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Is everyone a little bit racist?

Is everyone a little bit racist?


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Y'all...I spend a significant amount of time in inner city areas for my job. And, in June, I spent a week in Camden, NJ, with my friend Sam...who's black.

Trust me when I say that my friend Sam has more negative racial views about black people he doesn't know than I do. I never really realized that until we were working in the hood together. Is that racism?

I think we all have preconceived biases.
 
Call it what you want sterotyping etc all those things are the seed of racism. Get carried away with your sterotypes, race profiling or what ever and it is just a short trip to full blown rascim.

Sterotypes are just that because they have some basis in fact.
Why deny it?

I will never become a full blown racist who thinks her race is superior but i'd be lying if i didn't say i have some sort of preconcieved ideas and bias.
 
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to be completely colorblind one would have to be infinitely stupid

while there are a lot of stupid people i would say less than 1% possess the required degree of stupidity. and stupidity alone wouldn't be sufficient - they would have to be liberals on top of it.

by the way you can totally be good friends ( because you like them, not for any twisted reason ) with black people and be very prejudiced at the same time.

you can also be a good husband and very sexist at the same time. there is absolutely no contradiction here.

in fact i would even say that i can be ( in fact i am ) racist, sexist and not a bigot at the same time. but i wouldn't hope for you to understand that.
 
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Y'all...I spend a significant amount of time in inner city areas for my job. And, in June, I spent a week in Camden, NJ, with my friend Sam...who's black.

Trust me when I say that my friend Sam has more negative racial views about black people he doesn't know than I do. I never really realized that until we were working in the hood together. Is that racism?

I think we all have preconceived biases.

If Jesse Jackson spent 2 weeks in Camden, he'd leave wearing a sheet and hood.

That place is enough to make a racist out of anyone.
 
Kill Niggers. Whitey enslaved my grandma 150 years ago. Jfuh is a chink. Tashah is a Kike....and well Jallman....we don't know what Jallman is so we'll just save the noose for later. Everyone is racist to some degree.

I gave ya a big ol' "Thanks" on that one Hatuey.

But I would point out that if Captain America wrote "Kill ******'s" (which I would never do) I would get penalty points up the wazooo... :rofl
 
Kill Niggers. Whitey enslaved my grandma 150 years ago. Jfuh is a chink. Tashah is a Kike....and well Jallman....we don't know what Jallman is so we'll just save the noose for later. Everyone is racist to some degree.

Bull****. I know way to many people like myself who don't have a racist bone in their body.

Again people are confusing "racism" with different forms of "bigotry."

Racism is always bigotry, bigotry is not always racism, not even close.
 
Bull****. I know way to many people like myself who don't have a racist bone in their body.

Again people are confusing "racism" with different forms of "bigotry."

Racism is always bigotry, bigotry is not always racism, not even close.

I dunno, dude. I know alotta people that hate someone, for some reason, or another.
 
I dunno, dude. I know alotta people that hate someone, for some reason, or another.

Exactly, and it probably is for something other than race. That is bigotry, not racism.

With so many good reasons to hate someone, why choose race? :lol:
 
I have great friends so we joke around about race and give each other a hard time occasionally(just like all guys do) about religion, ethnicity, etc. I have a very diverse group of friends and we know each others limitations, personalities, and friendship chemistry. Does that make me racist?
 
I have great friends so we joke around about race and give each other a hard time occasionally(just like all guys do) about religion, ethnicity, etc. I have a very diverse group of friends and we know each others limitations, personalities, and friendship chemistry. Does that make me racist?

Yes. You are a horrible person. :mrgreen:
 
I have great friends so we joke around about race and give each other a hard time occasionally(just like all guys do) about religion, ethnicity, etc. I have a very diverse group of friends and we know each others limitations, personalities, and friendship chemistry. Does that make me racist?

I do that all the time so no.
You know you are around close friends when you can joke about race/religion/sexuality etc. and not get a gasp as a result.
Me and my Jewish friends have a blast, they love ribbing Islam and vice versa. Same with my Christian friends.
 
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I have a thought on this topic that I have never seen anyone else put forward, so I’ll give it a go.

I suspect that a certain bit of what we call racism, is an instinctual aversion to oth3er groups that look different, and that it arises as a crude survival mechanism.

For whatever reason, Humans seem to be particularly susceptible to epidemics, so an instinct that enforces caution when encountering new groups might be a sort of natural quarantine procedure.

That is, if another tribe looks different, so Nature might well reason, it might be because they are sick, and avoiding them would be prudent.

If this were to be found to be true, spontaneous Racism, which I think quite real, could be addressed as a phobia, rather than a moral failing, hopefully with superior results.
 
Actually I saw the reverse. I saw happy go lucky people come in the army and leave full blown racists. I know why some of it happens, but far to much is just typical army bull****.
it certainly reinforced my brother's racism.
 
Actually I saw the reverse. I saw happy go lucky people come in the army and leave full blown racists. I know why some of it happens, but far to much is just typical army bull****.


Most people who come into the military are 17/18 years old. Maybe these days they do not take 17 year olds but they did in the 70's. At that age most young people really do not have their own valid opinion simply due to limited life experience. You may be coming in from the inner city area and the only experience you have is you are oppressed. Or the suburbs and you cannot understand why some dislike you just because you are white.

So I would say the transfer of culture and ideas in the military is about equal. Some come in happy go lucky and become racists and vice versa because this is the first time they have been in close contact with different minded groups of people. We had a lot of racism in the military when I was in. We had actual race riots on one of our aircraft carriers. We almost had a riot on the Carrier that I was on.

But even at that many of us learned to get along. Shed old stereo types. And then there are of course those who did not shed old stereo types or acquired new negative opinions.

Moe
 
I generally expect Asians I meet to be more intelligent, and I have rarely been disappointed.
 
I gave ya a big ol' "Thanks" on that one Hatuey.

But I would point out that if Captain America wrote "Kill ******'s" (which I would never do) I would get penalty points up the wazooo... :rofl

:p It's kind of hard to call me a racist and give me penalty points if I say niggers, whitey, kike and chink in the same sentence. :p. They are just words to illustrate a point.
 
When it comes to race a just think people think about it the wrong way.Its this constant need everyone has to say "black people do this" "asians do that".People who think they are anything but racist often make sweeping generalisations of a whole race of people Bill Maher does it often for example.

If you just treat people more as individuals it makes alot of difference.
 
When it comes to race a just think people think about it the wrong way.Its this constant need everyone has to say "black people do this" "asians do that".People who think they are anything but racist often make sweeping generalisations of a whole race of people Bill Maher does it often for example.

If you just treat people more as individuals it makes alot of difference.

You are essentially saying not to correlate anything with anything else. Ignoring observations because they aren't PC doesn't make much sense to me.
 
You are essentially saying not to correlate anything with anything else. Ignoring observations because they aren't PC doesn't make much sense to me.

No its the absolutism im talking about.The kind of attempt often in goodwill to make massive amounts of people fall into one category.
 
No its the absolutism im talking about.The kind of attempt often in goodwill to make massive amounts of people fall into one category.

But massive amounts of people DO fall into one category. Massive amounts of black people are democrats. Obviously not every black person is a democrat, but the overwhelming majority are, so upon meeting a black person, one could assume they are a democrat until receiving evidence to the contrary.

To rephrase, if forced to guess the political affiliations of 100 black people, the person who assumes that they are all Democrats will be accurate more often than the person who assumes the chances are fifty-fifty for each. In this way, the stereotype serves a function.
 
Everyone has biases.
Nowadays in America people have them less as they apply to other people, but I still believe that it's inevitable that based on experiences and what not, at first glance you would view someone of one group slightly better than others. I can't produce it right now, but it was either in Newsweek or Reader's Digest that there was a study confirming this. Now, one could argue that as time goes on these will become less prevalent, but I think it's human nature to differentiate to an extent, even if it's a very small extent. The human brains works by organizing things into groups and sub groups, and not just as a random mass of data.
 
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Everyone isn't racist.

However.

I believe everyone is prejudice to some degree.

Sometimes its against a race (and as Riv said, could be positive or negative)

Sometimes its against a sex

Sometimes its against an economic class

Sometimes its against a age group

Sometimes its against a social identity (geeks, jocks, preps, etc)

Sometimes its against a location (God damn philly fans)

I can go on and on.

Humans are creatures that to a certain extent exist due to a community or group think. Stereotypes, preconceived notions, are almost instinctual. We do it for schools, sports teams, politics, cities, groups, etc. Its inherent in us. You can get seething hate and violence happening by putting a few drunken Michigan and Ohio State fans in a small room together, are we so horribly surprised it may happen with two people of different races.

I'm not saying its right, or its acceptable, but to a degree everyone is prejudice in some way or form, its just that as a society certain prejudices have became more "Acceptable". But its human nature to stereotype and judge based off groupings
 
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