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Question: Only one of these situations is fair and doesnt have raceist overtones.  Which one?
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Tetro Kornbluth
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« on: May 27, 2009, 12:21:12 PM »

None of these options, frankly.

Mostly for the reason mentioned by Raoul. Although "Magic 8-Ball"'s point is really the same one except for the moronic "let's idolate important people instead of teaching history" bit that is, I think, typical of US highschool history curricula (and used to be over here, back in the day when they worshipped Friedrich II and worse.)

And in Ireland as well... (though it's getting somewhat better tbh).
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Tetro Kornbluth
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« Reply #1 on: May 28, 2009, 01:48:49 PM »

Hispanic Heritage Month IS a white history month Fezzy.
It celebrates a specific heritage and culture, not a race.
What about black history month?
Also a culture and heritage.  "White" is the only one that isn't about a culture or heritage.
So blacks and hispanics (white) have a culture and heritage but white Europeans have no culture or heritage. Seriously? That's why the whole "month" idea is stupid to begin with.

Black and Hispanic are specific sub-cultures within America that have specific accomplishments and heritages.  White is a race.  European Heritage is fine, but that's not what people want to celebrate, they want to assert their white power.

White isn't a 'race' either. As there is no such (biological) thing known as 'race'.

Otherwise I agree totally with Verily.
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Tetro Kornbluth
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« Reply #2 on: May 28, 2009, 02:04:35 PM »

White isn't a 'race' either. As there is no such (biological) thing known as 'race'.

Otherwise I agree totally with Verily.

And again, it just boils down to definitions.  It's irrelevant whether race exists biologically because it does societally, which is what we're talking about.  Whether race exists or not is a completely different topic of discussion.

Oh okay, I agree then, it's just the word 'race' is used in an awkard manner and I don't like it.
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