Terrorist attack in Paris. 127 confirmed dead

[King Ming]

Dude has a point...

But ISIS wouldn't ISIS behead his ass if they caught him walking the streets of Syria?

 

[basedsavior]

Basically he's saying it's okay for psychopaths like ISIS to kill innocent people because the western world has done the same....I disagree because ISIS militants are going about this the wrong way and I doubt they are truly fighting in the name of Islam, it's power and to show they are the biggest and baddest terror organization which unfortunately they are right now and I won't even get started on their execution videos. This Kenneth guy is just an American sellout and I bet if Obama wasn't in office he'd have crap to say.

Another sheep who doesn't want to admit the truth.

 

[Jacaveli The Don]

Eagles of Death Metal concert
What a nice sounding group name
Can't imagine what type of nice people attended that

R.I.P.

 

[MufasaChoppa]

LA ain't on the hit list. them fukk boys know better

 

[basedsavior]

dumbass uneducated nikka, France is very multicultural and there were probably a lot of blacks and arabs dead too.

And again, be happy that 150+ people get killed by imbeciles brehs

Imbeciles how? And why do you keep saying that line like they're supposed to feel some type of way?

 

[Starski]

Are you dumb? Or completely inept at social interactions? You don't just insinuate someone is the product of rape

breh

 

[basedsavior]

So what yall think about the news talking about the sophistication of this attack? I mean to be honest I think a novice could have done this. Outside of getting all the weapons and grenades into France. Does this scream professional to yall? I mean it doesn't really take much to shoot a whole bunch of people.

And how would you know?

 

[basedsavior]

Yeah, sometimes I look at the earth and just see an infestation of psychotic hairless monkeys. Loud and violent monkeys. We're not only killing ourselves through hate and greed, we're destroying the only place in the UNIVERSE we and other animals can live. It's grotesque and if we were wiped out it'd be for the best.

But then I look at individuals and the universal suffering we all have and the capability of kindness we can show and I have so much compassion. Compassion for victims of violence, of course, but that's easy. But even compassion for these nightmares who kill other people out for dinner, or the psycho racists who shoot up a church for no fukking reason, or the soulless warmongers who order wedding parties incinerated with drones. These people almost deserve the most compassion because their lives are so truly gripped by the violence, so hopelessly consumed by our fukked up psychotic nature, that they were made into monsters.

I just don't know how to reconcile the two points of view though.

The fukk is your dumb ass babbling about?

 

[NotaPAWG]

Basically he's saying it's okay for psychopaths like ISIS to kill innocent people because the western world has done the same....I disagree because ISIS militants are going about this the wrong way and I doubt they are truly fighting in the name of Islam, it's power and to show they are the biggest and baddest terror organization which unfortunately they are right now and I won't even get started on their execution videos. This Kenneth guy is just an American sellout and I bet if Obama wasn't in office he'd have crap to say.

That's not what he said at all. Calling out a nation amid hypocrites doesn't equate to being an Isis sympathizer.

"American sellout"

 

[NotaPAWG]

Be 32 and have the critical thinking skills of an 8 year old

 

[Hiphoplives4eva]

 

[mbewane]

I kinda see what you mean.

But here's the thing...

I don't think it's necessarily right for people to distract from the tragedy in Paris to talk about another tragedy.
But I don't blame someone for not caring about the Paris tragedy as much as they care about another tragedy that they felt hit closer to home.

It's a fine line, I guess.

Why not just not say anything then? I don't blame anyone for not caring about Paris, I don't really care about the muslim minority being massively killed out in Burma and I don't lose any sleep over mexican students being kidnapped and killed. But I don't feel the urge to post on FB or here that I don't care about them.

 

[mbewane]

Just asking a question. One Congolese parent, one Belgian parent... I wasn't insulting her. Maybe your father is the Congolese one? I'm just asking how did you come to be? Belgian Soldier/Congolese villager? Congolese Student in Belgium? Pardon me, but with the history of those regions, it is interesting as to whether or not it was a forced arrangement. Were you ever taught what the Belgians did in the Congo?
Does it bother you that they still CELEBRATE that shyt? Their horrific crimes?

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Chocolates as Cultural Blind Spots: Responding to “Civilization”
Posted on February 21, 2013 by Caroline Dean


On February 5th, the Kaplan Institute had the pleasure of welcoming distinguished art history scholars Todd Porterfield (Université de Montréal) and Deborah Silverman (UCLA) to participate in its annual DIALOGUE series. This year, the topic was “Civilization,” and the discussion focused on the ways in which imperialism influenced art and objects produced in France and Belgium at the time of their African conquests. Both professors presented excerpts from longer projects, which you can read more about here. To grossly summarize their discussion, Professor Porterfield looked at the ways in which the Luxor Obelisk at the Place de la Concorde, “given” to the French by Egypt less than 30 years after Napoleon’s campaign in Egypt, functioned as a political statement legitimating Louis-Philippe’s July Monarchy and future French imperialism. Professor Silverman examined the extent to which Belgian art nouveau reflected and knowingly concealed colonial violence in the Congo Free State.

Today I’d like to look at Professor Silverman’s concept of “cultural blind spots” –the idea that vestiges of colonial violence in Belgian objects and artwork went almost entirely unnoticed by the public- and similar structures in American society today. One of her most vivid examples involved chocolate hands, a regional specialty of Antwerp. Called Antwerpse handjes in Dutch, these sweets are associated primarily with the myth of the founding of the city, in which the hero Brabo slew the tyrannical giant Antigoon, cut off one of his hands, and threw it in the river. However, Professor Silverman contends, Antwerpse handjes also reflect the atrocities committed by Belgian colonial forces in the Congo. Between 1885-1908, Belgium controlled a sizeable chunk of Central Africa known as the Congo Free State, where it made an enormous profit using forced Congolese labor to harvest rubber and ivory. Agents of the Belgian-controlled state charged with enforcing rubber quotas were best known for their policy of collecting the severed hands of Congolese who failed to make these quotas. Heaped in baskets and presented to European higher-ups, these gruesome, iconic testaments to the brutality of Belgian imperialism were kept as proof that the soldiers’ bullets were not being wasted.

Knowing this history, it is almost impossible to look at pictures of Antwerpse handjes without cringing, let alone consume them. Yet, Professor Silverman explained, never once during her time researching in Belgium did she speak to someone who drew the connection between the severed hands of the Congo Free State and the hand-shaped chocolates enjoyed by thousands in Antwerp. The pervasiveness of this particular cultural blind spot might seem difficult for us to imagine, but it’s important to recognize that it’s easier to be shocked by foreign insensitivity than to identify similar instances in our own culture.

At a follow-up luncheon with Professors Porterfield and Silverman, my table discussed potential American cultural blind spots. The example that jumped most readily to mind were the names, mascots, and logos of sports teams like the Washington Redskins, the Cleveland Indians, and –a little closer to home- the Chicago Blackhawks. These and many other teams, despite having been the focus of protests and controversies, continue to use images that not only perpetuate ethnic stereotypes, but also mask the persecution and decimation of the Native American population. The continuing problem of racism in advertisements was also discussed (from the 1920’s to the 40’s to today), although it seems that recently, thanks to the many critical eyes of the Internet, many offensive advertisements –like the Intel one in the last link- are pulled before they reach consumers.

The issue with this kind of speculation, of course, is that cultural blind spots are called blind spots for a reason: they’re tropes that the vast majority of a society accepts until the passage of time allows us to contextualize them. We were only able to think of examples of cultural phenomena that have already been widely critiqued as problematic, not true blind spots like Antwerpse handjes. With that in mind, we’d love to hear your thoughts on the subject. What, if anything, will come to be seen as American Antwerpse handjes? What other cultural blind spots exist in America today?

Stop talking about my family. You don't see talking about your mom do you? Learn some respect before acting outraged.

 

[mbewane]

idk i thought you was straight from Centrafrique

Oh ok, nah I've always stated than I'm mixed. So depending on the thread on the coli I'm a c00n or a cac, or somehow both

 

[mbewane]

you've stated you don't like Belgians or French but don't you think what you are doing is extremely rude?
do you go to light skinned people and rant about how their ancestors were probably raped?

Dude's the kind to cry that White people don't care for Black people, and do the same thing. Talk about my moms and shyt, then act outraged. Suggest my moms was raped like it's normal conversation. No respect for the dead, whether it's my moms or the victims out here in Paris.