Aryan Guard celebrates White Pride World Day in Calgary

[Heracles 417]

Is this a discussion about the Australian outback now? Excellent, I know nothing about it. I shall be enlightened.

It is called an example PH. Maybe you will understand it better if I start using crayons and pictures.

[Peikko 1,575]

Either or, never been to the Outback restaurant over here. Went to one in the UK, very strange experience.

Hehehe, I guess you get crayons in the Outback, cool.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

It doesn't matter where you're born, or where you live - every country in the world has its fair share of the ignorant, the uneducated and the stupid.

I am still waiting, from about a year ago, to hear your all about your background and all about your education. You seem to be an aficionado on history and cultures.

Here's the thing - I never said I am. Nor do I understand your fascination with other people's background and educational qualifications. What... "exactly" would it prove to you? Moreover, what would it prove to you in relation to this topic?

Besides - the fact that you push your alleged MA down people's throats means that you should be able to demonstrate a basic level of knowledge.. surely... And yet, again, you seem unable or unwilling to make even simple analyses of economic data to validate anything you're saying.

By rights you should be able to wipe the floor with me on Economics (I don't have an MA, BA, A-Level, or a GCSE in that subject) yet it falls to me to point out to you when you claim, for example:

(i) That the top 10 richest cities are not the most crime ridden - because you ignored the fact that wealth is not evenly concentrated and that there is a rich and poor divide in most, if not every city.

(ii) That proportionality matters when discussing trends in poverty rates by ethnic demographic.

Edited March 28, 2008 by Number 6

[Peikko 1,575]

Childish insults are just water off a duck's back BY, not sure what you aim to achieve but it's not going to upset me, just so you know.

[Heracles 417]

Hehehe, I guess you get crayons in the Outback, cool.

Yes for when we need to communicate with people like you.

[Peikko 1,575]

Start drawing some pictures BY, I'm agog.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

It doesn't matter where you're born, or where you live - every country in the world has its fair share of the ignorant, the uneducated and the stupid.

I am still waiting, from about a year ago, to hear your all about your background and all about your education. You seem to be an aficionado on history and cultures.

Probably because you don't agree with them or is it because I do not sit here an simplify everything for you to understand.

I understand perfectly - if I were French I must be an expert on food and art (not forgetting wine of course - I must automatically be able to tell the difference between Chianti and Merlot).

A doctor knows more about the Human body than a lawyer, No?

An Australian knows more about the outback than a Brit, No?

So how do these examples tie into your having a cosmopolitan outlook based on Australian birth.

Here's another one for you. A Brit would know more about Stonehenge than an Aussie - unless of course the Brit never went to Stonehenge and the Aussie did.

Again... what does it prove?

[HAL 9000 96]

A Venn diagram perhaps? Those are available as a learning tool for 5th graders in certain school curricula.

[Heracles 417]

Here's the thing - I never said I am. Nor do I understand your fascination with other people's background and educational qualifications. What... "exactly" would it prove to you? Moreover, what would it prove to you in relation to this topic?

So why bring it up over and over again. If you have nothing to say you don't need to bring other threads up to make up for it. As I said earlier, you call someone chicken then cry after they beat you up.

[Peikko 1,575]

I like Venn diagrams, they are very cool. I have just realised, I am now simultaneously pompous and use too many big words and childish without a grasp of written English. Interesting.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Here's the thing - I never said I am. Nor do I understand your fascination with other people's background and educational qualifications. What... "exactly" would it prove to you? Moreover, what would it prove to you in relation to this topic?

So why bring it up over and over again. If you have nothing to say you don't need to bring other threads up to make up for it. As I said earlier, you call someone chicken then cry after they beat you up.

You didn't "beat me up" - I pointed out that for someone who claims to have an MA in Economics, you don't seem to offer much in the way of detailed information when discussing economics. Its a reasonable deduction to conclude therefore that something fishy is afoot.

[Heracles 417]

So how do these examples tie into your having a cosmopolitan outlook based on Australian birth.

Here's another one for you. A Brit would know more about Stonehenge than an Aussie - unless of course the Brit never went to Stonehenge and the Aussie did.

Again... what does it prove?

It proves the same thing you guys prove when you state that I do not understand what a poor black American is going through because I have not lived like one. No #### sherlock..

The topic progressed into equality. Historical events are not being discussed here. We where discussing what is basically considered to be equality. Which I stated is all things being equal. The does not mean equal in wealth but equal in the way two people's college applications, for example, are looked at. Rather than having a quota for minorities. Equal in the way ####### is an extremely racist comment yet redneck is funny.

Edited March 28, 2008 by Boo-Yah!

[jundp 191]

There is no "white history month" because the whole history curriculum is 'white' history (I am using the term sparingly). If history books were written since before Contact; they would include not only 'Black history"; but more than half the text (ok, say 40%) would be about Native American History. Or what, weren't they here before the Colonies? Same issue is now being debated in Canada, when it comes to the curricular redesign in at least, Saskatchewan. First Nations are pressing -and rightly so- to have their history included in the school curriculum.

I wouldn't put much stock into school textbooks. Most aren't written well and usually tend to skip over important events. For instance, I recall having one history textbook that included 20 pages over Women's Suffrage (the right to vote) and one small paragraph dedicated to all of World War I.

While women getting the right to vote in the U.S. was important, I'd say that the first world war was pretty damn important too. This class was not over "women's studies" or anything so focused. It was merely a general World History course.

So if some textbooks decide to leave out experiences met by minorities, I wouldn't take it to heart. If textbooks are leaving out (or greatly minimizing) events that literally shaped the last century, then I have no doubt in my mind whatever school textbooks write about isn't to be taken too seriously.

Very good point. And there are many inconsistencies and outright mistakes in many textbooks (especially history). In addition, literature is filled with many highly celebrated Dead White Men Authors. Yes, Wordsworth was brilliant, but so was Christina Rosetti. (for example). Many schools are doing what they can to update curriculum, but just because something has always been taught doesn't mean it's the ONLY thing that should be taught. i.e. white man's history.

Thanksgiving story, anyone?!

where is my white entertainment television (wet)?

It's called Friends.

Hey, I know black people who watch Friends! But to be fair, they're pretty much white - you know, the Sydney Poitier types.

*Come closer* Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....don't tell anyone, but I like to watch 'Friends'. BUT DON'T TELL ANYONE...they may take my 'Black Power' and/or my BET away! :lol:

Ya'll are crazy! :lol:

Bless-ed,

Gill

Pretty much the funniest thing I've read all day, Gill.

[Heracles 417]

You didn't "beat me up" - I pointed out that for someone who claims to have an MA in Economics, you don't seem to offer much in the way of detailed information when discussing economics. Its a reasonable deduction to conclude therefore that something fishy is afoot.

And I never said I did. It was an 'example'. I might have to start explaining things on a 3rd grade level instead for you to get it.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

You didn't "beat me up" - I pointed out that for someone who claims to have an MA in Economics, you don't seem to offer much in the way of detailed information when discussing economics. Its a reasonable deduction to conclude therefore that something fishy is afoot.

And I never said I did. It was an 'example'. I might have to start explaining things on a 3rd grade level instead for you to get it.

Like I said - I "got" your examples - they weren't hard to understand, even if you did switch nationalities for professional occupations (just a "small" jump of illogic in the rationale there - do you get paid for being an Australian? Some sort of cultural consultant perhaps?)

BTW - you never said... what? That you have an MA in Economics? Or should I accept the idea than having this kind of qualification wouldn't at the least furnish an individual with (at least) some basic knowledge of the subject they profess to be an expert in?