Political Humor Only Please

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Re: Political Humor Only Please

Postby origami_itto on Mon Jul 29, 2019 8:31 am

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Perfect timing.


Are you doing a racism on me, buddy? :D
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Re: Political Humor Only Please

Postby BruceP on Mon Jul 29, 2019 12:28 pm

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But Bruce, you can go to the Wikipedia (or Britannica) and look at the section relating to the United States and disagree. At least, try hard not to put words in other peoples' mouths. I know. I know. You didn't read closely because ....


Words in peoples' mouths? Show me.


I read the wikipage you linked and am still not getting the whole 'racist' thing beyond the convenience the notion itself lends to the intellectually lazy in discriminating superficial traits and characteristics. The perpetuation of 'racial divide' doesn't move a conversation in any direction but rearward.

Some of the entries have an element of boogeyman to them. I'm aware of some of the groups it cites, but I always thought the whole white nationalist thing in the US was on the fringes aside from the longevity and institutionalized legacy of the Dems' KKK. None of the groups seem to have any kind of momentum that would move them out of the fringes. There are always going to be extremist groups no matter what and not just people of a certain shade either.

My grandmother didn't need a PHD or any post-secondary education to know the truth of what the guy writes about in the link below. As a non english speaking second gen immigrant in a world of british and scottish ex-pats 'she knew her place' among her classmates and teachers.

Quoting her; "If all you see is race, all you'll be is race, and you won't have enough understanding to fill a thimble"


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There is not a single biological element unique to any of the groups we call white, black, Asian, Latino, etc. In fact, no matter how hard people try, there has never been a successful scientific way to justify any racial classification, in biology. This is not to say that humans don’t vary biologically, we do, a lot. But rather that the variation is not racially distributed. If you don’t believe me, check it out for yourself by having a look at some of the references below. Seriously, there are no biological races in humans today, period
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Re: Political Humor Only Please

Postby greytowhite on Mon Jul 29, 2019 1:44 pm

Tons of racism here in the United States. How many white Americans have family in the Aryan Brotherhood? Me, me, I do! Oh that's just the trouble side of the family but they've always been good to us even though we're half Mexican and most of the "white" side is Choctaw and Seminole we're still white passing. When I shaved my head in high school here in Gilbert, Arizona because my sister fucked up my haircut when she started cosmetology school I got plenty of winks, OK hand signs, Heil Hitlers, and people showing off double lightning bolt SS tattoos. Many of them would shrug it off and point to the Superstition Springs mountains nearby when challenged as racists but then have a swastika in a more hidden place. One of my first roommates out of high school left the Aryan Brotherhood after he graduated. As a 21st birthday present I helped him get a cover up tattoo over his swastika. My friend's older brother was radicalized toward white power through the Army Rangers. After serving 3 terms in Afghanistan he came back a raging anti-Semite and racist. I have conservative coworkers complaining about Alex Jones being deplatformed while daily my friends who talk about their experience with discrimination are banned and it doesn't ever bleed over to the conservative sphere because it's not their one black friend that got banned. I can go on.
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Re: Political Humor Only Please

Postby grzegorz on Mon Jul 29, 2019 2:38 pm

oragami_itto wrote:
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oragami_itto wrote:Image


Perfect timing.


Are you doing a racism on me, buddy? :D


Of course not.

You're hitting homeruns with these memes!

Keel it up!
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Re: Political Humor Only Please

Postby grzegorz on Mon Jul 29, 2019 2:47 pm

greytowhite wrote:Tons of racism here in the United States. How many white Americans have family in the Aryan Brotherhood? Me, me, I do! Oh that's just the trouble side of the family but they've always been good to us even though we're half Mexican and most of the "white" side is Choctaw and Seminole we're still white passing. When I shaved my head in high school here in Gilbert, Arizona because my sister fucked up my haircut when she started cosmetology school I got plenty of winks, OK hand signs, Heil Hitlers, and people showing off double lightning bolt SS tattoos. Many of them would shrug it off and point to the Superstition Springs mountains nearby when challenged as racists but then have a swastika in a more hidden place. One of my first roommates out of high school left the Aryan Brotherhood after he graduated. As a 21st birthday present I helped him get a cover up tattoo over his swastika. My friend's older brother was radicalized toward white power through the Army Rangers. After serving 3 terms in Afghanistan he came back a raging anti-Semite and racist. I have conservative coworkers complaining about Alex Jones being deplatformed while daily my friends who talk about their experience with discrimination are banned and it doesn't ever bleed over to the conservative sphere because it's not their one black friend that got banned. I can go on.


I had a coworker high up in AB and although for him it was just a gang and he had to do what he had to do to survive he said when he got out he had situations where he thought the police were going to arrest him or least harass him or ticket him but let him go once they saw his record and found out he was with AB.

I suppose one could say the police feared AB but he made it spund like they saw him as one of them even though he personally hates the police.
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Re: Political Humor Only Please

Postby Michael on Mon Aug 05, 2019 8:01 am

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Re: Political Humor Only Please

Postby Steve James on Mon Aug 05, 2019 8:08 am

Bruce P. said
after Steve started in with his bullshit claims of racism.


Steve never called anything racism. Steve doesn't believe in race. Never has.
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Re: Political Humor Only Please

Postby Giles on Mon Aug 05, 2019 10:59 am

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It's really very sad that in the UK there are quite a lot of people, especially in rural areas, whose attitude towards Germany has been shaped, apparently, by a long-term diet of British and American war films. Especially the ones from the 1960s and 1970s where the Germans were totally the baddies, i.e. scenery-chewing Nazis anywhere on the scale between monsters and buffoons. And the sit-coms (some of which were great, of course). And comics. And Indiana Jones. And maybe even Schindler's List. The fact that the Federal Republic of Germany, for all its faults, is a state and a culture that to the greatest part has really accepted, learned from and turned away from this terrible and justly guilt-inducing chapter of its past, that the FRG has today in many ways a much more 'democratic', resilient and well-functioning political system than the United Kingdom --- in large parts of the British population there is almost zero awareness of this. 75 years after the end of WW2, a not insignificant part of the British population doesn't really believe, or wish to believe, that things have changed.
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Re: Political Humor Only Please

Postby origami_itto on Mon Aug 05, 2019 2:55 pm

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Re: Political Humor Only Please

Postby Michael on Mon Aug 05, 2019 3:42 pm

It's really very sad that in the UK there are quite a lot of people, especially in rural areas, whose attitude towards Germany has been shaped, apparently, by a long-term diet of British and American war films. Especially the ones from the 1960s and 1970s where the Germans were totally the baddies, i.e. scenery-chewing Nazis anywhere on the scale between monsters and buffoons. And the sit-coms (some of which were great, of course). And comics. And Indiana Jones. And maybe even Schindler's List. The fact that the Federal Republic of Germany, for all its faults, is a state and a culture that to the greatest part has really accepted, learned from and turned away from this terrible and justly guilt-inducing chapter of its past, that the FRG has today in many ways a much more 'democratic', resilient and well-functioning political system than the United Kingdom --- in large parts of the British population there is almost zero awareness of this. 75 years after the end of WW2, a not insignificant part of the British population doesn't really believe, or wish to believe, that things have changed.

You've brought up a very important point, but let me just say at first that the particular meme I posted does mention Germany because it's considered the power in the EU and there are current policies that are the object of this satire. Because of the humor, I hadn't considered the larger implication.

The propaganda against Germany since WW2, really continuing to the present day, has been extremely harmful first to Germans, but has become so monolithic that it influences American culture in a negative way as well. After a period of time and a complete change in direction, there should be forgiveness, but instead there is a constant re-opening of the wound that ultimately is damaging to millions of people and I think benefiting no one really, at this point.

Some of the American movie releases of the past several years were still going at it, stoking a completely anachronistic contempt for German people. I watched the one with Bradd Pitt a few years ago with some family members and I don't see the point any longer in making these kinds of war films, except to promote war and degrade a group of people alive today who do not deserve it. That trash from Tarantino is disgusting in the context of its influence on people alive today. We had enough of those kinds of films by the end of the 60's. "The Dirty Dozen" (1967) should have been the last such entertainment on that topic.
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Re: Political Humor Only Please

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Re: Political Humor Only Please

Postby Giles on Tue Aug 06, 2019 1:00 am

Michael wrote:You've brought up a very important point, but let me just say at first that the particular meme I posted does mention Germany because it's considered the power in the EU and there are current policies that are the object of this satire. Because of the humor, I hadn't considered the larger implication.

The propaganda against Germany since WW2, really continuing to the present day, has been extremely harmful first to Germans, but has become so monolithic that it influences American culture in a negative way as well. After a period of time and a complete change in direction, there should be forgiveness, but instead there is a constant re-opening of the wound that ultimately is damaging to millions of people and I think benefiting no one really, at this point.

Some of the American movie releases of the past several years were still going at it, stoking a completely anachronistic contempt for German people. I watched the one with Bradd Pitt a few years ago with some family members and I don't see the point any longer in making these kinds of war films, except to promote war and degrade a group of people alive today who do not deserve it. That trash from Tarantino is disgusting in the context of its influence on people alive today. We had enough of those kinds of films by the end of the 60's. "The Dirty Dozen" (1967) should have been the last such entertainment on that topic.


Hi Michael,
I have to say that politically speaking I am mostly on a different wavelength to you, also as regards the EU and Brexit, but I thank you for your considered and very civil response here.
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And now back to the humor. Or 'humor'. ;)
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Re: Political Humor Only Please

Postby Steve James on Tue Aug 06, 2019 5:49 am

Nobody did more harm to Germans and Germany than the Nazis. American movies were AntiNazi but not anti German. The US supported German people after the war. Germany now has the biggest economy in Europe.

Only Nazi supporters think that Nazis have gotten a bad rap. They Nazis declared war on the US. Which brings up the Japanese, another former enemy that was salvaged by Hollywood. That really screwed them. Look at them now.

But, please go on explaining how the media has made nazism seem worse than it really was. Any Jews on the forum are encouraged to contribute.
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Re: Political Humor Only Please

Postby Michael on Tue Aug 06, 2019 7:10 am

But, please go on explaining how the media has made nazism seem worse than it really was.

I did not say that.

In American films, the German as nazi is an anachronistic representation that effectively conflates Germans of today with nazis of WW2. It is a too frequently used representation that should have been retired a long time ago. You mentioned Hollywood films about the Japanese, so where is the German Mr. Miyagi? Does Hollywood offer any redemption for the Germans? Or simply a cessation of hostilities? No.

I think Tarantino's film "Inglorious Bastards" (2009) is disgusting, exploitative torture porn that relies on a historical villain to make a cheap buck. It pretends to be an attack on nazis, but the nazis no longer exist, however the Germans do still exist, so the grievous assault upon the decency of the American audience, the vast majority of whom have no first-hand connection to any German people, but who are subjected to images of extreme violence and torture, committed gleefully and maliciously, and represented as morally superior action, the shock of which is transferred to a false conception they have that has been influenced by many big screen representations of Germans as nazis.

I think this is harmful to Americans and Germans.
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Re: Political Humor Only Please

Postby Michael on Tue Aug 06, 2019 10:45 am

Giles wrote:Hi Michael,
I have to say that politically speaking I am mostly on a different wavelength to you, also as regards the EU and Brexit, but I thank you for your considered and very civil response here.
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And now back to the humor. Or 'humor'. ;)

You're welcome, Giles.

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