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  • Murica: ghosts are real, racism isn't.
     OP - October 17, 2014, 10:07 PM
    God bless America. dance

    More white people believe in ghosts than in racial discrimination

    Quote
    This month, following the police shooting of Michael Brown and then the police-led violence against demonstrations calling for justice, one would think that any skepticism regarding the existence of racial discrimination in the U.S. would be eradicated.

    And although it’s finally the topic of mainstream discussion, according to a Pew/MSNBC poll, it turns out more white people believe in ghosts than in “discrimination against blacks.”

    (Clicky for piccy!)

    Not only do 17% of the people polled believe in ghosts, but they also think they’ve “interacted” with them. So, racial discrimination based on hundreds of years of well-documented systematic oppression? Nah. High-fiving supernatural beings, of which there exists absolutely no evidence? Yep!

    Devious, treacherous, murderous, neanderthal, sub-human of the West. bunny
  • Murica: ghosts are real, racism isn't.
     Reply #1 - October 17, 2014, 10:15 PM
    Does the absence of T-Rex ghosts prove that the creationists were right? Moving swiftly on..
    Before it gets too late, you will find escape.
  • Murica: ghosts are real, racism isn't.
     Reply #2 - October 17, 2014, 10:16 PM
    Animals don't have souls, so presumably that prevents them doing ghosts.
    Devious, treacherous, murderous, neanderthal, sub-human of the West. bunny
  • Murica: ghosts are real, racism isn't.
     Reply #3 - October 17, 2014, 10:16 PM
    Incidentally I was just thinking that such a survey in Australia would probably give similar results.
    Devious, treacherous, murderous, neanderthal, sub-human of the West. bunny
  • Murica: ghosts are real, racism isn't.
     Reply #4 - October 17, 2014, 11:18 PM
    ^
    I think that's fair to say.
  • Murica: ghosts are real, racism isn't.
     Reply #5 - October 18, 2014, 02:18 AM
    Re the OP, I know that's true in my immediate family alone. And don't get me started on the entire extended family.  015
  • Murica: ghosts are real, racism isn't.
     Reply #6 - October 22, 2014, 10:10 AM
    I got into a bit of a tense situation over the weekend because of this article. I mentioned it when my sister and her fiance and I were all visiting my parents' house for the day, and the soon-to-be brother-in-law emphatically insisted that both ghosts and racial discrimination are real. I listened to him talk about how a friend of his in high school had a haunted house where things were always being moved around and going missing and how they kept hearing weird sounds and it was indisputably a ghost.

    Not wanting to get into it, I said, "Well, don't tell (husband) that, I've been trying to get him to stop believing in jinn for 2 years."

    But then the guy bristled and said, "They're not jinn, that's stupid. They're ghosts."

    I probably should have shut up, but I said, "Ghost, jinn, whatever's turning the vacuum on at night and making you lose your keys," and he insisted again that they're ghosts. And I asked, "How do you know? Maybe the thing in your friend's house was named Abdullah." And then he takes his iphone out of his pocket and stares at it and the conversation is over.

    If anything, I'd have thought the racial discrimination part would have been the part to rub someone the wrong way. But no, I offended someone with the ghost part. Whoops.
  • Murica: ghosts are real, racism isn't.
     Reply #7 - October 22, 2014, 10:17 AM
    Some people take their specters very seriously. Cheesy
  • Murica: ghosts are real, racism isn't.
     Reply #8 - October 22, 2014, 11:49 AM
    'Murika.
    `But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
     `Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: `we're all mad here. I'm mad.  You're mad.'
     `How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.
     `You must be,' said the Cat, `or you wouldn't have come here.'
  • Murica: ghosts are real, racism isn't.
     Reply #9 - October 22, 2014, 02:26 PM
    There's no such thing as ghosts lol they're Jinn of course.
  • Murica: ghosts are real, racism isn't.
     Reply #10 - October 22, 2014, 02:31 PM
    Quote from: Abu Ali on October 22, 2014, 02:26 PM
    There's no such thing as ghosts lol.........

    What? I guess Abu Ali never looked in the mirror.,    try looking in the mirror and tell us you didn't see the ghost...
    Do not let silence become your legacy.. Question everything   
    I renounced my faith to become a kafir, 
    the beloved betrayed me and turned in to  a Muslim     
  • Murica: ghosts are real, racism isn't.
     Reply #11 - October 22, 2014, 02:39 PM
    Quote from: Abu Ali on October 22, 2014, 02:26 PM
    There's no such thing as ghosts lol they're Jinn of course.


     Cheesy Cheesy
  • Murica: ghosts are real, racism isn't.
     Reply #12 - October 22, 2014, 03:56 PM
    Quote from: yeezevee on October 22, 2014, 02:31 PM
    What? I guess Abu Ali never looked in the mirror.,    try looking in the mirror and tell us you didn't see the ghost...


    Nah, just some sad bastard.
  • Murica: ghosts are real, racism isn't.
     Reply #13 - October 22, 2014, 04:53 PM
    Quote from: Abu Ali on October 22, 2014, 03:56 PM
    Nah, just some sad bastard.

    Oh  Abu   common No you are Not....   I think some day we need to go for fishing or hiking... I like mountains.....
    Do not let silence become your legacy.. Question everything   
    I renounced my faith to become a kafir, 
    the beloved betrayed me and turned in to  a Muslim     
  • Murica: ghosts are real, racism isn't.
     Reply #14 - October 22, 2014, 06:18 PM
    lol... sounds great - a day trip out with the legend that is Yeezevee.


    (btw go easy on the newbies... in fact leave them alone until they realise you are actually harmless  grin12)
  • Murica: ghosts are real, racism isn't.
     Reply #15 - November 22, 2014, 03:25 AM
    Quote from: lua on October 18, 2014, 02:18 AM
    And don't get me started on the entire extended family.  015

     

    No need I've seen the documentary Grin   

    Or at least part of it
    In my opinion a life without curiosity is not a life worth living
  • Murica: ghosts are real, racism isn't.
     Reply #16 - November 22, 2014, 03:44 AM
    :(
  • Murica: ghosts are real, racism isn't.
     Reply #17 - November 22, 2014, 03:31 PM
    Grin 

    If it's any consolation my extended family is just as ignorant and messed up as yours.   yes

    I always think this will end up blowing in my face if I ever get a serious girlfriend and it goes to the " meet the family stage"

    There should be an article addressing that topic.
    In my opinion a life without curiosity is not a life worth living
  • Murica: ghosts are real, racism isn't.
     Reply #18 - November 22, 2014, 04:44 PM
    Yeah, yeah, we'll talk when they do a documentary on you. Cheesy

    Just the other day, my husband said, "I bet when your father first went back to Kentucky with your mom to see where she lived he thought, 'Oh, God, what did I get into...'" If my dad can survive it, your future girlfriends should be able to  roll with the punches, too.  yes
  • Murica: ghosts are real, racism isn't.
     Reply #19 - November 22, 2014, 05:30 PM
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    "I bet when your father first went back to Kentucky with your mom to see where she lived he thought, 'Oh, God, what did I get into...'"

     

    Reply back with this :

    Lua and Saudi lover-boy's son :   I bet when you first went back to KSA with dad to see where he lived you thought, 'Oh, God, what did I get into...'"   

    In my opinion a life without curiosity is not a life worth living
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