I won't stir anymore crap up! One thing per semester is enough!... So next semester...

Ah, never mind then I misunderstood your original post

GTA = NES

Yes, such is the nature of a google cache; it's a temporary backup for a site that no longer exists. I never said you could click the item. What exactly are you looking for? The retail value is listed right next to it on the menu.

Taylor it says invalid item, and there's no picture or anything...

Hey Al, just to fuck with those people using Firefox or whatever... you should periodically change the filename of your picture. Cheers!

Beck, scroll down halfway through the page. It's there, halfway down the page and the item number sgv233 (or whatever it is) is highlighted for you.

Yeah, as I was posting my last message I totally thought to myself "shit, these issues are purely stemming from relative perspectives of soc vs. psych". I'm glad I'm not the only one who saw that. I do absolutely agree with you that "covert forms of racism which occur systemically and institutionally still persist". It's so easily swept under the social carpet however, that it is often difficult for us to detect. That's why I found the idea of using taboo as a benchmark as such a revelatory concept! Racism (or any other phobic -isms for that matter) is a concept that is hidden in our society. Taboo subjects on the other hand are made socially explicit. Since these taboos are merely the by-product of that so-called carpet-sweeping, they can be used as a sort of gauge.

Here's an example of what I mean:

The fact that the word "nigger" is a linguistic taboo (for my ethnic class, that is) is a clear indicator of racism alive and well in our culture. When hate is no longer classified by race, the word will lose its power. But one often forgets that it's a two-way street; not only must white people have no more reason to use the word (by it's current definition that is), but there's also a certain disdain by black people towards any white people who use the term. By hating the people that use the word, the word maintains it's credibility regardless. I'm not proposing that one side hates the other any more or less, nor am I pointing out that black people are to blame for the persistance of the word, but clearly there is a certain element of "hate" present on both sides that propogates the definition of it.

Also, I don't argue that your examples may have underlying elements of racism associated with them. But I think that it is a political and beaurocratic racism that stems from our individual problems with micro-racism, and as such I would argue that it has to be dealt with in that order. The root of the problem must be addressed; and to me, it is a problem that should be dealt with at the cultural psychological level.

I could stir shit up but I won't... Tee hee...

Taylor... I don't get the jacket thing... it's not at the link you posted