Have you ever been accused of being racist?

[Nieroshai]

I really do get it a lot... by angry white people offended for my friends, who aren't even slightly offended. They try to be "heroes" and tell me how much of a racist scumbag I am, which is when my friends usually tell them off. We rib each other all the time, me for my reflective whiteness etc. We just joke around, and somehow I'm Hitler. Of course, it works the other way; my friends make fun of me, in context, and others join in out of malice because I apparently deserve it.

Seriously, the only way racism will cease to be an issue is if we embrace our differences and enjoy them instead of thinking we need to completely blind ourselves in order not to experience another apartheid. I love my friends, we have fun and rib each other like all good friends do, we don't hate each other.

 

[Relish in Chaos]

Nope (not seriously, anyway), even though I?m ridiculously self-deprecating towards my own race whenever I talk about black or African affairs to my friends.

 

[Angie7F]

I have not been called racist, but I am sure I should be.
I am pretty aware that I am, because i am fearful of things that are different from what I am familiar with.
But at least I realize that...

 

[Jenvas1306]

I am german and have never been accused of being racist

 

[Something Amyss]

Ive not personally, but I see so many things about 'reverse racism', 'Politcal Correctness' and 'Double Standards' that I assume some of you have, as with any issue its better to talk about it then sweep it under the carpet, so please share your experiences and points of view.

'reverse racism' and 'political correctness' are often just buzzwords used by butthurt white boys who take the erosion of their social superiority as adversity in the face of a lack of any real adversity. People seem to apply the same with double standards, too.

I believe the internet calls this "first world problems."

 

[Leftnt Sharpe]

No, I have never been accused of any of the many 'isms'. I've learned by now that displaying intellectual independence is pretty suicidal in the modern Britain, the best thing to do is pretend to tow the party line and keep your head down. It makes life a lot easier, also the ability to lie to peoples faces helps.

 

[Glasgow]

Yeah, sure. They also used the wrong term because I wasn't racist, I was a bigot, and I couldn't stand the sight of fucking communists. It so happened that these guys weren't very white.

 

[Assassin Xaero]

Probably, but she never said it to my face. When I worked at McDonalds there was a woman there who was black and thought that she should get special treatment because of it, and I didn't put up with that.

 

[Calibanbutcher]

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's not the muscle density, it's the center of gravity, which is typically a bit higher in black people than in caucasians, which is great for sprinting, since it allows to shift the body mass more efficiently, but worse for competitive swimming.
Also, black people do usually have a longer calcaneus, which gives their calf muscles better leverage and serves to make them more efficient and better runners.

 

[KelDG]

I have not been called racist, but I am sure I should be.
I am pretty aware that I am, because i am fearful of things that are different from what I am familiar with.
But at least I realize that...

Thats not racist, it is called being "fearful of things that are different from what you are familiar with".

Being racist takes an actual hatred of someone of a different race, the PC brigade have blurred that line rather nicely now though. Most things that are classed as racist now are really just ignorance, and that can be fixed by education, racism cannot.

That is my view on the matter anyway.

 

[dfphetteplace]

Yeah, a few times at one of my jobs. I work in an Emergency Department in Detroit, MI. I am white, and our patients are a fairly wide mix of everything, which I think is pretty cool honestly. But some of the patients, regardless of race, accuse the staff of being racist, usually because we won't just give out pain meds to everyone. I had a patient complain to my supervisor that I was being racist and mean to her, because I wasn't giving her pain meds. I'm not the doctor, so I cannot order pain meds, regardless of whether I think they need them or not.

The first time bothered me, but then I realized that this is just how some people respond and to not pay any attention to it.

 

[Lugbzurg]

I've been called racist before for... no conceivable reason. Though there was one point in which I was talking about "darkness/evil", and someone made a chain of idiotic connections.

"Hmmm... Evil... Darkness... Blackness... LE GASP! RACISM!!elevenone1!"

And this makes zero sense, considering I have several friends of varied ethic backgrounds.

Some people would even go so far as to insist something along the lines of "Just because you have black friends, doesn't mean you aren't racist against blacks!" Actually, it kinda does mean I'm not racist. Anything otherwise would make no sense.

 

[emeraldrafael]

the only time i can think of I was seriously accused of being racist because people caught the wrong end of a conversation after i walked out of a door and screamed back in pointing at the guy i was angry with (who happened to be black) and shouted some rather obscene things and ended it withthe phrase "fuck you people" which was more aimed at the store itself. luckily only four people heard me and I cleared it up (it was generally known pricks worked at the place).

 

[Helmholtz Watson]

Ive not personally, but I see so many things about 'reverse racism', 'Politcal Correctness' and 'Double Standards' that I assume some of you have, as with any issue its better to talk about it then sweep it under the carpet, so please share your experiences and points of view.

'reverse racism' and 'political correctness' are often just buzzwords used by butthurt white boys who take the erosion of their social superiority as adversity in the face of a lack of any real adversity. People seem to apply the same with double standards, too.

I believe the internet calls this "first world problems."

Don't forget people who cry "cultural/religious/ect. appropriation" because a white person decided to get a tattoo, throw paint at another white person, get dreadlocks or visit a country where the people are POC. First world problems indeed.

 

[FitScotGaymer]

Yeah. I have been accused of being racist.

By a dude that I wouldn't go out with or sleep with cos he wasn't my type and I didn't fancy him. lol. Yeah.

 

[Ryotknife]

Ive not personally, but I see so many things about 'reverse racism', 'Politcal Correctness' and 'Double Standards' that I assume some of you have, as with any issue its better to talk about it then sweep it under the carpet, so please share your experiences and points of view.

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.

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 always thought the term "Reverse Racism" referred to extreme niceness/politeness towards someone of another race, based solely on their race.

that is political correctness (which i guess is a form of racism)

one example of reverse racism i suppose is this. I used to work a minimum wage job at Kmart (think target or walmart) and the store had a problem with people stealing. They even started to train people how to spot shoplifters. Well, one employee found a person who was trying to shop lift. The shoplifter cried racism because she was black and she was being unjustly targeted. The employee, white, was fired on the spot and the shoplifter was allowed go even though there was video evidence of her stealing (she came into the store with an empty bag, and magically the bag was filled when she was leaving without buying anything). The employee was fired because she was white and the company was afraid of a scandal. And no, the employee did not say anything racist.

Although oddly enough most of the shiplifters at that store tended to be white and elderly, which is strange (the elderly part). Made me glad I worked the night shift and didnt have to deal with people.

 

[krazykidd]

Yes . But to be fair i am a bit racist . I don't like black people . Now being black myself , makes that very ironic . However , to me , there is a different between racism and discrimination . I would never discriminate against anybody ( I.E treat them differently than i would anyone else due to skin color , sex or sexual orientation ) but it doesn't i have to like them. I avoid other black people like the plague unless forced to associate with them , and when i do associate when them i am as kind as i would be anyone else . So yes , i have been called racist , when i say i don't like black people . But i make sure to clearify that i don't discriminate against them .

Oh and gay people make me unconfortable . But again, when put in a situation where i have to associate with homosexuals , i am nice . Ironically , honosexual MALES are some of the nicest people i ever met . And yet i'm uncomfortable around them . Haven't met a nice homosexual female though , probably because i treat them like any other women with whom i don't have a chance to sleep with , i ignore them .

Yeah iv'e been called a bigot on these forums several times. The price of being honest i guess.

 

[mateushac]

Being from Brazil, and being born in a family of Black, White AND Native [South] American origins, probably made me really open minded when it comes to 'race'.
That said, I've been called a racist for mocking a very close friend once. (he often makes jokes about the stereotypes surrounding his race and is okay with me doing so too)

I know I'm gonna be called a racist here pretty soon, but don't bother: I know exacly how racist I am or I am not.

 

[Frokane]

Yeah. I have been accused of being racist.

By a dude that I wouldn't go out with or sleep with cos he wasn't my type and I didn't fancy him. lol. Yeah.

just out of interest, does your 'type' have anthing to do with the guys race?

 

[thejackyl]

Not directly. I live in a town that is prominently White and Hispanic. In fact, there is only one Asian family and two Black families in the entire town. So we have people who think they can pull the race card, based on that fact alone when they can't rip us off.

I work at the local Wal-Mart, and I was a cashier, and worked at the service desk, so I saw everything. I've had someone try to return something from 4 years ago (we have a 90 day return policy), and when I refused they said: "It's because I'm Black isn't it?", I ended up having to get an assistant manager up front to talk to the guy. (Who is Indian), and the sad part is that they let him return the item, AND he got a $25 gift card for his "trouble".