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Saturday, October 2, 2010
From Pride to Hate - The Slippery Slope
by: Glenn Robinson
Updated 8-9-2012
With the never ending news of violence and shootings - one might ask themselves - as Marvin Gaye said, what's going on?
I created this chart to help identify threats in which we should probably call the authorities, verses subjective threats, verses our every day disrespectful annoyances.
Below, in order from less threatening to most threatening, you will find:
Words for pride, fear, hate and violence, in order of intensity.
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| Degrees of Us vs Them / Gloria Yamato's Degrees of Racism- click chart to enlarge - |
By severity
Pride
xenophobia / homophobia / bigotry / blatant
animus
microinsults / microinvalidations / microaggressions / microassaults
animus
microinsults / microinvalidations / microaggressions / microassaults
Hate
More nuanced definitions can be found at Definitions and Semantics at the TheStudyOfRacialism.org
It's said that there is a fine line between love and hate.
Love of self (pride) can morph into arrogance. Arrogant people think they are superior - and in turn they probably dislike, or at least disrespect those who are unlike themselves.
Dislike or disrespect toward others can easily lead to hate - and then to a hate crime.
Many Americans are blatantly xenophobic and/or homophobic; homophobia is evident in our nation's attempts to prevent the LGBT community from marrying. And xenophobia is evident from our nation's eagerness to spend tax dollars building fences and maintaining outdated immigration quotas that do not meet our county's needs.
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Glenn is a European-American married to a Mexican-American. They have two children. Glenn is interested in progressive immigration reform, and desegregation within schools and communities. He is interested in sociology, anthropology, psychology and history.
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Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Panda Color
by Glenn Robinson
This is a script for my Panda Color video.
The final production went off script.
I was showin' my brother a cool Def Poetry video on YouTube and he says "Eh, I'm not feelin it." Then he says: "Glenn, I've noticed that you seemed to be attracted to things that are --- non-white."
Yeah, and your point is?
{Transition}
My wife told me that I only married her because she is Mexican.
What!? That hurt my feeling.
I said to her, "If you want to over simplify -- I married you because you're not white."
Like my friend said:
"You know what the problem with white people is? Lack of pigmentation."
When I was a kid a liked three things
Number 1: Black and White animals
Number 2: Half and half swirled ice cream cones.
This is a script for my Panda Color video.
The final production went off script.
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I was showin' my brother a cool Def Poetry video on YouTube and he says "Eh, I'm not feelin it." Then he says: "Glenn, I've noticed that you seemed to be attracted to things that are --- non-white."
Yeah, and your point is?
{Transition}
My wife told me that I only married her because she is Mexican.
What!? That hurt my feeling.
I said to her, "If you want to over simplify -- I married you because you're not white."
Like my friend said:
"You know what the problem with white people is? Lack of pigmentation."
When I was a kid a liked three things
Number 1: Black and White animals
Number 2: Half and half swirled ice cream cones.
Number 3: One stuffed animal.
My brother is wrong. I do like white things.
Number 1: I like milk ... with coffee
Number 2: I like rice ... with soy sauce.
Number 3: I like vanilla... chocolate chip icecream ... with chocolate syrup.
When we were at the gift shop at the San Diego Wild Animal park -- I was curious to know if my daughter would like the cute little stuffed panda the way I did. She didn't. She looked through all the lions, tigers, bears, birds, snakes, and picked... a quail.
I guess brown and gray are the new black and white.
What did you like when you were a kid - and still like now?
My brother is wrong. I do like white things.
Number 1: I like milk ... with coffee
Number 2: I like rice ... with soy sauce.
Number 3: I like vanilla... chocolate chip icecream ... with chocolate syrup.
When we were at the gift shop at the San Diego Wild Animal park -- I was curious to know if my daughter would like the cute little stuffed panda the way I did. She didn't. She looked through all the lions, tigers, bears, birds, snakes, and picked... a quail.
I guess brown and gray are the new black and white.
What did you like when you were a kid - and still like now?
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Glenn is of the Irish, German, Dutch, English and Austrian diaspora. He is taken - by Charo - who is of Spanish and Amerindian heritage. They have two children (made in California). Glenn documents oppression; connect communities; and likes sociology, anthropology, psychology and history.
Connect to Glenn at CommunityVillage.us
Glenn is of the Irish, German, Dutch, English and Austrian diaspora. He is taken - by Charo - who is of Spanish and Amerindian heritage. They have two children (made in California). Glenn documents oppression; connect communities; and likes sociology, anthropology, psychology and history.
Connect to Glenn at CommunityVillage.us
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