The fact that you don't "get" racism is a very good thing. The more you understand it, the less understanding you are.
The more you understand the less understanding you are....wait ... what?NormalityImpaired said:The fact that you don't "get" racism is a very good thing. The more you understand it, the less understanding you are.
Correct me if i'm wrong, byt what you just said there sounded a lot like 'All muslims are with the Taliban, so i am racist towards them'scott RFC said:i myself am racist towards people but only if people of that race have done anything i find offencive such as muslims stereotypically get assoceated with taliban, al-quida and other terrorist orginisations but there are many i have no problem with like what have black people ever done or mexicans?? i dont get people who victimise all races but i do get people who victimise others who are against what they beleive in.
Migration, interracial relationships, and multiculturalism over hundreds of years have made this a moot point.Danny Roberts said:My two cents:
Racism is an evolutionary instinct that was essential to our survival. The concept of distrust of people outside your personal niche was perfectly reasonable back in the time when the next tribe over what just as likely to kill your children and enslave your women as they were to say hello. Infanticide and full on genocide was common place in the ancient world and people had to be racist to survive.
Tribes became nations, skirmishes over cattle became wars but the concept remained the same. If you as a people wanted to survive and thrive a general distrust and dislike of those different from you, and an ability to channel that feeling into the ability to fight or enslave people, was essential to a nation or people growth. Remember: Rome was a fascist state.
Racism is also a useful political tool. Various governments wishing to control or distract a population would target the outsider and this usually resulted in another race. Another race outside of the country was ok but one inside the country is even more useful when your economy is failing, your trying to clamp down on civil liberties or you're trying to unite the unwashed masses (Nazi Germany, Mugabe in Zimbabwe, Jewish Pogroms, the Spanish Inquisition, the crusades).
I kinda feel anyone who doesn't understand why people are racist probably hasn't looked at it very hard because historically, culturally and politically it pretty easy to "get".
I'm pretty sure that can apply to the Nazi scientists...Moeez said:I wonder if there are racist scientists.
Since you know, they know that it's just the melanin count in the person giving them a different colour skin.
Really? So you think everybody is 100% equal?creationis apostate said:I am reporting you for being such an insensitive supremecist.Vicarious Reality said:You can't flat out deny that there are groups of less evolved people.
Hint Quarian [http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Quarian].Sizzle Montyjing said:Sorry, but what's a quarian?Patrick Hayes said:Are you a quarian sympathizer, you piece of fishdog shit?I'm not racist and i have no idea where you got that impression from.
And how did you TRIPLE POST!?
and i'm pretty sure specieism is that of different species, you do know that white people and black people are still human, right?
I sort of ignored that bit and why the fuck are you being so aggresive!?
Chill out.