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Re: Are you racist?
Reply #240 - January 26, 2012, 09:58 AM

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Re: Are you racist?
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Re: Are you racist?
Reply #242 - January 26, 2012, 10:07 AM

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Re: Are you racist?
Reply #243 - January 26, 2012, 10:22 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuLrBLxbLxw

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Re: Are you racist?
Reply #244 - January 26, 2012, 01:33 PM

I find racist jokes offensive. Even if they're not targeted at me, and even if the people they're targeted at don't mind them. Especially when this happens in a classroom, and especially when the teacher plays along. It sets up this psychological divide between "black" people and "white" people, and that makes me uncomfortable. Maybe I'm just oversensitive, but I expect the environment in an educational institution not to be discriminatory at all, not even humorously.

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Re: Are you racist?
Reply #245 - January 26, 2012, 06:31 PM

I consider the day a waste if I haven't insulted at least three races and one gender.
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Re: Are you racist?
Reply #246 - January 26, 2012, 06:43 PM

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Re: Are you racist?
Reply #247 - January 26, 2012, 07:22 PM

Pah. Try species level hate and then we'll talk. In fact.. sod it, let's go even further.

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Re: Are you racist?
Reply #248 - January 26, 2012, 08:56 PM

So does that means you're letting human races, genders and age groups off the hook as far as your hating goes? Or are you just adding some extras?

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Re: Are you racist?
Reply #249 - January 26, 2012, 09:46 PM

On balance, most eukaryotes are cool. Homo sapiens is a tentative exception, though.

I exclude Del the Funky Homosapien from all this. He's awesome. And funky, naturally.

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Re: Are you racist?
Reply #250 - January 27, 2012, 12:13 AM

Speaking honestly, I absolutely hate Racs. Every time I see a Rac I feel an urge to kill the Rac. I suppose that makes me a Racist…
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Re: Are you racist?
Reply #251 - January 27, 2012, 12:19 AM

why hasn't this man won JOTM yet?

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Re: Are you racist?
Reply #252 - January 29, 2012, 06:15 PM

Quote from: Kodanshi on January 27, 2012, 12:13 AM
Speaking honestly, I absolutely hate Racs. Every time I see a Rac I feel an urge to kill the Rac. I suppose that makes me a Racist…

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Re: Are you racist?
Reply #253 - January 29, 2012, 06:32 PM

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Re: Are you racist?
Reply #254 - February 07, 2012, 10:32 AM

slight necropost but regardless:

i suppose i am a tiny bit racist. i grew up in a deprived neighbourhood in birmingham of which, the majority comprised of pakistanis, bangladeshis and indians. every fight i've ever had in my life has been with either one of those races, and i've had to deal with racism from them for about 5 years before i finally left that area. shit, even when at university i had a drunken fight with this indian guy who got pissed off because i didn't give him a cigarette, and every single hostility when i talk to girls at clubs has come from either pakistani, bangladeshi or indian guys who are 'with' them but not WITH them. it's made me grow a bias towards people of those races, and i tend not to trust them or be as nice to them as i normally would(unless i know they aren't a prick, i.e. i know somebody who ISN'T one of those races who'll vouch for them).

i know it's completely immoral for me to be biased in that manner, but it's just a defense mechanism i've grown after having countless fights(i know it's over 40), countless confrontations and harassment(got bricks/bottles chucked at me a couple of times, and have been rushed about 5 times) over my life, and the only thing every violent confrontation in my life has had in common is the race of those confronting me. i feel a lot more comfortable around anybody who isn't one of those races generally, and it'd take a LOT for me to warm up to someone who one of those races(unless i grew up with them, that's the only exception).

so yeah, i'm a bit of a racist. but it's not that i hate them or i think they're inferior, i just don't initially trust them and will tend to prepare myself for imminent hostility if i am to ever come across them. yes it's immoral and stupid but it's just the way i've grown up i guess(inb4 ridiculous platitude)
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Re: Are you racist?
Reply #255 - February 07, 2012, 01:09 PM

I will agree with you on that but it's important to make a distinction at this point. I think all the psuedo-gangster types who are Arab, African, South Asian etc. and are bigger and try to be the alpha male tend to be this way around here. I rarely come across a gentle giant and if they aren't bigger then there's this massive ego you'd find in almost all sort of those chavy 'I want to be a gangster' idiots.

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Re: Are you racist?
Reply #256 - May 31, 2012, 08:59 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=Ru_SPEvdQ3A&NR=1

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Re: Are you racist?
Reply #257 - May 31, 2012, 09:12 PM

exactly.. artemis..
i have experienced the same thing..

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Re: Are you racist?
Reply #258 - May 31, 2012, 09:15 PM

Quote from: nessrriinn on May 31, 2012, 09:12 PM
exactly.. artemis..
i have experienced the same thing..

Ehe...?? Arab on Arab racism??

may be that was different "Ism" not Racism

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Re: Are you racist?
Reply #259 - May 31, 2012, 10:10 PM

Quote from: Artemis on May 31, 2012, 09:08 PM
racisme within minorities is greatly underestimated.. I think that I have actually been discriminated against more by arabs and turks than westerners around here

One time I was looking for an apartment to rent. I went to check out a couple of different apartment buildings and in the second one, the guy that showed me around was trying to convince me to move into his apartment building instead of the first one. He said "the thing with (the other building) is that there are a lot of blacks living there". And I replied "Well I am not a rascist so that doesn't bother me". So then he said back to me "Oh well neither am I because I am Cuban and we are a persecuted minority too".
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Re: Are you racist?
Reply #260 - June 01, 2012, 12:04 AM

Quote from: Ishina on January 11, 2012, 08:14 PM
It's not so much the word Paki that I have a problem with. It's when it's in a sentence like "I hate Pakis"

wouldn't it be racist to love pakis?

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Re: Are you racist?
Reply #261 - June 01, 2012, 12:06 AM

Not unless you also didn't love anyone else.

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Re: Are you racist?
Reply #262 - June 01, 2012, 12:44 AM

I was never racist. 'Cause I thought racism is BS, people are people regardless of their genetic make-up.

And I'm still not racist. I still think racism is BS 'cause people are people regardless of their genetic make-up.

No race is better than any other race, we are all humans inside and we have wonderful and not-so-wonderful qualities about us individually and on a larger scale culturally.
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Re: Are you racist?
Reply #263 - June 01, 2012, 12:49 AM

Saying that however, I don't feel inclined to ever take a muslim partner/husband/boyfriend ever again... in fact the idea terrifies me. Is that racism?
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Re: Are you racist?
Reply #264 - June 01, 2012, 12:55 AM

Sounds more like religionism.

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Re: Are you racist?
Reply #265 - June 01, 2012, 12:56 AM

Quote from: Da_Dude on June 01, 2012, 12:49 AM
Saying that however, I don't feel inclined to ever take a muslim partner/husband/boyfriend ever again... . Is that racism?

No, it's honesty.

We should worry more about being honest than being racist. Shine a light on your fears and prejudices. Don't worry about them.

Be nice, be honest, be courteous, and 'racism' goes up in a puff of smoke.
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Re: Are you racist?
Reply #266 - June 01, 2012, 01:00 AM

Quote from: Da_Dude on June 01, 2012, 12:49 AM
Saying that however, I don't feel inclined to ever take a muslim partner/husband/boyfriend ever again... in fact the idea terrifies me. Is that racism?

I imagine you'd feel the same about a hardcore Christian, or orthodox follower of any religion? Its religiosity and misogyny you want to avoid, not race. So no, its not racist.

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Re: Are you racist?
Reply #267 - June 01, 2012, 01:08 AM

Quote from: billy on June 01, 2012, 01:00 AM
Its religiosity and misogyny you want to avoid, not race. So no, its not racist.

Aren't they all part of the same impulse, though? Fear of the different and the unknown.
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Re: Are you racist?
Reply #268 - June 01, 2012, 01:59 AM

"Are you racist?"

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rac·ism
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noun
1.
a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human races determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one's own race is superior and has the right to rule others.
2.
a policy, system of government, etc., based upon or fostering such a doctrine; discrimination.
3.
hatred or intolerance of another race or other races.

1. I admit there are differences between races but nothing that determines "cultural or individual achievement".

2. I hold no such policy

3. I think I may have a irrational prejudice against assholes that I suppress. I don't think that makes me racist though.
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Re: Are you racist?
Reply #269 - June 01, 2012, 02:23 AM

Quote from: osmanthus on June 01, 2012, 12:55 AM
Sounds more like religionism.
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