EPTIn your opinion, why do you think racism exists? - Page 5
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BlackJack
United States10574 Posts
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NastyMarine
United States1252 Posts
#1 because we are not talking about religion therefore it is not valid. Why complicate the discussion by throwing religion into u dumb fuck. #2 Blaming slavery* IS a valid point regardless if it was subject to selecting race as criteria. #3 I never said I hated myself or Caucasion. Your first assumption (#3) is wrong. Your comparison complicates the discussion with massive factors therefore it cannot help the discussion process (#1). And #2 is right because i'm the fucking man - ARE YOU HAPPY? * = edit | ||
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NastyMarine
United States1252 Posts
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delevetti
Finland9 Posts
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Elvin_vn
Vietnam2038 Posts
In my experience, people are racists because THEY ARE TAUGHT TO BE RACISTS!!! Historical facts, mass media, culture, religion, etc. How can you NOT be racism wtfomgbbq? Root causes: People are bias and stupid. Shit happens. Thread closed. | ||
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Ghardo
Germany1685 Posts
 the strange is always hostile and dangerous and as we don't have an emotional bond to all ethnicities, the strange is fought by creating prejudices (which are an expression of our fear imo). it's also important to underline the personal superiority over others. you also hate fat people. | ||
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yunicyarblejellythou
United States77 Posts
If I had to answer it I would say two ways. 1) Educate people 2) Be open and honest about race. Too many people follow the same political rubric (at least in this country) that is largely obtrusive to true racial equanimity.When I am open with my friends about my feelings of race and expectations I find that a lot more gets achieved. | ||
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Telemako
Spain1637 Posts
Btw, it has been proved that if only one of the so called "races" survived to a cataclysm, the 85-95% of the human dna variants will be saved. That's really far away from the numbers of any other animal species races. So, there's no such a thing as "human races". | ||
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Wotans_Fire
United Kingdom294 Posts
On February 14 2009 21:21 yunicyarblejellythou wrote: Racism is like algebra I. When you first hear of it, it appears difficult but when you actually become educated you realize its fairly simple. And that is what a lot of people for differing reasons try to obfuscate: your education on the matter. Once you are educated the mystic of racism goes away and it no longer is a tough question in terms of comprehension. The better and tougher question is how do we fix it. If I had to answer it I would say two ways. 1) Educate people 2) Be open and honest about race. Too many people follow the same political rubric (at least in this country) that is largely obtrusive to true racial equanimity.When I am open with my friends about my feelings of race and expectations I find that a lot more gets achieved. Educated in what exactly? In the marxist college of propaganda? You are the establishment, the liberals always like to blame everything on their scapegoat racists, but in reality it is they who are in charge and have been for quite some time. Why is it that only western nations have some moral obligation and view their own demographic and cultural decline as some sort of achievement? Britain for example will be 50% white in 50 years. If I were to go to Korea and tell them that their country will be 50% British they would call me racist. If I went to a muslim country and told them that they will be 50% christian I would as well be called racist or imperialist. | ||
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KaasZerg
Netherlands927 Posts
On February 14 2009 16:04 NastyMarine wrote: SO SINCE WE ARE TALKING RACISM WE AUGHT TO MENTION SLAVERY. WHY WOULD A PEOPLE ADOPT SOMETHING AS CRUEL AS SLAVERY? DISCUSS PLEASE. If you want to talk history, how recent was Slavery in AMERICA? Slavery is thousands of years old. Maybe older then the concept of property. There were slaves with the same etnicity and religion as the owner. Slaves were hauled from places where less resistence was expected. Enslaving neighbours just outside your doorstep doesn't make much sence because you create very dangerous enemies. The African tribes were in no position to retaliate or defend. The cultural distance made it eassier to treat humans as objects. The West-Africans were the most commercially viable. Hostility between cultures is old as mankind. So slavery is a symptom of that. Competition and beneficial co-existance have always been in flux and probably forever will. Economic drive is also a motive for slaves. The majority of all humans that ever lived, lived in abhorrent poverty. Peasant running out of food offered themselves as slaves or their familymembers to secure a future as a slave. It may sound absurd. But think what structural hunger, fear of the future or living outside citywalls with plundering hordes could do to your spirit.There was no room to bargain. The other option was to die. | ||
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Ingenol
United States1328 Posts
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Samurai-
Slovenia2035 Posts
Besides, what would you believe easier, that a white dude robed you, or a "nigga"... | ||
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Tehinf
United States192 Posts
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Jibba
United States22883 Posts
On February 14 2009 16:21 NastyMarine wrote: BlackJack has got a point. But then again none of us are scholars and cannot specifically answer it anyway without generalization. So the OP's question is fitting. Some of us are pretty well read in sociology, history and political thought, just no one listens to us. o.o Slavery is not inherently racist. It wasn't particularly racist in the US until after Bacon's Rebellion and even for many years later, indentured servants lived much worse lives than did slaves. It's easy enough to speculate on race relations from your bedroom or office (as many professors who write about this stuff do) but would you care to join me the next time I'm working in the Cass Corridor in Detroit or when I go down to the 9th Ward in NO? Or are you going to get a lump in your throat about being unsafe. BTW, overt racism is alive and well down there, and it starts with the pigs. | ||
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HamerD
United Kingdom1922 Posts
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KissBlade
United States5718 Posts
On February 14 2009 16:13 NastyMarine wrote: This is called the superiority complex - which is seen in all races. Regardless of Caucasian history and my individual theory, I TRULY BELIEVE whenever slavery was first adopted into human culture (for whatever reason), racism was and will always be sealed into the fate of humanity for all eternity - Until a miracle or threat of extinction unites us all. GG no re Slavery was around significantly longer than the slave trade. As appealing as the "blame whitey" argument can be, it's not so simple. That being said, Caucasians do tend to be more prone towards cultural imperialism and other signs of racial antagonism (not ethnic antagonism, which is a totally different beast) than others, in the recent one thousand years. | ||
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cava
United States1035 Posts
On February 15 2009 02:22 HamerD wrote: This topic is oh so simple yet oh so complex. So I'll refrain from posting. Yet you did post ... +1 post count gogo | ||
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stk01001
United States786 Posts
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Nytefish
United Kingdom4282 Posts
For example, when a british comedian jokes about the french surrendering too soon, everyone knows it's just for fun, but it plants little biases in people's minds. Most people get their opinions from media and other people, so no wonder this stuff gets amplified. | ||
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AzureEye
United States1360 Posts
On February 14 2009 04:44 JudgeMathis wrote: Because people think their superior to others. On February 14 2009 04:01 oneofthem wrote: human nature imo Agree with these. We are always going to try to look for differences and label them. But those differences might become miniscual if we had even something vast different than race, for example, another life species (aliens living on earth) | ||
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