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Have You Ever Experienced Racism?

Have You Ever Experienced Racism?

  • Yes

    Votes: 53 82.8%
  • No

    Votes: 6 9.4%
  • Not Sure

    Votes: 5 7.8%
  • Racism Is a Myth

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    64
Unless you live in the mountains of Utah, pretty much everyone has experienced racism. It knows no race, creed, gender, orientation, or economic status.

Pure racial tolerance is almost non-existent, although several people will claim themselves to be as such.
 
Unless you live in the mountains of Utah, pretty much everyone has experienced racism. It knows no race, creed, gender, orientation, or economic status.

Pure racial tolerance is almost non-existent, although several people will claim themselves to be as such.

I don't like Asian women when they are behind the wheel of a car. Otherwise, I love asian women. But I am not going to lie about it...I am deeply prejudiced against female Asian drivers.
 
Unless you live in the mountains of Utah, pretty much everyone has experienced racism. It knows no race, creed, gender, orientation, or economic status.

Pure racial tolerance is almost non-existent, although several people will claim themselves to be as such.

I lived in Utah for 10 years, and your statement makes me wonder if you've ever been there.
 
Unless you live in the mountains of Utah, pretty much everyone has experienced racism. It knows no race, creed, gender, orientation, or economic status.

Pure racial tolerance is almost non-existent, although several people will claim themselves to be as such.

I fail to see how it's nearly non-existent. Please do elaborate on how those of us who know we are completely tolerant of all races and do not see any one race being above any others actually... aren't.
 
I fail to see how it's nearly non-existent. Please do elaborate on how those of us who know we are completely tolerant of all races and do not see any one race being above any others actually... aren't.

Oh come on...you don't hold a certain deep down, instinctual caution about other races that you don't deal with regularly? Like me and Asian women...I know not all Asian women are bad drivers but my experiences with female asian drivers causes me to have a reaction (usually toes curling painfully) when I see that I am surrounded on at least 2 sides by them on the freeway. Like I literally slow down and hope they go on past me without causing an accident.

I am the same way with Persians when I am making a purchase from one. I have an immediate caution with them because my experience with them has taught me that caution when doing business with a Persian is just smart business because it usually saves you money. It's a certain intolerance and I think all people have it.
 
I'm a white woman who has spent the majority of my life working with minority populations, so I've definitely experienced racism. However, having said that, it's been rare. Most people respond to me with the same openness and respect that I show them. I would say that I think this is generally true for most people.
 
Jallman illustrates my point. It doesn't necessarily have to translate to a "I don't lynch black people so I'm 100% tolerant". It could be subtle things, like his Asian woman driving thing, the fact that I've noticed fellow co-workers in the accounting field are abnormally Jewish, or just watching the black man in the wife-beater loitering outside an ATM a little closer. To say that people absolutely do not see skin whatsoever and make even a sliver of assumption off of it is just fooling yourself, and goes against human nature.

Their actions may not support their thoughts, but the thoughts are there, and that's all it takes to invoke the "race card".
 
Oh come on...you don't hold a certain deep down, instinctual caution about other races that you don't deal with regularly? Like me and Asian women...I know not all Asian women are bad drivers but my experiences with female asian drivers causes me to have a reaction (usually toes curling painfully) when I see that I am surrounded on at least 2 sides by them on the freeway. Like I literally slow down and hope they go on past me without causing an accident.

I am the same way with Persians when I am making a purchase from one. I have an immediate caution with them because my experience with them has taught me that caution when doing business with a Persian is just smart business because it usually saves you money. It's a certain intolerance and I think all people have it.

No, I don't hold any deep down, instinctual caution about any other race. I don't consider one race better than or less than any other.

Now, if you're asking about acknowledging certain stereotypes, that could be different. Stereotypes are around for a reason, because there is sometimes some amount of truth to them. I can't think of any offhand, but regardless... that doesn't necessitate being intolerant of anyone or especially a whole ****ing race or group of people.
 
No, I don't hold any deep down, instinctual caution about any other race. I don't consider one race better than or less than any other.

Now, if you're asking about acknowledging certain stereotypes, that could be different. Stereotypes are around for a reason, because there is sometimes some amount of truth to them. I can't think of any offhand, but regardless... that doesn't necessitate being intolerant of anyone or especially a whole ****ing race or group of people.

Well I don't think Asian women are less than me or any other group. I do hold the strong belief that they should pay higher insurance premiums and that they should be automatically under suspicion if they are involved in an accident.
 
Ok, fair enough. Replace "intolerant" to "prejudice". I was attempting the PC version and was hoping it'd spark more honest debate and not a bunch of "OMG I'M NOT RACIST!".

When I make comments about Jews in accounting or Chinese in engineering, that's racism. Jallman's comment about female Asian drivers is prejudiced. I just don't like to use those two words because it puts people on the defensive and triggers massive amounts of denial as opposed to having rational and open debate about it.
 
Ok, fair enough. Replace "intolerant" to "prejudice". I was attempting the PC version and was hoping it'd spark more honest debate and not a bunch of "OMG I'M NOT RACIST!".

When I make comments about Jews in accounting or Chinese in engineering, that's racism. Jallman's comment about female Asian drivers is prejudiced. I just don't like to use those two words because it puts people on the defensive and triggers massive amounts of denial as opposed to having rational and open debate about it.

No, it's ok. I am pretty ****ing prejudiced about that particular topic.
 
I fail to see how it's nearly non-existent. Please do elaborate on how those of us who know we are completely tolerant of all races and do not see any one race being above any others actually... aren't.

That's because you are not tolerant of all races. Tolerance towards all races with zero prejudices is unnatural. You can say that you hold no bigoted views against anyone but psychologists have proven that usually only the true racist of society make such claims. The people that vehemently disagree and deny that they haven't one bigoted bone in their body is just masking their fears of being exposed. Having negative feelings towards certain people places or things is ingrained in our human nature. It has to be in our psychological human makeup for survival purposes. Humans are not deaf, dumb, and blind animals. :2wave:
 
Have You Ever Experienced Racism? If so, please feel free to share about it here.

I think people would be shocked if they knew the number of peoples who are subjected to racism on a daily basis.

Everyone has experienced racism. Everyone has used SOME form of prejudicial evaluation at some stage of thier life. no race is immune FROM racism. No race is immune to BEING racist.

Hey...looky there...common ground...
 
Ok, fair enough. Replace "intolerant" to "prejudice". I was attempting the PC version and was hoping it'd spark more honest debate and not a bunch of "OMG I'M NOT RACIST!".

When I make comments about Jews in accounting or Chinese in engineering, that's racism. Jallman's comment about female Asian drivers is prejudiced. I just don't like to use those two words because it puts people on the defensive and triggers massive amounts of denial as opposed to having rational and open debate about it.

If I engaged in these behaviors, I would admit to it. But I take issue with being told that I do such things when I know I don't.

Unless you count finding middle eastern men particularly attractive. :lol:

I cannot think of anything negative offhand that I attribute to any race causing my reaction to that race to be clouded by it.
 
That's because you are not tolerant of all races. Tolerance towards all races with zero prejudices is unnatural. You can say that you hold no bigoted views against anyone but psychologists have proven that usually only the true racist of society make such claims. The people that vehemently disagree and deny that they haven't one bigoted bone in their body is just masking their fears of being exposed. Having negative feelings towards certain people places or things is ingrained in our human nature. It has to be in our psychological human makeup for survival purposes. Humans are not deaf, dumb, and blind animals. :2wave:

Oh that's lovely. I know I'm not racist, therefore I'm the most racist person in society. Wonderful logic there.
:roll:
 
Unless you count finding middle eastern men particularly attractive. :lol:

That would count. But I have to disagree and point out that Israeli men tend to be pretty friggin hot.
 
Oh that's lovely. I know I'm not racist, therefore I'm the most racist person in society. Wonderful logic there.
:roll:

I didn't say you were a racist. But you do have natural prejudices just like everyone else.
 
I have never met an Indian man that I found even remotely attractive.

HA!

Okay, so here's the funny thing. I was searching around for a pic of an actor that I consider to be pretty ****ing hot, in no small part due to his middle eastern heritage. I was going to put him on display here as a prime example of WHY I find middle eastern men particularly attractive.

Now, add to that my explanation of my last statement regarding Indian men. I spent two months in India and found the stature and general physique of the Indian men there not necessarily to MY liking. Kind of lanky, I don't find lanky very sexy.

As I'm searching for a pic of my beloved Naveen, I stumble across this tidbit:
son of Nirmala, a psychologist, and Stanley Andrews, a businessman, both Malayali Catholic immigrants from Kerala, India.

LOL

All I know is I didn't see a single man in India who looked like this:

naveen_andrews.jpg


But really, I say "middle eastern" because it encompasses a wide range of folks. It's the darker skin, darker hair, ... bah, **** if I know. But I just find certain physical attributes appealing and in general middle eastern men tend to have them.
 
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Got evicted once in Hewitt Texas. My girlfriend, her 2 kids and me. Nine elder Klansman in retired law enforcement uniforms and white Stetsons came and set up a line of folding chairs outside. There was a white foreman, who led 2 young black men as they put all of our stuff on the lawn in black trash bags.

She had the rent money in hand, yet they wouldn't accept it (I was a starving college student circa 1994). You see, the daughter had been dating a black teenager.

Hewitt is famous for arresting a sleeping Willie Nelson for pot possession. On the other side of I-35 lies the town of Robertson. KKK big time. Look it up.
 
My first boyfriend was East Indian... there are attractive ones out there. You mostly have to look for first or second generation American-Indians because they know the Western criteria for attractiveness.
 
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