By using this site, you agree to our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. Close
Slimebeast on 10 November 2016
Edit Thread
Shadow1980 said:
Slimebeast said:
I can imagine that many of the relatively few real racists in America felt sort of a confidence boost by Trump's victory, and some of them might even believe we're going into a new era where display of open racism becomes more acceptable. So what we might see here is how nasty people dare to express racist sentiments more openly than they dared to show before the election.

"Relatively few?" You live in Sweden, dude. Move down here to South Carolina for a few months and spend some time around the Confederate flag-waving good ol' boys and you'll be singing a different tune. This shit has been around forever. Parents teach it to their children, and they teach it to their children. I know white people who use the n-word with reckless abandon around here. MLK Day and Black History Month get called "National N***er Day/Month." People of all generations, from my own grandmother to a friend of mine's sister have proclaimed their disapproval of interracial marriage. My stepfather absolutely despises Latinos. A lot of white people around here think all Muslims are terrorists. I'm not exaggerating here. These people are fucking racists. Most of them are non-violent and keep it to themselves, and may even be respectful to non-whites, but behind closed doors around other whites, they let their true colors shine. The spirit of slavery, Know-nothing-ism, and Jim Crow never died.

True, I live in Sweden so it becomes a little bit harder for me to evaluate things that go on over there.

But here in Sweden, there are extremely few racists in this country and yet the media, public education and politicans constantly claim that racism is a huge problem. So it's not unreasonable to assume it's the same over there.

It's just hard for me to evaluate claims like that, "parents teach it to their children", "n-word is used with reckless abandon". Yeah, but in concrete terms, and this is obviously impossible for you to answer, how many are there? And how many would be considered many? Because it's subjective to every individual when something is considered "many", or "common", or is seen as a "problem".

And then on top of this we have the factor of rhetorics. You could have a valid complaint about something, but you choose to express it in racist terms. "freaking hooknosed J*w bankers are enslaving people". If we pretend for a moment that it's true that there exist a lot of je*ish bankers who screw their customers, would that statement really be racist?

It's complicated.