I'm not gonna take you to task for Die Hard, because we can replace that title with _____ but in that movie the showdown between good and bad guys was long and drawn (like, pretty much the whole movie) out while the whole world watched outside.  This was pretty much the opposite. 
I might agree with the absurdity of…

I'm not gonna take you to task for Die Hard, because we can replace that title with _____ but in that movie the showdown between good and bad guys was long and drawn (like, pretty much the whole movie) out while the whole world watched outside.  This was pretty much the opposite. 
I might agree with the absurdity of…

The inner-city wizard school sketch might be the best thing I've ever seen, at the very least in the category of a "racial humor" sketch.    I wrote a whole thing last season about how KnP's approach to racial humor was so fresh and unique and real, so I won't repeat myself too much, but… wow.
I didn't think they'd be…

The inner-city wizard school sketch might be the best thing I've ever seen, at the very least in the category of a "racial humor" sketch.    I wrote a whole thing last season about how KnP's approach to racial humor was so fresh and unique and real, so I won't repeat myself too much, but… wow.
I didn't think they'd be…

Zac Orth - A
Zac Orth storyline past and present - A
Everything else - F/D-

Zac Orth - A
Zac Orth storyline past and present - A
Everything else - F/D-

My knee-jerk was, 'A ha, here's the point at which we differ: I believe it's always personal, even if it's not conscious,' but then I remember that's it's a chicken-or-egg mess. 

My knee-jerk was, 'A ha, here's the point at which we differ: I believe it's always personal, even if it's not conscious,' but then I remember that's it's a chicken-or-egg mess. 

Well, I had no illusions that I was getting into a discussion that wasn't largely a semantic affair.  It's just that sometimes semantic issues ARE important and other times… not so much.
In regards to the de jure/de facto distinction, I imagine I'm making the argument that racism de facto isn't institutional, for lack…

Well, I had no illusions that I was getting into a discussion that wasn't largely a semantic affair.  It's just that sometimes semantic issues ARE important and other times… not so much.
In regards to the de jure/de facto distinction, I imagine I'm making the argument that racism de facto isn't institutional, for lack…

I don't want to put words in his mouth, but when you take something like apartheid and then something like your thesis paragraph (accepting it as fact and ignoring the.. holes) and call them both institutionalized racism, the term becomes too broad to have a practical use.

I don't want to put words in his mouth, but when you take something like apartheid and then something like your thesis paragraph (accepting it as fact and ignoring the.. holes) and call them both institutionalized racism, the term becomes too broad to have a practical use.

Yeah, with the exception of the crack-cocaine (I don't want to get sidetracked but that one actually makes sense) issue it's totally appalling that there's such a discrepancy: http://www.nytimes.com/2007…
But… all that is illegal and unconstitutional.  That might seem like a naive statement but the point is there have…

Yeah, with the exception of the crack-cocaine (I don't want to get sidetracked but that one actually makes sense) issue it's totally appalling that there's such a discrepancy: http://www.nytimes.com/2007…
But… all that is illegal and unconstitutional.  That might seem like a naive statement but the point is there have…

I totally agree that these are all problems, and because of them I sometimes think the situation is much more dire than the average guy soapboxing about 'institutionalized racissm' seems to think it is. 
Every example you list is what I was referring to as the exact opposite of 'institutionalized', where there is no…

I totally agree that these are all problems, and because of them I sometimes think the situation is much more dire than the average guy soapboxing about 'institutionalized racissm' seems to think it is. 
Every example you list is what I was referring to as the exact opposite of 'institutionalized', where there is no…

For argument's sake, there is no institutionalized racism in America (excluding the idea that anything can be called institutionalized if you broaden the definition enough) and this notion otherwise I think is a detriment to 'solving' the racism problem.  In fact, it's pretty much the exact opposite of…

For argument's sake, there is no institutionalized racism in America (excluding the idea that anything can be called institutionalized if you broaden the definition enough) and this notion otherwise I think is a detriment to 'solving' the racism problem.  In fact, it's pretty much the exact opposite of…

Goddamn I hate me a chimpanzee.  They're like humans, only dumber and meaner. 

Goddamn I hate me a chimpanzee.  They're like humans, only dumber and meaner.