New Zealand mosque shooting

[midnightpulp]

Ultimately it comes down to losing advantages. For example when I meet a new Hispanic/Black/Asian co-worker and eventually they find out I'm Polish - there is no connection. To them it is as foreign as to me Nicaragua, Ghana or Guam. But with whites there is a high probability of them sharing an experience, anecdote or even family story. This breaks the ice and possibly even connects us. (Think Jews working in the same industry). Hispanic/Black/Asian co-workers are far less likely to have or plan to visit Europe. It is just not as much on their radar. So we have less common interests and experiences. I get along with all my co-workers but when they speak privately with each other in Spanish or Filipino - it is a line between us. I wouldn't want to work at a job with only Polaks or only Whites but I do prefer the mindset to be thru my perspective.

The irony is that I tend to receive more attention from women in America (than in Europe) as my light hair and light eyes becomes more rare. But as someone that has experienced being part of a genous community, there is no better feeling that fitting in and I think this is why Americans are increasingly unhappy.

How does a Swede share your "mindset?" My own anecdotal story is going to Catholic school in Southern California (probably the most diverse region of the US outside of New York). Mexicans, Italians, Poles, Irish, Indians, Asians, and a few blacks (to be fair, this was in the 80s and 90s). No one self-segregated nor did we see each other as, "that's my Irish friend. That's my black friend." The connection came through living in the same neighborhoods, playing and following the same sports, and just having common interests in general. This is why I argue that geneity develops better through shared cultural experiences than through physical resemblance, so I don't agree that you would connect better to a native Swede who barely speaks English over a 3rd generation Hispanic who likes baseball and soccer, unless you were actively judging by appearance.

Now, again, I mentioned my experience being in the 80s and 90s because that was before iden y politics were really a thing, and if you want to have a conservation about how the rise of iden y politics has attacked the E Pluribus Unum concept, there's plenty of meat on that bone. My main point is that trying to judge the actual demographics of the US through census data is a bit of fool's errand, since a 4th generation Hispanic-American is very different culturally than a 1st generation Hispanic immigrant.

[midnightpulp]

Yeah, Frostking America is about as white as it has always been. So don't bring up that nonsense.

65% white non-Hispanic, 12% white-Hispanic, plus "white skinned" people who check the Asian, Hispanic, and even Black boxes for whatever reason (let's be conservative and say that accounts for 3%). That leaves the US 80 percent white. The US was 80 percent white in 1790 .

"Oh noes, whites have declined by 10 percent from their 1940 peak because other people like having sex more." And once again, someone like Desi Arnaz would be counted as "white" in the 1950s, despite a darker complexion and Latin features.

And why would the US becoming less white (again, what the does "white" even mean? Define it) bother you anyway?

[DMC]

I'm two generations down from my Italian roots, but... hispanic.

So you're a beawop

[Will Hunting]

So you're a beawop

I think the appropriate term is beanwop

[Spurs Homer]

Why can't this happen here when a FOX news paid senator is on the air?





https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-03-...media/10908650

[Trill Clinton]

Why can't this happen here when a FOX news paid senator is on the air?





https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-03-...media/10908650

[Trill Clinton]

we must protect this kid at all costs.

[Spurs Homer]

Man

Gym Jordan would be the perfect asshole to egg on live tv

[Winehole23]

[midnightpulp]

we must protect this kid at all costs.

Chokehold was excessive, but the kid was in the wrong. This Anning has ty opinions, but the kid still technically assaulted him. Shoe on the other foot, liberals would want some edgy alt-right teen dealt with if they egged O'Rourke.

[Winehole23]

Faces of the victims:

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/a...ectid=12213358

[Winehole23]

Naeem Rashid & son Talha, 21

Naeem reportedly died at Christchurch Hospital, after he tried to wrestle the gun from the shooter at the Al Noor mosque. His son Tahla was also shot and killed.

so much for Spurtacular's narrative that the slain were an undifferentiated mass of cringing cowards.

[Winehole23]

Husne Ara Parvin, 42

Parvin was shot when she tried to save her wheelchair-bound husband Farid Uddin, according to a relative.

[Winehole23]

There are survivors:

[Nathan89]

That excessive choking reminded me of the sandlot actor that nearly killed someone because he was an idiot. Wouldn't mind seeing this idiot arrested tbh.

"A man who was choked unconscious by an off-duty Los Angeles firefighter who saw him handing out Halloween candy to children will receive $7.4 million to settle a lawsuit, his attorney announced Wednesday.

Samuel Chang suffered a traumatic brain injury, nearly died and still has medical problems from the 2015 attack that was captured on video, attorney David Ring said."

[Winehole23]

Find information about how to support the survivors here:

http://www.victimsupport.org.nz

[pgardn]

We've come to a point in spurstalk that you can now identify people who celebrate or justify massacres of minorities.

I aint naming but we know who you are

derp
nathan
chris
frostking

These are your basic paranoid fruits

[Nathan89]

Freedom of speech is too important to silence people which is what many want. And outside of silence then you are "amplifying".

Hates free speech. Hates white people. Lives in a Western country.

[Winehole23]

No one has silenced you and nobody will.

[pgardn]

Freedom of speech is too important to silence people which is what many want. And outside of silence then you are "amplifying".

Hates free speech. Hates white people. Lives in a Western country.

Find as many people on Twitter just like you, but on the other side.
Yes, then amplify.

[Nathan89]

People are arrested in weak Western countries for wrong speech that many Dems glorify. Polls show a lack of value for free speech. I wasn't really talking about me in this instance but even in this country I'm not confident even in relatively short term future.

[Winehole23]

what you characterize as oppression is just criticism -- the free spech of others who don't like what you say.

There's no right to spout hatred and racism online free of criticism.

[spurraider21]

I tried to plug my Bluetooth speaker into a corn cob. No worky.


Thanks for this wisdom.

Plug in your beats to beets
SpursforSix

[Trill Clinton]

There are survivors:

Thanks for posting

[DMC]

we must protect this kid at all costs.

You're buying a plane ticket then and going to oversee the security of this guy?

Or

No, just going to post about it.