Are you prejudiced/racist*?
 

Poll. Try to give a honest account of yourself, rather than hiding behind unfunny stabs at irony, if you can. K?

* prejudiced and racist are not necessarily the same thing.

i'm not a racist, but i fuck a lot

No.

If this is strictly about race, then no. Growing up where I did, and working at where I'm working now - I've met a large variety of people from all continents (except Antarctica) and I've got no problems.

Fundementalism shits me - but that's not something limited solely to race.

If we're talking prejudice in broader terms, then yes - I really hate dumb people and I can be unreasonable about it. This can lead to self-loathing if I feel that I've done or said something 'dumb'.

I wrote more but it'd probably offend somebody and I don't feel like arguing today.

A lot of people say that they're not, but they are.
I think what most people mean is that they try not to judge people by the stereotypes that they have been taught or have observed around them.
Different people are...different. Depending on their culture and environment, people will act certain ways. An Italian will approach a situation much differently than a Japanese or an American because we were all raised differently.
Do I dismiss someone because of their race or culture? No. Do I hate based on it? No. Do I understand that I have to approach a business meeting differently when I'm dealing with a Japanese person compared to an American person, hell yeah!

Well, I'm not racist, and I even never use the word "race" except to speak about animals. I don't care about the way people look, but I can't say the same about the way they behave. I'm not that tolerant with people who do proselytism, who 're from sectarian movements...

I saw what you wrote, buddy.... (but I'm not being judgemental)

My job has me working in Public Housing in a variety of High-rise apartments around town and let's face it - most of the people who have to live in these places aren't part of the jet set. And certain ethnic groups tend to stick around the same area of high-rises.

Over at one place, over 90% percent of the tenants are Vietnamese. If you ever wanted a sure-fire place to score heroin, it would be there. But you're not going to get it from the sweet-old asian couple that live on the fifth floor, or that lovely family with the three little kids (one of which loves to run up to me in the hall-way and punch me in the nuts). No - you're going to get it from that dodgy apartment which always seems to have 'visitors' coming over at all hours of the day, where that young asian guy lives with his drug-fucked girlfriend.

My point is, you have to fight the stereotypes - even when evidence seems to prove your prejudices. I have to admit - most of the places around Melbourne where you might want to score heroin, have a high Asian population. But those areas are poor as well and so, opportunities in education, employment and healthcare are minor. There are so many mitigating factors that to focus on race alone is a cop out.

Of course having said all this - I'm still going to contradict myself and say that if you keep seeing the same type of person doing the same type of thing, it's human nature to conclude that the two go hand in hand. But you have to use your (informed) mind as well as your instinct...

And good night. I'm back at the flats (these ones are full of Russian widows, I believe) in the morning. It's time for bed....

No.

I'm not racist at all but I still am prejudiced about certain groups of people, especially those I've had bad experiences dealing with, i.e. british white young males and everybody who lives in Toxteth.

I like black people more than white ones, so I'm going to go ahead and say yes, you fucking crackers.

You lose.

i grew up in one of the racist towns in Australia so i hear
and a lot of the people i know are racist towards Aboriginals

thinking back to when i was growing up there i never really used any racist words against Aboriginals

I did get scared and would want to walk on the other side of the road when approaching a group of them but that was because when ever i was picked on or harassed it was by Aboriginals

I wouldn't consider myself racist but have been described as such by people. I have a big problem with Islam and this seems to equate in a lot of people's eyes with my disliking people from muslim countries. Which isn't the case.

Am I racist? No.
Am I an Islamophobe? Possibly.

why? because I like black people more than whites?

fucking racist.

PS: I'm srsly being srs.

Let's kill Whitie.

Perhaps irony and sarcasm are more effective when they are called out for. Who knows?

speaking of killing Whitie, I was just shown some "New Mexico" magazine.

there is an add for the Nation Hispanic Cultural Center inside.

various sources of depicted pride include dancers, a mayan, a lowrider and Che. the best part is, Che's hat has a fucking NIKE swoosh on it (instead of the commie star).

I am being neither, thank you.

are you people so fucking racist that it's beyond belief that I like black people the most??

and now my story about Che's Nike swoosh is lost to page 1.

:mad:

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

typical!

there's a very funny breed of mexican here, by the way, who call themselves "Spanish". they have brown faces and look just like your average latin american mixbreed, but they claim to be pureblood descendents of the conquistadores, and even parade themselves in armor & shit like that-- some people truly have no shame. it's like the gipsy grandchildren of rudof hess coming out in nazi drag you know?

i like these guys better:




they remember history the way it really happened.

Hhh

^^ nice! finally someone honest

--

and by honest i mean aware. which is where everything starts.

I'm not racist. I hate everyone equally.

I'm not a wet liberal - some of my best friends are white neo-nazis - but sometimes I wake up and think 'you know, sometimes the Guardian might not be all bad'.

Please don't hate me.

die, whitie, die--

I'm prejudiced against prejudice.

I've dropped freinds for making racist comments.

"I know. I'm a bigot. But for the left."- Woody Allen

Thanks Nick Nolte.

Actually, I was going to start a similar-ish thread today. I'll tell the story:

I've been chatting to a chappy in work. He doesn't agree with immigration, and he doesn't think second (or more)-generation immigrants are a good thing, or that they 'belong' to the nation of England. He doesn't agree with the BNP politically. I've said to him 'you realise that this is a bit irrational?' and he said 'yes, but most of politics is'.

Which is a salient point. Now, the thing is, that he's a perfectly decent chap, and he very consciously separates his social life from his political beliefs. He doesn't actively dislike anyone on the basis of their (so-called) race. If you met him you probably wouldn't notice. He's entirely gregarious to everyone, except for the odd person, but that's usually because they're universally accepted as cocks.

Furthermore, he's not appealing to any sense of 'Albion'. He's very well-versed in the history of Britain, the contribution of 'foreign' people, the economic necessity of many 'immigrants', the porousness of British language, culture and economy. He's a fairly bright chap.

I find him quite interesting because, so far as I've made out so far, he's not even racist - he's just a judgemental nationalist who's aware of being slightly convoluted. It wouldn't surprised me to see him, calmly and rationally, explaining his views to anyone. He knows about my heritage, and has calmly explained that 'this is what I think, politically - it's not a 'I hate you' or 'all foreigners out NOW!' radical statement'.

I've decided that he's not a racist, in spite of the fact that he doesn't think 'foreigners' should be here. I have a certain admiration for him, although I disagree with his political opinions (/beliefs).

I've probably missed out some bits here, but an interesting chap, no?

no. just cos he's not as stupid as the average person doesn't make him interesting.

did you watch him piss?

Has anyone ever met someone who is vocally very racist and yet they fall in love with asians and blacks? There is a guy that sometimes drink at my local, he's always going on about how he hates the asians and the blacks, how he thinks they stink are lazy, still every time I see him he is flirting with guys from an ethnic minority. Go figure.

Also, there's racist and racist. Some are very selective with the ethnic minorities that they vent their racism to.

His ability to collect and retain information is superlative; what he does with that is relatively benign, to my mind.

He has got quite a small willy though.

We've talked about this previously, right? Unfortunately, there's a difference between the almost-phantasmagorical white skinhead kicking the shit out of [insert slur]s and the general undercurrent of assumptions, stereotypes and mis-apprehensions which exist in spectras of no immediately-discernible precedence.

I think that glice just admitted that he was black. Suddenly, I find myself liking him more.

It's one of the reasons I haven't posted pictures of myself - I like the ambiguity that I have no visual identity here, 'Glice' is largely created by his own words, which are also mine.

it was the stereotypical giant penis that gave it away.

Yes, I am prejudice about gay people. I know this makes no sense. However, they kind of scared me. I accept my-self as a queer, but sometimes I think wow all gay guys are extremely weird and arrogant. That mentality turns me off a bit. I also kept myself afar from the whole culture for such a long time, and really hanged out with hetero's that their mentality rubbed on me. However, now that I hang out more in WEHO I am getting comfortable with gay people in general, and use less derogatory insults.

i am absolutely not racist.

however i am prejudiced towards certain groups of people that has nothing to do with race. sheepfuckers.

I don't think I'm racist, though it could be argued.

I think that there are general differences between races, some good and some bad, but it has nothing to do with skin color. It's all about culture and the situation in which you're raised. Hispanics tend to get a "lazy" stereotype, which is based on the truth that they would rather spend time with their family than be on time for work, due to the culture. Black families in America were still very recently oppressed, and because of this there is still a pretty unified culture; even those who have worked their way to the top generally have the same cultural background, and that can perpetuate stereotypes. Why wouldn't you take after your parents if you look up to them? Every individual is different, and many completely defy stereotypes, but I'm certain I fit into a ton of "white" and even "Jewish" stereotypes simply because I was raised in those cultures.