For those interested, it will be airing tonight at 8 pm eastern.
Re: Surviving a Race War -- T.V. Version
For those interested, it will be airing tonight at 8 pm eastern.
When a fox kills your chickens, do you kill the pigs for seeing what happened? No you go out and hunt the fox.
Cry havoc and let slip the HOGS of war
Re: Surviving a Race War -- T.V. Version
Americans are obsessed with race, thats why racism will never go away.
If its anything like real America, the black contestants will kill each other and blame the white constestants, the latinos will invade the nicest island camp, the white people will all get eliminated first because they are too busy thinking about the cash prize, and the Asian contestants will take all the other tribes best idea, improve on them, and win.
Baby Quit Your Cryin' Put Your Clown Britches On!!!
Re: Surviving a Race War -- T.V. Version
I think the issue is here is how to define 'racism'...personally I dont consider many things racist unless they invlove some element of hate in them.
I laugh at 'racist' jokes (even the ones that mock my race), does that mean I and the joke teller are racists?...of course not, because I know that a real racist is someone who hates people of a different race...
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Re: Surviving a Race War -- T.V. Version
I fail to see how this particular season of Survivor is 'racist'. What I do see is people reacting strongly to an issue which has, thanks to conditional reinforcement via popular culture and social engineering (i.e. US public school curriculum) led your average westerner to be far too reactionary to even the slightest mention of the topic of race.
What bothers me about this season of Survivor is the inclusion of the Hispanic group. Hispanic is a cultural category, not a racial one. Even the US census does not classify it as a racial category. Hispanic is a convenient lumping together of people who just happen to hail from the Portugese and Spanish speaking countries of Central and South America and the Carribbean. Basically if your ancestors hailed from Portugal or Spain, were conquered by Portugal or Spain, intermarried with people from Portugal or Spain, were bought, shipped and bought again by Portugese, Spanish, Indian or Mestizo peoples living in Latin America AND you possess a Latin based surname you are, in accordance with plebeian logic, classified as being Hispanic. How f'ing ridiculous!
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Re: Surviving a Race War -- T.V. Version
Reacting so strongly that the show has been pulled from tv....Originally Posted by Spino
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Uh, what are you talking about? Had the show been pulled after only one episode it would have been all over the news. Can you provide links that support your claim?
Survivor is one of CBS' solid rating grabbing shows, I seriously doubt they're going to pull the plug because it's ruffling a few feathers.
"Why spoil the beauty of the thing with legality?" - Theodore Roosevelt
Idealism is masturbation, but unlike real masturbation idealism actually makes one blind. - Fragony
Though Adrian did a brilliant job of defending the great man that is Hugo Chavez, I decided to post this anyway.. - JAG (who else?)
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I see. So the strong reactions you described earlier (fault to the education system) was just a couple of ruffled feathers.
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