Its a more skilled/better community at least from what i've read on the bungie forums.

I don't think you get my point. Many people will full on make fun of Christians but shit bricks when you make fun of Muslims. That's hypocrisy. I'm not defending either and I'm an agnostic, not a Christian or any other nonsense.

Do you defend their right to make fun of Muslims/Islam? How about Hindus? Buddhists? Sikhs? By mocking the belief you are mocking the person who believes it. Which I am totally fine with, but there is a disconnect in many other liberals that its ok to make fun of Christianity but not other religions, and thats…

I don't have any crazy ones but I have a lot of random celebrity encounters. I've met both George H.W. and Jeb Bush when I was a child, Graham Nash from Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young played at my 8th grade graduation ( a class of less than 10 kids too). I also walked right past Patrick Stewart at a restaurant in…

I would disagree. Alcohol causes people to act in ways they normally wouldn't. Many people are "violent drunks". It stands to reason that sexual aggressiveness could also be triggered in certain individuals.

I don't think thats whats going on, I think any outrage is coming from conservative muslims.

Yeah because only foreigners have weird or exotic or funny names in America. Your outrage is pointless and tiring and adds nothing to any intelligent discourse. And yes, my last name has been the target of many jokes in my life.

Oh just shut up. Go clutch your fake pearls somewhere else.

Eh I think everyone wants equal rights to what white males already have, I could be totally wrong though and the whole equal rights thing is for equality to svartalfs or something.

Those (with the exception of hispanic which is a more nebulous category) are races. And yes we often do distinguish between ethnicity in other races. Blacks in america are a notable exception because the vast majority all tend to fall under African-American. Where if you go to Africa the ethnic diversity is…

Sociology professors are a weird lot. As an anthro student, I could always tell they were full of shit.

Chaos Space Marine Cosplay is best cosplay.

Well Caucasian is a very broad racial category, but yeah white people have ethnic groups too, just here in America they got all mixed up so much that people can't tell the difference anymore.

One thing that bothers me is using the word "ethnic" to describe non-white people. Everyone belongs to an ethnic group, including white people. But yeah those presenters or whatever they are are fucking stupid.

I do that, plus wear full starting armor. Great fun.

My point was that one can be Jewish and not a Jew. Many people now immigrate to places like the UK and become British, but thats a nationality. Someone who immigrates to Britain will never be English, Welsh or Scottish, those are ethnic groups defined by language, custom and shared history.

So if a white person completely embraces African-American culture they suddenly become African-American??? You can't become an ethnicity.

Ironically, while overall I agree with your post, the fact that you identify as an Arab is proof to how ethnicity is more fluid than the concept of race. Most of the Middle Eastern Muslim world self-identifies as Arab, (obvious exceptions are people like Kurds, Turks and Iranians) but really a bunch of Bedouins from…

Your wrong about that guy, his mom was white and captured at age nine not him. His father was native American and you can clearly tell the dude is not 100% white. Ethincity is something you're born into, like a race. My aunt converted to Judaism, she is not a Jew. I was adopted into a Jewish family, I was Jewish,…

My wife's family is from the Caribbean and they call themselves West Indians and don't really consider themselves African-American. According to my wife they actually look down alot at African Americans, or the culture at least. My wife's identity is a different story, since she was adopted, and doesn't hold the…