Columbia Student in Anguish Because She Has to Read Books by White People

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If you want to see a clear example of black racism this is it . But it's also an example of sexism . She is clearly opposed to reading material by white men . And let's throw in ageism too . She doesn't want to hear from white men from the past .  Gads , what bigotry !

Ugh , I forgot to put in a link to the source material :

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" This is why so many liberals are far, far, far more comfortable calling tea-partiers “terrorists”  than they are talking about actual, you know,  terrorists."  

Truth

I wouldn't mind them calling out others as terrorists if they showed any sign of being able to think . But like John Russell below , he doesn't bother reading what was written . All he does is pull our the racist card . Of course he has no idea how to compare cultures . To him they are all exactly the same . Comment removed for CoC violation [ph]

Deleted for CoC violation.  D

Thanks for showing clearly you are so illiterate that you can't read comments written in English . It is pointless to have a dialogue with you . Your message is like a broken record . I see you as a parrot forever repeating the one phrase you know racist racist  racist , even though there was a CoC violation written just for you to forbid that .

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Petey Deleted for CoC. D. I don't care what you think the COC says. 

Deleted for CoC violation.  D.   Go away .

Nice change to your original comment . You said you don't care what the CoC says . Such arrogance from a parrot !

That's because to them we are a bigger enemy than real foreign terrorists are.  Their tactic is to blindly call the domestic loyal opposition terrorists.  

" This is why so many liberals are far, far, far more comfortable calling tea-partiers “terrorists”  than they are talking about actual, you know,  terrorists." 

Really, Sean?

When most Americans think of the word  terrorist , they probably conjure up a stereotypical mental image of a man of Middle Eastern descent, wearing some sort of head-wrap and toting a vest filled with explosives. But if recent events have taught us anything, these aren’t the sorts of terrorists we need to worry about. The truly terrifying terrorist — the sort who poses the greatest threat to American citizens on a daily basis — isn’t a Muslim. He isn’t from the Middle East, and may have never traveled abroad. He’s an American citizen… and he belongs to the Tea Party.

Since the Tea Party’s founding in 2009, the group has been directly, inarguably linked to a series of dangerous events, ranging from nearly-violent acts of rebellion to full-blown hate crimes. At the heart of these acts of domestic terrorism are violent Tea Party members hell-bent on “taking their country back.” Extremists willing to take up arms against anyone they disagree with, or anyone they feel is a threat to their ignorance-fueled fundamentalist political philosophies.

The list of domestic terror attacks carried out by Tea Party members is quite lengthy. This past Thursday, Tea Party member and Westboro Baptist Church fan John Russell Houser  opened fire  in a Louisiana movie theater. In June, a racist with ties to the Tea Party and white pride hate groups  attacked a famous Black church  in Charleston, South Carolina, a hate crime still making the rounds in the media over a month later. Last year, a couple dressed as The Joker and Harley Quinn (popular antagonists from the  Batman  comics)  murdered two police officers and one civilian  before killing themselves in Las Vegas. And let’s not forget the  Cliven Bundy  fiasco, which luckily ended without death, but nearly boiled over into a full-blown shootout between a militia of heavily armed Tea Party radicals and the United States government. These are just a small sampling of the numerous domestic terrorist attacks carried out by Tea Party members since 2009.

At the heart of the Tea Party’s agenda is a platform of radical political isolationism. They’ve cultivated a philosophy of hatred that is opposed strictly to anyone and everyone who doesn’t wholeheartedly agree with their political views. Liberals don’t simply hold a different set of views or look at subjects of debate with a different set of eyes… they’re ignorant and dangerous, according to the Tea Party’s rhetoric. In their view, President Obama is a traitor who hates America, a claim completely unfounded and unsupported by any type of evidence considerable by those who aren’t a part of their club. Moderates are just another form of liberal, and any conservative who disagrees with the Tea Party is a RINO (Republican In Name Only) and should be ostracized and cast out, like school boys finding a girl in their tree house.

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A Mac, I don't know where you come up with these things.  The boy in SC didn't have anything to do with the Tea Party.  In fact didn't you see his friends were black.  Did you miss that.  I hope you don't think anyone on this site supports his actions.

any conservative who disagrees with the Tea Party is a RINO (Republican In Name Only) and should be ostracized and cast out, like school boys finding a girl in their tree house.

Kind of like any black who isn't a Democrat is a what?  I don't see much support for them, only criticism. 

You know, I'm getting out of spending much time arguing about these things. This is the Tea Party and I know you probably don't agree with some or most of these, but so be it.  Anything else you see is not the Tea Party, but some Liberal site trying to twist it around.

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A Mac, I don't know where you come up with these things.  The boy in SC didn't have anything to do with the Tea Party.  In fact didn't you see his friends were black.  

What is this nonsense supposed to mean Six ?, spit it out. 

Dylan Roof left an online manifesto, which included selfies of him posing with a confederate flag in one hand and the eventual murder weapon he used to massacre 8 people in the other. 

He also specifically mentioned that he was trying to start a race war because whites need to take action against blacks who he says are taking over the country. 

Who gives a shit if he is pictured with some black "friend" in a couple photos ? 

In June, a racist with ties to the Tea Party and white pride hate groups  attacked a famous Black church  in Charleston, South Carolina, a hate crime still making the rounds in the media over a month later.

From the article above John, show me how this fellow had ties to the Tea Party or any group as far as that is concerned.  Show me any Tea Party Members who support this kind of action other than a crazy twitter account.  That's not the Tea Party. 

This guy was a nut and no different than any other nut.

You're going to have to work a little harder my friend if you plan on stepping on up with the big boys.

I didn't say he was in the tea party, I really have no knowledge of that. 

What I said is that your claim that he had a black friend as if that is meaningful is laughable. 

He wrote an explanation for the murders that was based on his self admitted racism. 

By the way A Mac, they had to guess where that photo came from.  Their best guess was the National Socialist Movement.  Reverb Press doesn't even have a wiki on them.  They started one year ago with about $300,000 strictly to push liberal agenda and are rated 29K and something in sites to view.

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And John as I said the nut was a nut and I don't know of anyone that isn't a nut who would stand up for what he did.  Let's not carry this any further, if you don't mind.

You know it's a waste of time.  I know it's a waste of time.

By the way A Mac, they had to guess where that photo came from.  Their best guess was the National Socialist Movement. 

It came from scoopnest.com via a Google search "tea party terrorism".

Six, because it's you questioning the origin of the image, I DELETED IT and replaced it with two others. And if you didn't read the information I posted regarding Tea Party terrorism, it's quite specific … and again, it was in response to a direct quote from the seeded article and the same quote used by a member to bash liberals.

I'm over it.

Six,

Great song!

A Mac, I don't know where you come up with these things.  The boy in SC didn't have anything to do with the Tea Party.  In fact didn't you see his friends were black.  Did you miss that.  I hope you don't think anyone on this site supports his actions.

Six, 

I didn't reference any individual; I was responding to the straw man in the seeded article … this …

This is why so many liberals are far, far, far more comfortable calling tea-partiers “terrorists”  than they are talking about actual, you know,  terrorists.

… as well as this … Sean ran with it and I responded specifically.

  11/24/15 11:08:39PM  @Sean-Treacy :

" This is why so many liberals are far, far, far more comfortable calling tea-partiers “terrorists”  than they are talking about actual, you know,  terrorists."  

Truth

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I think you made an incorrect connection, Six.

Dang, wish I had thought of a reason to not have to plod through Hemingway.

All the literati kept saying he was a genius . I couldn't get motivated about him ...

Dang, wish I had thought of a reason to not have to plod through Hemingway.

Farewell to Arms was great! At least I thought so. I read it and wasn't even assigned to.

This shit is getting old.

If you want your child to get an education, by al means seriously consider community college.

The history of western civilization is the history of Europe. Europe is populated by white people so studying the actions of white people is necessarily the essence of the course if the course is limited to western civilization. Having said that, separating out western civilization can give the misimpression that it developed in a vacuum and that black people's contribution to "human" history is either that of being a slave to white people or a savage who was lucky to be enslaved and brought to white civilization. Prior to Rome, Europeans were at least as barbarous as anybody else and only became civilized as outposts of the Roman Empire . . . a point which is often deemphasized. Many European cities were originally Roman outposts (including London and Paris). Roman civilization was derived from Greece and the Greeks took much of their civilization from Egypt (which was not -- in ancient times-- European by race or culture). When Rome fell, Europe reverted to the dark ages and remained there for centuries. Considering European civilization in total, calling it "the most tolerant in human history" is beyond absurd. Europe has been in near endless war for thousands of years (one war spanned 100 years based specifically on religious intolerance). Under Europeans, blacks were enslaved, American Indians were decimated, Jews were exterminated and on and on. Nearly 100 million people were killed in the last two European World wars, alone. There's nothing wrong with teaching European history; the problem is that it lacks balance and the lack of balance can be distressing if blacks are taught (explicitly or implicitly) that their sole role in all of history is being a fucking slave or a savage.

Greeks took much of their civilization from Egypt

I don't know where you get your info from but that is a very odd thing to say . The Greeks developed their own very different culture without any consultation from Egypt . The invention of democracy happened in ancient Athens  , no thanks to the Egyptians nor to the Persians who tried their best to conquer the Greeks .

I don't know where you get your info from but that is a very odd thing to say . The Greeks developed their own very different culture without any consultation from Egypt . The invention of democracy happened in ancient Athens  , no thanks to the Egyptians nor to the Persians who tried their best to conquer the Greeks .

Your comment is the very reason why the history of western civilization, as often taught, can be misleading. The Greek culture did not develop in isolation and, in many things, the Greeks looked to Egypt -- already an established civilization at the dawn of Greek city states like Athens. Egyptian influence on Greek art, mathematics, religion, sculpture, architecture, music and medicine is well documented. The Greeks drew from Egyptian culture in much the same way that Rome drew on older more established Greece culture. Both Greece and Rome were unique from each other and different in many respects from Egypt but they nevertheless were influenced by Egypt -- understandable since some of what the Egyptians did is amazing even today.

The Greek culture did not develop in isolation

You're right . They owe a lot to Mesopotamia for its mathematics . Egypt ? Not much , certainly not the invention of democracy .

understandable since some of what the Egyptians did is amazing even today.

Such as ?

The Greek culture did not develop in isolation

You're right . They owe a lot to Mesopotamia for its mathematics . Egypt ? Not much , certainly not the invention of democracy .

The influence of Egypt on Greek mathematics is so well documented that no one (other than you) debates it.

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understandable since some of what the Egyptians did is amazing even today.

Such as ?

The pyramids.

The influence of Egypt on Greek mathematics is so well documented that no one (other than you) debates it.

From your link :

Influenced initially by the Egyptians , Greek mathematicians would push on to make breakthroughs such as Pythagoras ' theory of right-angled triangles and, by focussing on the abstract, bring clarity and precision to age-old mathematical problems

Thanks for finding an article which proves my point that the Egyptians had a minor influence . The Greeks did the heavy lifting [mathematically speaking] . The Egyptians did the heavy lifting literally [when they built the pyramids] but none theoretically

Yes I know about that ratio triangle . If you are saying that the Egyptians discovered it that's nice and somewhat useful . But such info is not nearly as powerful as the Pythagoras general theorem . The Greeks derived that with no reference to anything done by the Egyptians  . They did it using general mathematics which did not depend on any one particular triangle .

In other words without the widely held understanding of the right triangle by just about any people that built anything, The Greeks would have had no basis for their resultant study.

There was no "widely held understanding" by the Egyptians . They may have had one specific solution to the right triangle which they used to build an essentially useless structure , the pyramid . The Greeks used mathematics to prove the Pythagorean theorem . They didn't need to build any pyramids . They just needed to build a theoretical mathematical structural which they did before anyone else did .

Everytime someone uses a 3-4-5 triangle to solve for distance on a map or to lay out a proper right angle on a building site, or square up a door. They are applying trig to solve an everyday problem.

There are many problems that a 3-4-5 triangle will not help you with . But all of those can be solved using Pythagoras's theorem . Would you like some examples ?

You're wrong about the 3-4-5 right triangle's use in carpentry etc . In fact the triangle used for that has angles of 30 , 60 and 90 degrees . The sides have the ratio of 1/2 , and sqrt (3) /2 with the hypotenuse being 1 . The fact that you don't know this is quite surprising since you have claimed to be an engineer . Clearly you don't have a clue what you're talking about but that should have been obvious from your reliance on snark instead of discussion . My views of your knowledge has just undergone a very large drop . Learn some trig instead snark ...

Your lack of respect for mathematics is the worst part of what I've learned about you . Anyone who claims to be knowledgeable needs trig in their mental tool bag  ...

Since you claim to be so knowledgeable perhaps you can tell us what the angles are in a 3-4-5 triangle . It's easy to do using trig that the Greeks invented . The Egyptians has no idea or interest . Do you ?

Weren't the Greeks white???  Crap - she won't read 'bout that either.

"Weren't the Greeks white???  Crap - she won't read 'bout that either."

I guess she finds it offensive to read the old and new Testaments as well.

Any further comments meant to inflame will be met with a suspension.

I suggest you take Perrie's advice on that . Even if you're right about a carpenter's square your attack mode can result in a suspension .

Hmmmm-  The   steel square   is a tool that   carpenters   use. They use many tools to lay out a "square" or right-angle, many of which are made of steel, but the title   steel square   refers to a specific long-armed square that has additional uses for measurement, especially of angles, as well as simple right-angles. Today the   steel   square is more commonly referred to as the   framing square . It consists of a long arm and a shorter one, which meet at an   angle   of 90 degrees (a   right angle ). It can also be made of metals like   aluminum , which is light and resistant to rust.

The wider arm, two  inches  wide, is called the  blade ; the narrower arm, one and a half inches wide, the  tongue . The square has many uses, including laying out common  rafters ,  hip  rafters and  stairs . It has a  diagonal  scale, board foot  scale and an  octagonal  scale. On the newer framing squares there are degree conversions for different pitches and fractional equivalents.

Squares are 4 right angles of 90 degrees each connected by equal linear lengths - hence "square".

Therefore, a "carpenter's square" is not a square, but is, instead, a "quarter".

Be nice if you knew your facts before "pontificating".  Some of us do.

Influenced initially by the Egyptians , Greek mathematicians would push on to make breakthroughs such as Pythagoras ' theory of right-angled triangles and, by focussing on the abstract, bring clarity and precision to age-old mathematical problems

Thanks for finding an article which proves my point that the Egyptians had a minor influence . The Greeks did the heavy lifting [mathematically speaking] . The Egyptians did the heavy lifting literally [when they built the pyramids] but none theoretically

My point was, and continues to be, that Greek culture did not develop in isolation and Pythagoras is a perfect example. He was born on the island of Samos, the child of a Greek stonecutter and likely a Phoenician mother. Greek mathematics was in its infancy at the time, so his mentor (Thales) encouraged Pythagoras to travel and learn from the masters in Egypt and Babylon. And travel he did. He learned all that he could. Although the Pythagorean theorem is attributed to Pythagoras, there is no evidence that he, himself, developed it nor is there any proof that he ever claimed to have done so. There is evidence, however, that the principle undergirding the theorem was known to the Egyptians (who used that knowledge to build the pyramids) and Babylonians a thousand years before Pythagoras was born. To be clear, the Greeks did not develop mathematics in isolation. Instead, they built upon it. If Egypt and Babylon had never existed, Greek mathematics as we know it may never have existed either.

What's the big problem? Most books are printed in black and white.

It's the Asians and Native Americans who should be complaining - no yellow or red.

Do white students complain about having to wear a black cap on graduation?

This whining bitch should try being American Indian and having to study the curriculum in everything from grade school through senior high just to graduate, let alone the stuff written by old white guys in the upper echelons of academia.

She needs to STFU and get on with her education instead of trying to carve out her fifteen minutes over something so ridiculous.

She should confine her reading to black authors only...

Seriously, that's what she should do, never read a book written by a white person again, just read books written by blacks.

That would be it's own reward!

@John:

There is only one person on this site that I have specifically called a racist and that is because he essentially admitted it.

Not true. You have specifically called me one.

If I see what I know to be racist comments I sometimes point them out. That will not be ending or changing anytime soon. 

John, why don't you reply to the points I made in my post rather than resorting to just giving your opinion of my character.... which is baseless and faulty, as you consistently leave out any mention of the articles I post or comments I make that are contrary to your analysis.

Not true. You have specifically called me one.

 I have no recollection of specifically calling you a racist. Maybe you have a link. 

John Russell's memory only works in attack mode . After the attack it turns off and conveniently forgets ..

Any further comments meant to inflame will be met with a suspension. 

Cool your jets Petey, lol. 

I'm closing comments now .

I have spent a lot of time reviewing this article and if I am to leave it open the following rules are to be met, or I will close it permanently. 

Instead of rachetting up the comments with ever more insulting comments... get a mod! Stop with the name calling. Stop with the grandstanding. 

There were actual discussions worth something in here, but it was drown out by the fighting. Try remembering that we are a discussion forum. 

Any further comments meant to inflame will be met with a suspension. 

NWM ,

Thanks for using trig to do that calculation of the angles . Again trig was invented by the Athenians not the Egyptians . I lost that battle due to ignorance . You lost the war . Egyptian math : nothing to write home about ...

BTW , I don't know who deleted your comments .