Random Politics & Religion #00

I don't know about racist, but saying "Hey gang!" has a very whitebread 50s Howdy-Doody feel to it for me.

I don't know about racist, but saying "Hey gang!" has a very whitebread 50s Howdy-Doody feel to it for me.

"You *** over there" sounds like a good compromise too.

Golly, Mr. Ramyrez. I didn't know you felt this way. Gee whiz.

Or like Nausi told us some days ago "my ***" is always acceptable too.

Americans need to steal the term 'sheila' from the Aussies.

No, it only works for comedic effect if I actually use the "er" version to my various friends from college, because I am openly acknowledged as the whitest honkey who has ever lived.

While the primary focus of the incident in McKinney, TX has been calling for the termination of now resigned Corporal Eric Casebolt, Twitter launched an impromptu campaign to identify the two women confirmed to have made racist comments that led to the fight and the police being called in the first place. The video begins with an adult white woman and what appears to be a much younger African American girl locked in a fight, with each holding the others hair attempting to throw punches. A group of black teens initially act as observers but eventually try to separate the two. Another woman, now known as Tracey-Carver Allbritton, at first seems to be trying to break up the fight, but quickly decides to start throwing punches to the top of the younger girls head. After a few seconds the fight is broken up and both parties go their separate ways.

That video led activists on Twitter to ask who were the two women and why hadn't they been arrested, or at least questioned for their role in the fight. At this point they seemed to have slipped under the radar. It didn't take long for that video to be matched up with a Facebook profile linking Ms. Allbritton directly to the incident, and to her apparent employer listed on the account, Bank of America.

The tweet sent by Dallas Communities Organizing for Change, an organization who fights for racial justice and police reform, spread like wild fire and eventually forced the banking behomoth Bank of America to conduct an investigation of its own to determine whether or not Ms. Allbritton actually did work for her. Contrary to what is listed on her Facebook profile, Bank of America released a statement online confirming that in fact she didn't work for them, but that she did work for one of their vendors.

That vendor company is CoreLogic Inc, a major financial data and analytics firm closely aligned with Bank of America. CoreLogic has been providing various financial and home loan services to Bank of America since at least 2011, which is around the time the U.S. Department of Justice settled a $335 million suit for racially discriminating against African Americans and Latinos in home mortgage lending. While CoreLogic Inc. seems not to be directly responsible for the decision on whether or not to issue home mortgage loans or other financial products to individuals, they provide a comprehensive lender profile and all necessary information needed to make the decision. This includes providing services such as credit profiles, credit reports, home mortgage default services, and analytics on multifamily leasing among others.

According to a statement given to the Dallas Morning News, “CoreLogic does not condone violence, discrimination or harassment and takes conduct that is inconsistent with our values and expectations very seriously. As a result of these pending allegations, we have placed the employee in question on administrative leave while further investigations take place." Several calls to confirm if this was actually the case have yet to be answered by CoreLogic Inc.

This is seen as preliminary good news by some, but the question still remains as to what her role exactly is with the financial data firm, whether or not she has direct decision making authority over the issuance of loans, and if so, how many African Americans and Latino's may have been denied based on her personal racial bias.

"What's up ***?" is far better/safer at making people chuckle. No doubt a stunning testament to our bigoted homophobic society

quickly decides to start throwing punches to the top of the younger girls head.

ARRR. Now see, this is the kind of thing Rav was talking about; who did she start throwing haymakers at? "the younger girl's head" or "the younger girls' heads". In this case they even tried to describe the event, but through poor editing have muddied the water for those of us with scant time to waste on sensationalist internet videos.

FIGURE YOUR ***OUT NEWS SOURCE. YOUR COPY EDITOR IS ***.

tl;dr people with no jobs have nothing better to do than get people with a job fired

I actually had to search for a better news article as the first one would have really wet your feels. (Is that even a term?)

It is a bit, but...meh. I subscribe to the Louis CK usage of that word anyhow. But as they teach you in sexual harassment training; it's not how you intended something that matters, it's how it's interpreted!

The politically incorrect are the new 1930s jews.

you're an idiot.

you're an idiot.

My favorite gendered term often thrown around by 20 somethings is when a guy uses the term 'females'.

Every hair on my body stands up at how *** awkward it sounds, like something that escaped from a NatGeo program.

"Yeah, me and the females are on the way, see you there."
"See those females over there? One of them is a jazz enthusiast."

Think I'll stick to 'ladies' 'dudes' or one of my profanity laced terms of endearment. It has elements of not sounding like a dipshit to it.