BonsaiK said:
SmashLovesTitanQuest said:
BonsaiK said:
EDIT: damn, didn't get in before the inevitable "racism doesn't exist" post.
Honestly though. Disagreed. Racism is dying out.
SmashLovesTitanQuest said:
I am openly racist too young muslims in Germany
Your post is fantastic, I love it when I even don't need to make an argument because somebody else is several steps ahead of me.
You're of course right that the past is the past, and I agree that the "race card" is used too often sometimes. I also agree that fear of the unknown is an innate human thing and as such racism will never really die, but that doesn't mean people have to give in to their innate reactions and act like dicks. It's also probably human instinct to hit women with clubs and drag them back to the cave and rape them but we've evolved past that so we can probably evolve past racism too. Real racism isn't really about what happened in the past, it's about what's happening now. People are still racist now. Not all people, all the time, but certainly some people, some of the time.
Indeed. However, racism is something that will die out with time. One the one hand we have old people talking about those damn negros and on the other we have the young people who openly hate, but, this is normal. A society always, always needs a scapegoat. This can be one person, a certain group of people, a race, etc... Humanity will never evolve past this. If they do, it will take another 500 years.
When I said I was openly "racist", I meant I was what a lot of stupid people would call racist. Namely, I refuse to give any group of people an extra amount of respect or treat a certain group of people differently just because they have a different skin colour. You would think this is the least racist thing you can do, but somehow, its exactly the opposite. Hm.
Like I said, there are 2 things that keep racism alive: 1) old people who were raised to think that way and 2) young people who are being raised that way by politicians and the media. They are lost. They have no sense of belonging, and then the Daily Mail comes along, or the NPD is all over TV, and they offer them a sense of unity.
How can we solve both these things? Well, the most obvious solution is TEACH THESE KIDS THINGS LIKE THIS IN SCHOOL. It would be time better spent then the endless tirade of unnecessary bullshit they get pumped into them they forget the moment they leave the classroom anyway. And im not talking about making one half assed anti racism day, hanging a view posters in the halls, sticking a black kid in every class and employing one muslim teacher. They need to be taught the nature of racism, they need too understand what the driving force behind it is, and
why humans act this way. Then, when they truly understand it, they can reject it. Seriously, ask someone a racist 15 year old why he is racist and watch him stammer for a valid argument. Then ask someone why they arent racist and the answer will always, always be "derp racism is wrong" and if you ask them why? They will stammer like the racist kid.
Of course, none of this is ever going to happen because stupidity is a politicians greatest friend, while knowledge is his greatest enemy.
I hope this illustrated my views on the subject better, the other was made about 5 minutes before going to bed and was a bit of a clusterfuck, I didnt really bring any of the points across that I wanted too. Feel free to disagree with this too. Im always willing to change my views on a subject, if it seems plausible.