10:51 am

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JMT wrote:I didn't have the patience to finish it because it got so repetitive and doesn't show your progress, but I could see where it was going. Looks like it attempts to prove you are racist by assuming that you will subconsciously press a key with a negative connotation due to race of the politician pictured. So, what if just you hate the politician and press the wrong key? Then, it seems to ask loaded questions like, "Do ____ people deserve their problems?" Um, what if I think that sometimes individuals bring problems upon themselves, which that has nothing to do collectively with race? But they don't list that as an answer choice.


Exactly, you nailed it. The poll is a sham, not seeking to measure results, but fabricate them. Bad premises lead to bad conclusions. In this case, you have to first start with the premise that individuals don't exist in order to take the poll. If you don't start from that premise, the poll won't make any sense to you. The author is starting with the opposite premise of collectivism, which is ironically the philosophy at the root of all racism. His poll is actually promoting racism because it's his collectivist premises that make racism possible.
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Postby Lola on Wed May 16, 2012 11:19 am

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I clicked on it but didn't have time...

Everyone is entitled to their opinion. I don't consider myself racist.
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Postby coach on Wed May 16, 2012 9:59 pm

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Yep, all the sociology experts are going to come on and explain why it didn't come out the way they wanted it to. But, it's just excuses, you really have no idea what you're talking about.
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Postby pod on Thu May 17, 2012 1:42 am

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If it makes you happy, we'll all don Klan robes and march down Washington Avenue next weekend.
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Postby SWANK on Thu May 17, 2012 2:18 am

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pod wrote:If it makes you happy, we'll all don Klan robes and march down Washington Avenue next weekend.



I double 'ding dong' dare you...!
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Postby pod on Thu May 17, 2012 8:57 am

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Jimbo thinks we're participants in the Nuremberg rally for some reason.
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Postby LeVeL on Thu May 17, 2012 9:33 am

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SWANK wrote:
pod wrote:If it makes you happy, we'll all don Klan robes and march down Washington Avenue next weekend.



I double 'ding dong' dare you...!


Don't I wish he would...
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Postby pod on Thu May 17, 2012 10:09 am

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That goes for you too. Just because we don't support hip-hop or urban culture here, we're automatically racists. Pot kettle black, all that jazz. If you're that damn adamant on the culture, start posting things relevant to it. I won't stop you. I'm not here for content creation, that's your job. And Jimbo's too.

That's one thing I actually loathe, is "white guilt". You know, the non-blacks who claim to like hip-hop and urban culture just because of some assumed racial guilt from generations ago. Get over yourselves. Like what you want and not what Clear Channel and MTV tell you to with all their smarmy PSAs.

And I totally see what this post was about. Jimbo wanted to out us as the racist scumbags he thinks we are, just because we don't support the more egregious behavior of Urban Beach Week.

More and more, I think the lead character from "God Bless America" has a point.

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Postby coach on Thu May 17, 2012 12:04 pm

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My goal is only to expand your minds and your horizons.

And to fuck with you for my own entertainment.

Actually, I don't think anybody here is overtly or purposefully racist, not even icon or LeveL. However, I do think learning more about oneself is a good thing.

Plus, I knew you guys would react exactly the way you did, so it was funny (to me).
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Postby pod on Thu May 17, 2012 12:06 pm

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I'm sure you did. It's easy to assume things after the fact. The test itself was poorly written, even from an ergonomic standpoint. "Go as fast as you can and hit these two arbitrary keys on your keyboard..."
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