Jay520 on 31 July 2012
| Runa216 said: Quick tip: Nobody who's racist actually thinks they're racist. It's always a matter of "well in my experience" or "but it's the truth" in their eyes. I've met dozens of racist people (my parents being some of them, even some of my best friends were racist, in a more subtle way towards very specific groups), and none of them actually think they're racist. I had one friend who, I'm kidding you not, once said, "I'm not racist, but those fucking indians are all drunks." I laughed because he just couldn't understand what was wrong about his statement. My dad's the worst though. He honestly thinks that the "Ragheads" are all trying to slowly infiltrate our (Canadian) government and force us to adopt their laws and customs...so they can take over and kill us all. I wish I was kidding. his proof? he heard it on some Talk Radio show when he was trucking....and he believed it because HIS trucking company (all whites) had to have limiters on their trucks, but the 'ragheads' were able to drive faster. in his mind this meant that they got special legal exceptions, and the only possible explanation was a conspiracy. My father is a practical man, more than capable of holding his own when it comes to manly things like auto mechanic stuff, carpentry, or plumbing (you know, man jobs), but he's kind of retarded otherwise. |
It's the opposite with my experience with racists. They know they're racists and they accept being called 'racists'. They still say things like "from my experience". They just don't attribute the irrational and unjustifiable connotation to the term 'racism'. They see racism as a rational, justifiable, and acceptable belief. I think the difference between the racists I've met and the racists you've met is that the ones you've met see racism as being inherently bad/wrong and therefore stray away from the term no matter how racist they actually are. In contrast, the racists I've met believe racism is justifiable and therefore embrace the term.
