Anonymous, has bluetooth ever saved someone’s life? But either way, the point is still valid: stupid people do stupid things with technology. It’s not the technology’s fault.

What a colorful topic.

If anonymous is saying guns could mistakingly kill, then is it possible bluetooth made a mistake as well.

The weapon is only the medium. It cares not what color, race, creed the operator is nor does it care how/when/why it’s used. It’s purpose is to simply function as designed.

Bluetooth is no different.

“Asian culture is more academically oriented. Black culture is anti-society and is harmful to it’s own people. Whites have NO culture, they mimic other cultures.”

Wow, that stings. I know asians with gangster friends and poor grades, I know blacks that band together and protect one another, and I know white people that always have family reunions & vacations.

This is not so cut and dry. But i’m sorry your life is.

“Popular” culture is where the problem is based, and you my anonymous friend bought into it. Your diatribe was a list of stereotypes from a person self-proclaimed to be ‘past that already’. If you were past that you’d realize that we all share the same american culture here. There are people of every color that fear people of their ‘own kind’, and altruism is not color exclusive. Yes, black culture has some growing to do, but don’t point fingers and act like they’re the only ones just because you got called an oreo way back when. We all go through something similar, and eventually you have to realize that those using the words are only looking for a bastion to hide their weak souls in.

Race-specific culture isn’t the root of the problem, it’s the ideals that pervade all cultures in america. If the television says certain people are evil for decades, people have trouble trusting them and the so-called evil people internalize society’s rejection of them. Perhaps if people didn’t universally apply characteristics to specific skintones, this wouldn’t be a problem.

Don’t tell me you’ve never seen a dim-witted asian, a scholarly black, a funky white, or a christian arab. You’re only confessing that you haven’t lived enough. People are what they are, unique. BTW, economic factors influence culture. You think soul food is popular only because it tastes good? Granted, taste is a factor, but blindly agreeing ignores price and education.

Really, all of this is too complex for a techdirt comment but honestly, stop jumping to conclusions and go marry someone that looks different from you so we can put this behind us.

things have gotten a little intense…..and for good reason. i think this issue is a little loaded because it has touched so many people directly. the race issue isnt just something that we ponder and address as an injustice that we’ve read about….it’s an injustice many have felt. This is true for all races, by the way, whites included.

I think a healthy approach is to back up from the racism front and examine what is actually happening.

Humans are communal creatures. We like to exist in community. We develop friendships and relationships that we build and keep over decades. Because of this nature, we naturally gather into groups that we identify with. Any number of things can be criteria for these groups, whether it is geographic, language, race, religion, propensity toward a certain vice, or even political ideals.

Unfortunately, a poor side effect of this system is that whenever someone identified with a certain group acts in a certain way, that action is attributed to the entire group. When a few republicans face charges on corruption, the entire party is suddenly corrupt. Or when one group of muslims decide to wage war on the entire world, all Islamic people are seen as ruthless and violent. When a few christian leaders commit adultrey, the christian community loses credibility. And when a white person is killed by a black person, all black people take the wrap.

It is unfortunate, but it is true. Education and reform is the only answer. If the leadership in each sector of society would teach their respective followers to represent their group well amongst others, many stereotypes would eventually die. And even if they didn’t, properly responding to ignorant stereotypes would only help to distance yourself from that misrepresentation.

That is how i see it. I have been wronged by both white and black, christian and muslim, democrat and republican. I have been treated kindly by each as well. So, stop acting like ignorant fools and giving a bad name to those who look/believe like you do. And stop assuming that when one person betrays his own by speaking rashly or acting violently that his actions are representative of the whole.

…that you going to see much more in the way of this sort of assinine “journalism” with respect to technology and its uses.

you saw the press go after gun owners with a vengence in the last 30 years because, of course, if all those LAW-ABIDING people who owned guns didn’t have them, why gun violence would just disappear (…and those same gun-toting folks wouldn’t have a weapon to defend themselves or help take back this country from its greedy politicians and other assorted fascist, rights abusing slobs).

now that same group of twits are going after technology because, we the people, can turn it against those Powers That Be who those people in the press happen to be in bed with. The very fact that INDIVIDUALS have access to the tech and can use it to make those Powers That Be uncomfortable is UNACCEPTABLE to those who wish to oppress.

Tech is being singled out because it is part of the plan — Keep blaming the tech so that “they” can stir up misinformed people to “demand action” to REGULATE IT. which means that all of us who use the web or bluetooth or whatever will probably become OUTLAWS.

and as far as the ringotone goes, i hope those S. Africans who have it tell the Thought Police to shove it where the sun don’t shine.

🙂 The majority are smart.