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Is this Racist?[W:300]

Is this story from Nebraska Racist?

  • Yes

    Votes: 7 16.3%
  • No

    Votes: 36 83.7%

  • Total voters
    43
Re: Is this Racist?

Clearly racist against zombie presidents.
 
Re: Is this Racist?

You forgot one possibility, intelligent. :mrgreen:


ps. If racists were calling people that name and got 'zero' reaction, they'd be less likely to keep using such an ineffective moniker. ;)

No, i think that might give them the impression that it's ok to say that.
 
Re: Is this Racist?

No, i think that might give them the impression that it's ok to say that.

Really? You think name calling warrants what, word censorship? You're never going to stop people from using words. But making a word pointless has more of a chance of working.
 
Re: Is this Racist?

Says the guy who apparently hasn't spent much time Down South.

Ive been to the south plenty of time. And the black people down there are dropping N bombs more than most places I've been. Maybe you think they are all using the N word in a racist way, but i dont think it is.
 
Re: Is this Racist?

Ive been to the south plenty of time. And the black people down there are dropping N bombs more than most places I've been. Maybe you think they are all using the N word in a racist way, but i dont think it is.

And when the blacks do it, that's fine - it's no different from "I can say what I want about the people in my organization, but you can't." Which is why when white people use it, it is racist. If a white person calls someone else a cracker, IMO that's not racist...but if a black person does, it is racist.

That said, the degree of racism from whites towards blacks is much greater down South. For instance, when I was there in the summer of 2012 - when Obama's reelection campaign was hot and heavy, I saw one - count 'em, one - advertisement for Obama in Jackson MS...and it was one guy wearing an old t-shirt. In the Delta where my family lived and where I grew up, there were none...even in Sunflower County that is 71% black. Think about that, guy - why would a 71%-black county have zero, absolutely zero signs or bumper stickers for Obama? I asked a black friend of mine named Eddie, who knew that unlike almost every other white person in the Delta, I was an Obama supporter. He looked at me and said, "Pete, you know why." And he was right - I did know why. I knew that any black man or woman there who drove around with an Obama bumper sticker would have something happen to their car...or if not, he or she (or their family members) would find themselves out of a job, since the great majority of business owners are white.

So...no, guy, if you didn't see the racism, it's not because it's not there - it's because you don't know the South as well as you think you do.
 
Which is a shock considering the city.

It is not surprising at all. Even though he threw this country into the toilet, they know it was wrong to disrespect the office.

Sorry you feel that way.
 
Re: Is this Racist?

And when the blacks do it, that's fine - it's no different from "I can say what I want about the people in my organization, but you can't." Which is why when white people use it, it is racist. If a white person calls someone else a cracker, IMO that's not racist...but if a black person does, it is racist.

That said, the degree of racism from whites towards blacks is much greater down South. For instance, when I was there in the summer of 2012 - when Obama's reelection campaign was hot and heavy, I saw one - count 'em, one - advertisement for Obama in Jackson MS...and it was one guy wearing an old t-shirt. In the Delta where my family lived and where I grew up, there were none...even in Sunflower County that is 71% black. Think about that, guy - why would a 71%-black county have zero, absolutely zero signs or bumper stickers for Obama? I asked a black friend of mine named Eddie, who knew that unlike almost every other white person in the Delta, I was an Obama supporter. He looked at me and said, "Pete, you know why." And he was right - I did know why. I knew that any black man or woman there who drove around with an Obama bumper sticker would have something happen to their car...or if not, he or she (or their family members) would find themselves out of a job, since the great majority of business owners are white.

So...no, guy, if you didn't see the racism, it's not because it's not there - it's because you don't know the South as well as you think you do.

That's a lot of typing to say nothing. I know the south pretty well. Well enough anyhow. You can justify the use of the word all you want, it won't change the fact that it is used far more by black people than white people and most of its use isn't racist.

Also you are trying to make the point that are racist whites in the south which I doubt anyone would dispute, at least try to acknowledge that there are just as many racist blacks down in the south if not more.
 
Re: Is this Racist?

That's a lot of typing to say nothing. I know the south pretty well. Well enough anyhow. You can justify the use of the word all you want, it won't change the fact that it is used far more by black people than white people and most of its use isn't racist.

Also you are trying to make the point that are racist whites in the south which I doubt anyone would dispute, at least try to acknowledge that there are just as many racist blacks down in the south if not more.

And your comment is a lot less typing showing just how much you don't know.

There's an old saying: "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing." It means that all too often, people make overall judgements with the information they have...but the information they're working with is much less than is necessary to make that judgement...and is far less information than those people think is necessary.

And from a lifetime of experience in the South, from the experience of having been raised as a racist to unlearning the same, I know better than most whites just how prevalent, just how deeply rooted it is. And anyone, absolutely anyone who claims that racism by blacks is anywhere close to that by whites is speaking from a position of utter ignorance.

Why? You would agree that there's racism in all cultures and all nations, right? Of course you would. But there's a common thread in all such situations: the racism by the more powerful in a culture is always, always more egregious than the racism by the less powerful. I can give you example after example of this all over the planet. The more powerful race (or ethnicity or religion) in a culture always, always, ALWAYS commits more egregious acts of racism, much more often, than what is committed by the less powerful race.

That, sir, is reality. You can try to deny it if you like, but you have far less first-hand knowledge of racism in America than you seem to believe.
 
Re: Is this Racist?

And your comment is a lot less typing showing just how much you don't know.

There's an old saying: "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing." It means that all too often, people make overall judgements with the information they have...but the information they're working with is much less than is necessary to make that judgement...and is far less information than those people think is necessary.

And from a lifetime of experience in the South, from the experience of having been raised as a racist to unlearning the same, I know better than most whites just how prevalent, just how deeply rooted it is. And anyone, absolutely anyone who claims that racism by blacks is anywhere close to that by whites is speaking from a position of utter ignorance.

Why? You would agree that there's racism in all cultures and all nations, right? Of course you would. But there's a common thread in all such situations: the racism by the more powerful in a culture is always, always more egregious than the racism by the less powerful. I can give you example after example of this all over the planet. The more powerful race (or ethnicity or religion) in a culture always, always, ALWAYS commits more egregious acts of racism, much more often, than what is committed by the less powerful race.

That, sir, is reality. You can try to deny it if you like, but you have far less first-hand knowledge of racism in America than you seem to believe.

No. You are still wrong. Racism is racism. There is no difference between a white person who is racist, a black person. a hispanic or anyone else. Racism is racism. You can think only white racism matters, but you are wrong.
 
Re: Is this Racist?

No. You are still wrong. Racism is racism. There is no difference between a white person who is racist, a black person. a hispanic or anyone else. Racism is racism. You can think only white racism matters, but you are wrong.

In other words, the racism - okay, ethnicism, but it's really the same thing - of the Nazis against the Jews was no worse than the racism of the Jews against the non-Jews.

And the racism of Americans of European descent against the Native Americans was no worse than the racism of the Native Americans against the Americans of European descent.

And the racism of the Han Chinese against the Tibetans is no worse than that of the Tibetans against the Han Chinese.

I can go on all day with such examples. In every case, it's the more powerful against the less powerful - always has been, always will be. Your claim that one side is no worse than the other is nothing more than a false equivalence, an attempt to pretend the molehill of racism by one side justifies the mountain of racism by the other side.
 
Re: Is this Racist?

I don't really have time to dig up the particulars on that one, so I'll give it to you. Besides, if I want to point out epic obstruction by the GOP, all I need to is point to the simple fact that nearly HALF of all filibusters of presidential nominees have been made since Obama became president. How anyone can think that's somehow "business as usual" is beyond me.

You don't think maybe it has to do with the kind of people Obama wants to nominate do you? It has to be all one sided right?
 
Re: Is this Racist?

If you yourself have a child, and if that child happens to be, say, black...and if you dearly love that child as any good dad does, are you seriously going to claim that if a bunch of racists come up calling your child 'n***er', that you're just going to ignore it and keep walking?

Some dads would...but only if they felt outnumbered.

I don't get what that has to do with what was being discussed.
 
Re: Is this Racist?

They became that way when they decided to pander to the disgruntled George Wallace voters

At least those VOTERS were U.S. CITIZENS and LEGALLY REGISTERED.
 
Re: Is this Racist?

You don't think maybe it has to do with the kind of people Obama wants to nominate do you? It has to be all one sided right?

So...do you really, truly think that Obama was nominating people SO far to the wingnut left that it justified nearly half of ALL filibusters in all of American history? Do you really?
 
It is not surprising at all. Even though he threw this country into the toilet, they know it was wrong to disrespect the office.

Sorry you feel that way.

LOL.. Yeah, and Obama has kept flushing it further down.
 
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