Damn. People said that to you? Self-hatred aside, what possible benefit could have accrued following that response?

As someone in a long-term relationship with an Indian woman, I can say that there’s a very deep-seated bias against dark skin, sadly, this goes back even before the British influence, though they undoubtedly made it worse. There’s also a significant amount of anti-Blackness, both within the Indian-American community…

Your argument about not all AA being economically empowered is correct, but that applies to other groups as well — they are not simply the sum of their aggregated, quantified outcomes. We still rely on these to draw broad conclusions though, and it is broadly true that Asians are disproportionately represented at the…

False. You’re not actually reading what she wrote. She’s pointing out the fact that having biracial children doesn’t automatically make you NOT racist. It’s just not that hard...

Gotta be careful with the financial component. Asians - South and East - face racism and have the best financial and educational outcomes in the country as a group.

The pseudo-orientalist fetishizing of Asian women, and the presupposition that they are all subservient, is a big part of this. Also, lots of white racists have a weird inferiority complex when it comes to Asians, because they love pointing to educational, test-taking, and economic outcomes as indicators of…

Asians are also the most proximate to “whiteness” from an economic standpoint, and in fact have higher educational and financial attainment than whites - there’s a big question as to how this attainment will impact political action over time. They are also least likely among all POC polled to believe that all POC can…

Basically, one is a set of unique concerns stemming from Trump’s white nationalist, patriarchal, traditionalist advocacy and the other is a set of concerns that affect all of us more broadly.

Personally don’t see this as being a contrast of one group and another — what he’s saying is pretty clear — we need to focus on the fact that women and minorities are being targeted, and we need to focus on the things that everyone (ordinary Americans) are worried about. This doesn’t take some sort of interpretive…

This is a massively misleading statement:

Reality is that both Western Christianity and Islam have been the two main vehicles for imperial domination, forced cultural assimilation, and state-sponsored expansionist violence across the globe over the last fifteen hundred years, give or take. The impact of Christian imperialism is more immediate to our world…

I don’t disagree. I may have misunderstood what you meant in your initial post. The NFL and the corporate media are working hard to control the narrative here. The protests are a huge threat to profit, and given that profits are already flagging, they are working hard to find ways to play both sides. They need the…

But they fired Schilling. And Limbaugh was pushed out. So...what’s your point?

I would disagree strongly that neither Mandarin nor Hindi count as widely spoken. I considered tens of millions of speakers and a wide swathe of Southern Africa as justifying the choice “widely spoken.”

Don’t get it twisted. The NFL definitely does NOT WANT these protests to happen. They are in no way economically expedient for the league - the NFL is facing a massive backlash from racist and overly sensitive/under-informed whites who are either threatened by any show of Black male solidarity or who are of the…

That’s the thing, they are not rare. There are tens of millions of Africans who speak languages that incorporate clicks. The person quoted in the article misleadingly compares 2,000 languages to 3 language groups. Language groups comprise many languages.

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The Bantu expansion reached South Africa sometime in the first several hundred years C.E. “Thousands of years” is only a very, very slight exaggeration. Not only that, but as I am sure you are aware, the Koisan are believed to be far more widely distributed prior to that expansion, which began in the first millennium…

It’s false that only three languages use clicks, and there’s a larger problem with the way this information is presented: “Dace noted that Africa has upwards of 2,000 languages and only three language groups use clicks. It is one of the most stereotyped aspects of Africa.” Dace suggested using Swahili as another point…

I agree with you, with the caveat that there are a whole lot of Christians doing this work too. They just aren’t the assholes running their mouths on Fox News; they aren’t the loud ones who are the public face of American Christianity.