Do you agree that black people can't be racist? Since only Africans were colonized, can they be racists?
Racism is actually indiscriminating (pun intended) in how it discriminates. Anyone can be at the receiving end, and being a minority does not miraculously vaccine against being racist. Ask any former colony if the minority of foreign rulers was treating them equally.The idea that black people cannot be racist is based on two false assumptions. First, that there is a scale of races. And second, that racism can only go downstream and never upstream nor horizontally. This is a classical syllogism:Black people are at the bottom of the racial scale.Black people have no one below them to be racist with.Therefore black people cannot be racist.The ethnic groups from the top of the scale are so oblivious to the indiscriminating virtue of racism that when they are on the receiving end, for example in the Caribbean (Caribbean Racisms - Connections and Complexities in the Racialization | I. Law | Springer), they can only describe it as reverse racism, because the notion that racism might also go upstream would challenge the very concept of a downstream-only racial scale.Racism can also be horizontal, as I have seen first hand with blue-eyed Romanian citizens being shunned by brown-eyed Italians. As nations, we have also witnessed blue-eyed Muslims being persecuted in Central and Eastern Europe, or Tusti being massacred by their Hutu lookalikes.The truth is that any racial scale is a purely fictitious and arbitrary construct. Racism is an ugly thing. When it is unleashed it knows no boundaries and does however it pleases, regardless of who is giving and who is receiving.
Have you ever selected to put a question into voting?
If iam not able to come to a decision about which answer is best to my question... In that time i will send my question to voting section and would expect the community to choose the best one... If the question was asked by me..... I got some responses... For example.. I got 5 answers... All the five answers are reasonable and good with the valid source... In that time... I do not allow other people to answer my question... Straight away i send the question to voting section with the help of an action bar... Also i will send personal email to my contact people and ask them to read my question and give vote to answer which i received to my question..... EDIT - Sending the question to voting section is not a wrong thing... It also helps us in some critical situation.. Choosing best answer to our own question and giving credit and good feed back to the answerer is really great... But some times we getting equally good answers by 2 or more people.. We feels both answers are great... Is it possible to give 2 or more best answers to the 1 question... Definetly no... So some users puts the question in voting section... and after resolved the question.... Just use the comments and say "Thanx every answerers & Voters".... It will be much better.... But mostly i wont send questions to voting section.... Only one time i did like that and asked my contact people to choose the best one.. It really helped me that time.... I also prefer to choose the best answer by my own... But in my view... Sending the question to voting section manually is also helps us in many ways....................!
Have you ever noticed when a question goes to vote the 1st answer almost always wins?
i've got in ordinary terms asked 2 questions yet I made confident that those weren't abandoned to the vote casting device. I even have acquaintances who've used solutions and that they have informed me many thoughts on the subject of ways some seem to respond to in ordinary terms for the criteria so their solutions are regularly short and characteristic a tendency to be the 1st. If the asker facilitates their Q to circulate to vote casting, others who're merely going via and vote casting to get the criteria will click on the 1st answer and circulate on. it rather is a tragic concern and that i think of Yahoo could attempt to discover a thank you to alter the order of the solutions so as that factor game enthusiasts can not earnings by the vote casting device and the individuals who go away the questions circulate to vote are penalized in some way.
Poll: Have you ever let your questions go into voting?
Hello, since I have never asked a question, so none of my questions have gone into voting. there aren't any. I have spotted in my answers column those that have gone into voting and (if I recognise my own answer) voted for myself once or twice. Why stress about it?
This is the most noobish question ever, but why cant I give thumbs up/down to answers to my questions?
Get 250 pts. and you'll be on level 2. Then you can "rate" answers with "thumbs up" and "thumbs down." Just click on the “thumbs up” icon to give someone a “thumbs up” and show you approve of or like their answer; same but reverse meaning with “thumbs down,” click on the icon to show you disapprove or don’t like the answer.. It doesn’t cost you any points to “rate” an answer but, once you do rate, you’re stuck with that rating. You can’t later change your mind and decide they don’t deserve the “thumbs up” or have regrets about giving a “thumbs down.” They’re forever. Stars are ways to show approval for questions. You click on the star icon to give a star, click on the same place to remove your star after you give it. No points involved.. Answer a question and get 2 pts. Ask a question and lose 5 pts. Choose the "best answer" to your question and get 3 of those 5 pts. back. Be chosen as "best answer" and get 10 pts. plus 1 bonus pt. for each "thumbs up" your answer received. There’s no deduction for “thumbs down.” Anyone, even people on level 1, can "vote" but it's not the same as "rating" with thumbs up/down. Vote for "best answer" on unresolved questions “in voting” and you get 1 pt. per question. You can vote by clicking on the “answer” toolbar at the top of the page then click on the “vote” tab or, when you see the list of questions available in a particular category, there’s a “vote” tab at the top of the questions. Either way, if you vote then you earn a point per question and help pick the “best answer.” You also get 1 pt. every day for just logging in. It’s as easy as that! Good luck, you'll be on level 2 in no time and then aim for level 3 (1,000 to 2,499 pts.)
Question about political insults and accusations on Y!A?
Well, I'll tell ya. I can't vote, but did very much support him, but these idiots, especially the young white kids have no clue what racism is about. Put any one of them in a prison and let them learn what happens to white boys who don't join gangs in prison. Black gangs, Mexican gangs and so forth almost always immediately rape them then turn them into sex slaves for the remainder of their sentences and then the "white" guards sit idly by and do nothing except get their own cheap sick jollies getting amused at what happens and thank them for keeping the streets safe from all the little bad white boys who are usually given a life sentence even though the courts might only give them ten years in prison because HIV, tuberculosis, HepC rates are ten times higher in prison. Especially, and this is not a racist statement, if you are white. Consider that of the total number of estimated prison rapes: * 13% involved white inmates raping white inmates * 29% involved black inmates raping black inmates. * 56% involved black inmates raping white inmates. This comes to a grand total of 85% of prison rapes being committed by blacks, with 69% of the victims being white. The rapes of white inmates are normally done by gangs of blacks and somewhat in the open so that other inmates, but not staff, can witness the attacks. The blacks involved are generally in the joint for crimes such as armed robbery or severe assault cases. One of the reasons for this situation is that whites lack solidarity while in prison and unlike the population on the outside, are the minority on the inside. (from http://www.loompanics.com ..see link) Am I racist? In the context of prison you bet your life. Outside of prison, no, not at all. You should care about prison rape if only for one reason: Approximately 630,000 inmates were released from prison in 2002 and became the people beside whom you may now be living and working. Make your own mind up though, but I would much rather die on my feet a free man than die on my knees (literally) on the inside. If I thought I was going to prison now I would have a shoot out with police and pray they kill me first. That's a fact.
Have you ever voted? or would you be interested in voting? people aged 18-31?
27 Yes I have voted in the last three Presidential elections... because it is my civic duty to do so and it's the only time my opinion truly counts. I wouldn't assume that because someone doesn't vote automatically means they are not interested in politics... they may just be disenfranchised voters... voting at a young age would not make someone more interested either... especially when the younger youth of today are more self absorbed than they have ever been...
Have you ever experienced racism in the USA?
Yes. I graduated from college in a period similar to 2008. I traveled all over the Southeast looking for a job. I was 27 and had real world experience including leading crews, good grades, and letters of recommendation from my professors. I went in several offices and talked to many owners and HR people. I was told, in varying degrees of subtlety, that they would hire me if I wasn't a white male. All of them were under fire from Affirmative Action to hire women and minorities. The problem is, while there was and is a disparity, not very many people period take the science path and fewer still have experience. Most are Asian, Indian, and white men, especially at that time. I realize this is small potatoes compared to the other races but it does exist. I still remember a crusty old guy with a wall full of degrees and certifications asking me what the item in my resume stating that I was experienced with surveying instruments meant. I told him that I would be eligible to take the LSIT exam that year and the PLS six months after I passed that. He started calling around trying to find a temporary place for me until he could clear his quota problem. I had already been to most of them. He finally turned to me with, no joke, tears in his eyes and said “I could tell you get your boots and be at my Superfund site in New Orleans after the Fourth of July”. I informed him my bags and boots were in my truck in his parking lot and it was about a 2 hour ride from his office in Mobile, Alabama. Unfortunately, he would lose his 8 figure contract if he hired me. That was July 2, 1983 and, after busting skull to get my degree, I came back home and got a job as assistant surveyor on a bridge project and returned to my father's surveying company when one of his chiefs quit. I had vowed not to do that but I had little choice. I've never practiced geology. This was similar to Obamacare-laudable intentions with unforeseen consequences, at least by the advocates.