#rcism

[phroyd]

Decisions,  Decisions!

Phroyd

[gwydionmisha]

The Social Shaming of Racists Is Working

Now, when white people assert private authority over public space, there’s a cost.

[luna-paisley]

this is what we indians go through everyday living in singapore mainly  because of the racist chinese people 

[phroyd]

America’s Racism Has An Additional New Target!

Phroyd

[eclecticcreative]

Apostrophe in Irish Surnames...

A male's surname generally takes the form Ó/Ua (meaning "from") or Mac ("son") followed by the genitive case of a name, as in Ó Dónaill ("from/of Dónall") or Mac Gearailt ("son of Gerald").

A son has the same surname as his father. A female's surname replaces Ó with Ní (reduced from Iníon Uí - "daughter of") and Mac with Nic (reduced from Iníon Mhic - "daughter of the son of"); in both cases the following name undergoes lenition. However, if the second part of the surname begins with the letter C or G, it is not lenited after Nic. Thus the daughter of a man named Ó Dónaill has the surname Ní Dhónaill and the daughter of a man named Mac Gearailt has the surname Nic Gearailt. When anglicised, the name can remain O' or Mac, regardless of gender.

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In Gaeltacht (Irish-speaking) areas it remains customary to use a name composed of the first name, followed by the father's name in the genitive case, followed by the name of the paternal grandfather, also in the genitive. Thus Seán Ó Cathasaigh (Sean O'Casey), son of Pól, son of Séamus, would be known to his neighbours as Seán Phóil Shéamuis. Occasionally, if the mother or grandmother was a well-known person locally, her name may be used instead of that of the father or grandfather. If the mother's name is used, then that of the maternal grandfather (or potentially grandmother) follows it, for example, Máire Sally Eoghain.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_name

It doesn’t mean “of”, it means FROM. The O apostrophe is for an Irish word, Ó, and the Irish word has an accent over the o, so the apostrophe is the denote the accent over the O. Even in the Gaeltacht community it is a shortening of Phóil, not of. This goes to show all of those white people getting uppity about black and other people’s names with apostrophes about only two usages (taking out letters and contractions) need to zip it. Irish surnames break that rule too.

[dailykos]

Powerful statement released by University of Oklahoma president after racist frat video released

Earlier this morning, University of Oklahoma President David Boren released a very powerful and stern statement regarding the SAE ...

[seattlish]

Breaking news: the comments section is awful.

Some lady is suing Molly Moon's ice cream on Queen Anne because she claims it's making a rotten milk stench inside her tailoring shop. We're dubious of her claims, mostly because there is no smell in the world strong enough to overpower the scent of cranking out waffle cones, which Molly Moon's does all day every day.

^^Seriously though, ice cream is amazing.

However we defer to the courts of law to decide on this. Not willing to wait it out, or even stay on topic, are the keyboard quarterbacks over in the comment section, who, in stunning efficiency were able to turn a neighborly dispute into a racist sesspool in five threads flat. 

WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE? 

Everyone knows that people are dicks online, but UGH COME ON. Why the hell does it always have to be like this?

And then we remembered, it doesn't.

Websites that allow comments can remove people's abilities to comment anonymously or through avatars. People can be forced out of the shadows of bullshit and into the light of accountability. Anonymous commenting has it's place, and we are big supporters of privacy rights, but at some point, a website needs to be responsible for the culture it allows. What you permit, you tacitly condone. And right now, most websites condone a ton of racism, misogyny, classism, and general rudeness.

If local news stations want to elevate the level of discourse, which one would hope they would, they should consider going a new route with their comment sections. Force comment accounts to be certified and linked to some kind of verified reality. Huffington Post recently did so, in order to combat the toxic environment in their comment section. Local news can do it to.

Sure, you might some nasty people angry, but fuck them. They're assholes, and always will be. Disregard their feelings, as they have done to so many others.

Let's get better, together.

[worklabournewsresearch]

The Massive Liberal Failure on Race

"The nature of affirmative action is that it skims. It elevates the best and the brightest of a disadvantaged group while doing nothing to eliminate the root causes of that group’s disadvantage. Just as cherry-picking all the black kids with good SAT scores hasn’t brought about the end of racism, cherry-picking all the poor kids with good SAT scores isn’t going to do much to end poverty."

"Right now, the Democratic party and the racial justice movement are sitting on a junk heap of racial preference programs that aren’t doing anyone much good, and they lack the substantive programs they need: a true, New Deal–style reformation that repairs the infrastructure of our cities, ends mass incarceration, provides access to early education and paid family leave and job training and other programs that put all of black America on more solid footing."

Slate, February 10, 2014: "The Massive Liberal Failure on Race: Part 2: Affirmative action doesn’t work. It never did. It’s time for a new solution," by Tanner Colby