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       Re: Ethnonepotism
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: September 19, 2022, 6:06 pm
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  HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/family-says-fatal-shooting-case-shows-stand-your-ground-georgia-marc-wilson-213221643.html
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       > Family says fatal shooting case shows ‘stand your ground’
       defense doesn’t work for Black men
       >
       > William “Marc” Wilson was recently convicted of involuntary
       manslaughter for a shooting that he says was in self-defense
       against a racist attack on a Georgia highway, and his family and
       lawyers say the case reveals a racial double standard for “stand
       your ground” laws.
       >
       > “If you put me in Marc’s shoes, there’s no way that I would've
       been prosecuted,” Wilson’s cousin, Chance Pridgen, who is white,
       told Yahoo News. “Odds are I would've been given a medal —
       probably gotten a parade in my name. It’s unreal how he was
       treated just because he’s a little bit more tan than I am.”
       > ...
       > The case against Wilson was closely watched by legal experts
       and civil rights advocates who have long criticized the use of
       “stand your ground” laws as racist. Perhaps the most
       high-profile case was the 2012 shooting of Trayvon Martin, an
       unarmed Black teen. George Zimmerman, who killed Martin,
       successfully argued that the use of force was justified under
       Florida’s self-defense laws.
       >
       > Studies have found a significant racial disparity in whether
       homicides are deemed justified based on the race of the shooter
       and the person shot. A 2020 study by the U.S. Commission on
       Civil Rights said​​ "white-on-black homicides have
       justifiable findings 33 percentage points more often than
       black-on-white homicides,” with “stand your ground” laws
       exacerbating that disparity.
       >
       > “This case, among so many others, highlights the urgency in
       why Georgia must address the racial disparity in Stand Your
       Ground claims,” James Woodall, a public policy associate with
       the Southern Center for Human Rights, said in a statement to
       Yahoo News. “It is troubling that people continue to have to
       defend themselves against violent behavior, only to be further
       criminalized by an unjust legal system.”
       > ...
       > CJ Jenkins, an organizer and JustGeorgia coalition member who
       has been working as a liaison between the Statesboro community
       and Wilson’s legal team, says the facts of the case were on the
       defendant’s side.
       >
       > “[The teens] admitted to hiding evidence. They admitted to
       being intoxicated,” Jenkins told Yahoo News.
       >
       --- End Quote ---
       Maybe it's because Wilson didn't do this in court?
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       Re: Ethnonepotism
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: September 24, 2022, 8:59 pm
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  HTML https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/8/2/racist-federation-russias-minorities-complain-of-racism
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       > Ethnic minority troops are said to be dying in greater numbers
       than their Slav compatriots in the so-called ‘special military
       operation’.
       > ...
       > According to open source researchers, soldiers with roots in
       poorer regions such as Buryatia and Dagestan are
       disproportionately represented among Russian casualties in
       Ukraine.
       > ...
       > “Buryatia, like the other ethnic republics, is governed by the
       colonial policies of Moscow,” Maladaeva continued.
       > ...
       > “In Russia, the level of chauvinism is very high,” Chechen
       lawyer and human rights defender Abubakar Yangulbaev told Al
       Jazeera. “I even call it the ‘Racist Federation’, as it
       perfectly reflects the inner essence of the state both among the
       Russian people and among the officials.”
       > ...
       > As late as last year, landlords in Russia were still able to
       list their lettings online as “for Slavs only”.
       >
       > “I think every non-Russian has come across this; we’re always
       experiencing discrimination,” said Maladaeva. “Once my mother
       forgot her passport and the cops held her for five hours since
       they wouldn’t believe she was a Russian citizen.
       >
       > “We lived in St Petersburg where I took part in a beauty
       contest, and on social media, they kept writing I should have my
       head stuck down the toilet, and, ‘Why is a Buryat representing
       Peter anyway?’”
       --- End Quote ---
       See also:
  HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/historian-explains-why-it-is-wrong-to-compare-putin-directly-to-hitler/msg15710/#msg15710
       #Post#: 16310--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Ethnonepotism
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: November 6, 2022, 7:31 pm
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  HTML https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/03/world/europe/refugee-crisis.html
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       > Because Europe has granted Ukrainians automatic residency and
       visas, Ukrainians are at the front of the line for housing and
       refugee services.
       > ...
       > The disparities have left activists like David Schmidtke,
       spokesman of the Saxony Refugee Council in Dresden, denouncing
       what they call a two-tier system that disadvantages and
       discriminates against asylum seekers from outside Ukraine.
       >
       > “This is institutional racism,” he said. “There are two
       classes of refugees.”
       >
       > In Germany and across the rest of the European Union,
       officials say the sudden scale of the Ukrainian arrivals has
       left the bloc with little choice but to offer automatic
       recognition and, therefore, direct access to services for which
       other asylum seekers often wait months and years.
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       If the aim is purely to clear the backlog, then why not in the
       same decision offer automatic recognition to the earlier
       arrivals also? We all know why not.
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       > While Ukrainians are far and away the majority of new
       refugees, some politicians have blamed the strains on the system
       on asylum seekers from Syria, Afghanistan and other places
       outside Europe.
       --- End Quote ---
       Arithmetic not required.
       #Post#: 16370--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Ethnonepotism
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: November 11, 2022, 3:11 am
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  HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/nyc-most-romantic-restaurant-accused-174927192.html
       Let me preface this by saying there is nothing romantic about
       this restaurant. It looks like this:
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       With that said:
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       > One if by Land, Two if by Sea, considered one of the most
       romantic restaurants in the world, is now under fire after a
       TikTok user accused the establishment of racially discriminating
       "against non-white people — particularly Asians."
       >
       > TikTok user Annie (@rokug4n) called out One if by Land, Two if
       by Sea in a recent post. She says in her video that she and her
       boyfriend recently had a date at the restaurant and were seated
       on the second floor, or mezzanine. During their meal, she
       noticed that most of the people around them were purportedly
       Asian.
       >
       > “I'm going to preface this by saying, I have no issue dining
       with other Asian people, other Chinese people, I don’t care.
       What I do care about, and have an issue with, is people of color
       being separated from white people by white people in higher-end
       establishments,” she says.
       >
       > Annie then highlights the difference in ambiance between that
       of the first floor and that of the mezzanine, pointing out that
       the first floor, where the white diners are purportedly usually
       seated, has chandeliers, high ceilings, huge windows, mosaics
       and plenty of natural lighting. She claims that the second
       floor, which has two small windows, is not as well lit. It also
       does not have a piano and a bar.
       >
       > “The unfortunate truth is that racial discrimination in
       higher-end spaces is not a new phenomenon,” she says. “What is
       unfortunate is that One if by Land, Two if by Sea has been
       racially discriminatory for so long.”
       >
       > Annie also points out that “so many Asian foodies are paying
       hundreds of dollars to this restaurant and getting racially
       discriminated against.”
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       All I will say is that the restaurant's ethics matches its
       aesthetics.
       Also, a useful comment points out a fundamental asymmetry:
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       > As a white guy living in China, managers love to seat me by a
       window so that passersby will think that the restaurant is
       high-class and high quality
       --- End Quote ---
       Other woke comments:
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       > whit folks are most luckiest in non whit places.  They are
       looked upon as gods , beauty in itself and even get random
       invites for ads and posters so companies can show off their
       products are good with westerners who value beauty and quality.
       now in a white country i have to beg to get my kid photographed
       in a community or school event. even if schools have 20-30%
       smart ass as.an kids , its the whit kids who get showcased as
       though they are high quality humans ..
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       #Post#: 16431--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Ethnonepotism
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: November 15, 2022, 2:37 am
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  HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/asylum-dispute-austrian-mayor-takes-074951313.html
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       > In asylum dispute, Austrian mayor takes down migrant tents
       > ...
       > After a weeks-long conflict, St. Georgen Mayor Ferdinand
       Aigner had more than a dozen tents removed that were set up in
       his village last month.
       > ...
       > the U.N. refugee agency got involved, urging the federal
       government and St. Georgen to find a compromise so the migrants
       will not end up homeless during the winter cold.
       > ...
       > “If every municipality would take a heart and create a few
       places, the problem would quickly be solved,” Pinter said.
       >
       > However, Aigner doesn't see it this way.
       >
       > “It’s just too many,” he said, referring to the number of the
       asylum-seekers his village is supposed to shelter.
       > ...
       > It was not immediately clear how Austria's federal government
       would react to the dismantling of the tents, but as of late
       Monday, the interior ministry had not filed an appeal in court
       to keep the tents in place. The more than 100 asylum-seekers
       living in the tents were distributed to other shelters.
       --- End Quote ---
       Are you ready for the punchline?
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       > Austria is also hosting more than 85,000 Ukrainian refugees
       who have fled Russia's brutal war.
       --- End Quote ---
       #Post#: 16530--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Ethnonepotism
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: November 19, 2022, 6:37 pm
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       It's OK for Belgium to be "white"?
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNrxpqKugAU
       #Post#: 16766--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Ethnonepotism
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: December 1, 2022, 2:04 am
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       Pope Karen thinks it's OK for war criminals to be "white":
  HTML https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/29/interview-pope-francis-fury-russia
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       > In an interview with the Catholic magazine America published
       Monday, the pope said that soldiers from Buryatia, where
       Buddhism is a major religion, and the Muslim-majority Chechnya
       republic, were “the cruellest” while fighting in Ukraine.
       >
       > “Generally, the cruellest are perhaps those who are of Russia
       but are not of the Russian tradition, such as the Chechens, the
       Buryats and so on,” he said.
       --- End Quote ---
       As if someone like him would know.
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       > Human rights groups and independent media organisations have
       documented overwhelming evidence of war crimes by Russian
       forces, but there has been no data to suggest that soldiers from
       national minorities fighting in Ukraine have behaved worse in
       Ukraine than ethnic Russian members.
       --- End Quote ---
       But let's just presume it anyway! When in doubt, "whites" are
       always better than "non-whites"!
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       Re: Ethnonepotism
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: December 8, 2022, 5:10 pm
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  HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/pope-breaks-down-cries-while-153555018.html
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       > ROME (Reuters) -Pope Francis broke down and cried on Thursday
       as he mentioned the suffering of Ukrainians during a traditional
       prayer in central Rome.
       >
       > The pope's voice began to tremble as he mentioned the
       Ukrainians and he had to stop, unable to speak, for about 30
       seconds. When he resumed the prayer, his voice was cracking.
       --- End Quote ---
       Woke comments:
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       > Where was this clown when Libya , Syria, Iraq were being hit
       from outsiders! When white people get hit that’s when raciiist
       like him come out for backing. When brown people get invaded
       there is zip from these clowns.
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       > The Catholic Church is a very old, very evil organization.  I
       can’t decide whether I hate Catholics or Jews more.
       --- End Quote ---
       See also:
  HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/colonial-era/colonialism-as-viewed-by-westerners/msg15179/#msg15179
       #Post#: 17101--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Ethnonepotism
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: December 18, 2022, 7:47 pm
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       Re: Ethnonepotism
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: December 23, 2022, 3:29 am
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       Previously:
  HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/human-evolution/non-aryan-treachery/msg11223/#msg11223
       Now it's OK for painters to be "white":
  HTML https://us.yahoo.com/lifestyle/course-anna-sorokin-made-340-000000539.html
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       > Of Course Anna Sorokin Has Made $340,000 Selling Her Horrible,
       No Good, Very Bad Art
       > ...
       > the convicted scammer, who went by the name Anna Delvey during
       her grifting escapades, has found a new passion—creating and
       selling her own prints from her Lower East Side apartment while
       under house arrest. So far, she’s made $340,000, according to
       the New York Post. The works include original paintings and
       sketches that range from $250 to $250,000 in price. Lawyers,
       tech entrepreneurs and Saturday Night Live alum Chloe Fineman
       are reported to be among her clientele.
       > ...
       > While in custody, the Russian-born scammer went as far as
       hosting an art show featuring a collection of illustrations she
       etched during her time at the correction facility. She even made
       a surprise virtual appearance at the exhibition, which was
       titled “Allegedly” and held at the Public Hotel in New York
       City.
       >
       > Sorokin is currently represented by art dealer Chris Martine
       of Founders Art Club. He told the Post that together, they’ve
       sold “prints to 40 or 50 countries.”
       > ...
       > More recently in December, the famous fraudster unveiled her
       latest collection during Art Basel Miami Beach. The show, called
       the “House (Arrest) Party,” was a collaboration between Sorokin
       and New York-based gallery, The Locker Room.
       --- End Quote ---
       Note:
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloe_Fineman
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       > Fineman's parents are painter Ellen Gunn and biotechnology
       executive David Fineman.[6] She has two sisters, visual artist
       Emma and CrossFit athlete Alexia (Leka).[6] Her father is Jewish
       and her mother is a "WASP." Fineman was raised attending Camp
       Kee Tov, a Jewish day camp at Congregation Beth El in
       Berkeley.[6][7]
       --- End Quote ---
       Then again, nothing surprises us any more:
  HTML https://www.thecollector.com/donald-trump-nft-collection-sold-out-in-one-day/
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