I don't 'get' Racism...

Recommended Videos

Extravagance

New member
Mar 23, 2011
102
0
0
"There are people who look different to me in terms of skin colour. They are scary/a threat/a lesser person because of this. Therefore, I hate them." Pretty much sums it up. No it doesnt make any sense, but then it's really just the playground bully in much bigger terms. You are different, and therefore picked on. Same happens to shorter people, ginger-haired people, people from a different country or who speak a different language, fatter or thinner people, gay men, lesbian women....the list is endless. You are different, therefore I hate you.
 

Danny Roberts

New member
Jul 10, 2011
18
0
0
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.
The more you understand the less understanding you are....wait ... what?
 

Ciaran Lunt

New member
Mar 25, 2010
51
0
0
comes from genetics you are a set of genes and all species that survive have a series of genes saying make all your genes prosper. this simply put is the self preservation instinct. This extends to your family and is why those bonds are so instinctive your sisters genes will be 99.9% the same this gets lessened relationships become more distant. although the difference between a black and white person are insignificant (increased melanin production and a tenancy to deal with aids better.) it seems significant the mind tells you that he has less genes in common with you and therefore is less protected by the protect your genes instinct as his are different(and hence worse. he is however human so is directly competing against you so unlike a rabbit who's life does not affect yours he is competition and so they must be destroyed as it hinders the multiplication of your own genes
 

Ciaran Lunt

New member
Mar 25, 2010
51
0
0
the worrying thing is that you teach this instinct genecticly jew and "the west"(germans)genes were exactly the same pool 2000 years before ww2 and yet even though they haven'tgot a diffrent genetic set the racism was created they dont have to be different you have to think they're different
 

Guitarmasterx7

Day Pig
Mar 16, 2009
3,872
0
0
Racism isn't really as black and white (no pun intended) as a lot of people think it is. Very few people will actually categorize themselves as "racist."

I don't have time to go too in depth but the cliffnotes version is
is a guy in a suit.

is an example of a stereotype which is frequently reinforced

I'm literally running out the door right now so I'll leave you to fill in how various confusion can occur with differentiation and communication about the subject on your own.
 

scott RFC

New member
Jul 14, 2011
2
0
0
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.
 

Sizzle Montyjing

Pronouns - Slam/Slammed/Slammin'
Apr 5, 2011
2,213
0
0
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.
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'
That is what i read.
No forms of Racism are accetable.
 

sdafdfhrye3245

New member
Sep 30, 2008
307
0
0
It's because people hate different, don't believe me? Look at each time YouTube has changed it's look, mass hate.
 

Moeez

New member
May 28, 2009
603
0
0
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.
 

Moeez

New member
May 28, 2009
603
0
0
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".
Migration, interracial relationships, and multiculturalism over hundreds of years have made this a moot point.
 

SinisterGehe

New member
May 19, 2009
1,456
0
0
Of course you can't understand because it is completely illogical way of thinking, racism doesn't exist since there is no other human race, the word is way misleading for its purpose. Humans only discriminate other because of their origin, this has a logic behind it, it is a primitive instinct to protect you herd from outsiders genes, keeping you DNA as the dominating factor and therefor securing you offspring.

Well, according to a magazine I read while sitting at the doctor's lobby, most racist people have generally worse education and parenting, also cultural factors are important, for an example: Japanese are generally extremely racist towards foreign people on their soil also China and North Korea, also it is common in India's religious communities, and in some African areas black people are really racist towards White people just like Jamaica, parts of the population think that white men do not deserve help or pity, that is why all the tourist areas are usually closed with gates.

I do not understand what people are supposed to achieve with racism now days, I understand if you do not want immigrants to move to your country (That includes all immigrants including those from western countries) it makes sense you want to keep your country as your own, makes sense. But what I can not understand at all is the type of racism in which people think other people are lesser beings, far as I know they are still humans.

I wish racism and discrimination would go away, but I the image I have of humanity keeps proving me that discrimination will not disappear, it will just move it's focus, there will be discrimination long as people are allowed to form their own opinion about people,

Also: something I can not stand at all is when people say only white people can be racist, that has been proven wrong LONG AGO, everyone got a seed of discrimination in them, may it be towards someone who plays some other class in a videogame or people who study some other subject that you.
 

Sizzle Montyjing

Pronouns - Slam/Slammed/Slammin'
Apr 5, 2011
2,213
0
0
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.
I'm pretty sure that can apply to the Nazi scientists...
 

SammiYin

New member
Mar 15, 2010
538
0
0
creationis apostate said:
Vicarious Reality said:
You can't flat out deny that there are groups of less evolved people.
I am reporting you for being such an insensitive supremecist.
Really? So you think everybody is 100% equal?
I wish I had your blind idealism.

OT: Racism is retarded and fuelled by retarded people, but the whole concept of "racism" is too broad, don't think people should bother giving aid to africa? Racist. You dislike someone of a different skin colour? Racist. You laugh at a racist joke? Racist.

Lighten the fuck up people.
 

Caliostro

Headhunter
Jan 23, 2008
3,253
0
0
Sizzle Montyjing said:
Patrick Hayes said:
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?
Are you a quarian sympathizer, you piece of fishdog shit?
Sorry, but what's a quarian?
I sort of ignored that bit and why the fuck are you being so aggresive!?
Chill out.
Hint Quarian [http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Quarian].

He's trying to be funny. Not very successfully, but still...