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Discussion in 'Community' started by Coruscant, Feb 15, 2021.

  1. Point Given

    Point Given Manager star 7 Staff Member Manager

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    My favorite memory of OZK was when he told myself and Jello that we weren't American because there was apparently an American ethnicity that was only compromised of white people. And by white people he meant German-American and British-American.
     
  2. Coruscant

    Coruscant Chosen One star 7

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    So far as I know, J-Rod never expressed anything like that

    @Jabba-wocky, wrong again
     
  3. KnightWriter

    KnightWriter Administrator Emeritus star 9 VIP - Former Mod/RSA

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    If I didn't know better, I would say that's white nationalism.
     
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  4. solojones

    solojones Chosen One star 10

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    Holy **** I guess I didn't talk to or pay attention to OZK very much. Didn't realize he was full on KKK.
     
  5. Lord Vivec

    Lord Vivec Chosen One star 9

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    I ****ing remember this debate! When I made a rebuttal, he said that hypothetically if he went to Pakistan, became a citizen, and integrated, he still wouldn't be Pakistani. And I was like "no you dolt you would be Pakistani how the **** do you think Pakistanis came to be? People from all over South Asia moved there when the country was formed."

    Smoothest Brain on the Boards

    Found the conversation..

    https://boards.theforce.net/threads/the-us-politics-discussion.50007263/page-281#post-51922188
     
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  6. Jabba-wocky

    Jabba-wocky Chosen One star 10

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    Or rather, did not pay enough attention, in my case. Regardless, apologies.
     
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  7. Coruscant

    Coruscant Chosen One star 7

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    OZK’s screeds aren’t even the most disturbing thing about the page Vivec linked to—what’s far more disturbing is the conversation that begins on the very next page about how the Republicans having a candidate with a genuine chance at winning the White House seemed absolutely laughable... “the Republicans have no path to power, they don’t deal in reality...”

    Little did we know.
     
  8. blackmyron

    blackmyron Chosen One star 7

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    Then again, we have J-Rod in 2014 saying "And can we put to rest the myth that AZ is turning blue?" [face_laugh]
     
  9. Lowbacca_1977

    Lowbacca_1977 Chosen One star 7

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    You realize that just resets the clock to you being younger, right? Now you have to age back up just to reach 9.
     
  10. Coruscant

    Coruscant Chosen One star 7

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    D-did... did Wocky just admit he was wrong?

    Holy crap, this might just be the singularity that puts us all back on the better timeline we diverged from back in 2016...
     
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  11. Bacon164

    Bacon164 Chosen One star 8

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    And we’ll all get our foreskin back
     
  12. Harpua

    Harpua Chosen One star 9

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  13. Lord Vivec

    Lord Vivec Chosen One star 9

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    That foreskin's name? Albert Einstein- wait wrong meme
     
  14. Ender Sai

    Ender Sai Chosen One star 10

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    I love that you even note the issue here, which is that white Americans are among the most boring people on Earth so they hyphenate themselves as Euro-Americans to seem interesting. Obviously the best is the "Irish American", whose family was Irish 300 years ago but will legit tell people they're really, really Irish (The /r/Ireland sub is a beautiful place to see the Plastic Paddy shanked with the switchblade of reality). But the Italian American is another one, as are the "Nordic-Americans" who take DNA tests and get unexpected results, like 12% Scandinavian despite "feeling really Nordic."

    These people are the types who want to gatekeep the experience of "being American".
     
  15. Ramza

    Ramza Administrator Emeritus star 9 VIP - Former Mod/RSA

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    It’s funny you should mention Irish-Americans, because what actually got OZK banned was posting 19th century anti-immigrant propaganda comparing Irish people to black people (of course the language and depictions were not quite so neutral) and therefore he wasn’t being racist... somehow, I can’t even hope to remember his logic... and then he never submitted a UR.

    Edit: Also, and this is admittedly me connecting some dots that were never explicitly connected, I think the ****ing circumcision obsession had less to do with genital mutilation and more to do with the religious group the practice is most stereotypically associated with.
     
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  16. Lowbacca_1977

    Lowbacca_1977 Chosen One star 7

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    Does "all Americans" count as a religious group yet?
     
  17. Juliet316

    Juliet316 Chosen One star 10

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  18. Darth Punk

    Darth Punk JCC Manager star 7 Staff Member Manager

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    What would be the all-encompassing opposite of Native American?
     
  19. dp4m

    dp4m Chosen One star 10

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    White people.
     
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  20. solojones

    solojones Chosen One star 10

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    Erm plenty of non-Native Americans are POCs.
     
  21. dp4m

    dp4m Chosen One star 10

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    Thanks literal person.
     
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  22. solojones

    solojones Chosen One star 10

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    I was going to say the term should be Immigrants. For all the rest of us.
     
  23. soitscometothis

    soitscometothis Chosen One star 6

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    Foreign devils.
     
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  24. Harpua

    Harpua Chosen One star 9

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    Natives migrated from Asia though. We're all ****ing immigrants, lol
     
  25. Darth Guy

    Darth Guy Chosen One star 10

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    If you're going that far, everyone outside a little corner of East Africa is an immigrant. :p
     
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