Absolutely correct. I’m just saying that racism takes the prejudice a step further…moving from thought/speech to an actual denial of rights/services etc.
And yes, Lechacal, prejudice/bigotry etc. is so much broader than race. But I still have to insist on my action-based definition.
Don’t get a refund anticipation loan, Rob.
You only have a couple of weeks until you get the refund and the interest rates on those things are high usually.
Also, “prejudice” is so much broader than race. I have all kinds of prejudices that have nothing to do with race. “pre” “judge”. Racism is when your prejudice has to do with race. I think that’s how people commonly understand the term and I think anything that turns it into a one-way street is a very recent academic invention.
im reading up on refund antipication loans and im totally confused. to get one do you have to have originally wrote that down when you sent in your taxes?
snappy- but the end result is the same, isn’t it? To mark a person as less than others by virtue of prejudice or racism. I think in the heat of the moment, I do not differentiate between the two because I am interested in the result. By the way rob- i did not call you a racist – I said your comment was racist- there is a difference. But the point is if you slam someone for the color of their skin, or their beliefs or their nationality, its prejudiced folk who make racism possible. And I am not talking out of my hat- 18 years in an interracial marriage was an eye opening experience. And I thought i was pretty aware before I got married.
I have to say, I’m no stranger to these types of confrontations either. They happen.
Last year, I was driving along a three lane service road in Queens. I was in the far right lane mind you.
For some reason a guy in a red van felt I wasn’t going fast enough and proceeded to zoom by my left hand side and cut me off close, just to make a point, I guess, that I was driving too slow in the far right lane.
I let it go as I approached the stop light ahead and turned up my radio.
The light was a long one.
And I could see the guy seething in his stare at me through his rear view window.
At that point, I did something I shouldn’t have and escalated the situation.
I smiled a wide grin at him and stared back through his rear view mirror.
This angered the driver further, since it not only illustrated that I understood his stupidity in trying to get ahead on the side streets but also that I thought he was a moron.
So the light turned green and he played his part by not moving. I continued to smile and waited a full minute before gunning it around him.
Of course he followed and cut me off at an angle at the next light.
I continued to grin at him, since I’m unfortunately, no stranger to these situations. I waited again.
He finally made his move as I saw him preparing to exit the van. When he opened the door, I gunned my car as close to his driver side door as possible, before he had a chance to get out. If he had a weapon, I would have reversed my steering wheel and crushed him in his door.
He didn’t.
So I exchanged curses with him and he got back in and drove through the red light and away at high speed.
Like you said, I should have let things go because you never know what the other person is capable of, sometimes we don’t even know ourselves well enough.
Tybur, I’m in…wanna go .45 shopping this weekend? LOL
“its prejudiced folk who make racism possible.”
Absolutely correct. I’m just saying that racism takes the prejudice a step further…moving from thought/speech to an actual denial of rights/services etc.
And yes, Lechacal, prejudice/bigotry etc. is so much broader than race. But I still have to insist on my action-based definition.
Don’t get a refund anticipation loan, Rob.
You only have a couple of weeks until you get the refund and the interest rates on those things are high usually.
I’m going to start carrying a gun. I’ve learned my lesson.
“sometimes we don’t even know ourselves well enough.”
I’ll give that an amen.
Also, “prejudice” is so much broader than race. I have all kinds of prejudices that have nothing to do with race. “pre” “judge”. Racism is when your prejudice has to do with race. I think that’s how people commonly understand the term and I think anything that turns it into a one-way street is a very recent academic invention.
im reading up on refund antipication loans and im totally confused. to get one do you have to have originally wrote that down when you sent in your taxes?
*rob*
snappy- but the end result is the same, isn’t it? To mark a person as less than others by virtue of prejudice or racism. I think in the heat of the moment, I do not differentiate between the two because I am interested in the result. By the way rob- i did not call you a racist – I said your comment was racist- there is a difference. But the point is if you slam someone for the color of their skin, or their beliefs or their nationality, its prejudiced folk who make racism possible. And I am not talking out of my hat- 18 years in an interracial marriage was an eye opening experience. And I thought i was pretty aware before I got married.
snappy, tyburg and lechacal,
I have to say, I’m no stranger to these types of confrontations either. They happen.
Last year, I was driving along a three lane service road in Queens. I was in the far right lane mind you.
For some reason a guy in a red van felt I wasn’t going fast enough and proceeded to zoom by my left hand side and cut me off close, just to make a point, I guess, that I was driving too slow in the far right lane.
I let it go as I approached the stop light ahead and turned up my radio.
The light was a long one.
And I could see the guy seething in his stare at me through his rear view window.
At that point, I did something I shouldn’t have and escalated the situation.
I smiled a wide grin at him and stared back through his rear view mirror.
This angered the driver further, since it not only illustrated that I understood his stupidity in trying to get ahead on the side streets but also that I thought he was a moron.
So the light turned green and he played his part by not moving. I continued to smile and waited a full minute before gunning it around him.
Of course he followed and cut me off at an angle at the next light.
I continued to grin at him, since I’m unfortunately, no stranger to these situations. I waited again.
He finally made his move as I saw him preparing to exit the van. When he opened the door, I gunned my car as close to his driver side door as possible, before he had a chance to get out. If he had a weapon, I would have reversed my steering wheel and crushed him in his door.
He didn’t.
So I exchanged curses with him and he got back in and drove through the red light and away at high speed.
Like you said, I should have let things go because you never know what the other person is capable of, sometimes we don’t even know ourselves well enough.