I'm not racist but I make semi-racist remarks to piss off my friends. Don't worry crazies they know I kid
Poll: I am racist.
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That's kind of how I feel, and I can't really help it, since I live near Baltimore, one of the crime capitals of the world.sneakypenguin said:
Honestly the last thing I notice about someone is their skin tone. It really makes no difference to me what color you're sporting. But I think I'm different then a lot of people because anything physical outside of gender is pretty much the last thing I notice when I meet people. I grew up with a mother who has ceberal palsy and watched the way she was treated, shunned, discriminated against and treated as stupid - all because she walks differently. Many, many times in my youth I watched her be treated as greatly inferior even though she is bi-lingual, graduated in the top 1% of her college class and qualifies to join MENSA. No joke. So I learned from a very early age that what people are on the outside definitely isn't a reflection of who they are on the inside.
I really, really don't care about skin color - the obesession over such things is still a puzzle to me and seems like an exceptionally stupid waste of time.
I really, really don't care about skin color - the obesession over such things is still a puzzle to me and seems like an exceptionally stupid waste of time.
As said before, it's all semantics. While it is true that scientifically different races are non-existant, I am afraid you will find that socially the case is very much the opposite.ArcWinter said:
Solely to do with the environment you're in, and the negative connotations people have heard concerning people of a certain race. If you went to a Caribbean island and stayed there for a month, would you be uptight and nervous every time a you were near a black person? Probably not, otherwise you'll probably break down by the first week.Florion said:
People might have a strong distrust for people of Asian descent here in Britain now because of a lot of the tension that formed after the 7/7 bombings and countless bomb scares. That doesn't necessarily mean they are racist, but negative experiences have now shaped one's subconscious opinion. The same logic can be applied as before.
Your conscious mind is yours to mould, but your subconscious mind is different. All of those negative stereotypes and experiences can leave an impression on you that you may not be able to shake unless you make an effort.
Either way, everyone is a bit racist subconsciously, it's not a good thing but a defence mechanism to deal with people you aren't familiar with. And I'm tired. If that made no sense, please let me know.
It's not so much racism as it is a genetic imprint that rationalizes the distrust of foreign groups or behaviors. It goes back to when we were monkeys, really, and early homo-sapiens (along with other so-called cavemen) basically fought over territory and food in this manner. It managed their distribution, their division of labor, and where they lived.
So I wouldn't say that we're racist, but rather ethnically aware. I don't pretend to not notice. If I see a name like "Goldmeyer" or "Rothstein", I know who I'm going to identify that name with. Another example is being able to place, with the analysis of such things as bone structure, facial hair, eye shape, and skin tone, whether an Asian is Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and so forth. That's just naural, and has become more culturally inclined than racially inclined.
So I wouldn't say that we're racist, but rather ethnically aware. I don't pretend to not notice. If I see a name like "Goldmeyer" or "Rothstein", I know who I'm going to identify that name with. Another example is being able to place, with the analysis of such things as bone structure, facial hair, eye shape, and skin tone, whether an Asian is Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and so forth. That's just naural, and has become more culturally inclined than racially inclined.
No, I am in fact an aberrant humanoid known as a bog hermit. As far as I know, there are very few of us left, and we are an endangered species.Florion said:Wait, so you're... a cat? One of those robots that can pretend to hold an intelligent conversation? Malik Ishtar?ArcWinter said:Without semantics, we're all just monkeys then.Florion said:Well now you're just getting into semantics.
What about you? You're a human too. How do you manage to consider yourself beneath you?
But me? Human?! What is wrong with you? That is a disgusting idea. I have distanced myself from the idea of humanity.
In another response: Socially? Do not get me started. Do not even mention the word social near me. Most of my contempt for mankind originates from social matters.
That's okay, if it's what you feel, you can't change that. At least you know it and try to help it. Honestly being a (half) black person, black people don't bother me. Even though I was raised around almost only white people, blacks, asians, mexicans, (insert any other race) don't make any difference to me. I will make jokes based on stereotypes because mostly it's funny. And that's the only reason, is for a laugh. If it offends you, grow up, I'm not a racist and I mean none of the jokes seriously. It's meant as just that a joke. But anyway, I'm not racist against anyone. Even though some of my friends are racist(against blacks, funny right)?Florion said:
I'm not racist but there's one thing about foreigners that pisses me off beyond reason. I hate it that people who weren't even born in my country can come over here and whine that anything is racist and get it banned because nobody dares "offend them". Fuck that. I will list two examples from the UK to further explain what I mean:
- the children's nursery rhyme, 'Bah bah black sheep', is banned because it's apparently racist to sing about black sheep.
- the word "black board" is deemed a racist term and is banned, we know have to say "chalk board".
If you don't like our culture then fuck off back to your own country, nobody is forcing you to endure our apparently racist culture.
No doubt I will be called racist for saying that even though I don't give a shit what colour someone's skin is as it's completely insignificant but whatever.
- the children's nursery rhyme, 'Bah bah black sheep', is banned because it's apparently racist to sing about black sheep.
- the word "black board" is deemed a racist term and is banned, we know have to say "chalk board".
If you don't like our culture then fuck off back to your own country, nobody is forcing you to endure our apparently racist culture.
No doubt I will be called racist for saying that even though I don't give a shit what colour someone's skin is as it's completely insignificant but whatever.
Yes, the difference in espoused and enacted values, eh?
Well at least you can be honest about it. I'll admit I'm fairly rascist towards Aboriginals. This is due to a lifetime of experience that only involves mugging, begging for money, attempted bashing and vocal abuse from them.
I don't have any ill feelings towards any other race, but I can't hide that Aboriginals have done absolutely nothing to win my favour, and I will not respect them until I witness something, anything, that shows there is someone worthy of respect out there. This makes me a horrible person to some people, and I can live with that.
Well at least you can be honest about it. I'll admit I'm fairly rascist towards Aboriginals. This is due to a lifetime of experience that only involves mugging, begging for money, attempted bashing and vocal abuse from them.
I don't have any ill feelings towards any other race, but I can't hide that Aboriginals have done absolutely nothing to win my favour, and I will not respect them until I witness something, anything, that shows there is someone worthy of respect out there. This makes me a horrible person to some people, and I can live with that.
i dont see color it would be bad for me to be racist anyway since i like latinas and above that when i was in school the only football players that didnt go around picking on people were black and that gave me huge amount of respect for them if anything i like black people more than whites
wait, then what is your race? o.oNoMoreSanity said:
and I'm not racist, I don't think, I know and have a few black friends. Just, most that I meet fit their stereotype. Yet many I meet are nice. My bff is Hispanic =D
oh forgot to mention that I have a black friend, and she isn't a stereotype, she's really nice, but she likes stereotypical teenage black kid stuff and hates stereotypical teenage white kid stuff(for lack of a better word, emo, which, for lack of a better phrase, I am)
so no, I'm pretty much not racist.
"Racism" is an ill-defined term.
Some people say that racism is any kind of conscious or unconscious racial bias. Everyone's racist by that standard.
Some people say that mere unconscious bias doesn't rise to the level of racism and you've gotta actually believe in racial superiority to be racist.
Some reserve the term "racism" for institutional oppression -- by this definition, for example, minority members "can't be racist" because they lack aren't in a position to disenfranchise others.
-- Alex
Some people say that racism is any kind of conscious or unconscious racial bias. Everyone's racist by that standard.
Some people say that mere unconscious bias doesn't rise to the level of racism and you've gotta actually believe in racial superiority to be racist.
Some reserve the term "racism" for institutional oppression -- by this definition, for example, minority members "can't be racist" because they lack aren't in a position to disenfranchise others.
-- Alex
1. What? I'd rather not handle anyone's piss.zen5887 said:
2. Brooding? Oh, if you knew me... But you don't, so mistakes are fine. I'm probably happier than 50% of humanity, thus why I look down on them... Hell, even when I'm depressed I'm happy.
3. Spiteful? Haha, hahahaha, hahaha, ha. Good one.
I did not know that was a stereotype, actually. I'll be sure to despise it like I do all stereotypes later. Right now I'm busy coming up with a dungeon layout for my campaign...