Bill Maher is really turning into a vile racist

[MADem]

178. I am not doing the dictating, but you certainly are.

And your thesis is not supported.

You still haven't explained how a student applying to a college can succeed in "deciding" that they want to be a minority race for the purposes of obtaining a diversity goal placement or scholarship. What's to stop little Justin Beibers from asking the UNCF for a scholarship?

I didn't say the film was any good--but there you go again, trying to divert, as if the quality of the film (which was--horror of horrors--a box office success despite the critics) even mattered. The point is that the film was MADE--the idea was there.

It's not the first time Hollywood has played with race, either--films involving switching up (body swapping, too) were popular around that time.

Sample:


That's Whoopi Goldberg under that makeup. She knew she wasn't a white guy in the film, though--she was playing some people who wouldn't respect a black woman so she gave them what they wanted, a white man.

You HAVE said something about people choosing their race, in actual fact. Pull the thread of this conversation back to where you were making vile, unsupported accusations with regard to my views about Chelsea Manning (you suggested I was in the "he" or "it" brigade, when nothing could be further from the truth, and you tried to compare that intransigence -that you invented in YOUR head--to my views on the topic of race. Too bad for you that your thesis failed there, as well--gender identity, as I said, is malleable, but race is not.). You insisted that there was no difference between Chelsea Manning's transgender journey and someone picking their race, in essence.
In case you forgot what you said about race, here it is for you to chew on:

it's not up to me. it's not up to you. it's not up to the ADC. it's up to each individual person who chooses to identify that way or not.

Race is not a choice. If it were, like I said, Trayvon would have "chosen" to become white in order to get away from his stalker-murderer. Your racial makeup is embedded in your DNA. You can't swap it out. Cultural identification, ethnic associations, and issues of history and heritage aside, you are, racially, what your DNA says you are. If anyone is dictating race, it's that pesky DNA.

And at the end of the day, still, Arab is NOT a race.