Poll: Does being racist instantly make you a bad person?
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Our opinions can never make us bad persons only our actions can, and even then its a matter of perspective.
If any of my friends thought people of another color were jerks I wouldnt care much. I judge them on how they treat me and my other friends, their actions. If they dressed up in white cloth and lynched people of another color we'd have a problem though. Bad Opinions are ok, Bad actions are not.
If any of my friends thought people of another color were jerks I wouldnt care much. I judge them on how they treat me and my other friends, their actions. If they dressed up in white cloth and lynched people of another color we'd have a problem though. Bad Opinions are ok, Bad actions are not.
Wait why has no one corrected this person on what a neo-nazi is? Sorry bu I don't think you know what that means. A neo-nazi isn't someone who rejects the ideas of the nazi party it mens, like you mentioned "new nazi" but thats only because the old nazi paty was dead so the neo nazi party rose. A neo nazi still holds the belief that the white race is superiour in all forms and therefore all other races are unfit.Le_Lisra said:
What its not is that made up definition that you gave. You may believe in what you say you believe but that doesn't make you a neo nazi and you really shouldn't label yourself as such
Also neo nazis don't hate hitlerlike you claim.
Oh dear, just things were settling down...technoted said:
According to Wiki, teh source of all knowledge, hating a gender as a whole is sexism. I most certainly wouldn't have a boyfriend if I were sexist :')
As long as you give me that DDKR badge...Patrick_and_the_ricks said:Group hug?Tipsy Giant said:I take it rather personally when someone attacks asian men for no reason and I use the language I deem appropriate.EmileeElectro said:/: I'm stubborn. Stupidly stubborn. He insulted me first, so he can apologise first, which I will happily accept, and then I'll gladly apologise back.Patrick_and_the_ricks said:Its okay, but you may wish to delete your old posts or just appologise to said person. We all have different ideas and thoughts. Trying to change anothers, no matter how much we dislike it, can be pretty pointless at times. Anyway just talk it out. I would hate to see two people get in trouble, or even banned for something so silly.EmileeElectro said:Sorry, I don't usually insult people. I usually just laugh it off, but when some new guy comes along and calls me a retard and a ****, it makes me so angry. That's why I try not resort to childish insults such as '****.'
I have done that, and anything else it says to me shall be ignored. (should have done that from start actually haha. Damn my fiery temper)
I have never really had a problem expressing myself on this forum before but if you feel this is not ok on here I shall stop commenting on this issue.
I was only trying to convey the passion I have for stopping ignorance in it's tracks and calling it out rather than censoring myself to fit into the sheep pen.
Not so much snide comment as one made in Jest, but I lost my faith in Wikipedia after it told me Ginger people suffered from a contagious disease and I tried to bury the small children next door under the shed till I could buy proper quarentine gear.EmileeElectro said:
Really because you sound like the racist who claims "I have tons of black friends." To make the point that you don't like the majority of men without having met the majority of men could definitly qualify you to join the sexism club.EmileeElectro said:
LOL, wut? I love Stephen Fry's quote about it:technoted said:
"I like to find out that I died, and that I'm currently in a ballet in China, and all the other very accurate and important things that Wikipedia brings us all."
"Evil" is being thrown around much too lightly.
This [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Coulter] is bad. She is an ignorant, intolerant *****.
This [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Jones] is evil. He made mothers squirt cyanide into their babies' mouths.
Bad people are assholes and fairly common. Evil people are barely-human psychopaths and quite uncommon.
This [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Coulter] is bad. She is an ignorant, intolerant *****.
This [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Jones] is evil. He made mothers squirt cyanide into their babies' mouths.
Bad people are assholes and fairly common. Evil people are barely-human psychopaths and quite uncommon.
Well, they'd certainly have a hell of a lot of trouble being friends with me, seeing as the vast majority of my friends and the woman I'm in a relationship with are not the same colour as me, which kind of negates the point of the question in my case. Presumably, I couldn't remain friends with a racist because they wouldn't want to be friends with me on the grounds that I'm in an interracial relationship.
Do I think racists are inherently bad people? Well, to a degree, it depends. The vast majority of people I've encountered who harbour racist feelings do so without consciously realising it, because they were raised a certain way, in a time when latent racism was the norm in my country. This is sort of the difference between active racism and passive racism.
In my experience, most racism is passive; things like negative stereotyping or a lack of cultural awareness. Passive racism means these people won't actively avoid associating with people based on their colour, and they may even have a few friends of different races, but they still have an ingrained way of thinking that affects how they interact with people of a different ethnicity, particularly strangers. This sort of racism is really institutionalised in society, but that doesn't mean people who feel it are consciously hateful. In fact, they usually think they're tolerant, or trying to be; they just don't know any better. These people can probably change and grow out of that ignorance.
Active racists, however, are people who have deliberately made the choice to believe that either their race is superior, or at the very least that race is and should be a dividing barrier in society, and that people of different races cannot truly be friends. This is a belief that is fundamental to their world view, and it benefits them to see the world this way. Those people, I could not be friends with. I wouldn't want to be friends with them, because they would be a negative and destructive influence on my life and the people around me.
That filter of race is so intrinsic to how they see the world that they can't turn it off, and they would not be able to refrain from judging me, my partner or my friends based on their ideology. I don't want that kind of person in my life.
Do I think racists are inherently bad people? Well, to a degree, it depends. The vast majority of people I've encountered who harbour racist feelings do so without consciously realising it, because they were raised a certain way, in a time when latent racism was the norm in my country. This is sort of the difference between active racism and passive racism.
In my experience, most racism is passive; things like negative stereotyping or a lack of cultural awareness. Passive racism means these people won't actively avoid associating with people based on their colour, and they may even have a few friends of different races, but they still have an ingrained way of thinking that affects how they interact with people of a different ethnicity, particularly strangers. This sort of racism is really institutionalised in society, but that doesn't mean people who feel it are consciously hateful. In fact, they usually think they're tolerant, or trying to be; they just don't know any better. These people can probably change and grow out of that ignorance.
Active racists, however, are people who have deliberately made the choice to believe that either their race is superior, or at the very least that race is and should be a dividing barrier in society, and that people of different races cannot truly be friends. This is a belief that is fundamental to their world view, and it benefits them to see the world this way. Those people, I could not be friends with. I wouldn't want to be friends with them, because they would be a negative and destructive influence on my life and the people around me.
That filter of race is so intrinsic to how they see the world that they can't turn it off, and they would not be able to refrain from judging me, my partner or my friends based on their ideology. I don't want that kind of person in my life.
...Do you really want to know what I think on that subject? If not, then I'll just call them ignorant.
