Have you ever been accused of being racist?
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Ah dammit. I misread the thread title as "Have you ever called someone out as being racist?" I'm slightly disappointed because I was ready to vent about this stupid piece of hillbilly trash at my school. Whatever...
OT: No. I've never been called out as racist. The closest thing to me being called out for racism was when I referred basketball "that one sport the tall black guys play" when I was little. My Dad corrected me.
OT: No. I've never been called out as racist. The closest thing to me being called out for racism was when I referred basketball "that one sport the tall black guys play" when I was little. My Dad corrected me.
Apart from the jokes thrown around with friends that we're constantly being racist to everybody, I think I've only been called racist once.
It was on here, actually. I brought up that black people generally have a higher muscle density and therefore aren't as strong swimmers as people of other ethnicities. I didn't mean to insult anyone with it, I was just stating something I thought was true. Apparently posting such trivia is considered racism.
Can anyone confirm if that is actually true, the muscle density thing? I thought it was, but now I think about it, the only place I remember hearing it was from my dad.
It was on here, actually. I brought up that black people generally have a higher muscle density and therefore aren't as strong swimmers as people of other ethnicities. I didn't mean to insult anyone with it, I was just stating something I thought was true. Apparently posting such trivia is considered racism.
Can anyone confirm if that is actually true, the muscle density thing? I thought it was, but now I think about it, the only place I remember hearing it was from my dad.
I am frequently called racist in what is, ironically, a racist fashion and due to racism.
Because I am a privately schooled and white male at my place of occupation should I call someone out for any breach of policy (that frequently has directly impacted my ability to work) I am accused of doing so due to racism.
Of course, I didn't even know the ethnicity or nationality of the person who was constantly stealing/removing my peripherals. When I attempted to display my disgust to whoever it was by leaving a note attached to my cord at the back of my computer (without involving management - something that was in their best interests) stating "Asshole, stop stealing my peripherals. Talk to IT if you need one." they reported me to management for racism.
Of course, after management told them to just drop it and find their own peripherals they confronted me on my way to my office and attempted to vandalize my work-space. "Racist white-boy asshole" seemed to be their go-to exclamation between breaths.
The irony and hypocrisy was completely lost on them.
Because I am a privately schooled and white male at my place of occupation should I call someone out for any breach of policy (that frequently has directly impacted my ability to work) I am accused of doing so due to racism.
Of course, I didn't even know the ethnicity or nationality of the person who was constantly stealing/removing my peripherals. When I attempted to display my disgust to whoever it was by leaving a note attached to my cord at the back of my computer (without involving management - something that was in their best interests) stating "Asshole, stop stealing my peripherals. Talk to IT if you need one." they reported me to management for racism.
Of course, after management told them to just drop it and find their own peripherals they confronted me on my way to my office and attempted to vandalize my work-space. "Racist white-boy asshole" seemed to be their go-to exclamation between breaths.
The irony and hypocrisy was completely lost on them.
Admit it; you're as tired about hearing about the plight of the Aboriginals as everyone else is.Trollhoffer said:
Not saying it doesn't suck but there it is.
I don't recall having ever been called a racist. However I definitely was a racist in my younger years, in some ways I probably still am. Never really comes up though, and I'm definitely not a "hardcore" (for lack of a better word) racist, I can't say I'm free of prejudices either though...
Twist ending -- I am Aboriginal!The Ubermensch said:
Alright, I'm not, but that was quite a presumptuous thing to say on a few levels. For what it's worth, I'm second-generation Australian, so my upbringing was just as English and Austrian on behalf of my grandparents as it was Australian on account of my parents. I grew up under some different values with different influences and different role models, in tandem with the Australian usuals. To me, Australian culture trivialises problems, worships hypermasculinity and promotes anti-intellectualism. There are good elements, too, like the ball-breaking humour and good will (if you're white).
Largely, though, I think Australian culture does little to be constructive and I always found it alienating as someone who was brought up with some different ideas and a different approach to things. It doesn't at all hate people like me who differ significantly from what it likes best, but it doesn't go to any lengths to be inclusive, either. Australia isn't a socially forward-looking nation by any stretch of the imagination and I'm pretty fed up with it -- and that says a lot coming from a white male who was born here. One who lives in Melbourne no less, which is about as metropolitan and diverse as Australia gets (with the arguable exception of Sydney).
So I'd actually like to hear more about the Aboriginals -- perhaps if they had more of a say, I'd be living in a better country with more intellectual diversity and an approach to social problems that didn't end with dismissal.
A lot of people who don't understand evolution think it's about becoming 'better'. 'We evolved from monkeys, to be better, white people evolved from black people, to become better'.boots said:
It's kind of a mixture of hilarious, despicable and annoying how I'm told by people like that what I believe in, because they obviously know, based on their ideas about 'evolutionists'...
I tried explaining one of them why people adapted to have white skin when they moved to Europe, and she went 'So you are claiming black people should move out of the US because they aren't adapted there!'
My mistake and apologies, then.The Ubermensch said:
Captcha: "Sea Change" -- wasn't that a show at some point, or am I remembering things wrong?
A show, and any number of crap imitations.Trollhoffer said:
The way that half the Australian movie industry is rehashes of "The Castle".
Only in a joking sense. When I was a kid I didn't even have a concept of race. In fact I am probably the most racially sensitive of my family.
Quite often, especially when people aimed it at people of North-African ethnicity. "All Moroccans are lazy, criminal parasites", that kind of stuff.
People also have accused me of being racist, mainly for using the word "******." The people who accused me are the kind of hyper-sensitive people who find racism in every symbol that's explicitly not-racist. Those people are, in my eyes, simply PC.
People also have accused me of being racist, mainly for using the word "******." The people who accused me are the kind of hyper-sensitive people who find racism in every symbol that's explicitly not-racist. Those people are, in my eyes, simply PC.
Nah... I'm a minority... and beyond being a minority I'm Native American... so there's enough white guilt going around I can get away with pretty much anything, as long as I say it in that stoic stereotypical indian voice... and refer to myself as Stampeding Eagle or something like that...<.<
Yes but I actually am racist when it comes to the dating scene. I prefer white chicks and Europeans over Indians or Asians. But it's worse. I think I can do better than Indian or Asian chicks.