Aaaah thankyou! You sir, have added the final ingredient! Long Live Godwin!
Brown, particularly sparkly metallic brown, is a great color for a car! I have seriously not-even-joking been eyeing this color myself for a while now. You car racist!
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For a while huh?! See, youâre not so in-love-with-brown-paint yourself, buddy. Whatâs holding you back? Huh? Huh?
That said - If Icon cars refurbished one of these for me, Iâd do it:
For one of those, Iâd go 70âs crazy metallic pink, purple, green, whatever - i have no boundaries.
Brown cars need vinyl roofs.
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I think we have gotten off topic here, but given the mood recentlyâŚImma gonna let it slide.
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Hey, can you prove that when Hitler referred to Judaism as a virus, he was trying to be antisemitic? Maybe he just meant that Judaism spreads by its adherents reproducing. Letâs not rush to judgement here.
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Racial interpretation of âurbanâ?
Hereâs some citations about âurbanâ as a euphemism for non-white, specifically black.
"⌠âurbanâ (which is usually a business euphemism for
âblackâ) audiences ⌠"
Herbert Jack Rotfeld, (2003) âMisplaced marketing: Who do you hire when the advertising audience isnât you?â, Journal of Consumer Marketing, Vol. 20 Iss: 2, pp.87 - 89
âWhile most urban health studies âaccountâ for race, few analyze the
impact of racism. US society has adopted a number of euphemisms,
including âurban centers,â âinner cities,â and âethnic
minorities,â that tend to obscure the central issue.â
Cohen, Hillel W. & Mary E. Northridge, (2000) âGetting Political: Racism and Urban Health.â American Journal of Public Health; Vol.90, pp.841â842. (emphasis mine)
Cf. the Urban League, who also use the word urban, although connect it directly to race:
The mission of the Urban League movement is to enable African
Americans to secure economic self-reliance, parity, power and civil
rights.
This Straight Dope message board thread does a neat job connecting the dots between [The Great Migration][5], the Urban League and âurbanâ as a euphemism for black.
As to how sexism and racism arenât as neatly seperable as you might think, I recommend this article.:
Buchanan, N. T., & Ormerod, A. J. (2002). Racialized sexual harassment in the lives of African American women. Women & Therapy, 25(3-4), 107-124.
Hereâs a key quote, bolding mine:
Sexual and racial harassment may be combined in unique ways for
African American women. Specifically, the cultural and historical
contexts of slavery and sexualized stereotypes of African American
women result in sexual harassment that is percieved as racially
motivated (Collins, 1998, 200;Murrell, 1996; Winston, 1991). Moreover,
the harassment is likely to take different forms in the lives of Black
women than in the lives of White women. For example, although a
coworker may refer to a White woman as a whore or slut, an African
American woman may be called a Black whore, which creates an
experience that combines aspects of both race and gender oppression
(Buchanan, 1999).
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Do not get a brown car. I donât understand why, but other drivers just donât seem to see them. The first month we had ours, the car was sideswiped twice: once while sitting in a row of cars at a stop light (sideswipe came from the left hand turn lane) and once while parked in the parking lane. Thanks to defensive driving, I have managed to keep the car from being hit while Iâm actually driving it, but close calls â usually someone moving sideways into our lane as if we werenât there â happen almost every single time I drive.
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One of my favorite colors for the Beetle was metallic copper. Metallic green was the other. Darn it, a Beetle should look like a beetle. Though I suppose I can excuse those which instead tried to look like Beatles.
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Probably best to go at least two or three levels deeper than that, IMO.
Straw men, also brown.
But it can certainly be intended.
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I still remember when âurbanâ implied being young and professional.
Lest we forget.
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Jesus Knucklefucking Christ, 355 comments.
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Gotta love it
Let it keep going! Eventually we will achieve The Metacomment that answers all questions and leaves everything satisfied to everyoneâs resolution.
This is the Large Hadron Collider of comment threads.
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knucklefucking!
Between this and the cows, you are killing me today Rob!
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