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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (721531)	6/17/2013 5:54:59 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583725

I'm sure we can both agree that Ted tends to fixate on the racism and the hatred. Yes we can agree on that. Even more he makes crap up about people just to label them, which is a hateful and racist act all on its own. That kind of behavior is not uncommon. I tend to avoid sheltered groups these days but yes when you get a homogeneous group together they tend toward bashing those who are different than them (religious, ethnic, political, gender, sexual orientation, relatives, etc) . Its called gossip, backbiting, bigotry, racism, etc. Most of us have seen or experience it... However, I find tejek's accounting unbelievable, and typically designed to direct hatred toward white men. It should be obvious to anyone who has frequented this thread, tejek is attempting to inflame radicalism to forward his partisan agenda, there is no more to it than that. I know what it means to be radicalized, its what happened to some of us conscientious people who objected to VietNam, supported civil rights, and the needed social movements of that era. I am cautious now about the machinations of radicalism, after seeing the hateful and destructive results in the modern world. Change can be constructive but some people (tejek) just busy themselves with inflaming hatred against their perceived opponents. Nothing good comes of that. It is important to call people like him on it, always.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (721531)	6/17/2013 6:18:54 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1583725

Less, I'm pretty sure that Ted exaggerated somewhat, My friend, Esther, stepped away twice. Each time she did people approached and made a derogatory comment. No exaggeration. And just for the record, Esther was a good looking woman who was a very good dresser.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (721531)	6/17/2013 8:00:54 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583725

Racism is nothing but harmful. How can something so insidious be exploited when it is nothing but harmful from the start? How can gain from exploitation even be imagined? How and more importantly, why? Racism has its roots in segmentation theory. The idea is to segment groups, and make one weaker while ensuring their work or efforts go to the benefit of the stronger group. In order to do that you have to promote prejudices and create stereo types against the weakened group. If these prejudices and stereo types were to be eliminated the benefits to the stronger group would also be eliminated. Exploitation comes in the form of perpetuating stereo types for the benefit of some entity. Who stands to gain by perpetuating the stereotype of oppression of African Americans? Easy answer is those who want to benefit by the perpetuation of this stereo type. The media perpetuates it in part with films like Boys in the Hood. Perpetuating negative stereotypes is a self-serving act. Unfortunately it can infect the minds and attitudes of young people who then act out the negative. I knew a Peace Corp worker twenty years ago who told me he went on his first mission to help a village of nice decent people who needed help to get clean drinking water in their village center. He fell in love with the local culture so he returned to the village in about 1990 after they had satellite TV. He noticed teen aged tough guys coming out of the huts who looked and acted just like LA gangsters. The question remains, why do that? The consequence of maintaining racist stereotypes in popular culture leads us towards an increasingly dysfunctional society. We all know or should know that by now. The answer is in who benefits from this. It would be white culture in this case, and it once was the case, but the country has by majority approval endorsed equal treatment of all and passed laws to ensure compliance. So there is nothing left of institutional racism. Privately the people in our culture have followed suit with increasing diversity in nearly every definable group. However, people are born into a condition of animus of one unto another. Its just who we are, human beings. Most people try hard to rise above that negative tendancy and to live a noble life of decency in the face of such temptation. The best we can do is to encourage one another not to act hatefully with regard to silly differences. We should have stopped painting bad guys according to their color by now. We've stopped making all the bad guys wear black in movies. Now we have politicos, like tejek, who blatantly exploit the stereo type to secure a voting base, with non-stop claims of racial hatred, only now with the bad guys wearing white. Again, who gains from that. Not white people and not people of color, both of which get tagged with negative stereo types. tejek knows the answer and so do I.