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  1. Bluezoo

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    Btw, went to a corporate Christmas party Saturday, and the kids one by one, sit on Santa's lap and got a toy...blah, blah...so the one kid, who was scared shit, ran away in horror. And the mother shouted, " Kahleesi, go get your present from Santa"!
    Can Tyrion and Drogon be far behind?
     
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    surprised she didn’t accuse st nick of molestation
     
  3. Bluezoo

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    She will grow to wed the Stallion Who Mounts the World.
    Some guy who was sitting at the table with me ( actually older than me, if you can believe), when he saw my reaction, asked me "so what kind of name is that anyway, Kahleesi"?
    I told him "Dothraki".
    So he says, " Oh ".
     
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    I am white.
    Mexican, but white.
    I know the inside of every local SGV jail and some nice county establishments in the IE, OC and of course LA.
    I had long hair, drove older vehicles, came home really late from playing basketball nightly so I always looked dirty and sweat stained.
    I never used any drugs and only drank once in a while socially. Never while driving.

    All the things you mentioned are normal. You fit the description and you get sweated out by the cops.
    That is how they operate.
    Blacks all look alike which is a racist thing to say. But there it is. It is an inconvenient fact that dark faces are harder to distinguish.
    So that means that blacks fit the description 100% of the time.
    You and I have to be all sweaty and be in a run down car and have long hair... basically look like a pot head for the cops to draw us into the game.
    Blacks gotta play the game no matter what they look like or are into.
    You like hoodies and you are white then you must be a nerdy techie.
    You like hoodies and you are black then you must be a thug.
    That is the profiliing you call good policework.
    That is horrible police work. It is letting the analytics do your job.
    When you do the analytics do your job innocent people go to jail and the guilty go free.

    Now look at you and me getting harrassed by the cops for looking how we did.
    You are white and you feel that being harassed by cops and having your car tossed and sitting on a curb is unjust.
    It is, if you are white. It is an incredible injustice because white people should not have to endure such things.
    Well they shouldn't... but times a changing and white people might start noticing that their skin won't save them for much longer.

    If you are mexican then all the things that happened to you would not be an injustice but a huge blessing.
    How do you think I go into a random traffic stop?
    Luckily for my heart I do not panic anymore. For two decades I did. Now I take pills for the damage caused.
    I made it though. I hit 40 and still alive and not in prison and have most of my teeth and internal organs and am not in a wheelchair.
    I'm im heaven.
    If I would have been pulled over and had my cars tossed and never gone to jail, never gotten beat by a cop, never had my cars impounded, never caught a case with real time behind it, etc... I would have a completely different view of things.
    I would have been in heaven all this time.
    Like you/white people are in this analogy.

    If I saw a cop approaching me I knew that I had a beating, jail time, major property loss, and the possibility of catching a case thrown my way around 50% of the time.
    That's the Mexican standard.
    You only know the White standard. The percentage of time you will face any actual consequences for being profiled are virtually nil.
    Black people on the other hand... fuck. Now matter how much self reporting *lol* by police is done or how many 'unbiased' polls carried out by intrinsically biased humans... you will never know the Black standard as a White dude.
    You live in another world.
    I can sort of understand the black guy. Not just because I am a lighter shade of white than you. But it helps.
    But I don't live in his world. I can visit though.
    And I have lived, struggled, and shared meals, hopes, and dreams with black guys in jail.
    It is a simple fact that white people are absent from many things that would make them understand. Blacks and Browns are joined together at many points in our lives.
    Live in the same places, go to the same places, end up incarcerated in the same places...
    Sure there are white people sometimes, tokens of course. But for the most part the places where blacks and browns bond the strongest are outside of the average white man's lifestyle.

    Like how Judas had to go as soon as dinner was over to go make some money and take care of important business.
    The rest of the guys would stay back and chill with each other.
    Judas never really wanted to hang out with the homies. He was too white collar for that dirty dozen from around the way.
    He would go to his cop friends after the fact and get the low down on why he had been sweated previously.
    Even made a nice side deal for himself... well so he thought. Judas always gets it in the end.
    He had that ability. The other guys did not have those types of contacts.
    But they had a good advocate.

    You have a dozen run ins and got away clean and whole everytime.
    I would not say this is proof that you have been treated the same as blacks.
    It is proof that you were given special treatment out the wazoo.
    12 times you sat on a curb and never got arrested?
    You are blessed by God to not have been born black or else you would be in prison right now or dead.
     
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    all the long hairs in my neighborhood used to get harrassed pretty much weekly by the cops
    tossed against cars, slapped in the balls when "patted" down, spit on, accidental elbows...not beaten up per se but certainly roughed up
    then again we weren't going on high speed chases high as balls either
    we were just smoking weed and drinking beer while attending backyard parties
     
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    I think you missed a spot. I would like to think we agree on everything :D
    I never claimed you claimed anything. I know they were hassling you because of lazy profiling. Nothing racial about it.
    I said you 'felt' injustice. The entire paragraph was its own self contained thing about the different ways we will view the issue depending on our place in the caste. I was building an analogy and I used you as the cornerstone.
    And while I can't know what you personally felt I can understand what white people must feel being treated like a non white person. Being treated off-caste.
    You did not say it, but as a white man from a middle class family who is not engaged in dirty activity or even lighthearted young man hooliganism but actually being a responsible gainfully employed man... are you telling me that you did not feel that you being harassed by the cops was unjust?
    Then again 3 out of 12 being jerks is a good ratio.
    But if most of them were jerks and half of them tried to find anything they could on you so they could take you in how gracious and pleasant would you be when they came to your window and spoke to you with disdain?
    At some point you listen to your natural correct instincts that tell you that the dude with the uniform and the badge is your enemy. If everytime a cop pulls you over he runs your plates, pats you down hard, searches your car, runs your license and registration, and sits you on the curb handcuffed for 40 minutes while his 'reports' come in you will feel that he is trying to find something about you so he can arrest you.
    Is that guy your friend?
    What is he then?
    You have natural radar that tells you who your enemies are and who they are not.
    We spend way too much time in comforts that dull these senses.
    Not the majority of black dudes.

    I know you know what I meant about thanking god for being born white.
    It was there merely for the instant gratification of its impact.
    I sometimes pull these hacky tricks when writing quick.
    You get this, so even when we disagree it is merely because i make sloppy arguments.
    But hey its better to thank god for being white than to be proud for being white.

    Racial pride is dumb. I know a lot of white people here think its a good thing to be proud of your race.
    That is corrupting thinking. Probably infected from all the 'im black/gay/etc and im proud' claptrap.
    You proud of your little boy winning an award at school and so you put it on your bumpersticker.
    Ok...
    What a thing to be proud of.
    So if he does not win the award is he no longer deserving of your pride?
    Many parents operate that way because of this corrupting thinking.
    Everytime someone says that they are proud of almost anything all they are doing is making huge boasts.
    We are a nation of boasters. Admiring ourselves or admiring those around or connected to us and therefore an extension of us.
    That is deep into our current society as it has been when any great civilization advances to the heights we have. Should we be proud of what our American civilization has accomplished or should we thank god the entire world has not decided to gang up on us and take us out... yet.
    But if everything is something to be proud of then pride means what?
    Pride has been turned upside down. It has been commoditized.
    There are few things to be proud of. But those few things are important.
    Oh and don't forget to like my post!

    Pride you have, and you lose.
    You can get it back though.
    When you do things for the pride you get pride which builds like a brick house of pride bricks in your character.
    When you do things for any other reasons you might get joy or a good feeling that you want to believe is pride and it allows you to build skyscrapers in moments... but soon these moments pass and the next tornado tears down your walls. Humpty had a great fall.

    You started bringing up some math and lost me but about your friend Razo I know full well.
    Not him of course but people like him. I have no hate to each his own. Its funny to me but I make no comments to them. I worked with a young woman recently who had a mexican father and an 'spanish' mother who had italian and dutch ancestry or something so she did not consider herself mexican but white european. I made the mistake of replying something to the effect of 'oh cool, you are mixed white/mexican like me, you are a white mexican.
    She made that black lady offended face and did the hand and neck motion and went off on me.
    I had to see the boss and apologize to her and say that she was not mexican that I know and understand I was wrong to call her Mexican and to admit that it was racial harassment and that I would not harass her by calling her mexican again.
    I looked at the boss and busted laughing and said seriously... serious for seriously?
    It was weird. He was pleading with me to apologize to her and a bunch of other shit I was supposed to admit to. I kept saying "im not saying that' over and over.
    Until all I had to say what that I was not going to call her Mexican ever.
    I have never looked at the guy the same way after that. I know he has to do his PC shit as a the owner of a company but fuck, I felt like there was a line crossed between us. He knew it too.

    He fired her the first chance he got because she never learned how to do the most basic parts of the job in almost a year there. Then again everyone gets fired here.
    The boss has a 5 man operation where he is the star player. I came aboard to be the 6th man doing a little of everything. During the first month one guy left, and I became a key 3 and D guy in the starting lineup.
    That is when the young lady was hired to replace me off the desk.
    Then the operations guy left and I became the main ball handler.
    Within the first year the bigs in the warehouse quit as well.
    Then the Cap started bringing in all sorts of free agents who had good qualities but glaring holes in their game. Cap is a good scorer and a good GM but is bad at player evaluation.
    Or he just does not give a fuck and is hiring and firing anyone that will play for pay until he finds one that will be worth keeping for more than 3 or 6 months.
    After the Cap's entire supporting cast quit he has hired and fired 6 guys within the past 9 months. About a month and a half ago we got guys 7, 8 and 9 hired for the year.
    And we just hired a new older lady two weeks ago who is facilitating nicely off the bench and being great for team chemistry.
    I'm still Magic and Cooper but at least I dont have to be Magic, Rambis, Cooper and Orlando Woolridge too.
    We have a new cantonese young lady who is kicking ass and is our most Worthy new employee doing a lot of little things and scoring a lot of points.
    Plus a great young and Green 30 year old virgin from Mexico in the warehouse shipping the lowest post possible.
    And a young mandarin who started as as college intern who is lighting it up from deep behind the line of cubicles.
    Its looking like showtime!
    And im not boasting at all :D
     
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    No offense?

    Since several radio stations decided to pull “Baby it’s Cold Outside” from playlists because someone was offended, I feel that these other holiday songs must also be removed as they are potentially offensive as well.
    1. I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus: subjecting minors to softcore porn
    2. The Christmas Song: Open fire? Pollution. Folks dressed up like Eskimos? Cultural appropriation
    3. Holly Jolly Christmas: Kiss her once for me? Unwanted advances
    4. White Christmas? Racist
    5. Santa Claus is Coming to Town: Sees you when you’re sleeping? Knows when you’re awake? Peeping Tom stalker
    6. Most Wonderful Time of the Year: Everyone telling you be of good cheer? Forced to hide depression
    7. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: Bullying
    8. It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas: Forced gender-specific gifts: dolls for Janice and Jen and boots and pistols (GUNS!) for Barney and Ben
    9. Santa Baby: Gold digger, blackmail
    10. Frosty the Snowman: Sexist; not a snow woman
    11. Do You Hear What I Hear: blatant disregard for the hearing impaired
    12. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas: Make the yuletide GAY? Wow, just wow
    13. Jingle Bell Rock: Giddy up jingle horse, pick up your feet: animal abuse
    14. Mistletoe and Holly: Overeating, folks stealing a kiss or two? How did this song ever see the light of day?
    15. Winter Wonderland: Parson Brown demanding they get married…forced partnership
    See how ridiculous everything can be twisted? Everyone gets so offended these days that it is impossible to even communicate anymore. We as a society can’t have any music, interact with others, build anything, believe in anything because someone else will be offended. Just stop the madness.
     
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    Meanwhile, Kahleesi’s name isn’t even Kahleesi.

    Bad, but still not as bad as the time I was at a dog park and someone yelled to their dog, “Buster Posey, get over here!”
     
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    Buster was probably humping another male dog.
     
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    Well done.
    Guess the only one allowed is Susie Snowflake.
     
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    Yeah...I thought of that. The title rather than the actual name.
    But not that unusual, considering Prince Fielder, Baron Trump, Duke Snider, King Vidor, Queen Latifah, etc.
    Oh...and Khal Daniels.
     
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    just blasted johnny mercer/margaret whiting’s version
    fucken bleeding hearts can lick my left nut
     
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    But rap music isn't offensive...
     
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    This one is NOT offensive! :)

     
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    We live in very strange times
     
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    Former 'SNL' writer Nimesh Patel kicked off stage at Columbia University for 'inappropriate' standup set





    Comedian Nimesh Patel kicked off stage 30 minutes into set for 'inappropriate' jokes



    Comedian Nimesh Patel took his gig at Columbia University’s “cultureSHOCK: Reclaim” event a bit too literally, apparently. The former Saturday Night Live writer was kicked off stage by student organizers 30 minutes into his set for jokes that were deemed homophobic and racist.

    Columbia’s Asian American Alliance (AAA) invited Patel to perform at the annual charity showcase, which aims to provide a platform for Asian-American artistic expression and to break through harmful stereotypes. According to the Columbia Daily Spectator, “Patel’s performance featured commentary on his experience living in a diverse area of New York City — including a joke about a gay black man in his neighborhood — which AAA officials deemed inappropriate.”

    Patel quipped that being gay cannot be a choice because “no one looks in the mirror and thinks, “This black thing is too easy; let me just add another thing to it.’” Members of AAA then interrupted the performance and denounced his material about racial identities and sexual orientation. The group gave him a few moments for closing remarks, but Patel pushed back, saying none of his jokes were offensive. He purportedly claimed that he was simply exposing the audience to ideas that would be found “in the real world.” Patel’s microphone was cut from offstage and he exited.

    AAA defended its decision to give Patel the boot. “Patel’s remarks ran counter to the inclusive spirit and integrity of cultureSHOCK and as such, the choice was made to invite him to leave,” the group wrote on Facebook. “We acknowledge that discomfort and safety can coexist, however, the discomfort Patel caused was unproductive in this space.” AAA added, “We deeply apologize for inviting him in the first place.”
     
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    and of course this just isn't acceptable
    wtf when is this nonsense going to end?
    the hypocrisy is outrageous


    Princeton a cappella group won't sing 'Kiss the Girl' from 'The Little Mermaid' over misogyny complaints

    Song from Disney's 'The Little Mermaid' called problematic and 'misogynistic' in wake of #MeToo




    Daily Princetonian school paper[/a] that he and his fellow performers will no longer sing “Kiss the Girl” from the 1989 animated film The Little Mermaid following complaints that it promotes a message at odds with the #MeToo movement.

    Daily Princetonian[/a] criticized the song choice as “misogynistic and dismissive of consent” because in it, Sebastian the crab implores Prince Eric to kiss a mute Ariel without her verbal consent.

    “The song launches a heteronormative attack on women’s right to oppose the romantic and sexual liberties taken by men, further inundating the listener with themes of toxic masculinity,” wrote sophomore Noa Wollstein. “In trying to motivate Eric to kiss Ariel, the crab, Sebastian, makes use of lines such as, ‘Looks like the boy’s too shy,’ ‘Don’t be scared,’ and ‘It’s such a shame, too bad/You’re gonna miss the girl.'”" data-reactid="19" style="margin-bottom: 1em;">“The song launches a heteronormative attack on women’s right to oppose the romantic and sexual liberties taken by men, further inundating the listener with themes of toxic masculinity,” wrote sophomore Noa Wollstein. “In trying to motivate Eric to kiss Ariel, the crab, Sebastian, makes use of lines such as, ‘Looks like the boy’s too shy,’ ‘Don’t be scared,’ and ‘It’s such a shame, too bad/You’re gonna miss the girl.'”

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    A song from 1989’s The Little Mermaid has been accused of being misogynistic. (Photo: Everett Collection)
    offensive and violating ritual.”" data-reactid="31" style="margin-bottom: 1em;">Wollstein added that the Tigertones’ repeat performances of the song were an “offensive and violating ritual.”

    Brown acknowledged the song’s problematic tone in his column responding to Wollstein’s complaint, noting that a tradition of having a man and woman kiss during the performance also raised concerns about consent. He did suggest, however, that the group could sing the song again if a more appropriate performance style was adopted.

    “A central element of our ‘Kiss the Girl’ performance has involved our soloist selecting a female and male duo from the audience one by one, dancing with both of them on stage before encouraging them to dance with one another, and then requesting that they ‘do as the song says’ before the group promptly advocates for a peck on the cheek,” he wrote.

    “Many of the recent criticisms of this performance reflect on internal conversations our group has been having for some time. In the last few years, we have taken intentional steps towards ensuring that audience participation is more voluntary and consensual. These steps have clearly not succeeded in guaranteeing total comfort for both participants or in obtaining continual consent. Performances of this song have made participants uncomfortable and offended audience members, an outcome which is antithetical to our group’s mission and one that we deeply regret.

    “Because of these concerns, we are removing ‘Kiss the Girl’ from our active repertoire until we can arrive at a way to perform it that is comfortable and enjoyable for every member of our audience. We sincerely apologize to any of our past participants and audience members for whom our performance of this song was uncomfortable or offensive.”
     
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    remember the bride auction scene and the pirates chasing the women on pirates ride in disneyland?
    this motherfuckers are sucking the life out of the world
     
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    this motherfuckers are sucking the life out of the world[/QUOTE]

    The 13th Caliphate, brother.
     
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