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Becoming A Racist: The Unfortunate Side Effect Of Serving Your Country?

Does Military Service Turn People Into Racists?


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Racist? I don't know about that...but it's easy to see...you spend 4 years waiting for hajis to try to kill you, you might not like hajis anymore. But if my buddies are any indication, you get over it after awhile.
 
My experience was quite the opposite. While I certainly wasn't a racist by any means before enlisting into the military, I grew up in a very white community. I just wasn't around other ethnicities. But in the military I was living with them, working with them, drinking with them. And not just other ethnicities, but people from all walks of life. The military completely burst the bubble I had been living in my whole life. And in that regard, at least, I feel I am a better person as a result of my time in service.

That said, I did see plenty of racists in the military who didn't change for the better. But I doubt many people become racist as a result of their time in the military.
 
My experience was quite the opposite. While I certainly wasn't a racist by any means before enlisting into the military, I grew up in a very white community. I just wasn't around other ethnicities. But in the military I was living with them, working with them, drinking with them. And not just other ethnicities, but people from all walks of life. The military completely burst the bubble I had been living in my whole life. And in that regard, at least, I feel I am a better person as a result of my time in service.

That said, I did see plenty of racists in the military who didn't change for the better. But I doubt many people become racist as a result of their time in the military.

When we graduated to two man rooms vs. squad bays my room mate ended up being a black guy from Cleveland. He stated the only whites he ever saw growing up were driving through his neighborhood. From what I heard the SgtMaj said to force integrate the rooms. His (supposed) words were "Either they get along or kill each other..."
 
True story:

We get to RTC Great Lakes, get moved around fast, get put into a "company" and marched to barracks. As soon as we get a couple minutes, a guy from sticks down south walks up to the biggest black dude and says "Are you black? I never seen a black person before except on TV! Is it true you like fried chicken, watermelon and have a big dick?" Every one stepped back. Then the black guy(wish I remember his name, he was hilarious 24/7) says "Well, I do enjoy fried chicken and watermelon, and I bet my dick is bigger than yours.", then he kinda laughed and we all relaxed.
 
True story:

We get to RTC Great Lakes, get moved around fast, get put into a "company" and marched to barracks. As soon as we get a couple minutes, a guy from sticks down south walks up to the biggest black dude and says "Are you black? I never seen a black person before except on TV! Is it true you like fried chicken, watermelon and have a big dick?" Every one stepped back. Then the black guy(wish I remember his name, he was hilarious 24/7) says "Well, I do enjoy fried chicken and watermelon, and I bet my dick is bigger than yours.", then he kinda laughed and we all relaxed.

That black guy sounds like someone I could be friends with.

I don't like people who take stereotypes offensively and seriously. And, to be honest, I noticed that it would seem from my experience in the Army that soldiers develop (and I imagine other branches as well) a very unique sense of humor, across racial lines, that civilians don't seem to understand. Members of the military can joke about things like race, and gender, and sexuality and **** like that and not be offended or be intending harm as well.

That uniquely makes them unsuited for the "Politically Correct" world we are inching ever so closer to.
 
My experience was the opposite. Not sure why anyone would believe the tripe in the article, unless they're pushing an agenda.
 
Becoming A Racist: The Unfortunate Side Effect Of Serving Your Country? | HuffPost

A tool bag of a "journalist" for the "Huffington Post" decided to write an entirely opinion based article that essentially suggests that our service members are being turned into racists during their tour of duty.

What do our military veterans on this forum think?




I had to erase my first three attempts, not sure the censor could handle it.


I was denied service due to a hearing problem but most of my buddies are servicemen. IF ANYTHING the military tends to CURE racism, or at least mitigate it in most people... anybody who thinks otherwise has NO CLUE.....
 
My experience was the opposite. Not sure why anyone would believe the tripe in the article, unless they're pushing an agenda.

They believe it because they want to believe it.

Apart from being a member of a failed boy band, Mr. Fagin has long been writing far-left schlock like this. And he thinks that he is so awesome that everybody must just fawn at his feet.

Never mind that the guy is a twat, and that is giving insult to twats if you ask me.

Other than writing nonsense like this, he mostly writes about himself and his failed band (does anybody remember "The Rosenbergs""?)

In one piece he basically tells how everything great in that band was because of him, and everybody else messed it up. Specifically the daughter of Tom Petty, Adria Petty.

Seems they were just about to make the big time, and they were to be on the Howard Stern show. And how dare her, despite the fact that she had said she lied and stated that she would do anything for the band, she would not make out with another girl on the Stern Show for the entertainment of Howard.

Adria was another story. She didn’t get Howard’s humor at all and thought he was a misogynist. It didn’t help matters that Howard wanted to be able to ask the girls to kiss each other if we came on. He didn’t care whether they did or not, he just wanted to be able to tease them and get some good radio out of it. Adria refused. In spite of promising the crew, made up of her friends, she would do whatever she could to promote the final product, she ultimately sank the entire ship, single handedly.

http://www.powerpopaholic.com/artist-interviews/what-happened-to-the-rosenbergs

So no, I have no interest what this asshole has to say. And I find it amazing that even the HuffPo would touch somebody like him. I guess that so long as he writes things that they like, his background does not matter.
 
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