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From: Zen Cycle <funkmaster@hotmail.com>
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On 4/7/2025 8:07 PM, AMuzi wrote:
> On 4/7/2025 11:32 AM, Zen Cycle wrote:
>> On 4/7/2025 9:13 AM, AMuzi wrote:
>>> On 4/7/2025 5:55 AM, zen cycle wrote:
>>>> On 4/6/2025 8:13 PM, AMuzi wrote:
>>>>> On 4/6/2025 12:35 PM, Catrike Ryder wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> All shifting completes, now, at least on the work stand. It's 
>>>>>>> still seems a bit noisy and hesatant, but the job gets done. On 
>>>>>>> Sun, 6 Apr 2025 12:59:52 -0400, Frank Krygowski 
>>>>>>> <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 4/6/2025 8:13 AM, John B. wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Sun, 6 Apr 2025 07:46:16 -0400, zen cycle
>>>>>>>> <funkmasterxx@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Exceptions abound within all non-white or non-male examples. 
>>>>>>>>> This in no
>>>>>>>>> way affects the facts around institutionalized racism in this 
>>>>>>>>> country.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Although perhaps not as obvious but what is basically "racism" 
>>>>>>>> exists
>>>>>>>> in many societies. As an example, here (Thailand) Americans are
>>>>>>>> generally considered rather stupid and are normally over charged.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I agree that racism is extremely common throughout the world. I once
>>>>>>> read that human societies (from tribes up to nations) tend to 
>>>>>>> welcome
>>>>>>> single foreigners as interesting temporary visitors, but tend to get
>>>>>>> much more skeptical when, say, clusters show up to move in. And when
>>>>>>> larger numbers arrive, it's treated as an "invasion."
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The U.S. is an oddball country. Its origin was based on (mostly
>>>>>>> inadvertently) killing off the aboriginals, leaving much of the land
>>>>>>> unclaimed; then on importing (mostly) Europeans in wave after 
>>>>>>> wave to
>>>>>>> make productive use of the land.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> But each new wave went through the "invasion" gauntlet. "No Irish 
>>>>>>> Need
>>>>>>> Apply" and all that. But most - Irish, German, Italian, Polish, 
>>>>>>> etc. -
>>>>>>> were eventually able to blend in.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Those of African origin could not blend in unless they were white 
>>>>>>> enough
>>>>>>> to "pass." They're still considered part of an "invasion." And 
>>>>>>> yes, that
>>>>>>> attitude has been in our institutions for a long, long time.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> But racism in the USA today is most commonly practiced by so called
>>>>>> "people of color" and their white sycophants.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -- 
>>>>>> C'est bon
>>>>>> Soloman
>>>>>
>>>>> +1
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> horse shit
>>>
>>>
>>> Perhaps only because I am near to Chicago and familiar with Chicago 
>>> culture and politics, I think you discount Screwy Louie Farrakhan and 
>>> his ilk.
>>
>> And yet....
>>
>> https://michiganadvance.com/2024/07/22/we-love-hitler-we- love-trump- 
>> white-supremacists-march-through-howell/
>>
>> https://www.ctpublic.org/2025-01-10/nh-supreme-court-sides- with- 
>> white-supremacist-group-over-highway-banner-in-portsmouth
>>
>> https://www.brennancenter.org/events/do-police-care-about- white- 
>> supremacist-violence
>>
>> https://www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/politics- government/2025-01-08/u- 
>> s-attorneys-office-yellowstone- gunman-espoused-white-supremacist-views
>>
>>>
>>
>>
> 
> 
> Just saw this on the subject of racism and mental illness. Her writings 
> were suppressed for two years before finally leaking out.
> 
> https://nypost.com/2025/04/07/us-news/trans-nashville-school-shooter- 
> audrey-hale-ranted-about-wanting-to-kill-all-the-white-kids-in-newly- 
> revealed-diary-entries/
> 

Specious use of 'suppressed' duly noted and dismissed as specious, and 
it wasn't for two years.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/judge-orders-fbi-hand-over-trans-school-shooter-audrey-hale-manifesto

Also duly noted is the conflation of the act of an obviously disturbed 
individual versus a movement in the US:

https://www.adl.org/new-hate-and-old-changing-face-american-white-supremacy

and the (at best) complacency of the current US regime:

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-hosted-white-supremacist-nick-fuentes-mar-a-lago-reports-2022-11?op=1

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