Who are these guys???

[Are_grits_groceries]

1. White guys? Check
2. Religious Extremists? Check
3. Conservatives only? Check
4. No women around? Check
5. Yet plenty of "beards"? Check
6. Claim "definitive victory" in election rife with fraud? Check
7. Calling opposition traitors if they keep it up? Check

Just one small change and this could be RNC Headquarters.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_anqVy8b414Q/Sjth4YN1TaI/AAAAAAAABuY/YctvwjJLxvQ/s400/rnc+meeting.jpg

http://rising-hegemon.blogspot.com/

Word!

[Buzz Clik]

1. White guys? By some definintion, I suppose.

But I like the picture.

Looking at the picture, it's clear that hierarchy is established by the number of microphones attached to your chair.

[vadawg]

2. it always interests me how in america everyone is called white rather than by ethnic group

i see myself as being as different from the guys in the picture as i do from an anglo saxon or someone from norway, i always have found it interesting in a wierd sort of way especially as ive never considered myself white, always by my ethnicity.

[Buzz Clik]

3. John Hodgeman (on The Daily Show) suggested assigning people's ethnicity using paint strips.

Various shades of yellow, brown, gray, etc -- all of them renamed for his purpose. His bit flirted with being horribly racist, but he spared no one.

I'm about the whitest person I know (nearly translucent), but I view myself by my heritage and find little in common with other "white" people of radically different heritage.

[vadawg]

4. yup ive always found the black, white etc thing to restrictive

it always makes me laugh when you hear that all white people are racist or all blacks are poor, it just dosent take in the diversity within each group, and most people outside of the US would never even describe themselves as white etc they prefer to use their ethnic groups or nationality.

[imdjh]

6. We have Reverse Racism. I now coin Double Racism, perhaps Triple Racism

Reverse Racism is when a subset of Caucasian dubbed "white" and usually meaning Bright White is discriminated against. It's actually just plain old racism, but Reverse Racism usually means that a black person is given racial preference over a BW person. When a Mexican-American is given preference over a black person, let's call that Double Racism.

The OP calls those guys "white" and indeed they are Caucasian, but drop one little bomb on Iran and some people (no one here of course) will declare that this is just more of "America's war on brown people", because (of course) America is Bright White when it's dropping bombs.

Cubans are fascinating people. They have race rules, but only they have the magic glasses when it comes down to the fine line. Sure, outsiders like myself can see a vast difference between Mel Martinez and a black Cuban, but it takes a real Cuban to automatically know the difference between a quadroon and an octoroon and whatever you call a sixteentharoon. Clearly though, simply being Cuban doesn't make a person nonwhite, or even offwhite, otherwise we would not have seen Lucy and Ricky walking into the same bedroom, not to mention that Fred and Ethel would never have associated with an interracial couple, even in Hollywood.

Triple Racism is the most fascinating of all. Triple Racism is when one dark skinned Mexican points to another dark skinned but lighter Mexican and says, "I'm indigenous and you're not." Here you have single racism (you are white devil) , double racism (even though I am mixed race, I identify as only the race I choose), and triple racism (I will decide what my race is and what your race is too).

Dear Lord, I think I also see Quadruple Racism. It goes like this: "You're white devil, I"m black and the most oppressed of all the oppressed, Jesus was black because I say so, and I hate Jews."

Any ideas for Level Five Racism?

[vadawg]

7. level five is the same as four but the aforementioned person has a platypus

lol i loved the levels and its so true,

[liberal N proud]

5. Sounds like you are describing Republicans

[Javaman]

8. just a bunch of guys waiting in line for their prostate exam. nt