not that i’m advocating this. in fact, i advocate not talking back to anyone with a gun.

Foolishness crosses class lines. Responsibility may, as you say, be apportioned differently.

It’s the difference between someone who is there because they’ve always been there and don’t have the resources to leave vs. someone who chose to take an informed risk to make a lot of money and failed. It’s also the difference between someone who needs, say, $1,000 for moving expenses and temporary aid while they get on their feet someplace else vs. someone who needs $100,000 to continue making money in a dangerous location where they will eventually need the public to help the rebuild again, the next time. It’s the difference between someone losing everything because of where they were born, on the one hand, vs. someone who might lose a vacation home or a fraction of their investment portfolio because of choices they made.

Actually, the owners and bosses can hardly be characterized as “fools.” They’re pretty smart for buying off the politicians who will use our money to bail them out when the real world intrudes on their abstract models and Pollyanna-ish projections.

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blockquote>45 · Maitri said

Galvestonians are Americans, New Orleanians are Americans

Galvestonians are Americans who live on a glorified sandbar which wouldn’t be there if tons of sand weren’t added every year. New Orleanians are Americans who live below sea level at a time when sea level is rising. This is not sustainable nor pragmatic. I know that some people can’t afford to pack up their lives and move (Galveston and NoLa are both pretty broke-ass towns), but I have a hard time feeling any measure of sympathy for developers and vacation-homeowners who invest millions of dollars in such places and don’t really want my tax dollars subsidizing their land grabs and subsequent bailouts.

Foolishness crosses class lines. Responsibility may, as you say, be apportioned differently.

The reason is an inherent quality of what racism is: a power heirarchy unidirectional in nature. which is why someone saying, “you white piece of shit” or something like that doesn’t amount to much “reverse racism” or whatever that term even means. Racism is a method of one person trumping another based on essence of being, knowing full well the other person has no “comeback” as it were, unless they escalate it a few levels above.

So; “Go back to India” needs to be met with “go muder some natives” or something along those lines.

Just watched the video…the cop was out of line…but that Indian dude was really annoying.

The way he was exploding, I thought the Desi dude was going to explode ala Kerpal(of You kicked My Dog fame). “DAMN RIGHT!”

that Indian SOUTH ASIAN dude was really annoying.

Quit being so Indo-Normative! He could be Bangladeshi or Nepali or Pakistani or Sri Lankan for all you know.