Racism. How Do YOU Define it?

[seobeglobal]

well i think is not accepting someone else that is different, in other words, is being a jerk.

[mr contrite]

Everyone has formed a biased opinion on somebody else at some point, be it regarding a football club, what car they drive, the colour of their hair, regional accents, their politics, the list is endless so why should colour be any different?

[lazyherbert]

Many soldiers hated the Japanese for what they did to them in the camps during the war. Is that classed as racist or hatred or what?I do not know.

[Halibut]

The problem is the education system is corrupt to the core in creating people who see only how the leftist brethren has taught them. Ironically, Jew haters and all.

 

Whereas people who escape such brainwashing can see facts when they are shown like crime rates, unemployment rates, the drain on the public sector in some areas etc but also the many areas where there is a plus for immigration.

 

So, what's your personal take on what racism is then, DynoDon?

[Halibut]

Many soldiers hated the Japanese for what they did to them in the camps during the war. Is that classed as racist or hatred or what?I do not know.

 

I tend to think not lazyherbert - hating someone who half starves and beats you, works your mates to death etc is probably a reasonable response.

[carcrash]

"Racism" is a Marxist concept which is primarily concerned with power relationships. It is generally deployed against white people, in white societies. Here's a definition from the American David Duke:

Quote:

Do I think of myself as a racist? Absolutely not. It is because the connotation of the word means racial hatred or endorsing racial supremacy, neither of which is my view.

 

I am however a racial realist. I understand that there are intrinsic differences between peoples and that those differences have profound effects on society. I also believe all people have a basic human right to preserve their own heritage.

 

I also want to preserve my own people, but that does not make me a supremacist or a “hater” or a racist, otherwise you can accuse every leader of movements for particular ethnic groups of “racism”. But, of course, the media does not do that.

 

Racist is used today similarly to the way witch was in the middle ages. It can be levied at any person of any view and sheds no light on any subject. In fact, the word is so pejorative it actually produces the very thing it is used to decry: hate.

 

This is David Duke's wiki page. If you don't know who he is basically he is the former leader of the Ku Klux Klan, anti-Semitite and good old fashioned con artist.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Duke

[Ms Macbeth]

Everyone has formed a biased opinion on somebody else at some point, be it regarding a football club, what car they drive, the colour of their hair, regional accents, their politics, the list is endless so why should colour be any different?

 

People's behaviour is chosen, therefore it is open to judgement. They make the choice of how to speak, what political party to support, how to behave when they go to support their team, what car they drive, whether they consider the effect playing their music has on other people etc. The list of choices and behaviours is endless!

 

However, people are born with dark or light skin, red hair, green eyes, perhaps with a disability. Why should we judge on something they have no control over?

[cressida]

Intolerance (hatred and aggression too) to a person's creed and culture and skin colour

[willman]

Intolerance (hatred and aggression too) to a person's creed and culture and skin colour

 

 

that would be similar to my definition. obviously prejudice and hatred can easily mingle in, but i do see racism as a black and white issue.

you either accept everyone or you make exceptions based on colour alone (which is the most common type of racist behaviour), it's as simple as that for me.

[Jabberwocky]

Can you be proud of your colour and history without being racist? Im extremely proud of my ancestory and the achiements the Europeans have done over the centuries, but could some accuse me of racism because of it?