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What is RACIST? (pg. 2)
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| Konijn |
| quote: | Originally posted by töbias
I personally think that on the subject of race there are bigger differences within a certain ethnic group than between different ethnic groups, or what people call 'races', which is not a word I ever use. |
since race is a social construct that's being constantly redefined terms like black/white/yellow/green tell us more about the culture that produced them than the people they describe.
100 years ago there were no 'white' or 'black' races but rather a massive hierarchy of categories that used pseudosciences like eugenics and phrenology to grant the idea of race legitimacy.
at one point there were nearly 100 categories of white, with germans, anglos and other 'nordic' types at the top and greeks, italians, spaniards and poles at the bottom. (200 years ago, in america, it was the irish and blacks at the bottom but by 1900 the irish had succesfully transmogrified into the upper echelons of whiteness). blacks, in the americas, were further subdivided into mullatoes, quadroons (1/4 black), octaroons (1/8 black), among other categories...
what we see as definitive racial categories today won't be the same a generation from now |
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| SkyHigh |
| I dont think of my self as a racist..But I would never move into a black naighbourhood.Not only becuse its dangerous and full of drugs,,but because they dont want me there as much as I wouldnt want to be there. |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by Radagast
Race is a word |
and should be nothing more than that. |
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| Cal |
| quote: | Originally posted by Konijn
clearly, if one person was able to marry and have start a family with a 'slave' that person wasn't really a 'slave' in the colloquial sense but more like a mail-order serf. slave masters in north america, for example, held slaves as chattel and the best a female slave could've hoped for is status as a well-treated concubine.
meet a lot of "thugged-out blacks" lately? give me a break...
again, it's apples and oranges as each country's history with slavery occurs in a different historical context so comparing the "measly" 250 years that african-americans spent in bondage with those of other people is quite useless.
you can educate yourself by reading good some history books. |
One of my ancestors was a slave in Turkey, the fact that she was bought doesn't change anything.
Yeah I meet them almost everyday at school
I think I know plenty of history for this topic thanks. The constant tatar and turkish threat was one of the central issues in the shaping of the history and culture of my country. Maybe you should read up on it. |
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| Cal |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
ps.: Don't you find it quite disturbing to have a quote about my nuts in every post of yours? You're reminding yourself too much of them, it's worrying :nervous: |
Hehehehe its really bothering you isnt it.
Well tell you what, you promise not to fiddle with my personal info anymore and ill take it out. ;) |
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| töbias |
| quote: | Originally posted by Radagast
Nevertheless the guy asked what racism meant and seemingly doesn't know the URL for www.dictionary.com
Don't come back at me with all this rhetorical "No way man.", "It's all relative man.", "Race is just a concept created by the man, man." bull. Race is a word, it exists and has a meaning whether you use it or not. |
This is probably not an argument I wish to enter, as I'm much more interested in social and psychological debates than this. |
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| Radagast |
| I realize that what "race" truly means today can be argued and debated all day long without resolution. Twice I typed a reply doing just that. Then I realized that right now there are probably several philosophers, psychologists, sociologists, archaeologists, historians, and various other kinds of professional scientists pondering the very same question of race in search of an answer. People twice my age with more than twice my age in experience. I also realized that the internet always seems to bring out the inner pseudo-philosipher in us all sometimes. So I decided to be even more of an idiot and type this message out instead. |
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| Konijn |
| quote: | Originally posted by Radagast
I realize that what "race" truly means today can be argued and debated all day long without resolution. Twice I typed a reply doing just that. Then I realized that right now there are probably several philosophers, psychologists, sociologists, archaeologists, historians, and various other kinds of professional scientists pondering the very same question of race in search of an answer. People twice my age with more than twice my age in experience. I also realized that the internet always seems to bring out the inner pseudo-philosipher in us all sometimes. So I decided to be even more of an idiot and type this message out instead. |
the idea of race-as-a-cultural-construct has been par for the course in virtually every subfield of the humanities and social sciences for the past 30 years.
there is no "answer" because there are no absolutes |
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| SkyHigh |
| In my opinion..Racism only bothers people that think they are the inferior to others ..If you dont think you are worse than others prove it...Quit bitching ,quit complaining,stfu,,And prove yourself to be above the stereotype. |
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| ShadoWolf |
| I find that there is more internal racism or self-hate than rascism between groups. |
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| Scottaculous |
| quote: | Originally posted by töbias
What you must realise is that Equality does not mean treating everybody equally.
Minority groups will always get much greater freedom than the larger groups to get greater benefits, more incentives, more freedom to be politically incorrect, and more lenience with punishment.
You can bitch about it all you like, but thats the world we live in.
I'll point out some examples which I have seen with my own eyes, or read in the media, and I'm not insulting these groups at all by doing so:
Its quite alright and almost socially acceptable for an Australian aboriginal to call other Australians 'white c*nts', but if the reverse happens you go to court.
If a 15 year old girl has sex with a man, he goes to jail for 5 years, whereas if a woman has sex with a 15 year old boy she does not go to jail.
If a gym offers female only membership it is counted as fair, and if a business type club has membership for males only they get sued and taken to court on the basis of equal rights.
You see some groups have suffered inequality for many years, and almost in an effort to make up for it society allows them greater benefits and less punishment, not because they feel sorry for them but rather because they realise that it can take additional support to make up the extra ground.
Sometimes the inequality done in the name of equality is fair, and sometimes it is ing far from fair. |
Your examples offer some clear-cut evidence on how being the minority group may have it's advantages. The advantages of being the majority group in modern society is more subtle and by far outweights the advantages of the minority. Let's remember, you and your peers may not be discriminant but a great number of people are. Pres. Bush, for all his faults, was still voted back into office because 51% of my country's citizen saw it fit to vote him back. I didn't vote for him and maybe 10% of my friends voted for him. After last year's vote I've come to the realization that I am a minority both in race and political views. The same can be applied to discrimination. Because of lawsuits, discrimination isn't as obvious than a few decades ago but it still exists on society as a whole. Until discrimination is no longer an issue, it's not going to fair for either side. |
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| Radagast |
| quote: | Originally posted by töbias
What you must realise is that Equality does not mean treating everybody equally.
Minority groups will always get much greater freedom than the larger groups to get greater benefits, more incentives, more freedom to be politically incorrect, and more lenience with punishment.
You can bitch about it all you like, but thats the world we live in.
I'll point out some examples which I have seen with my own eyes, or read in the media, and I'm not insulting these groups at all by doing so:
Its quite alright and almost socially acceptable for an Australian aboriginal to call other Australians 'white c*nts', but if the reverse happens you go to court.
If a 15 year old girl has sex with a man, he goes to jail for 5 years, whereas if a woman has sex with a 15 year old boy she does not go to jail.
If a gym offers female only membership it is counted as fair, and if a business type club has membership for males only they get sued and taken to court on the basis of equal rights.
You see some groups have suffered inequality for many years, and almost in an effort to make up for it society allows them greater benefits and less punishment, not because they feel sorry for them but rather because they realise that it can take additional support to make up the extra ground.
Sometimes the inequality done in the name of equality is fair, and sometimes it is ing far from fair. |
Funny, they say pretty much the same thing on www.kkk.com |
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