Well I'm going to 7000 ft this weekend.

....hmmm....


I better not look left or right there.

victor809 wrote:

Victor, I think you also need to take intent into account. It seems to me that is part of context.

The guy on the right is a Neo Nazi who is drawing Swastikas, the guy on the left is a white supremacist who is drawing Swastikas. Pretty obvious this is about fear, hate, and intimidation. The guy in the center is drawing Swastikas so it must be about fear, hate, and intimidation. Yet when translated from Sanskrit it means good and to be. The man in the in the center is a Hindu. To him it symbolizes many things, luck, Surya, and Brahma to name a few. If he had been a Viking, a Greek, a Buddhist, or a Jain the meaning would have been different yet again.

So I don't think it is so clear that Jocko is a racist symbol. Rather I find it a racist symbol and understand how people of color find it a racist symbol. But I respect that to Rick it is something else entirely.

Speyside wrote:

Wouldn't big blackie be silly?

Speyside wrote:

All the years this things been around, the most interest it's ever gotten has been from my little brother hugging and loving it like a buddy, mention it here,and now it seems to overshadow everything I've ever done...amazing

RMAN4443 wrote:

consider it invited to the next herf

frankj1 wrote:

I personally feel superior to all of you.


Does that make me racist?

victor809 wrote:

I dunno, way I see it, everyone's bigoted or racist to one extent or another....

HuckFinn wrote:

TG, you may call me whatever you want. It's amusing. Life has humbled me. I know I'm not superior to others. If anything I feel inferior to most. I hate, fear, love and welcome everyone.

HuckFinn wrote:

I haven't called you anything (in this thread) that you didn't tell me was true.

You can't say everyone is racist and then get upset when I call you racist.

It's like you WANT to be offended.





You seem fixated on telling us what WE feel inside.
It's a liberal tendency, so it's not surprising.

I don't stake claim to being without prejudice. Heck, I might have more of them then you.
And I might be more vocal about them than I should be at times.

But to assume my prejudice is based on skin color just proves the idiom about when you "assume".

tailgater wrote:

Tedious. Damn it.

I said everyone is either, either! racist or bigoted (someone intolerant of different opinions)

OK. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I've miscalculated and I'm assuming people
"feel things inside" that don't exist. And that makes me a so and so...and...yawn

And maybe most people instinctively harbor fear and suspicion for people that are clearly different.

Until I see a poll...oh right...they're usually fake....so...nm

Anyway, where did I say that YOU personally held a prejudice against people of color??

HuckFinn wrote:

The subject was a black lawn jockey.
You said EVERYONE is "either bigoted or racist".

There isn't any wiggle room here.

I may not feel a need to be a conformist, but I usually assume that I'm included in the group known as "everyone".


Besides.
You know I don't think you're racist.
I'm just using your own words to show you how utterly pathetic and ill conceived your comment was.

Tell me this:
If everyone is either bigoted or racist, then why do the left wet their collective panties and claim that Trump is a bigot and/or racist?

tailgater wrote:

Tons of wiggle room. They were separate ideas. But as they were in the same post and you tend to clump....
You disagree with me consistantly and undoubtedly think your opinions and ideas are superior to mine, no?
By definition that makes you bigoted.

Ducks.

Yeah, not gonna defend Trump. But TG, civilized and kind men are self-censoring and decent enough to show at very least, civility and respect. He'll read or hear that something he said about countries being chitholes is racist and attack the messenger! No excuse for his statements regarding Mexicans and immigrants of color. Save it.

We see Trump with very different eyes and I don't see him as tolerant. The opposite actually.
If he was my mechanic, so what. He'd just be another jerk. No filter required (see what I did there....?)
But Donald is our president, yawn, and represents me! And us! And he knows who is base is. And they sure ain't people of color. And he natures that.

Just bad form

Pick what I've said apart. But if you don't see how Donald is racist there's, well...that

HuckFinn wrote:

I, too, disagree with you pretty consistently, Huck. But, I'll agree to a large degree with your assessment that Trump is not all too 'self-censoring', 'civil', respectful, tolerant, or even unbiased. Bad form? Agreed. But, I'm not sure any of that precludes him from having a 'successful' presidency. (Which of course can't be objectively judged by anyone for at least a couple/few decades.) He's far from my ideal president. But, I'm confounded by the mentality (sometimes described as TDS) that prohibits even the detractors from EVER projecting anything other that total negativity.

dstieger wrote:

I'm POSITIVE I'd do his daughter.

frankj1 wrote:

Tons of wiggle room. They were separate ideas. But as they were in the same post and to make a 'point you artificially clumped them together....good thing I didn't mention my allergy to collard greens.
You disagree with me consistantly and undoubtedly think your opinions and ideas are superior to mine, no?
By definition that makes you bigoted.

Ducks.

Yeah, not gonna defend Trump. But TG, civilized and kind men are self-censoring and decent enough to show at very least, civility and respect. He'll read or hear that something he said about countries being chitholes is racist and attack the messenger! No excuse for his statements regarding Mexicans and immigrants of color. Save it.

We see Trump with very different eyes and I don't see him as tolerant. The opposite actually.
If he was my mechanic, so what. He'd just be another jerk. No filter required (see what I did there....?)
But Donald is our president, yawn, and represents me! And us! And he knows who is base is. And they sure ain't people of color. And he natures that.

Just bad form

Pick what I've said apart. But if you don't see how Donald is racist there's, well...that

HuckFinn wrote: