[John K.]

I just wanted to add a little bit of nuance to Floyd’s post. Everything he says about the English attitude regarding Africans is true. However, the exact same descriptions were given to the Irish by the English during 800 years of the English occupation of Ireland. The English felt they were a separate and superior race, and that even other ‘whites’ were inherently inferior. Cromwell would describe Irish and Scots as demons with forked tongues and cloven feet, disguised as human. This attitude persisted for quite a few years in the United States, until earlier this century. It is interesting to note that the Irish in Northern Ireland had their own civil rights struggle with the English during the 1960s and 1970s. My point is, the English did not assume all whites were superior to blacks. They actually felt they were superior to everyone, and that disturbing frame of mind carried over with the colonists.

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[John K.]

In my experience, trusting an auto mechanic can be a difficult decision. I have had good and bad experiences. My mechanic in Virginia turned out to be bad. He replaced my alternator with a ‘new’ model that died within a month. He also took a deposit on work that he never did, and refused to pay me back. On the other hand, my ‘new’ alternator died while I was moving to New Jersey, and I wound up having to get a mechanic in a small rural Virginia town to replace it. It would have been very easy for the mechanic to take advantage of the situation, but he charged a fair price and bent over backward to help.

Unfortunately, I have to say that my bad experiences outnumber my good experiences, so I tend to distrust mechanics. In addition to personal experience, I can point to any number of undercover news programs that show examples of mechanics purposely damaging a vehicle to get more business, or charging a customer for work not needed or services not rendered. All of this has contributed to a stereotype that I have to resist. I can imagine that the experiences of others are similar.

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[John K.]

For the moment, I’ll ignore the fact that you seem to imply that being around white people will make you some kind of sociopath. Part of the answer is numbers. Frankly, there are more white people around, so there is more of a chance that a white person will be involved in a behavior, or that the behavior will be noticed. The other part of the answer is that you are incorrect in your assumptions. White kids are hardly the only ones killing other kids or adults. Black-on-black violence is a quick example. Gang violence is also widespread, crossing ethnic boundaries. And for everyone who seems to think that all serial killers are white, what about that Latino serial killer who was arrested several weeks ago? So, getting back to the first point: Maybe you think that only white people do nasty things because you have a negative opinion of white people and fail to recognize the many valid examples of non-whites doing nasty things.

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[John K.]

Well, there are a few reasons, but here are the main ones that I can think of. Regardless of how loose your underwear might be, the scrotum moves and can get pressed into an uncomfortable position. Recognize that depending on certain conditions, the scrotum will rise or sag to maintain proper temperature. So comfort can change. Also, sweating can make things stick in odd and alarming areas. And there’s hair on the moving parts, which can get caught in bad places. So there are a lot of reasons. Think about when a bra shifts and begins to press in the wrong places…sometimes the only solution to the problem is to ‘adjust’.

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[John K.]

Recent news events have proven the hypocritical basis for hate crime legislation. The dragging death of Mr. Byrd in Jasper, Texas was instantly labeled a hate crime. However, just a few days ago, a similar incident occurred. This latest incident received perhaps two minutes of news time.

The case: a man on a South Dakota Indian reservation was beaten and left for dead with a rope around his neck and his ears missing after being dragged around a field by the rope. The man’s face was kicked in by steel-toe boots and he could barely be identified when found. The catch? The victim was white, and the assaulters are American Indians. Unlike the Jasper case, authorities trying to label this a hate crime are getting heavy resistance. Even the county commissioner is attempting to blame this on ‘alcohol and dope’. Never mind that the assertion is racist…it is a blatant attempt to keep this anti-white crime from being labeled a hate crime.

So how can anyone tell me that these laws are fair and just? They are not even applied equally! Both incidents are nearly identical, but the press coverage and the outrage by advocates of hate crime legislation are utterly absent from the South Dakota case. If the hate crime laws were truly in place to protect every citizen from this kind of biased assault, then why are the local authorities meeting resistance? Therein lies the hyprocisy.

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[John K.]

I disagree with you completely. Questions regarding the minor physical differences between whites and non-whites are as valid as any other question. You claim that the questions assume that the physical features of whites are standard and everything else is deviant. On what evidence do you base this assumption? The only logical basis for the questions you detest would be curiosity about something different from one’s self. How is that racist or sinister?

Determining the cause of differences in physical characteristics of human beings is the entire thrust of genetics and genetics research. Is that entire branch of science invalid and degrading, because it seeks to determine why two people (or groups of people) might have different physical characteristics?

Your interpretations seem to assume racist assumptions on the part of anyone white asking questions regarding physical differences between people of different races. Do you really believe that you can assume the motivations of every person asking an honest question? Do you really believe that every white person asking such questions must be doing so out of a racist point of view? Or is it just as possible that you are making the racist assumptions?

By the way, I do admit that it is at least possible that some of the questions come from people trying to be offensive. By the same token, most of the questions seem to come out of simple ignorance, not ulterior motives.

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