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A controversy over an anti-racism campaign some local critics say is itself racist is roiling the Iron Range city of Duluth, Minn.
The Un-Fair Campaign addresses what it calls ‘white privilege’ with billboards, posters and online videos assigning guilt to people with taglines like, “Is white skin really fair skin?” and “I am a white man. That’s unfair.” The ads are plastered across a city where 90 percent of the population is Caucasian.
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But some critics in the region say the ads make a blanket generalization of all white people.
“You can't open a discussion on race and hope to see it move in a positive direction when you raise the topic by stereotyping an entire race,” Phil Pierson wrote on the Facebook page he started and dubbed STOP Racist Unfair Campaign, started by local resident Phil Pierson.
“It will be perceived as biased and accusatory. Instead of spreading love and togetherness, it spreads animosity and hate, teaches a new generation to point fingers and focus on the color of our skin instead of the idea that we're all human, and we're all in this together,” Pierson added.
Well said. Don't these folks have anything else to do?I’m so sick of this kind of sanctimonious mental flatulence. Do they really think they are going to encourage solutions based dialogue by being racist toward people with white skin color? Are white people the only racist people?
Meh, they went for shock value above content so while I appreciate the message, I think the way they packaged the message is going to push people away from thinking about or accepting it.Link: Fox News
Link: Un-Fair Campaign
I’m so sick of this kind of sanctimonious mental flatulence. Do they really think they are going to encourage solutions based dialogue by being racist toward people with white skin color? Are white people the only racist people?
I’m all for the elimination of racism but constantly playing the race card and being racist yourself won’t reduce racism.
Speaking of silly and unfounded accusations of racism :roll:It's just sick that any of you are so morally depraved to object even to something as innocuous as this. The kneejerk reaction of the right to attack any attempt to lessen racism is just sick. You should be ashamed of yourselves. The Republican party is flat out turning into a white supremacist party. Disgusting.
Speaking of silly and unfounded accusations of racism :roll:
Are you kidding me? You're on a thread of right wingers calling one of the tamest, least controversial, anti-racism campaigns you can imagine "racist" and you don't see a problem with that?
I think it's absolutely harmless, but why would I have a issue with others taking offense to it? Your post, however was a giant, laughably false accusation. I have a problem with labeling an entire group as racists because of the actions of a few which were dubiously and frankly doubtfully racist to begin with.Are you kidding me? You're on a thread of right wingers calling one of the tamest, least controversial, anti-racism campaigns you can imagine "racist" and you don't see a problem with that?
The Republican party is flat out turning into a white supremacist party. Disgusting.
Actually I can understand why some would characterize the Un-Fair campaign as racist. Doesn't mean I agree with them, but I don't see their motivations as racist. And to say that th campaign is un-controversial is simply false.
They only controversy is that it acknowledges white privilege. Denying white privilege is, obviously, white supremacist. Just because this kind of thing has become acceptable on the right doesn't mean it is a reasonable viewpoint. We live in a country where the average white household has 14 times as much wealth as the average black household. In this country, today, if a white person and a black person apply for the same job with the same resume, the white person is 2.4 times more like to get an interview. A black person is 28 times more likely to be the victim of a racially motivated violent hate crime in the US today. This funhouse mirror notion on the right that even to acknowledge that, or to fight against it is "racist" is just sick. It doesn't matter how many of them do it, it is still sick. It's just cruelty and hate and nothing more.
I think it's absolutely harmless, but why would I have a issue with others taking offense to it? Your post, however was a giant, laughably false accusation. I have a problem with labeling an entire group as racists because of the actions of a few which were dubiously and frankly doubtfully racist to begin with.
It's just sick that any of you are so morally depraved to object even to something as innocuous as this. The kneejerk reaction of the right to attack any attempt to lessen racism is just sick. You should be ashamed of yourselves. The Republican party is flat out turning into a white supremacist party. Disgusting.
They only controversy is that it acknowledges white privilege. Denying white privilege is, obviously, white supremacist. Just because this kind of thing has become acceptable on the right doesn't mean it is a reasonable viewpoint. We live in a country where the average white household has 14 times as much wealth as the average black household. In this country, today, if a white person and a black person apply for the same job with the same resume, the white person is 2.4 times more like to get an interview.
No it's not. You could perhaps characterize it as ignorant or "head-in-the-sand." but just because someone has a problem with the concept of white privilege doesn't make them a white supremacist. You're engaging in serious hyperbole here.
This is America. I don't have to socialize with people that I don't want to. My company can hire whoever they want, not who YOU deem to be the most qualified. The private school my children attend is free to accept and reject whoever they want. You libs need to deal with it.
Not even remotely the same thing. You painted yourself into a corner with your over the top rhetoric. It was poppycock, in its purest form. Doubling down on it now just makes you look more foolish.You should have an issue with people "taking offense" to fighting against racism because what they are trying to do is to make it socially unacceptable to fight against racism. It's no different than the folks that have always done that. The people who characterized black civil rights leaders as "uppity" and white civil rights leaders as "n-word lovers". The people who tried to paint equal rights as "communism". All that disgusting part of our history used to be fading away, but now it's back full force in the Republican party. Sure, they use the code word "racist" instead of the n-word, but it's exactly the same people doing exactly the same thing.
No it's not. You could perhaps characterize it as ignorant or "head-in-the-sand." but just because someone has a problem with the concept of white privilege doesn't make them a white supremacist. You're engaging in serious hyperbole here.
LOL. The GOP is SO worried about losing their 2% of the black vote.
This is America. I don't have to socialize with people that I don't want to. My company can hire whoever they want, not who YOU deem to be the most qualified. The private school my children attend is free to accept and reject whoever they want. You libs need to deal with it.
Not even remotely the same thing. You painted yourself into a corner with your over the top rhetoric. It was poppycock, in its purest form. Doubling down on it now just makes you look more foolish.
LOL. The GOP is SO worried about losing their 2% of the black vote.
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