Not at all. It's about embracing the reality we live in and accept that some races are more likely to commit crimes and behave improperly/rude than others.
I get why so many people choose to live in denial because the truth is painful. It's the same reason why some people choose to believe in a god, an eternal life after death surely sounds more welcoming than decay, rot and emptiness.
Took the effort to google up where I got that idea from, this image. If my rigorous fact-finding efforts are correct, then it's 1 in 200.
I think 1 in 4 is very, very steep.
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Do unto others as you would have done unto you... bro. Im not religious in the slightest but that is one message to live by. I don't see any justification for judging someone before you meet them. But i hear ignorance is bliss so i guess racists are extremely happy?
So if my Willy won't salute when I look at a black girl, does that make me racist?
Morally. Yes Racism is a big deal and wrong.
Socially - Racism is only a bad thing if it the perpetrator is a certain race. When it is not that race acting it is called "preferential treatment" "Affirmative Action" "Minority Pride".
That is life.
There is no context. It's a simple, factual statement.
And pointing it out does not support a racist argument. A racist wouldn't need to argue such a thing, because racism isn't based on facts or statistics, but ignorance, and the belief that one race is superior to another regardless of facts.
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It's "factual" but not "truthful" because it doesn't express all the details or give any context. You give no reason why their skin colour is more important to describe and explain than their age, gender, location, religion, sports team followed, clothing choices, favourite type of sandwich, most preferred Spice Girl or economic status.
You're basically implying that the skin colour is the cause of the issue.
In fact as far as I'm aware the UK is the only european nation that outright bans guns for civilians.This is why people ban guns. Gun supporters don't know what guns are.Shotguns I'll give you (provided you're allowed 12 and larger gauges... because I mean... come on...) but not .22s.
The context of this thread is racism. The goal of pointing out such facts in the context would almost always be to sway people to the racist side of the argument. Also, such statistics WOULD be used to support a racist position for many people. Do you just assume that everybody, all the time, uses only factual data and logic to make their decisions or base their beliefs upon?
When you're saying that everyone is racist, do you mean that everyone is racist, or everyone stereotypes? Because the latter would be correct and what I think you're looking for.
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That a nonsense for me since we are all human. I can hate someone white because i'm white.. but i can't hate someone black because i'm racist ? Come on !
It 2 differents thing. If i hate you for your skin color i'm racist that a fact. If i hate you because your a jerk than i'm not !
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It's never wise to make broad sweeping generalizations about someone you've never met. The connotation for racism is really seated in a very few very far to the right individuals, these groups are extremely pro their own race, and every race has a group that does this.
Day to day habits that each of us employ are a product of where we live and our life experiences. I am black, male, hetero, and as I've gotten older becoming more spiritual. If you take only the part of me that is black and say "oh well he must smoke weed, like rap music, have been to jail at least once, has aids, hates white people, wants to rob me, wants to have sex with white women, likes chicken, eats watermelon, stinks cause he doesn't wear deodorant, can't read, can't understand math, must be physically gifted to make up for his mental challenges, possibly well endowed, yada yada yada" . To be honest I couldn't care less, I know I have lots of stigmas against me as soon people see me and the relationships I have are with folks that were not held hostage by their cultural fears and ignorance.
Fundamentally, I see harboring a racist view only limits my understanding for anything. For what I do I need clear visibility so that I can account for many, many , many, many different factors.
Is being racist worth handicapping your best decision making? or Is compromising your best decision making ability really a big deal?
lets take this a step further
If racism or for that matter theism or any philosophy for governing the aggregate and the electorate really a big deal?
Yes. Emphatically yes!
Why?
Its easy to stop thinking beyond our personal means since our tactile senses only experience what we can experience, example my experience is only comprehended by myself where no one else can know that as I know it, thus my decision only affects me.
when we all do it, anything really, then as a community we employ a group think that says this is the best way to do a thing...Do this enough and you've established a loose method of governing and obviously not everyone is doing the same thing so you will inevitably create out groups that coalesce to bring change to the electorate and the aggregate.
Without those out groups, then the electorate and the aggregate sprawl. Sprawl leads to deviation and misunderstanding because the vessel for communication in this highly macro example is the human brain, speech, and culture. If you ever read into superstitions or the origin of holidays, then you'll gain better understanding of the damage sprawl has over time from generation to generation.
We walk down a road that has been traversed a million billion times, should we believe a thing because we have always believed a thing? where the counter argument: Does reinventing the wheel make the wheel more useful?
Sometimes looking for a change in fundamental understanding can and does promote a shift in the paradigm.
Racism is important, its a big deal, because if it did not exist then we lose impetus to move away from the aggregate and the electorate, we lose our impetus to coalesce and impede sprawl, we lose our drive to shift paradigm.
The best thing we have with the current generation is that this group of kids is very likely to challenge conventional wisdom, because of their success (see paradigm shift), in finding a smarter (see better decision making)way to things.
"Don't really know what I'm trying to get out of this but I'm tired of others thinking racist people are bad. There is many degrees of racism, please don't lump all of us together and dismiss an individual so easily because he/she doesn't think like you"
This like particulair made me laugh toghether with your post.
There's nothing good about racism as its pretty much a gesture out of hate, How does anything good come from that?
And socioeconomics have nothing to do with this? Take a random black guy and a random white guy from below poverty level, middle class, upper-middle class, and the wealthy class, and compare their behaviors. Crime rates have more to do with homelessness, poverty, and the atmosphere of impoverished neighborhoods than race by a long shot.
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