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How many racists do you know- friends with –associate with – interact with? And who i

How many racists do you know- friends with –associate with – interact with? And who i

  • 1 - 5

    Votes: 11 61.1%
  • 5-10

    Votes: 1 5.6%
  • 10-20

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • A lot more than 20

    Votes: 4 22.2%
  • Is Obama to blame?

    Votes: 1 5.6%
  • Is the UN at fault?

    Votes: 1 5.6%
  • Is Multiculturalism the cause?

    Votes: 1 5.6%
  • Darn Liberals screwed it up.

    Votes: 2 11.1%

  • Total voters
    18
Re: How many racists do you know- friends with –associate with – interact with? And w

How many racists do you know- friends with –associate with – interact with? And who is to blame?



I don't think I have any. I no longer work and so can choose with whom I hang. Some years ago I met a new friend. I noticed some attitudes in her that made me uncomfortable. Two things happened, she made a series of Pollack jokes, rather demeaning ones, and then later referred to a Chinese woman as "a chink bitch"

I was married to a wonder Canadian Chinese woman and ma half Polish. Our "friendship" ended there.
 
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Doesn't matter what language if it's not the one I speak.

Depends upon the circumstances, group setting, multiple languages spoken.Nothing that I am going to get upset about.
 
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I would say 1-5. I can think about about 2 guys I know off of the top of my head who would do that thing where all of the sudden they are whispering some ****ed up comment that no one wants to hear.
 
Re: How many racists do you know- friends with –associate with – interact with? And w

Two dozen at least. I also have a below average size circle of acquaintances/co-workers. My personal experience is what makes the idea of a color-blind society in the present day so laughable.
 
Re: How many racists do you know- friends with –associate with – interact with? And w

There isn't an option for zero. I don't knowingly associate with any racists, if I find someone that I know is a racist, I stop associating with them. Bad poll.
 
Re: How many racists do you know- friends with –associate with – interact with? And w

There isn't an option for zero. I don't knowingly associate with any racists, if I find someone that I know is a racist, I stop associating with them. Bad poll.

I will remember that for the next poll where it may apply.
Thank you for pointing that out. It should have been 0 -5.
 
Re: How many racists do you know- friends with –associate with – interact with? And w

Where I live is the tradional home of the klan in my state. People here are sometimes breathtakingly racist, and I ma used to it because I was raised here by them. No, they were racist long before Obama or the UN or whatever, except ignorance.

my town is certainly in the running. however, it has improved immensely. the last time the klan turned up to march and give a speech, the whole town showed up to protest their idiocy.

as for how many racists i know, i do know a few. mostly, it is just people of older generations, and they generally don't feel comfortable expressing those sentiments in public.
 
Re: How many racists do you know- friends with –associate with – interact with? And w

How many dumbasses do you know?
 
Re: How many racists do you know- friends with –associate with – interact with? And w

I know people who discriminate, who expect certain behavior based on skin color or other preconceived notion.
 
Re: How many racists do you know- friends with –associate with – interact with? And w

I know people who discriminate, who expect certain behavior based on skin color or other preconceived notion.

So do I - some of them even use that nonsense to call for (or to measure) diversity. ;)
 
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Everyone seems like they have a bit of racism in them.


Even my autocorrect who just corrected racism to tacos. Although I will give it the benefit of doubt that I probably typed tacism.
 
Re: How many racists do you know- friends with –associate with – interact with? And w

How many racists do you know- friends with –associate with – interact with? And who is to blame?

I think everyone is a sort of racist in one way or another and we arent the only ones, people from other countries are somewhat racist too.

I used to think that there is less of it nowadays but then I see all the anti-Muslim threads here and it seems it just shifted to another.
 
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How many racists do you know- friends with –associate with – interact with? And who is to blame?

I assosciate in a general sense with one elderly dogmatic rascist out of repect for his wife and because he has offered me his friendship.

In addition, I am friends with, or related to several "classists" (two social conservatives, one "ivory towered" liberal) who though not rascist, take a very dim, but polite view of anybody, regardless of race, who is beneath their socio economic class.

Though not "rascist", these people do heavily assosciate certain races with the "lower classes"- and then presume that they must be of low intelligence and be from a culture of low value etc.
 
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I did find some racism in the Army. However, I found a lot more living in Baltimore. The black people hated the white people, and the other way around. No reason at all.

Oh, there are reasons. They're just far more complex than you could understand. Muslims, Jews and Christians all hate each other and once again, the reasons are palpable if one studies history.
 
Re: How many racists do you know- friends with –associate with – interact with? And w

How many racists do you know- friends with –associate with – interact with? And who is to blame?

I know one. He's 86 years old. Name's John. His parents came to the United States from Russia when they were very young. Dad never learned to speak English after living here for close to 70 years. Not sure if they were citizens. John is such an old fool that now, I just roll my eyes. When he was younger, I regularly took him to task. When he was in his 50's, I ordered him out of my car in Downtown Chicago telling him to take his bigoted, racist comments on the road. I circled the block and came back for him. One of those moments I rather regret...picking him back up, that is. ;)

He's an ignorant idiot. About most everything.
 
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Some people say it's mostly older people who are racist, but I have seen 20 somethings who are racist/prejudice. My friend is about 28, and when I knew him, he refused to eat at establishments that were mostly African American. I never understood why. Did he think the establishment would be less clean? Did he think that they didn't know how to cook food or wash dishes properly? I'll never know, but he moved to Texas. His family and parents were the same way.
 
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I live in multicultural south central Texas and hate it when people speak a foreign language in front of me. It's ****ing rude.

Why is it rude? People speak foreign languages in front of me all the time, and I don't care. When my friend talks to her mom on the phone, they speak Italian. I heard people talking in German the other day... I never feel offended when somebody uses another language other than english. :shrug:
 
Re: How many racists do you know- friends with –associate with – interact with? And w

This is my country...learn English.

Do you ever plan on traveling outside of the US for vacation or anything.... lol
 
Re: How many racists do you know- friends with –associate with – interact with? And w

We have 2 Official Languages up here, English & French, unofficial is Newfanese.. Some get all bent out f shape if the can has the French side out. They have 1st world idiotic problems.

Some countries have 20+ officially recognized languages.
 
Re: How many racists do you know- friends with –associate with – interact with? And w

Why is it rude? People speak foreign languages in front of me all the time, and I don't care. When my friend talks to her mom on the phone, they speak Italian. I heard people talking in German the other day... I never feel offended when somebody uses another language other than english. :shrug:

I'm taking about a situation where there's 3 people and I'm the odd man out. [often in a business environment]

English, especially for business purposes, is the universal language.
 
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