nimue Yes, but it's hard finding a good job anyway. I'm afraid these whiteboys will have a very nice life after all. Okay, then; case closed. Okay -- a new issue now. Stop mouthing plabreastudes! Your homilies have no bearing on this situation, or situations like this. Yeah, and of course if people could just live off grbutt there would be no hunger in the world. That's no revenge. "Living well" is something you should be doing anyway. Seriously, there is a lot of "Ah-Q-ism" going around the AA community. Ever heard of Ah Q? "The Story of Ah Q" is a famous short written by Li Xun. It parodies the tendency of people to rationalize away humiliation as some kind of inner moral superiority. Agree? I said this from the very beginning. And the reason it's so sad is because thinking like yours and Walt's -- however benign -- leads to the Mr. Softie image of Asians as individuals and as a community: you can f*** with Asians because they almost never fight back (having a nice life years after getting attacked is NOT "fighting back" -- you're watching too much Oprah if you really believe that bullpoo, which is the crap women like to say after getting dumped by some cad who abuses them). Sure, I was thinking of that, too. But at that time, the most appropriate response for those Asian kids was to fight. Two tried to -- but trying to fight is not the same as fighting. The other two were even worse. And this is the problem of the community: we have those who would fight, but can't, and we have those who are too scared to begin with. Talk about a rock and a hard place! Well, what can I say...you want to indulge in idle sophistry while I'm talking about Asians needing to fight. ILC august the 02 of 2006ILC august the 02 of 2006 : A dossier of weekly information published by the International Liaison Committee of Workers and Peoples Issue 194... But you're buttuming I said something about their grades. I never did. And it's comical you think this is the fulcrum on which opinions rest! Yeah -- the West was colonizing China, but the Confucian gentry could always take comfort in the fact that the barbarians did not have a spiritual civilization. even in IndiaPrivate Water, Public Misery By Ann Ninan India Resource Center April 16, 2003 Sometimes the story is all there in the numbers. Tirupur, a thriving industrial center in southern Tamil Nadu, which... With all due respect, you're not discussing what I started to discuss. You're just redefining the situationin order to salvage some dignity out of it all. "Right answer, wrong question." Yes achieving the American Dream is the best way of doing things -- against "pbuttive" racism like negative media stereotypes (they eventually start catering to the money, as you know). But physically fighting back and not being afraid is the best thing to do when attacked on the street. A big part of fighting is psychological -- if an army has to be used, it's already failed in its purpose, if you know what I mean (the first job of any military is to prevent war through sheer intimidation). People don't think twice about attacking Asians because Asians will not fight back, or will not fight back meaningfully -- certainly not together. Again, no way two whiteboys would attack four black guys in a black neighborhood. I don't think you'd find two blacks guys attacking four Jews in a Jewish neighborhood, either. But it doesn't surprise me at all that two CHINKS were f***ed up while the other two CHINKS were hiding. Now that I think about it, WHAT'S REALLY SAD is that those two CHINK COWARDS ARE BEING CONGRATULATED by their CHINKY PARENTS for having saved their own skins, while the two's parents are asking why did they have to fight, why couldn't they just got back in the car, etc.
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