Worst Racism You've Encountered

[Homo Carnivorous]

Racism is funny. Many of the people I hang out with are using terrible racist slurs against eachother. This way racism looses its sting. Example. Being in scandinavia and all you can tell most of us are white as pigs. I bounced at a bar that had a black inhouse sound tech. A great guy who was loved by everybody and casually called '******'. He didnt mind. He knew everybody loved him because it was obvious. In turn he called us 'pinky', 'potatoe', 'whitie' etc. Same thing with those of middle eastern decent. 'sand ******' 'paki' and they retaliated in full.

Outsiders suffering from PC were mortified. But we all thought it was well funny.

/pig

 

[Aetera]

There was a lot of racism in my college town. Both ways. Most of the townies were black, but most of the school was white. There were also quite a few entitled feeling, sheltered white kids from families with money at the $40,000 a year private college that were prejudiced against anyone that wasn't also white and wealthy.

 

[Thaluikhain]

As a white individual who believes that racism against black people has ended forever and ever, I feel qualified to say how hard it is to be white. I mean, there's so much racism against us nowadays that it's unfair.
You have black history month and black pride, but when me and a couple of friends try to have a pro-white movement, dressing up in pointy hats and bedsheets, suddenly we are the racist ones!
On top of that, once, I noticed a black person getting away with being racist to a white person. Clearly this is entirely the wrong way round! I mean, I'm just going to randomly ascert that this happens on a much larger scale and ignore all examples of white people getting away with being racist against blacks (because, as we know, racism against their ilk has ended forever and ever).
Of course, this institutionalised racism is everywhere, not only are us white folk not allowed to say '******' (even though we invented the blasted insult) but we aren't even allowed to dominate society and discriminate against lesser races. Honestly! It's political correctness gone mad!

Well played.

 

[amucha98]

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[yndsu]

A few days ago I somehow stumbled across some forums for a baptist church. yeah, that was pretty horrible, in the racism department but also in, like, every other department ever! That was really a saddening experience.

It has to be the Westboro Baptist Church.
Yeah, those guys are racist, xenophobic and all the bad qualities
you can think of one person having.
And sadly they are one of the most vocal churches.
Going around and giving all the christians a very bad name.

Unbelievably, it wasn't WBC. Which just makes it all the sadder, I suppose :S That there are more than one insane church, I mean.

That is actually really hard to believe that there are churches as bad as WBC.
Or more like that is something i dont want to believe. But at the same time it is not
too surprising sadly.

 

[Sikachu]

Most of my ex-flatmates in Calgary were either slightly or full-blown racist, the worst of whom was mulatto himself. I can't stand racism, even if it's in jest, so at times that was a particularly difficult place to tolerate.

"was mulatto himself"

"I can't stand racism"

*shakes head, walks away*

Mulatto's a racist term? Didn't know that. It was what he referred to himself as.

...In hindsight it makes sense.

For the record, is there a non-racist term to describe a person who's half-white?

Generally you'd say 'mixed race', though that's not as specific as half-white. The weird thing is, I think you should be perfectly fine saying 'mulatto'. You don't think of it as racist, clearly no-one in your community finds it offensive (least of all the person it refers to) and there is no harm. Forcing you to think about what you're saying, on the other hand, makes it a sensitive issue that makes a difference between you and your friend more pronounced, rather than casual like the difference in hair colour or height.

 

[y1fella]

So every so often the dreaded topic of race will crop up on these forums, and I had an interesting idea.

Have you personally experienced racism? Have other people in your vicinity been racist around you? And what is the worst racism you have been witness, party or receiver to?

For me, it was while working in my local Waitrose supermarket, I was in the soup aisle, and an elderly couple were making their way down the aisle. The husband stopped the trolley to get some Ainsley Harriot soup, and the wife said (not making this up) in the middle of the aisle:

'We don't want any of that nasty ****** soup.'

We were alone in the aisle, but the casual way it was said, the throwaway use of a word I can barely even use when quoting someone else in context, the very normal setting. I have never been quite so shocked by something before. Quite a few of my year mates (I struggle to call them friends) were also very casually racist, but it was never quite the same as this.

I know my story is kind of tame to start it off but I'm a middle class white boy. So let's hear yours.

I feel ashamed to say this but some times racism is justified.
I live in Australia and there is a reputation over here aboriginals are a pack of drunk petrol sniffing morons.
Until recently I thought that was an incredibly unfair view. I now a few people of mixed aboriginal descent and there very friendly. Cocky as hell maybe but definitely good people.
So for, reasons irrelevant here, I had to go to Perth on the other side of Australia, this one time.
Now for the uneducated In Australia 90% of Australia population lives it on the east coast. the other five percent live on the southern and northern most coast, four percent can be found on the south west coast and the final one percent live in the middle of nowhere across the center of Australia.
In the middle of Australia you meet all sorts of nasty characters. like that movie wolf creek is only an exaggeration as to how creepy these people are. So I decided to be careful and planned my way through the larger community's as opposed to the more direct route. What I didn't find out where these where aboriginal community's.
The first town I pulled up to wasn't that bad. the second was pretty messed up. then after that the rest was like freaking deliverance. I was the only white person in any of them and in the English speaking minority.
I was glared at like I'd offended everyone. When I stopped to get petrol for my car the fridges in the gas stations served the regular milk and stuff. what I was surprised to see in them was methylated spirits. You know, alcohol used to clean surfaces. When I was lining up for the register (to pay for my gas) the aboriginal guy ahead of me bought milk and metho. He opened the milk and metho and mixed them both together in a different bottle. and then drank it as he walked out. and nobody glanced.
It was freaking crazy. By the end of this fucking nightmare trip I couldn't get the smell of vomit and alcohol out of my mind.
on the way back I thought screw it. That was terrible I'll just take the quick and direct route back and decided to stop for a hotel in Alice springs.
What I didn't know was that the government had decided in previous years to try and get the aboriginal community's in that area free of alcohol and banned the shipping of alcohol to those areas. They did however allow the shipping of alcohol to Alice springs and this forced every aboriginal alcoholic in the area to Alice springs for their grog. When I stopped in Alice springs for the night (a long freaking car trip) there was bleeding thousands of aboriginals sleeping on the streets, in tents at best. When I spent the night in a hotel. Some one broke into my car and stole the six pack of beer that was in the cooler on my back seat. Didn't take my cooler or my luggage, just the beer.

Now I'm not actually racist nor do I hold anything against aboriginals but the point is sometimes a reputation is earned. So while It's not entirely on par with what you're saying I feel It's worth mentioning.
I'm also not saying that the entire aboriginal population is addicted to booze but I have to say a large percent definitely is.
I'm not racist.

 

[RicoGrey]

Truth be told, the worst racism I have encountered has all come from the news(including fox news, cnn, etc), movies, television, and rap music/videos. Also policians, both democrats and republicans.

Notice I did not mention country music.

I have experienced racism in real life, but it wasn't severe or very rememberable. I live in Kentucky, USA btw, not the racist capital in the world, but is still supposedly very racist.

 

[Scabadus]

Every now and again a friend of mine gets back from a night out with a few too many drinks and sends me a text saying "I got into a fight with a fucking [ethnic group here] tonight, all of them are fucking [group specific insult]." I don't think he even realises he's being racist.

Though to be fair, a few years ago there was an indian guy in my group of close friends and we constantly threw around insults that I won't even mention here. That was great fun, not only could we see what insane boundry we could cross next, some of the looks we got were hilarious.

 

[The Gnome King]

I know my story is kind of tame to start it off but I'm a middle class white boy. So let's hear yours.

Hi, middle-class white boy. I, too, was once a middle-class white boy.

(Back when there was an American middle class... but I digress...)

The worst racism I think I ever encountered was within my own family. I was white, everyone around me was white; I never thought much about other races for good OR ill. I made some Latino friends (Columbian, Puerto Rican, Mexican, and otherwise) and Jewish friends while growing up but that was about it in terms of racial diversity where I was located. I think our high school graduating class of '97 had over a thousand kids graduating but only one single black kid in the entire group.

Then when I was... 19 or 20? Anyway, before I met my wife I started dating a black girl. Little did I know this would be considered unacceptable by my family. I brought her home and my mother actually pulled me aside and had a conversation with me that went something like this:

Mom: "Um... are you dating that girl?"

Me: "Yeah! Her name's Karen."

Mom: "Um... don't tell your grandparents. Your grandfather would have a heart attack if he knew you were dating a black girl."

Mom made it clear she wasn't exactly happy about it, either. She, in fact, pretty much made it clear that she's rather see me dating a white GUY than a black girl, to give more perspective.

It was the first time I was hit hard by ugly, in-your-face racism. I dated Karen for a few months but I don't think I brought her over to my home much again after that.

People excuse it by saying "different generation" and all but still, it's ignorance, plain and simple. Karen's family actually, from a purely class-based standpoint, was wealthier than my own and she was equally educated (in college pursuing her degree in architecture at the time) - it was just a knee-jerk reaction to the color of her skin and my mom's horrific fears about half-black grandchildren.

Or something. My mother and I haven't ever exactly been on the best of terms.

 

[LightspeedJack]

I've been called variations on "You white prick" by some Pakistani kids at my school. I didn't do anything I just committed the horrendous crime of being white.

With that said I have met a LOT of white people who hate pakistanis. So yeah I have encountered a lot of racism on both sides.

 

[WiMoTj]

Borlänge. (Dalarna if you don't know where it is)
What age where those teens?
I'm 16 and feel offended by being the same age as them.

Yeah, I'm from Sweden too so I know where that is.

I don't really know what age those guys were, I don't know them.

 

[Pontus Hashis]

Yeah, I'm from Sweden too so I know where that is.

I don't really know what age those guys were, I don't know them.

I mean what age would you guess, 13,15,17?

 

[Celtic_Kerr]

This isn't "bad" in the traditional sense, as all parties involved were laughing about it, but it was pretty shocking.

I was working at a hospital in San Francisco at the time, if anyone's not familiar with the city, it pretty much has members of every ethnic group you can name living within the county.

So I was registering this one traditional white lady and her 3 daughters from the boondock areas of the state. Once finished, one of the daughters commented on my slight accent, so I informed them I'm Ukrainian, after a blank stare I just said "Russian" and their eyes just bulged.

One of them blurted "I knew it! There's always something a little off about you people!" (once again, not in a mean spirited way, just totally clueless.)

So half an hour later, the same family leaves the floor and the xray tech(who'se Korean) comes by and starts telling me how over the course of the xray she had a nice discussion with the daughters about her racial background and about whether eye slant indicates just what kind of asian one is.

One person in the waiting room overheard us talking and walked up to mention how when he told them he was Peruvian they assumed it was somewhere in Spain.

I swear, seems like those people thought they were in some kind of petting zoo for ethnic minorities.

I've seen people like that. I had a Croatian friend come and visit. His accent wasn't very thick as he was born in Canada and moved to Croatia to tend to his grand mum. Whilst walking down the street with him, a passerby asked him where his accent was from. When he said Croatia, she just shook her head "Might as well be a fucking Russian" and walked away.

So let's hear yours.

I'm just going to copy and paste what I wrote in another thread about 30 minutes ago about touring Australia with a mixed-race punk band, because I'm lazy, and this is actually more on-topic here than it is there:

When you go to book the motel room, we got the sound engineer to do it because he was the only white guy with us (I can pass for white but it's funnier to get him to do it, and besides he's getting paid more than us so he's gotta earn his money somehow), otherwise they ask for huge deposits because they think we're gonna trash the rooms. Or the weird glare you get everywhere you go. Or getting stopped by the police constantly in Queensland because one of the guys in the band looks like an Aboriginal Bob Marley, so of course we must be drug dealers. Most extreme example - being told to "move on" in a food court - the crime? Playing chess at one of the tables (yes we had food too). If we were some 60 year old white guys I doubt that would have happened.

EDIT: damn, didn't get in before the inevitable "racism doesn't exist" post.

Oh yeah, had a few friends like that. Montreal is one of the metal capitals of the world (simply because we have a great deal of metal fans and metal bands come here often to play). WHile going to a concert one night I was standing in line outside the venue and this cop asked me to move along. I was wearing one arm cuff with metal rings in it, a second leather cuff, a spiked collar, a leather jacked with tears in it, shredded jeans, and army boots.

When I told him I was waiting to go in, he demanded that I don't get smart with him. He then noticed the other 60 people dressed like me and muttered "Fucking degenerates"

Gave us a good laugh

 

[manic_depressive13]

Once upon a time, a black guy (some friend of my mother's) slept over at out house, and we gave him a woolen blanket. A few days later, I was cold, so I got that woolen blanket out, and my grandma said, in horror: "you can't use that blanket! That ****** slept in it." Well, she used the greek equivalent of ******. She doesn't speak english.

Another time, I was having dinner with my godparents, and my godfather was talking about how his daughter had gone out with an Indian, saying "Thank God they broke up. Indians always look sick- they're so yellow. Every time I saw him I wanted to take him to the hospital."

I was shocked both times, but I also found it hilarious, in a fucked up sort of way. Also, I'm not racist BUT I do use racial slurs with reckless abandon, so I probably come across as racist.

 

[The Funslinger]

Not exactly a race issue, but when I was in my first year of secondary school one of the kids a couple of years above me started calling me jew boy. I'm actually an atheist, and don't even come from a jewish family, and even if I did, what's wrong with being jewish? The reason, I suspect, was because I had a sort of prominent nose, not big exactly. Way to be an ignorant shit, I thought.

 

[WiMoTj]

Yeah, I'm from Sweden too so I know where that is.

I don't really know what age those guys were, I don't know them.

I mean what age would you guess, 13,15,17?

I'd say around 15-17.