Are You A Racist.

[pat grimshaw]

The 'r word' is rapidly being undermined by its own vagueness.

 

[IceColdLover]

Not all all. I don't really talk to other races outside of my own (Caucasian) and don't see many as dating/sexual options, but no, I'm not a racist, I'm just looking for something in common with them other than us being human beings.

 

[bankside]

Majority is not about numbers; it's about who holds wealth and access to political power.

No, in the minds of the social justice warriors it's about who resembles somebody who died who used to hold wealth and have access to political power.

 

[Kabluey]

The 'r word' is rapidly being undermined by its own vagueness.

The term is quite specific.

 

[pat grimshaw]

The term ...

Is the term a noun, an adjective or an adverb? Does it have degrees of comparative and superlative?

 

[Kabluey]

Does it have degrees of comparative and superlative?

Only when people are trying to dodge it.

 

[Beachguyj]

The r word needs to be refined and re-defined for those who live in countries where our governments have foisted Multicultural Policies upon us without referendums.

Unfortunately nowadays people use the R word as if it's a cardinal SIN. The word is used as a noun, adjective and adverb. it needs to be defined.

The R word is Retard.

 

[Beachguyj]

It's just occurred to me that i may be one, even if it's unintentional.

When i lived in my old house and used to shop at the cornershop i'd just say to my mum, i'm off down the paki's for some food.

Or if i was ordering from the local chinese restaurant, i'd refer to the place as the chinkies.

Is this racist or not, if the intent wasn't there i'm not sure it is.

Do you have any similar stories. ?

Racism is about hatred of other races. People throw that word around too loosely.

Racial slurs like you used are just childish.

 

[zoltanspawn]

No, I believe in racism, and whether you are a racist or are not a racist. Its very simple - if you dislike or hate someone because they happen to be born in a skin color you don't like, or a nationality you don't like, you are a racist.

People seem to love to complicate things to fit their own needs/agendas or lessen their impact - this is, for lack of a better term, black and white for me. So, you stating that black Americans can't be racist in the same way white Americans can be is bullshit - the capacity to hate is the exact same, the only difference depends on the power one can wield with it.

The gradations of power are what make racism a real problem. In America, hatred directed against Swedes is largely meaningless because there's no historical or effective means of enacting that hate. Blacks may hate whites much more effectively. And the power that whites can wield in racism against blacks is mightiest. In this way, at least, it's worth saying that 'racism isn't racism isn't racism'.

 

[Beachguyj]

The gradations of power are what make racism a real problem. In America, hatred directed against Swedes is largely meaningless because there's no historical or effective means of enacting that hate. Blacks may hate whites much more effectively. And the power that whites can wield in racism against blacks is mightiest. In this way, at least, it's worth saying that 'racism isn't racism isn't racism'.

We have a black President with black people in high power in his cabinet. We've come a long way baby.

 

[MoufOfKhaos]

We have a black President with black people in high power in his cabinet. We've come a long way baby.

We had black people in high power in the last cabinet - why is that not worth noting?

 

[chrisrobin]

I don't think so. However, I do think in terms of stereotypes. I generalize with no malicious intent.

• Cal. Berkeley/engineering - Chinese
• Brandeis University - Jews
• Dunkin, Donuts - Pakistanis or Indians
• Southern red states - rednecks
• Irish - drunkards

Even so, thinking in these terms is just plain silly.

 

[chrisrobin]

We have a black President with black people in high power in his cabinet. We've come a long way baby.

Yes, you have:

Leontine Price - opera
Percy Julian - medicine
Langston Hughes - literature
Desmond Tutu - clergy
Ronald McNair - astronaut
George Washington Carver - bioscience
Lewis Latimer - inventor
Edward Brooke - U.S Senator

et al.

 

[zoltanspawn]

George Washington Carver - bioscience

I find this example, that all is well, particularly silly.

 

[pat grimshaw]

UCLA grad students stage a sit-in saying that correcting spelling, grammar is racist

http://dailybruin.com/2013/11/20/students-defend-professor-after-sit-in-over-racial-climate/

 

[Kabluey]

UCLA grad students stage a sit-in saying that correcting spelling, grammar is racist

Bollocks.
They said itz Rascialist

 

[zombiekiller]

I think people nowadays are too politically correct and afraid to even mention race in their speech.

For example, I was talking to some people about my car problems and I need to take it to my regular mechanic. One guy suggested I take it to these guys in the street next over because they were cheap. I said "I know them, I don't trust those Mexicans". Everyone gasp.

(1) My regular mechanic is Mexican. I take my car to him all the time.
(2) I don't trust those Mexicans over there because they don't even have a shop and they only take cash. No accountability.

And yet people were scared to death because there was a Mexican guy standing next to us. Again, I wasn't trusting them because they were Mexicans. I didn't trust them because of their shady business model. My mechanic is Mexican, and I love the guy because he's the best mechanic I know.

And since when did the word "Mexican" a bad word?

I swear, political correctness will be the end of us all.

 

[blackbeltninja]

I think people nowadays are too politically correct and afraid to even mention race in their speech.

Indeed, the late, great Nelson Mandela was referred to as being African-American by a US news anchor. Nope, he's just African, thanks.

Incidentally, "African" doesn't automatically mean black, either; I'm African, and I'm white.

-d-

 

[MoufOfKhaos]

I think people nowadays are too politically correct and afraid to even mention race in their speech.

For example, I was talking to some people about my car problems and I need to take it to my regular mechanic. One guy suggested I take it to these guys in the street next over because they were cheap. I said "I know them, I don't trust those Mexicans". Everyone gasp.

(1) My regular mechanic is Mexican. I take my car to him all the time.
(2) I don't trust those Mexicans over there because they don't even have a shop and they only take cash. No accountability.

And yet people were scared to death because there was a Mexican guy standing next to us. Again, I wasn't trusting them because they were Mexicans. I didn't trust them because of their shady business model. My mechanic is Mexican, and I love the guy because he's the best mechanic I know.

And since when did the word "Mexican" a bad word?

I swear, political correctness will be the end of us all.

So, what does Mexican have to do with the fact that you don't trust them?