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Your race sickens me and in my mind, I am superior to you.
No matter what you say or do, I will NEVER like you.
Now, although when you think “Racism”, you automatically think White vs. [Insert Race Here]
That is racism.
No need to get defensive, we are having a good conversation here.
There's no love between Hispanics and Blacks yet you don't hear the same cries of "racism".
Like only Whites can be "racist".
Correct. (although I believe some Hispanics and some blacks get along just fine. )
They get along fine until there is a shortage or lack of some necessity (jobs, housing) or one side perceives some imaginary disrespect to their group. I see that at work all of the time. There is some stressor, then bam, the workers split along racial lines.
They get along fine until there is a shortage or lack of some necessity (jobs, housing) or one side perceives some imaginary disrespect to their group. I see that at work all of the time. There is some stressor, then bam, the workers split along racial lines.
Interesting..
To me, I think How do you deal with someone who is very quick to label someone as "racist", when they aren't being racist at all? is a good topic.
Well, first of all it was 23 years ago, compared to many conservative politicians SUPPORTING the Confederate flag until last week. Nothing like the threat of political loss to make the neo-cons flip flop on their values.
Secondly, do we even know that the Clinton's had anything to do with these? The Clinton-Gore one looks like they likely did, but the Hillary one looks like she just had support from another group.
My question is this:
For the people that STILL say the confederate flag should fly, who is more anti-American? Someone flying the confederate flag, or someone going to their mosque and praying to Allah? Seems to me, the first is flying the flag of a defeated enemy of the US, basically saying they still hate the USA and want to overthrow it. The latter is simply exercising their religious freedom. Yet we have more conservatives (again, up until last week) calling for bans on Islam than we have them calling out these US Traitors. Some of them even try to pose as patriots and traitors at the same time. Funny!
I hope not. Anyway, the confederate flag is not the problem. Dylann Roof has mental issues, and unfortunately for that there is no easy fix, if at all. If he had grown up around NYC, he could just have easily developed a fixation against Jews and been flying a Nazi flag. Our country has a growing problem with how to deal with mentally ill people.
If you are a racist then you are prejudiced against all other races, not just Blacks.
So you're saying if you only hate blacks but love all other races, then you are just "prejudice" and not a racist?
Merriam-Webster defines prejudice this way and no where in there does it make the distinctions you do:
"Prejudice: an unfair feeling of dislike for a person or group because of race, sex, religion, etc.
: a feeling of like or dislike for someone or something especially when it is not reasonable or logical"
Of interest is how they define racism:
": poor treatment of or violence against people because of their race
: the belief that some races of people are better than others"
To me that sounds like acting on your prejudices against people based on race is what racism is and if that is an acceptable statement then it's still ambiguous in society as to how we each perceive "acting out." Some of might say a racist joke or flying a confederate flag is "acting out on prejudices" while others think "acting out on prejudices" only includes physical harm, not mental harm.
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