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Is this Racist?

blackjack50 said:
So I have found that I might be a little racist. But I don't know if it counts. It is against a very specific group of people. And i am not sure if I have a valid reason. It is more of a subset though. It is specifically white people that I call the "golf course community" or the "gentrified" community. It really depends on the location. Mostly upper upper middle class whites. Doctors, lawyers, and so on. To me it has something to do with the fakeness and materialism and stupidity. And it isn't limited to the anti vaccine liberal idiot older hipsters or conservative dumbass disconnected idiots either. It is universal. The kicker is that I am white. And it is mostly apolitical and I see it as mainly a white cultural thing at that level.
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Uh, okay....

I'd say it is tribalist, which is ultimately what underlies racism.

I'd also say it is a bit silly. There are lots of doctors who care about their patients; lawyers motivated by factors other than materialism (e.g. there are actually lawyers who help people, like Legal Aid; or, they believe in the rule of law). Playing golf -- or earning a higher income from a profession -- might alter your perspective, but ultimately it doesn't turn you into a bad person, nor are bad people more likely to become professionals, nor do these professions have any inherent characteristics.

Equally important is that upper income professionals run the gamut of political views and ideologies. There are plenty of doctors and lawyers and upper management who are conservatives, others who are liberal.

So, I'm not really clear on whom you dislike, or why.
 
Visbek said:
Uh, okay....

I'd say it is tribalist, which is ultimately what underlies racism.

I'd also say it is a bit silly. There are lots of doctors who care about their patients; lawyers motivated by factors other than materialism (e.g. there are actually lawyers who help people, like Legal Aid; or, they believe in the rule of law). Playing golf -- or earning a higher income from a profession -- might alter your perspective, but ultimately it doesn't turn you into a bad person, nor are bad people more likely to become professionals, nor do these professions have any inherent characteristics.

Equally important is that upper income professionals run the gamut of political views and ideologies. There are plenty of doctors and lawyers and upper management who are conservatives, others who are liberal.

So, I'm not really clear on whom you dislike, or why.
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It isn't so much that nice people don't exist in those groups. There are just a lot of fake ones too
 
blackjack50 said:
So I have found that I might be a little racist. But I don't know if it counts. It is against a very specific group of people. And i am not sure if I have a valid reason. It is more of a subset though. It is specifically white people that I call the "golf course community" or the "gentrified" community. It really depends on the location. Mostly upper upper middle class whites. Doctors, lawyers, and so on. To me it has something to do with the fakeness and materialism and stupidity. And it isn't limited to the anti vaccine liberal idiot older hipsters or conservative dumbass disconnected idiots either. It is universal. The kicker is that I am white. And it is mostly apolitical and I see it as mainly a white cultural thing at that level.
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its not a judgment based on race alone so no :shrug:
 
I'd say yes, it's a form of racism. You have a predisposition to dislike a group of whites because you believe they're stupid, stuck-up, or some other negative trait applies to them.

I have a friend whose very similar imo. It's very disturbing to hear him go on rants about the "wasps" as he calls them. There's so much animosity in his tone towards them. And what makes it racism to me is that it's not any particular person he knows. It's a very broad idea and assumption in his head lumping a large group of people into the kind of people he hates.
 
I am white and financially successful and I am very proud to be both. No race is attacked more for its' color than the white race. Financial success is also attacked mostly by the media and by hose that are envious I see millions of families of other races having families consisting of way too many children only to complain of being poor. No education, no jobs, no ambition and the attitude that "everyone owes me a living" are engraved in our society ever since LBJ's Great Society or "disaster s it should be called. "Something for nothing" has never worked and never will. I prefer the company of white people because we have much more in common with each other. It's that simple.
 
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