Why should people dislike a party because it's made up of primarily white people? Didn't white people build Western Civilization? Why are whites obligated to cede their countries built by their ancestors to other people from all around the world?
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"90% white"
How do you define white? You mean llike during the period when the law kept anyone of any race except Caucasion out of the country? Or during the period when certain Caucasion ethnicities (Irish, Jews, Italian) were, for the purposes of immigration, treated as non-whites?
And I love the list of those who built this country. How about the hard-rock laborers, teachers, artists, the soldiers, the intellectals, all those guys who really built and defended the country.
"Why should people dislike a party because it's made up of primarily white people?"
You know, when all those people (independent of their skin color) built America, they didn't built it for you, or to be the best they built it so they could have better lives - or because they were owned by somebody.
Why are whites obligated to cede their countries built by their ancestors to other people from all around the world?
Name one Western country where whites no longer have any say in the government. One might add that every single country populated by black people has, at one time or another, been obligated to cede the countries built by their ancestors to white people...
Right, all the slave and Chinese architects, engineers, artists, academia and businessmen must have built America, even though the country was 90% white in 1965 and is still 72% white.
So what you said about whites ceding control of the US to non-whites was a load of bullshit? Thank you.
@#1621548
Caucasian, not Caucasion.
Not that either spelling makes any sense. I don't know a single White person who has any Kavkaz ancestry. The word is a hangover from early 19th century goofy racist proto-anthropology.
@Anon
Your reply might have some merit if:
a) South Africa didn't have five white cabinet ministers;
@Hasan Prishtina:
@nazani14
Your comments regarding #1621548 were interesting. I looked up the Associated Press Style Guide (which all American newspapers, including the NY Times, uses). Apparently the word "Caucasian" ws first used by the philosopher Christoph Meiners in 1785 and originally had nothing to do with skin color. Meiner's apparently thought the Caucasians were the best looking people in the world, so therefore the best looking people were termed Caucasians.
The AP Style Guide defends the continued use of the word Caucasian as denoting a "race" of people (but notes the word should only be used in stories that pertain specifically to race, not as a casual identifier). I didn't write it, but since #1621548 was very much about race, I think it can be defended on that basis.
The meaning of words change over time. For example, if you had had used the word spell-checker in the middle ages, you would have been thought a witch refering to some sort of method of overseeing magic spells.
@anon
Odd, but according to the news, Canada (specifically Toronto) seems to just be coming out of a week long power blackout due to an ice storm up there. Of course, their Mayor is a crack addict, but there you go
I think you might be moving the goal post a bit there.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't there a regular problem in the US in places with rolling brown-outs? (and in the 90's, rolling black-outs...)
Glad to know the US isn't a Western Country...
@Anon
a) "no real say" is a weasel phrase that could be used about the government of any country on earth.
Why doesn't Germany have large power outages?
1.) It is reasonably sized unlike the US and Canada
2.) we buy our energy from france
3.) We produce our own should the french fail to deliver
4.) We have a tame climate by comparison
SO energetically speaking we are spoiled little brats. Not everyone can say that.
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