Most Racist Thing You've Seen?

[Thaluikhain]

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You'd think an angry mob storming a home and shouting "Roma out!" would have been a little harder to justify as not racist in their minds. Like even a spark of self awareness would have struck at least one person there.

If they did, they'd not have turned up for the mob.

Alternatively, it seems it doesn't take that much to get a bunch of seemingly quite normal and fairly reasonable people to form an angry mob attacking someone for no good reason, at least temporarily.

 

[jamail77]

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Here's the thing: Were he a black man saying he was being beat up by a gang of white men, would you question whether or not the motivation was racist?

Seriously. Think about it. If you heard this story but reversed the races, would you question the black guys claims to the motivations of the white gang?

As a matter of fact I would and I have. He stated something without mentioning whether the gang actually called him out on being white. This is a very common trap to fall into, to believe something is racist just because everyone who is ganging up on you is of another color when it turns out to not be due to racism at all.

And, if you look back at the conversation after he clarified I believed him. You assume I am affected by the societal convincing to doubt racist claims if they happen to certain people, but I don't. I doubt anything without context and explanation. That's just my nature. If you look at my other posts you will notice that I defended the notion that you can in fact be racist against whites. But, for some reason, you didn't quote those posts. Why didn't you snip by the way? Most of what you quoted is not relevant to your question.

Seriously. Think about it. If I had doubted the same story with reversed races would you be questioning me right now? I get the feeling you wouldn't. No offense, but that's how silly you sound. I am not making assumptions about you based on lack of information, so please don't make assumptions about me. Before you say I made assumptions about the guy's story it's because he stated something about his experiences without full context whereas you are doubting my look on society when I didn't have a chance to state my full philosophy. The former feels disingenuous while the latter REQUIRES opportunity. Feels unfair frankly.

 

[happyninja42]

Probably when a middle aged black man came up to me, got in my face and said "I'm going to break my foot off in your ass you motherfucking cracker".

 

[sextus the crazy]

Uungh, growing up in a small Finnish town, the racism against the Romani was just everpresent.
It was just deemed okay to assume they were all thieves and up to no good, and tell racist jokes about them.
Also a while ago I heard a lady claiming that black people don't know how to use toilets and will shit in the middle of your living room.

I see casual racism a lot.

Yeah, the more I learn about Europe, the more I realize that y'all are just as racist as the people back in the states, only in your own European ways. We don't really have anti-Romani stuff because no one knows who the hell they are (although Gypsy is a recognizable term and "gypping" someone is still used in the vernacular, although the relation with the romani isn't really popularly known).

OT: I can't personally recall any openly racist stuff, seeing as I've attended lefty-liberal private schools all my life and otherwise didn't interact with other people, but I've generally noticed the anti-Arab sentiments or generalizations.

 

[Majinash]

I saw a man call a woman a "pussy-ass *****-ass cracka-ass *****". But it was OK because after that he said "that's how I feel in my heart... *****!" I guess it doesn't do the moment justice because it was preceeded with just shy of 10mins of this man screaming obscenities, racial slurs and threats of violence.