If you say that somebody “plays the race card”, you are a racist. And if you don’t understand why I say that, you are an idiot. Is being a racist idiot really the best identity you could find for yourself?
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Every time an individual uses race as a basis for affirmative asction in the job market, he or she is using the race card. Elizabeth Warren claiming (incredibly) to be Native American in her application to Harvard University deployed the race card.
Saying that does not me a racist. Racists are those who seek racial preferences for specific ethnic groups. I believe in equal opportunity, not racial preferences.
I always regard highly any so-called minority person who refuses categorically to claim a preference. Walter Williams, GMU professor of economics is exceptionally good in this regard.
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While I think you’d be right in an ideal society, I think it’s also important to remember that we don’t live in one. Social promotion exists for a reason. It exists because policies in place today still put minorities at an incredible disadvantage. It’s not about giving specific ethnic groups “racial preferences” over other groups, it’s about starting to undo the damage of fiscal racial profiling. It’s nice to claim to support “opportunity” and “equality” but those are not ideas that our current culture actually supports, we just claim we do.
And please don’t accuse me of playing the “race card” because I’m white and upper middle class.
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While I think you’d be right in an ideal society(Alex)
There will never be an “ideal” society.
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Sufficient time now surely has passed for earlier disadvantages to clear. Asians for the most part seem to stand on their own feet. Others would surely so do if they had to. That is why equality of opportunity is so important. That does not imply equality of outcomes. Hard work and ability should count differentially in any society that wishes to flourish.
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Tea Party Repubenrons play the race card against the so-called “Socialist” Obama and I’m not a racist, and Charles is right on this: if someone uses his race to obtain an “affirmative” (sic) advantage, ey plays the race card and you’re not necessarily a racist if you think that.
In the Québec State, we have numerous cases of “playing the sex card”.
“Sufficient time now surely has passed for earlier disadvantages to clear.”
I disagree with Charles on this, but this is not a reason to use violence with the goal to obtain race advantage. This is not a good way to treat racial minorities and white majority as human people.
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Whenever a white person accuses me of deploying “the race card”, I feel a certain sort of smugness, because it means that they are extremely jealous and resentful of my many successes accomplishments. 🙂
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* “many successes and accomplishments.”
I haven’t had coffee yet… *sheepish*
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In your case, I think this is a racist remark.
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Too bad I don’t hold a lot of stock in the opinions on racism of people who don’t experience it.
What’s next, am I going to have to defer to a man’s opinions of what constitutes misogyny?
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“What’s next, am I going to have to defer to a man’s opinions of what constitutes misogyny?”
– What, are you telling me that you can figure misogyny out without the participation of a knowledgeable and authoritative male? Aren’t you afraid that your feminine brains will be overtaxed with this effort? 🙂
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Whatever will I do without one or a dozen white men to offer their authoritative answers on whether or not I am experiencing racism and sexism??
Fetch my smelling salts!
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I can’t, I can’t. I’m in the midst of a fainting fit here. 🙂 🙂
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We need a man for this! And he needs to open the jar too, my weak feminine hands are incapable of such an arduous task!
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Wow. Where are we going with this smelling salts and misogyny discussion?
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We are joking. This is the only way to alleviate the stress of waiting for the election results.
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Do not take it as a sexist remark, but I am afraid that you will need your smelling salts tonight… perhaps I will need them too.
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We will win, I promise. 🙂
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There was that joke about Putin winning elections in the US, you know 🙂
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I didn’t hear the joke.
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Eh, a shame it’s in Polish, it’s hard to translate jokes in a right way.
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Like Gillard was accused of “playing the gender card”. There’s a great cartoon somewhere where the mother gives her young daughter a card, saying, ‘this is the gender card. It’s very precious. Only play it if you really have to.”
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