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from 'one nation under siege' Wednesday, January 14, 2009 - 07:05 (Agree/Disagree?) video http://www.smokescreendesign.com/globalization.html (reply to this comment)

From Samuel Tuesday, January 20, 2009, 07:09 (Agree/Disagree?) http://www.theonion.com/content/radio_news/lazy_nation_fears_obama_will?utm_source=onion_rss_daily(reply to this comment)

from celestej Tuesday, January 13, 2009 - 03:06 (Agree/Disagree?) I found the part about people with "criminal records" very interesting.  For my own personal reasons I've always thought it was horribly wrong that employers were legally allowed to discriminate against people who have a felony, especially those who only have one, and got in trouble when they were very young.  My little brother was only seventeen but was tried as an adult for what most would consider a minor crime.  Now he has a record for the rest of his life.  So if you come from a bad home, get involved with the wrong people, and make one mistake as a teenager, you're considered a criminal by society for the rest of your life?  This system perpetuates a cycle of criminal behavior-  A kid gets out of jail, has a "record", can't find a job because no one wants to hire a felon, and has no choice but to return to a life of crime.  No second chances.  One mistake and you're fucked forever.  And they call this the land of the free.  (reply to this comment)

From neez Wednesday, January 14, 2009, 00:57 (Agree/Disagree?) You make a good point. That's a fairly large grey area though. I wonder if that includes white male ex-cons.(reply to this comment)

from rainy Friday, January 09, 2009 - 00:56 (Agree/Disagree?) I don't know what it feels like to be a racial minority, but I have to say, as a woman, I do not support the idea of positive discrimination. I just want a fair go- no more, no less. Sadly in many businesses, it is a boy's club and women are just not respected and it's very hard for women to advance. But my solution to this is just education. Let the old guard retire and hopefully the next generation will be able to shed the old patriarchal rubbish. But Neez, please don't give me the poor little white boy routine. I'm sick of it. "You just don't know what it's like being male, middle class and white..." Whatever small discrimination the laws may eventually impose upon you, you will never know the feeling of it being intrinsic in your culture. Of being treated as an ornament, a lesser brain, a sex object, etc. automatically by complete strangers or associates for no reason other than the fact that you were born with the wrong genitals. (reply to this comment)

From celestej Tuesday, January 13, 2009, 04:05 (Agree/Disagree?) Not disagreeing with you- our genitals might be considered the wrong ones in some business places, but they aren't being mutilated like those of women in Samalia.  In another place and time we would know how it really feels to be an object. Women in America have unparalleled equality with men compared to the rest of the world.(reply to this comment)

From neez Monday, January 12, 2009, 04:03 (Agree/Disagree?) Your mostly right, except about the sex object thing(good times..good times). But the point is they are saying its now ok to discriminate against a very specific group in order to somehow balance the oppression scales and thats just bullshit.(reply to this comment)

From Baxter Sunday, January 11, 2009, 16:09 (Agree/Disagree?) Ooooh..... bitterness! Just kidding. Please don't sic the angry white women on me! (reply to this comment)

From Ne Oublie Sunday, January 11, 2009, 06:09 (Agree/Disagree?) From the dawn of humanity people have been oppressing and being oppressed by each other. Any given person could find at least a dozen ways that they were 'discriminated against' by gender, ethnicity, religion, politics, or what have you - and if they can't, they're simply not looking hard enough. I have absolutley no sympathy for this modern trend of claiming victimhood and 'compensation' for whatever real or imagined 'inequality' they have endured. Throughout history the people who have succeeded have invariably been those who got on with their lives regardless of the odds stacked against them. On the ohter hand, those who are constantly 'calling foul' and demanding their 'rights' and compensation are no more than leeches on the body of society.(reply to this comment)

From Samuel Sunday, January 11, 2009, 10:03 (Agree/Disagree?) Someone should post this on a billboard over Washington DC!(reply to this comment)

from fragiletiger Thursday, January 08, 2009 - 01:24 (Agree/Disagree?) Yea you white boys suk. (reply to this comment)

from Baxter Wednesday, January 07, 2009 - 14:44 (Agree/Disagree?) AAWWW, dude this what happens when white man feels guilt.... he flagellates himself! Of course I realise it's a bit more complicated than that: Rich white man feels guilty for being rich by exploiting cheap non-white labour; further, feels guilty for inheriting money from white daddy who probably made even more money when it was okey to treat people as cattle (Don't we all love 'em!); consequently, he punishes himself by penalising all the working class white stiffs who weren't smart enough to get in on a good thing when the going was easy.... (reply to this comment)

From neez Thursday, January 08, 2009, 05:20 (Agree/Disagree?) Nah its just the angry lesbians(reply to this comment)

From Baxter Sunday, January 11, 2009, 16:17 (Agree/Disagree?) Don't get me wrong: I think it's bullshit. I also think that so-called 'minority representative' groups who exploit white guilt for their own ends put us back culturally about half way to the sort of society that condones apartheid: it foments the feeling of isolation between cultural groups. The so-called angry voices usually don't give a shit anyway, not about anything other than making money out of their next book or whatever. Partially that's why I no longer espouse to identify with any ethnic group; the other reason is that it confuses the ignorant white cunts who are always either making assumptions as to my origins, or calling annoying knick-names their backwards uneducated ass-for-brains think are complimentary. Basically they're all as stupid as each other, while I have no trouble competing with them for contemptuous arrogance. (reply to this comment)

from exfamily Wednesday, January 07, 2009 - 14:07 (Agree/Disagree?) White males are already discriminated against here in the UK, as councils and companies have certain racial targets to meet so if they have a certain number of white males working for them they won't hire any more, they'll give the job to someone from a minority group even if the white male is more qualified, just to make themselves look like they're not racist. Although, I have to say that as a white male there is really no comparison to a minority person, they're discriminated against far more. It's just fucking annoying when it's institutionalised. (reply to this comment)

From neez Thursday, January 08, 2009, 05:13 (Agree/Disagree?) wtf is "positive discrimination"? (reply to this comment)

From colden Monday, January 12, 2009, 18:36 (Agree/Disagree?) I believe it's when discrimination benifits you or adheres to your world view. Where is this supposed to take place? I don't think that this will really change things all that much in all honesty, if you consider the amount of nepotism and back scratching currently going on in the work place. (reply to this comment)

From neez Wednesday, January 14, 2009, 00:15 (Agree/Disagree?) This is now happening in Australia, but it's also happening in other countries to some degree. The whole point of this fucking childish idea is to change things in every workplace. Even if those workplaces haven't had a single complaint yet! It says: "But the proposed changes go much further, allowing the commission to inquire into discrimination, seize documents and search and enter premises after attempts to bring about change have failed. Businesses and individuals would be required to change their ways even if a complaint had not been received. Action could be taken where an unlawful act was "likely to occur", not just in cases where discrimination has taken place."(reply to this comment)

From neez Wednesday, January 14, 2009, 00:17 (Agree/Disagree?) Action could be taken where an unlawful act was "likely to occur". What the fucking thought crime bullshit is that!?(reply to this comment)