What color is this guy?

[Caveira]

8 minutes ago, ionel said:

Is white actually a race? 

Actual journalists should be held to a higher standard than influencers on Twitter.  

[Undefeated]

Coming after white people just for being white is just as dumb as targeting people of color.
But maybe if white folks get a small taste of the kind of labels and insults they’ve been throwing at others for decades, they’ll finally get how painful it actually is.
Funny how that CNN line really hit a nerve with the ones who treat their whiteness like it’s part of their résumé.

[Caveira]

9 minutes ago, Undefeated said:

Coming after white people just for being white is just as dumb as targeting people of color.
But maybe if white folks get a small taste of the kind of labels and insults they’ve been throwing at others for decades, they’ll finally get how painful it actually is.
Funny how that CNN line really hit a nerve with the ones who treat their whiteness like it’s part of their résumé.

Is there a lot of white on brown racism in Iran?   I thought it would be more likely to be the brown on brown type.  
 

besides state tv.  Is there widespread access to cnn in Iran ?

Edited Thursday at 07:53 PM by Caveira

[Undefeated]

4 minutes ago, Caveira said:

Is there a lot of white on brown racism in Iran?

Feels like you’re living in the Stone Age, man. We see the kind of stuff you guys say online - the insults, the accusations, the trashing of people from other countries, other races, and anyone who’s not white. It’s everywhere. You’ve done it for so long it just feels normal to you now.
Right here in this forum, your super white buddies have insulted Iranians multiple times. I’ve seen it on Flowrestling’s Instagram page, on YouTube - everywhere.
Bashing Middle Easterners, trashing other nationalities, mocking people of color - it’s all part of the same pattern.

[Caveira]

3 minutes ago, Undefeated said:

Feels like you’re living in the Stone Age, man. We see the kind of stuff you guys say online - the insults, the accusations, the trashing of people from other countries, other races, and anyone who’s not white. It’s everywhere. You’ve done it for so long it just feels normal to you now.
Right here in this forum, your super white buddies have insulted Iranians multiple times. I’ve seen it on Flowrestling’s Instagram page, on YouTube - everywhere.
Bashing Middle Easterners, trashing other nationalities, mocking people of color - it’s all part of the same pattern.

I haven’t said anything disparaging about Iranians. I also don’t know a soul on this forum. 

[mspart]

If you are from Iran, you can honestly say that there is none of this in Iran?  It's all love and kumquats with those idiot Iraqis?   No harsh words for the hick Azerbaijanis?   No harshness for the Sunni or Shia folks somewhere else or down the road?   The Turks are the worst?    I'll bet it is the same there as it is everywhere.  

mspart

[JimmySpeaks]

He hasn’t trashed anyone on here. it’s just ok when he does it because He’s “from” Iran

[El Luchador]

1 hour ago, Caveira said:

Actual journalists should be held to a higher standard than influencers on Twitter.  

Especially when your motto is "CNN the most trusted name in news."

Edited Thursday at 09:17 PM by El Luchador
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[Undefeated]

Years ago I read this line in The Emperor by Kapuscinski - he was quoting an zoology book. It said something like:

“In every chicken coop, the weaker birds get pecked by the stronger ones. There’s always a hierarchy. The top bird pecks everyone. The middle ones peck those below but respect those above. And at the bottom, there’s a miserable class that just gets pecked by everyone.”

Maybe once in a while, it’s healthy for the birds doing all the pecking to feel a little peck themselves. Funny how just one little tap and suddenly the squawking begins!

[Caveira]

16 minutes ago, Undefeated said:

Years ago I read this line in The Emperor by Kapuscinski - he was quoting an zoology book. It said something like:

“In every chicken coop, the weaker birds get pecked by the stronger ones. There’s always a hierarchy. The top bird pecks everyone. The middle ones peck those below but respect those above. And at the bottom, there’s a miserable class that just gets pecked by everyone.”

Maybe once in a while, it’s healthy for the birds doing all the pecking to feel a little peck themselves. Funny how just one little tap and suddenly the squawking begins!

Which birds are the strong ones in Iran?

[Caveira]

51 minutes ago, Undefeated said:

Years ago I read this line in The Emperor by Kapuscinski - he was quoting an zoology book. It said something like:

“In every chicken coop, the weaker birds get pecked by the stronger ones. There’s always a hierarchy. The top bird pecks everyone. The middle ones peck those below but respect those above. And at the bottom, there’s a miserable class that just gets pecked by everyone.”

Maybe once in a while, it’s healthy for the birds doing all the pecking to feel a little peck themselves. Funny how just one little tap and suddenly the squawking begins!

Populations associated with border regions are all at risk of extreme violence. Iran, which executes more people than any country in the world after China, reportedly executed more than 50 Baluchis in 2006 alone. Just recently, the New York Times published an article citing local news media and witnesses who say that around 50 Afghan migrants were murdered and their bodies thrown into a river. Structural racism against non-Persians in Iran also means that Kurds saw the highest number of executions following the 2009 Green protests, even though the movement itself was Persian-led and Tehran-centered. According to Abbas Vali, professor of modern social and political theory at the department of sociology, Bogaziçi University, Istanbul, Iranian Kurdistan is treated as a security zone where “the logic of military rule” continues to this day. “It’s something engraved in the mindset of government officials,”continues Vali, “when they smell trouble, they first turn to the Kurds.” This violent racism has also led the government to systematically murder working-class Kurdish kolbers, or laborers who carry heavy goods on their back, many of whom are impoverished children from border town villages. Just in 2016, 42 kolber workers were directly shot dead, 30 were injured, and 22 drowned/died of hypothermia or other related causes.

Edited Thursday at 10:21 PM by Caveira

[Undefeated]

2 hours ago, Caveira said:

besides state tv.  Is there widespread access to cnn in Iran ?

Nobody but regime loyalists watches state TV in Iran. People here use satellite - we can access channels from all over the world. Some networks are encrypted, but satellite techs know how to unlock them too.

This isn’t North Korea. People in Iran have been fighting for whatever scraps of freedom we can get for decades. Back in the day, the government used to raid homes, confiscate dishes and receivers. At one point, even owning a VCR was illegal - during Khomeini’s time. But people still used them in secret.

When I was a kid, they raided our house. Took our movies and the VCR. I begged one of the agents to give back Cliffhanger with Sylvester Stallone - I’d borrowed it from someone. He gave it back. They played every single tape to check for "banned content". One was just a comedy play. I told him, "That’s just theater". He fast-forwarded… and boom, at the end there was a clip of a female Iranian singer from LA. He looked at me and said, "This is your theater? Yeah right…"

A lot has changed since then. The regime had to back off because even the people who used to shame us for being 'too Westernized' turned out to have green cards and homes in the West.

[mspart]

28 minutes ago, Caveira said:

Populations associated with border regions are all at risk of extreme violence. Iran, which executes more people than any country in the world after China, reportedly executed more than 50 Baluchis in 2006 alone.

It wasn't him.   He died before that.

mspart

[Caveira]

5 minutes ago, mspart said:

It wasn't him.   He died before that.

mspart

Legit lol.    Kudos boss.  You win today.   

[Undefeated]

15 minutes ago, mspart said:

It wasn't him.   He died before that.

mspart

You’ve only seen those things in the movies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execution_of_Navid_Afkari

[Caveira]

2 minutes ago, Undefeated said:

You’ve only seen those things in the movies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execution_of_Navid_Afkari

Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl harbor?

[mspart]

4 minutes ago, Caveira said:

Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl harbor?

Touche!

mspart

[Undefeated]

4 minutes ago, Caveira said:

Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl harbor?

No, it was over when the Native Americans massacred the white folks.

[Caveira]

Just now, Undefeated said:

No, it was over when the Native Americans massacred the white folks.

My advice to you.  Is to start drinking heavily.   
 

And before you ask.  You better listen to me because I’m in pre-med.  

[GreatWhiteNorth]

17 hours ago, 1032004 said:

I think it’s odd that people keep calling Loomer a “stooge” and a “nobody,” yet she clearly has influence within the White House (and outside of it).

It's not odd. Loomer is a complete stooge, but not a nobody. You seem to confuse "influence" with these things.

[GreatWhiteNorth]

15 hours ago, Bigbrog said:

You might be surprised to know I have no interest of "good guys" vs "bad guys" and who is who...apparently you do...I just posted my opinion that it seemed a little weird to be calling someone a liar over and over, especially in regard to a nobody on social media, but like I said, that is my opinion...hard stop. 

As for the first part of your response to me...um DUH!!  That happens on every freaking thread by every freaking person on here.

I'm not surprised you are unconcerned with good vs bad, having "no interest." Personally, I believe it is important.

As for the first part of my response to you... you asked the question. I merely answered it. No need to freak out.

[GreatWhiteNorth]

8 hours ago, Undefeated said:

Feels like you’re living in the Stone Age, man. We see the kind of stuff you guys say online - the insults, the accusations, the trashing of people from other countries, other races, and anyone who’s not white. It’s everywhere. You’ve done it for so long it just feels normal to you now.
Right here in this forum, your super white buddies have insulted Iranians multiple times. I’ve seen it on Flowrestling’s Instagram page, on YouTube - everywhere.
Bashing Middle Easterners, trashing other nationalities, mocking people of color - it’s all part of the same pattern.

Those from the "shytehole" countries? Yes, that is happening. Has been happening for a long time. They're a lost cause. Can't even protect themselves from their own government.

But other than being obviously wrong, is it really that big of a deal?

Right now, in the US, brown people who are in the US legally are being snatched up without oversight, without warrants, without badges, without accountability, without a paper trail, and tossed into unmarked vehicles all without warning. Which is illegal.

And then being sent away without due process - which is illegal, because our Constitution assures due process.

What the US is doing right now is incredibly illegal and wrong.

It seems the US is fast becoming one of those "shytehole" countries.

[Caveira]

8 hours ago, GreatWhiteNorth said:

Those from the "shytehole" countries? Yes, that is happening. Has been happening for a long time. They're a lost cause. Can't even protect themselves from their own government.

But other than being obviously wrong, is it really that big of a deal?

Right now, in the US, brown people who are in the US legally are being snatched up without oversight, without warrants, without badges, without accountability, without a paper trail, and tossed into unmarked vehicles all without warning. Which is illegal.

And then being sent away without due process - which is illegal, because our Constitution assures due process.

What the US is doing right now is incredibly illegal and wrong.

It seems the US is fast becoming one of those "shytehole" countries.

Bla bla bla.   Toss the illegals out.   Also show some evidence to your nonsense claim  

More than 13,000 immigrants convicted of homicide are living outside immigration detention in the U.S., ICE says

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna173125

[JimmySpeaks]

8 hours ago, Caveira said:

Bla bla bla.   Toss the illegals out.   Also show some evidence to your nonsense claim  

More than 13,000 immigrants convicted of homicide are living outside immigration detention in the U.S., ICE says

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna173125

But but but according to @red viking they’re all quality people 

[GreatWhiteNorth]

13 hours ago, Caveira said:

Bla bla bla.   Toss the illegals out.   Also show some evidence to your nonsense claim  

More than 13,000 immigrants convicted of homicide are living outside immigration detention in the U.S., ICE says

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna173125

My post wasn't about the 'illegals', it was about the brown people who are currently here legally.

Maybe read back and pay attention.

It's kind of a big deal when people who are here legally are snatched up and sent to 'who knows where.'

There's a word for that - it's injustice.

And if you are any kind of real patriot, you'd have a problem with that.