Once in high school some black kids that I'd had disagreements with (for reasons unrelated to skin color) came up and asked me why I hated black people. I responded with: "I don't hate black people. I just hate *you*".
Have you ever been accused of being racist?
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I was accused of racism once a few years ago. I was walking down the street at night and came up behind two black men walking more slowly than I was in the same direction, taking up the whole sidewalk. I walked around them, and one of them remarked how much of a shame it was that I was "too scared of them to say excuse me," citing that "We have a black president now, we're all together."
I was a little too surprised and confused to manage a rebuttal regarding the fact that if I had been truly scared of them I would have crossed the street, not turned my back on them on a lonely city street at 1am. But that was the incident that made me realize that if you assume somebody hates you just because they're white, you're the one who's racist.
I was a little too surprised and confused to manage a rebuttal regarding the fact that if I had been truly scared of them I would have crossed the street, not turned my back on them on a lonely city street at 1am. But that was the incident that made me realize that if you assume somebody hates you just because they're white, you're the one who's racist.
An girl of darker complexion once misheard me, and thought I addressed her as, "******".
Now, since she wasn't the nicest of people, I chalked this up to an intentionally mishearing, as her and I didn't see eye to eye on things.
Was about three years ago now, actually.
Now, since she wasn't the nicest of people, I chalked this up to an intentionally mishearing, as her and I didn't see eye to eye on things.
Was about three years ago now, actually.
I was once accused of racism. When I challenged the accusation I received this nugget of wisdom:Frokane said:
"I know you are racist because you are white. All white people are racist."
This was said to my face with complete seriousness and conviction. There was no attempt at irony or joking self awareness.
Yes. With good reason I suppose as well.
'Lebos' are the street walking scum of the Lebanese People.
Just as Aussies have 'Lads and Bogans'.
Black Americans have 'niggers'.
White people have 'skinheads' and HK's.
No race or colour I can think of doesn't have one.
Anyways, my family - and generally the community of people I've grown up in; hate lebos. They say 'lebs'. Single syllable and you can spit it out in a second!
It's hard to kick the opinion you hear around you so frequently, so every now and then I'll say something without thinking like 'lol, dirty leb,' and I'd like to say 'sorry it's my father/my family, not me'... I've only ever had a single positive experience with the Lebanese; and that was a woman I met who tried to break up a fight.
So whilst I'm more than happy to 're-evaluate my opinion' of a specific person; you know - prove yourself and I'll happily change, I've still got a pretty low baseline opinion.
'Lebos' are the street walking scum of the Lebanese People.
Just as Aussies have 'Lads and Bogans'.
Black Americans have 'niggers'.
White people have 'skinheads' and HK's.
No race or colour I can think of doesn't have one.
Anyways, my family - and generally the community of people I've grown up in; hate lebos. They say 'lebs'. Single syllable and you can spit it out in a second!
It's hard to kick the opinion you hear around you so frequently, so every now and then I'll say something without thinking like 'lol, dirty leb,' and I'd like to say 'sorry it's my father/my family, not me'... I've only ever had a single positive experience with the Lebanese; and that was a woman I met who tried to break up a fight.
So whilst I'm more than happy to 're-evaluate my opinion' of a specific person; you know - prove yourself and I'll happily change, I've still got a pretty low baseline opinion.
I have been called a racist by some middle eastern guy at work mainly because I don't like him because he's lazy, overly opinionated, misogynist, immature and just plain annoying.
He of course doesn't seem to care that I hang out with 2 indians, a black girl and an Irish guy at work. (I know being Irish is not a race.)
He of course doesn't seem to care that I hang out with 2 indians, a black girl and an Irish guy at work. (I know being Irish is not a race.)
Possibly seriously once. Not sure. The guy was kind of dumb and so was I so I'm gonna spoiler this in case of retardation.
Okay, so I was like 14 or something. Young and stupid. This one guy was being a prick to me, so, being the 14 year old that I was, I called him a ****** in return.
He then proceeded to use some horsefuck logic that I was insulting Indian people because he had an Indian girlfriend and by calling him a ****** I was implying that... Indian's had... messed up... sexuality?
I dunno. It was weird.
He then proceeded to use some horsefuck logic that I was insulting Indian people because he had an Indian girlfriend and by calling him a ****** I was implying that... Indian's had... messed up... sexuality?
I dunno. It was weird.
Yes, and frankly I'm not surprised. I do appear to be a bit racist. I act upon assumptions of behaviours and attributes that seem to correlate with race. I don't like Lebanese people, not as a rule, and I'm not going to treat one badly off the bat, but in my experience the majority have been dicks to me, in the same way I don't like old people driving because the majority of slow drivers have been elderly. If you asked me what my impression was of young Lebanese men, I'd tell you that they're thugs, they wear Nike fits and tracksuit pants, move in packs and don't know when to shut up and let live, because that's most of the ones I've met. The fact is that people belong to different groups, and some of those groups are linked with race.
I also have problems with people who work in communications jobs but can hardly string a sentence together in the native language of the country they're working in, or have an accent so harsh that the majority of people can't understand what they're saying. I had a phone call from my bank recently. To this day I have no idea what the problem was, because after four repetitions I still didn't know what the hell the guy was saying, and when I rang back it was the same guy. Also university lecturers. And this often correlates with race, unsurprisingly. It's not racist, but it may be misconstrued as such.
I don't see myself as racist, because any assumptions I have are not unfounded, I am disliking attributes associated with people of a race rather than the race itself and I don't consider people of other races to be lesser people, but I can understand why others would see me as racist.
I also have problems with people who work in communications jobs but can hardly string a sentence together in the native language of the country they're working in, or have an accent so harsh that the majority of people can't understand what they're saying. I had a phone call from my bank recently. To this day I have no idea what the problem was, because after four repetitions I still didn't know what the hell the guy was saying, and when I rang back it was the same guy. Also university lecturers. And this often correlates with race, unsurprisingly. It's not racist, but it may be misconstrued as such.
I don't see myself as racist, because any assumptions I have are not unfounded, I am disliking attributes associated with people of a race rather than the race itself and I don't consider people of other races to be lesser people, but I can understand why others would see me as racist.
>BoganA.A.K said:
I don't think it means what you think it means; its normally a discriptor. If you're a bogan it means that you wear a flanno t shirt, thongs (foot attire), have a mullet and that there is a 75% chance that you have a bottle of VB in you hand at this moment in time. Yes Bogans are inherently nationalistic douche nozels; but as an Australian I can tell you that is a condition native to all Australians; not just the bogans.
Lay off the humble bogan, the humble bogan is you friend. Most likely an honest trades man with a reasonable call out fee and a free hours worth of labour if you give him a carton.
OT: Yes I have, a guild knew I was Australian and they all started calling me racist. Not to be out done, those of African American decent earned the nick name PC# (Purple [Naughty Word] [number]) for a day. It was all in good fun.
I remember on of them; an inactive marine DI, spent some time in sydney and was treated quite well but noticed the natives were not. He was kind of blunt as far as describing them too... I had to explain why there was a lot of tension between us and the Aboriginals.
Of course, during the election I heavily opposed Obama, so of course this is because I'm a racist and hate all blacks. Or something. I usually just leave them to their delusions, as once someone makes up their minds about you it's almost impossible to make them see you're not as bad as they thought.
I went to a school where the most racist person was black, and I'm white.
Hell yeah I was called a racist.
Disagree with him on Politics = Racist
Correct him on his math homework = Racist
Don't let him cheat off me = Racist
It was really fun when I finally got to flip the race card on him one day though, he sputtered for a solid ten seconds trying to think up some response.
Hell yeah I was called a racist.
Disagree with him on Politics = Racist
Correct him on his math homework = Racist
Don't let him cheat off me = Racist
It was really fun when I finally got to flip the race card on him one day though, he sputtered for a solid ten seconds trying to think up some response.
Sure, sometimes it was defiantly racist and sometimes it wasn't.
Sometimes it was reverse racism and sometimes it wasn't.
If you really have never been called racist I wonder how often you have actually put yourself into other cultures.
Take a class on cultural diversity, not only will you be called racist but you will see that you are racist, no matter who you are.
Sometimes it was reverse racism and sometimes it wasn't.
If you really have never been called racist I wonder how often you have actually put yourself into other cultures.
Take a class on cultural diversity, not only will you be called racist but you will see that you are racist, no matter who you are.
No I haven't but oddly enough people have been as such to me for being of Scottish and Scandinavian descent rather than X Generations of pure English.
Edit: Actually my best friend is germanic and russian descent and accuses me of racism often as a joke. Does that count?
Edit: Actually my best friend is germanic and russian descent and accuses me of racism often as a joke. Does that count?
Once back in high school, when they gave out those stupid baby dolls, that are supposed to teach people how to be parents.
I mentioned that one of the dolls had freaky eyes [note: They were jet black plastic balls] and a girl in my class started going mental about how I was being racist as the doll was supposed to be Asian, and her boyfriend was Asian and other crap that made no real sense.
I told her she was the racist one if that's the first thing she thought when I said freaky eyes.
I mentioned that one of the dolls had freaky eyes [note: They were jet black plastic balls] and a girl in my class started going mental about how I was being racist as the doll was supposed to be Asian, and her boyfriend was Asian and other crap that made no real sense.
I told her she was the racist one if that's the first thing she thought when I said freaky eyes.
Yep when I was a guard at a movie theater some women came though a exit and when i asked to see her ticket she balked and went into this spiel about how i was singling her out cause she was black. It sucked especially since i was doing my job and she was in the wrong coming in a exit door which usually if the theater manager is tough would lead to the person being tossed outright.
Yes, quite recently as a matter of fact. Although in this case I was allegedly being racist towards griffons, which makes exactly as much sense as you think it does. None at all.
First off, whoever invented the term "reverse racism" was a moron...... what that term should mean is people who are racist against racists...... but for that to even work "racist" would need to be a race, and it is not.Frokane said:
If someone is racist against blonde haired blue eyed white people they are still just racist, no reverse necessary.
On topic though..... No never, however I did break up with someone because of racist comments she made.
I used to use '******' a lot when I was about thirteen or fourteen. The thing is, I had no idea of its origins, and had only heard it in use when someone was describing a '******' stealing their stuff. So I used to think ****** was an insult to a thief. I then heard it used against people (I never noticed that the only people it was used against were Maori and Samoan though (Living in New Zealand, here)) who were being dicks. So, as far as I was concerned, a '******' was simply an asshole who stole peoples stuff.
No, though I have been accused of being sexist for suggesting the Violence Against Women Act should be replaced with an "End Violence Act" of sorts - a law which would keep all the provisions of the VAWA, but drop the wording that limits certain benefits of the law exclusively to women. That's right, I was called sexist for suggesting that a law with sexist language be modified to remove the sexist language. I'll let the stupidity of that accusation sink in.