Im not a racist but im just saying when ever someone tells me a white joke i laugh but when a black guy hears a black joke they get all up in my grill (n' stuff)
Racist against....whites?
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This whole thread is based on the fraudulent premise that it is actually socially acceptable for American non-whites to be racist.
It's not.
If you're a person with any kind of power, racist stuff is just as socially unacceptable as it is for a white person. Look at how much everyone scrutinized every comment made by Obama or Sotomayor for signs of racial bias, for example.
Americans just casually ignore racism when it comes from non-whites they perceive as powerless because, well, they think it doesn't matter because, y'know, they're powerless. Society is all about ignoring the powerless. (Now, individually powerless whites still get a wary eye because they have the numbers to be a dangerous mass movement.)
-- Alex
It's not.
If you're a person with any kind of power, racist stuff is just as socially unacceptable as it is for a white person. Look at how much everyone scrutinized every comment made by Obama or Sotomayor for signs of racial bias, for example.
Americans just casually ignore racism when it comes from non-whites they perceive as powerless because, well, they think it doesn't matter because, y'know, they're powerless. Society is all about ignoring the powerless. (Now, individually powerless whites still get a wary eye because they have the numbers to be a dangerous mass movement.)
-- Alex
Not entirely true. The AMERICAN whites oppressed those people, but now all whites are being racism-ed. So all the European whites have to put up with "bird-shit" and "white bread"Armored Prayer said:
Oh god, really? I was just about to get typing when I saw Mr P above me say:
And there we have it. There don't need to be five more pages of people missing the point, the point being that the OP is wrong, and at this point you're just stirring the pot.Alex_P said:
No, white people just enslaved other white people for a longer period of time, before enslaving a black person ever came into the picture.thewerebuffalo said:
Probably because the segregation only ended about 50 years ago, while slavery and racism were rampant for hundreds of years. Many of the arguments from white people I know basically boil down to: "Oh, that's all in the past and we don't agree with it and have apologized for it, so you're not allowed to be mad about it anymore." I think it's rather stupid.
Maybe the whole slavery thing and the many years of racism could have had something to do with it? Other than that, I got nothing.ninonybox360 said:
This is basically the basis for the whole thing, but I would vote to wait a couple of generations so there's no-one around who's parents were personally involved in the whole slavery thing, then perhaps it would be easier to get over the whole thing - less real stigma, more a 'traditional' thing. Of course, that could be equally difficult to get over, but meh...Xojins said:
Yeah, but, see, everyone's just going to read the first dozen posts and then add their own one-liner to the thread without reading it anyway, and the circlejerk of I-don't-really-get-it-but-I-have-an-opinion will continue until people get bored and the thread falls off the front page and then two weeks later someone -- who may well be someone who posted to this thread already -- starts another thread based on the same misconception. Just like those political correctness threads that are full of people who don't realize that "political correctness" is a constructed strawman and not a real social movement.ChromeAlchemist said:
And I will be sad.
-- Alex
Everything you say here is so very true, I hate the whole women can bash men but men cant bash woman, its complete bullshit! It goes the same way for blacks to white and vise-versa.somedude98 said:
The whole world should learn to take a fucking joke!
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I'm almost certain this has been pointed out but ... racism is racism. Doesn't matter who it's from and directed to. That we treated black people poorly in the past is NO justification for us to be treated poorly now. If the bastards who did the mis-treatment are still alive, by all means, punish them as they deserve.thewerebuffalo said:
Something that's always kinda bothered me. When people talk about the past (slavery) they always refer to it as racism. That isn't technically correct. Rather than being racist, it was more the standard for a rich white man to own several slaves or so. Most of the people during that time were raised to think that having a slave was okay, that there was nothing wrong with it. And there wasn't anything wrong with it really, not racially anyway. The only thing that was truly wrong with slavery was the fact that the slaves were denied there basic human rights. Slavery was never racist, it was just wrong.
Rather, racism didn't really show up until around the 50's I think? Someone correct me if I'm wrong please. Anyways, slavery had long since been abolished by this time, and tensions were beginning to rise. Because slavery had been abolished, blacks were to be considered equal; this simply did not compute with many white people. They had been raised to think that black people (i.e. slaves) were below them. So the white people that were in government that believed that black people had no rights did their best to make sure that it stayed that way. Needless to say that that didn't work out very well. With Sit-Ins, Bus Boycotts, and other civil rights actions, along with leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcom X, black people began gaining rights.
Racism never really came into light until black's basic rights as Americans were denied. The movements and actions to keep black people down are racist. Not the actions of taking them from their homeland and putting them to work. That's just pure human indecency, but was the standard at the time. So technically, racism hasn't really been around for as long as people suspect. That's my view anyways (duh...)
Rather, racism didn't really show up until around the 50's I think? Someone correct me if I'm wrong please. Anyways, slavery had long since been abolished by this time, and tensions were beginning to rise. Because slavery had been abolished, blacks were to be considered equal; this simply did not compute with many white people. They had been raised to think that black people (i.e. slaves) were below them. So the white people that were in government that believed that black people had no rights did their best to make sure that it stayed that way. Needless to say that that didn't work out very well. With Sit-Ins, Bus Boycotts, and other civil rights actions, along with leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcom X, black people began gaining rights.
Racism never really came into light until black's basic rights as Americans were denied. The movements and actions to keep black people down are racist. Not the actions of taking them from their homeland and putting them to work. That's just pure human indecency, but was the standard at the time. So technically, racism hasn't really been around for as long as people suspect. That's my view anyways (duh...)