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Racism
Topic Started: May 3 2008, 04:02 PM (811 Views)
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What is your definition of racism?

Why do racists have to hate on people in very direct manner? (IT IS NOT say, little gossiping around the corner)

For me, racists are people who fail to find anything special about themselves so they take the race issue in and treat people of other races or ethnicities, which ever or, and in doing their actions, racists feel better about themselves because they bring others down.
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Racists 'round here don't like black or mexican people.......
I don't see why they hate them. God made us all equal, dammit.
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I consider myself every race ever, mostly black, since i r the kewl dood.

also others at my school agree i'm black, mainly 'cause of my naem
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Kichuwa,May 4 2008
10:45 AM
I consider myself every race ever, mostly black, since i r the kewl dood.

also others at my school agree i'm black, mainly 'cause of my naem

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Yeah, pretty black name you got there.

I dunno, I don't think I'm superior than anyone because I'm Asian, but I do enjoy pointing out racially specific things.

Like when someone farts, we yell at the Indian guy to put away his lunch. It's not racist, is it? It's not like he doesn't lol and come back at us with some Asian related joke.
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Asakura Raine,May 3 2008
09:19 PM
Kichuwa,May 4 2008
10:45 AM
I consider myself every race ever, mostly black, since i r the kewl dood.

also others at my school agree i'm black, mainly 'cause of my naem

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Age: 16
Name: ಠ_ಠ


Yeah, pretty black name you got there.

I dunno, I don't think I'm superior than anyone because I'm Asian, but I do enjoy pointing out racially specific things.

Like when someone farts, we yell at the Indian guy to put away his lunch. It's not racist, is it? It's not like he doesn't lol and come back at us with some Asian related joke.

I'm so black my skin radiates 5 different colors, 4 are in the shade of peach, and one in Brownish.

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I petsonally hate racism, it seems to be the same principle as patriotism or sexism of 'What I am is the best because I was born that way.' Makes me sick to see people who are extremely zealous in any of these areas.
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I think racism comes in different forms. For example. Hitler's hatred of the Jews in Nazi Germany. Rather than nationalistic purposes, he hated them moreso out of jealosy, the works he read (which depicted Jews as evil) and the need for a scapegoat to blame all of Germany's troubles on.

In another, more obvious sense, racism is another form of bullying in which someone is put down due to their skin colour, religion, etc.

I also feel that racism can also stem from nationalism (e.g. Axis countries and their belief of a superior race or nation) or merely the fact that one is different and so may stand out more than others.

In any case, while I doubt racism will be eliminated anytime soon, I hold it responsible for many of the atrocities that humankind has committed throughout its long span of dominating the globe (from the Crusades to the Holocaust to Nanking to the United States). And since every regime that treated its people as equal has thusfar failed, I think we're still a long way from solving this problem.
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Sometimes, racism isn't always just for evil, horrible, self-hating people. Actually, I think that's rarely the case. Most people hate other races because they were raised that way. If you grow up with your parents hating black people, you're likely to follow suit. You are, in a way, brainwashed into believing it. You will take it as truth. If anyone testifies against racism, it will be like they're speaking a different language. Does it make you a bad person? No, not always. Just an easily-manipulated one.
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aigu92,May 7 2008
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Sometimes, racism isn't always just for evil, horrible, self-hating people. Actually, I think that's rarely the case. Most people hate other races because they were raised that way. If you grow up with your parents hating black people, you're likely to follow suit. You are, in a way, brainwashed into believing it. You will take it as truth. If anyone testifies against racism, it will be like they're speaking a different language. Does it make you a bad person? No, not always. Just an easily-manipulated one.

From this post, one could say that the people who hating others are a product of their parents or their surroundings.

Thus, are those people who grew up hating justified in their hatred? It may seem that way, I mean, they didn't know any better. That's what's in from of them, as it was quoted, such people accept as the truth.

However, hatred is like evil, there is a root to it; it began somewhere, with someone or people full of hate.

If all of the above is the case, then all the people who actually hate others and are evil or terrible, all they have to do is have generations to come start hating from the start.

What better way to spread the hate and be justified for it?

What do they call this? I believe the term is called "Loopholes."



While it may prove that all people are not full of actual hate or evil, it doesn't help the situation. It's never ending cycle of washing and rinsing. They hate and put down others, and they ultimately don't know why. It's just the way is; it's how their parents thought them.

That's quite sad in my book.
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To be honest, I don't understand racism.

I don't get how other people can judge others so harshly.
I mean we're all the same just with different backgrounds, lifestyles, and beliefs but does that really give others the right to think badly of them because they're different. Worse, the some of the new generation is being brought up with this belief thinking it's right because their parents, friends, or relatives follow it. I guess it's easy to believe something if you're told by someone you trust or know.
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I've got two things to say

1) Racism is bad, no questions

2) Racist are people too.
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Is this thread to define racism, give an opinion, or determine where it came from?
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You could do all three if you have something for each.
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My mom sells beads.

white lady: "Oh, these are beautiful! Where are these beads from?"
me (helping my mom out): "China."
white lady: "Oh, what indigenous region of China?"

lady, you have no idea what you're talking about.

and that is what i think of when i think of racism. i live(d) in massachusetts, which is all very politically correct and so there's no outright racism.

the issue is hammered into kids from an early age, so that they grow up consciously saying that there is no difference, but having been taught that because it is NECESSARY not to be racist, concluding and perceiving that there is a difference.

another story:
my asian friend and her white friend were doing a presentation in an elementary school. her white friend's dad was with them. after the presentation, a little kid came up to them. after some talking, he asked if the adult was my asian friend's dad. he didn't realize that she was asian and he was white. that's true color-blindness.

anyway, i bet he lives in perpetual fear of Catholic priests and black rapists now.
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I think Racism is like BS, but at the same time I think everyone is a little racist. Pfft.

but then you look at what Racism has done and its like aughish.

Racism -> Slavery -> Resistance -> Deaths + War -> Different Groups of people each with their own names [Asians, White people, Black people, Indians, etc.] -> Moar Racism -> Assumptions + Bush -> Economy dying + Money Lost + etc. -> Still moar Racism.

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