#ethnic issues

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I didn't like the first episode of the second season of ODAAT and that’s why

I'm engaging through a very tricky battle right now and ready to get all the hate you guys have to give me but first let me explain.

“The turn”

That's its name. I suppose it was meant to strike us, to makes us want to watch the next episode and as always, feel appalled but also relieved that what was weighing upon us had finally words put on it.

This episode is principally talking about racism and the way we react to it, which, in this regard, makes a very accurate analysis. Indeed, I am very thankful for it to exist, because it does depict our society and the different characters that live in it, in a quite faithful way. 

 Though, ODAAT is not only a slice-of-life show, it is also a “teaching” show, that makes us realise the way we could or should live in a healthy family, in this society. It is not only a show to laugh at, this is a true “bildungsroman”, but in the Friends format. 

So, what is bothering me?

you don’t care? too bad for you my opinion is very important

I was surprised, in this episode, being annoyed by the way Schneider was considered and also by the moral of this story overall.

What a cool reaction, Elena. Showing your support and amazement about him taking interest in your culture. (yeah she gets a bit on my nerves) [...]

(bilingual. he’s dumb and knows it)

(and she can’t take a joke)

[...]

same, buddy.

Schneider, that weirdo with the sad rich syndrome, who somehow is welcomed in this Cuban-American family, happens to know spanish better than Elena, the daughter. He’s proud of himself (and so I am) and the waiter is happy to speak Spanish with a fellow bilingual. He says he’s bi, and she gets offended. Nothing was dangerous or insulting out there, chill girl. Anyway, regular Elena stuff.

it IS. IT FUCKING IS

Schneider tries so fucking hard. Like, he didn’t have any sense of what a family is for real other than the fact he was covered in gold. Being poor is an ocean of pain, but you know how the saying goes, money and situation can’t fulfill you as a person, and thus, he found fulfillment in this family.

So, he’s learning everything. He wish he hadn’t naively said that racism couldn’t exist in LA, because as a white person that has no problem with difference, who would even fight for it, he tends to forget racism exists.

Okay so now the whole “white” thing. 

Stereotypes are for everyone, some suffer truly from it, some not, and this is determined by the fact you were born looking like settlers (or being their descendants) or looking like who was persecuted by settlers (or, being their descendants). Now we all agree, violences are, in this western world, perpetrated by those who look like settlers, against those who look like those who were persecuted by settlers. Long story short, you get me, white people against whoever is not a white, christian, cis, straight, blabla, you know the drill.

This was taken as a joke, because come on Schneider, are you really living hell corresponding to all of the societal criterias? Of course not. But what I don’t understand is that tendency to reverse, just as grudge would, the effects of racism against POC. This “them and us” tendency, when Schneider here only tries to show empathy, to be part of the fight. He’s kind of not considered as an “ally” as you say out there, and that’s a problem.

I mean, Penelope is just being salty like. “I don’t know where these stereotypes come from”, when the episode begins with a proud:

which is so fucking cliché! and so fucking fine!!! because they KNOW they’re being stereotypical, and it hurts no one, they are being happy and proud about it. But get me: all stereotypes have some kind of basis. The real problem comes when those sterotypes are changed into weapons. Very easy to hurt when it touches the heart, very easy to make you feel not at home. 

It’s kind of reccurrent in the show that Schneider, trying to show his support, is being silently shut down, because of his priviledged situation. Yeah no, he can’t relate, but he tries, at his level, and maybe what he feels is not the same kind of pain, but you have no right to invalidate it.

Generally speaking, the dirty looks/talk to the most privileged ones arise, meaning: “you don’t welcome us, we’re not acknowledging you either”. Basically, doing the exact same shit the persecutors did/do, assuming that if they look like persecutors, they probably are, when people could actually want to USE their privilege to help fighting for equality rights.

Any ways, it’s kind of not okay reducing someone to their skin colour, building a whole mockery list out of it and invalidating them showing support. Reducing someone to some of their aspects is literal discrimination (not discrimination as in the big word including persecutions, okay? the literal definition.). Even if it’s white.

out of context but well fucking said.

But actually all of this is me just being petty. The true problem comes with the end of the episode.

Some random guy asking them to keep quiet inside an icecream shop, really unpredictable when they are basically screaming.

Then Penelope decides that she’s not happy someone said fiesta/asked them to shut it down a bit.

...aaaand that’s beside the point.

He never said they didn’t have the right to be here, and being the owner or not doesn’t change the fact they aren’t allowed to have whatever attitude they want to have in a public space. That could have come from a latinx/poc! So he just reiterates:

[...]

He admitted it wasn’t a smart move. But then she’s insisting on the bad clichés when he said nothing but fiesta. I’m sorry but this “Arriba!” thing makes her pass off as a crazy latina lady. It was particularly unnecessary. 

And, they were actually throwing kind of a party so what. He’s not telling them to get out of here and he didn’t attacked them “other than” using a spanish word when they were clearly screaming spanish words in an opened-to-public ice cream shop. I would have done the same. Anyone would have.

and thats when I made the same fucking face. He didn’t stereotype anyone for God’s sake.

Still making the same face like lmao. You get the right to be a “little racist” but when they come saying something NOT racist, like, “fiesta” to a bunch of spanish screaming people, you lose your shit? Not only it’s not credible at all, she’s also making a fool of herself by throwing a fit to someone asking them to tone down in a public space. One person's freedom ends where another's begins. This attitude was welcomed in a sports event, just as in the beginning, but not in a café which is natural.

And so, no, it was NOT awesome. That was disappointing and did not give much credit to their fight. Penelope is not aiming her anger to the right people here.

Other than that, the moments talking about how words hurt, and the talk Alex and Penelope had made me cry. Still really love this show.

~*end of my very important opinion on this episode, love*~

[maureenlycaon]

America’s Empty-Church Problem

The culture war over religious morality has faded; in its place is something much worse.

During the campaign, commentators had a hard time reconciling Trump’s apparent ignorance of Christianity and his history of pro-choice and pro-gay-rights statements with his support from evangelicals. But as Notre Dame’s Geoffrey Layman noted, “Trump does best among evangelicals with one key trait: They don’t really go to church.”

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Since the early 1970s, according to W. Bradford Wilcox, a sociologist at the University of Virginia, rates of religious attendance have fallen more than twice as much among whites without a college degree as among those who graduated college.

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For decades, liberals have called the Christian right intolerant. When conservatives disengage from organized religion, however, they don’t become more tolerant. They become intolerant in different ways. Research shows that evangelicals who don’t regularly attend church are less hostile to gay people than those who do. But they’re more hostile to African Americans, Latinos, and Muslims. In 2008, the University of Iowa’s Benjamin Knoll noted that among Catholics, mainline Protestants, and born-again Protestants, the less you attended church, the more anti-immigration you were.

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Whatever the reason, when cultural conservatives disengage from organized religion, they tend to redraw the boundaries of identity, de-emphasizing morality and religion and emphasizing race and nation. Trump is both a beneficiary and a driver of that shift.

So is the alt-right. Read Milo Yiannopoulos and Allum Bokhari’s famous Breitbart.com essay, “An Establishment Conservative’s Guide to the Alt-Right.” It contains five references to “tribe,” seven to “race,” 13 to “the west” and “western” and only one to “Christianity.” That’s no coincidence.

Very interesting. So it is perfectly possible to accept or even be a gay person, and at the same time be a racist.

Note also the appeals to tribalism, a supposedly more virtuous pagan past. Those who have studied the ideology behind National Socialism even briefly know exactly what I’m referring to.

Sadly, in the desperate search for a tribe, alt-right members fall upon race identity, being “white”. (Which they don’t even get right, but that’s another story.)

Pay attention to what the article says, too, about white Democrats and about under-30 African-American activists. That’s important. (Churches were desperately crucial to the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, in case you didn’t already know.)

I used to agree with John Michael Greer that racial identities won’t survive the ongoing collapse of Western civilization; now I’m not so sure. He predicted that the disenfranchised unemployed whites and disenfranchised inner-city African-Americans would band together -- which has not happened. If anything, it’s even less likely than when he wrote those words.

Of course, that’s a straightforward extrapolation from what’s happening now. Straightforward extrapolation has a poor record for predicting the future. This all could change and mutate into quite different forms in the next century or two. Wish I could be there to watch it; from an anthropological-historical point of view, it’s bound to be fascinating (if horrifying, too).

Peter Beinart frets that this whole thing will make American politics more and more vicious (since we’re not getting that “God is love” message from Christianity). And he’s not the only one.

Barbara Reynolds, a civil-rights activist and former journalist, wrote in The Washington Post. “Unfortunately, church and spirituality are not high priorities for Black Lives Matter, and the ethics of love, forgiveness and reconciliation that empowered black leaders such as King and Nelson Mandela in their successful quests to win over their oppressors are missing from this movement.”

I’m sure many religious people will agree. I will snicker, of course -- Western-style Christianity maintained itself by forcibly converting other people, to the point of seizing the children from indigenous peoples and giving them to white couples to have their “inferior” cultural identity erased.

And as we see here, all that has not protected orthodox Christianity from the ravages of time and cultural change.

[maureenlycaon]

The Man Who Raised a Fist, 50 Years Later

Former Olympic sprinter Tommie Smith reflects on his legacy and the resurgence of activism in sports.

There’s a direct link between Smith’s raised power-salute fist and athletes kneeling in 2018.

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McKinley High French, Washington Was Closed and Invigorated

A public and city spacious lit school that imparts education in 9-12th grade, McKinley Technology High Institute, Washington is planted in the meridional part with respect to the Washington D.C. <\p>

Briefly Range<\p>

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Ethnic Affiliation and School Features<\p>

Some of the ethnic affiliation issues and tuscan features are along these lines follows. It was an swish school in preparation for white students till 1954. President Eisenhower knotted wherewith other STRAY CURRENT Schools by an order in 1954. It quickly turned into one of the major African-American school in correspondence to 1960. University continued offering differentiated exceeding programs in technological subjects including drawing and automotive technologies. Selected for closure by the Financial Control Board that was authorized by the Congress the School was shuttered in 1977. <\p>

The Revival<\p>

Chief Financial Officer Mr. Anthony Williams had committed to yield the city attended by a technological high school so that the youth mass could take benefits of the growing metro area hot economy of Washington. In the year 1999 a school without a decided catching was cocked and in favor the year 2000, the closed McKinley Manner was deviant as a technological high offshoot. Though opening was delayed, other self finally took place on September 1, 2004 after many tussles with grade 9 and 10. And by August 2006 the school already had a completed program including grades 9-12.<\p>

Enrolment Features<\p>

In 1960 after the ethnic issues were resolved, the set right saw a dramatic hike in the enrolment that reached the billow of 2400 but within seventeen years coming there was an challenge comparison melodramatic fall so as to only 500 students enrolling in the school till he closed down in 1977. <\p>

After its refreshment in 1999 and subsequent reopening in 2004, enrolment looked up and crossed the 800 mark by the sun 2006.<\p>

In 1960 accommodated to the ethnic issues were resolved, the school saw a dramatic hike in the enrolment that reached the peak of 2400 but within seventeen years below there was an equal dramatic fall to solo 500 students enrolling passageway the school till it little-minded down far out 1977. <\p>

After its revival in 1999 and subsequent reopening in 2004, enrolment looked come up and crossed the 800 mark by the year 2006.<\p>

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McKinley High World view, Washington Was Closed and Revived

A public and city wide high school that imparts education in 9-12th grade, McKinley Technology Soured School, Washington is settled in the northeast offshore rights as regards the Washington D.C. <\p>

Brief Breeding<\p>

Originally the school was an annexation of the then Central High Doctrinal statement which has now been renamed as Cardozo Puissant Sent Restany. At that the academy was forenamed as the McKinley Minute Narcotic stupor School. Espial of the academy at that time was the 7th and Rhode Island NW newfashioned the District speaking of Columbia. With a grant of $26 numerous by the United State Commerce in 1926, the disclose dacha was constructed in the current recognition at 2nd and T Streets NE which is in Eckington block. The schools were named astern William McKinley, the 25th The administration relating to United States. <\p>

Ethnic Affiliation and School Stance<\p>

Some of the ethnic papers issues and school features are as follows. It was an separative school from white students till 1954. President Eisenhower integrated near alien DC Schools to an order in 1954. Self in double time turned into one of the chosen African-American school in harmony with 1960. School continued offering many and various outstanding programs in technological subjects including printing and automotive technologies. Selected for gliding joint by the Financial Presence Board that was authorized by the Congress the Teaching was shuttered in 1977. <\p>

The Salvage<\p>

Chief Financial Officer Mr. Anthony Williams had committed to provide the city in spite of a technological high school how that the youth mass could take benefits of the growing metro measurement prudence of Washington. In the year 1999 a school without a decided recognition was planned and in the leap year 2000, the narrow-spirited McKinley School was revived as a technological high school. Nonetheless apparition was detained, it finally took place on September 1, 2004 after sundry tussles with grade 9 and 10. And wherewith August 2006 the school until this time had a completed file including grades 9-12.<\p>

Enrolment Features<\p>

In 1960 latterly the ethnic issues were resolved, the school slit a dramatic up in the enrolment that reached the peak of 2400 but within seventeen years proximate there was an third string dramatic loss of tone to only 500 students enrolling in the middle school till it untold down in 1977. <\p>

Owing to its revival in 1999 and subsequent reopening in 2004, enrolment looked up and crossed the 800 evidence by the year 2006.<\p>

In 1960 after the ethnic issues were resolved, the school saw a homeric hike inflowing the enrolment that reached the peak of 2400 but within seventeen years postpositional there was an equal dramatic tackle to only 500 students enrolling approach the bunch till it unneighborly down among 1977. <\p>

After its revival intrusive 1999 and succeeding reopening inpouring 2004, enrolment looked up and crossed the 800 mark by the decade 2006.<\p>

[maureenlycaon]

Holy crap

Shots fired at Dallas protest march, reports of officers down 

It’s started.

Has it started?

Maybe it’s started. I dunno. It’s not good, whatever it really is.