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CharmedontheWB on 01 August 2012
Tulio181 said:
Im only racist towards racist. Racist for me is synominus to ignorance. Or also another word to fear.

Beeing racist in my country is beeing as stupid as one can be. We were first habitated by the native americans (Tainos), then became colony to spain and also to france, where occupied to england and became a territory of disputes and war betwen all the old empairs (Spain, England, Portugal, Holland), including all sort of pirates, practitlly a battle field on those years, and in recent years (1914-1918) ocupied by the US, and belive it or not we were the first country in America that got their independence from free country of the new world, the second after US, that was Haiti, the richest colony in america for a long time, and not to colonist country as spain like most latin america country. I deeply belive that no country in the world is more mix up than us jejejje. But here you can find a lot people that dont like much the hatians, but not for racist matter.

Trivia: Where am I from?

P.s excuse my english, not my language




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crissindahouse on 01 August 2012
ArnoldRimmer said:
I suggest trying the following very interesting test:

https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/Study?tid=-1

The results indicate that most white people prefer whites over blacks, even if they consider themselves to be not racist at all.

made the test in german:

"Ihre Daten lassen vermuten:
geringe bis gar keine automatische Bevorzugung von einer der beiden Gruppen"

 

which means "very little to no preferences for one of the groups"

yeah!



Faxanadu on 01 August 2012
crissindahouse said:
amp316 said:
Faxanadu said:
Of course. Everyone has racial prejudices, be them good or bad.

Every shy white teenager on this forum who dreams of Japanese/ Asian girls is racist, and so is everyone else on here.


How is someone that is attracted to someone from another race racist?  Explain this one to me.

yeah i also wonder. i don't know the english definition but in german i believe the definition is like:

"using the biological differences as defining factor to determine the humans possibilities and attributes and with that putting one race above another race"

or something like that. as example no one can't deny that on average, black americans have better physical possibilities if it comes to 100-metre dash than white americans. i would lie if i would say i think every race has the same possibilities there and not only i would lie, everyone would lie to say that just to be no racist. but if i would say they are better humans because of that i think that would be racist.

 





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Faxanadu on 01 August 2012

Seems my Quoting button doesn work. Anyways, cris described it perfectly.

Preferring girls just because of their race (e.g. Asian) and putting specific attributes toward that race (e.g. slender, hot, black hair) is pure racism.



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TWRoO on 01 August 2012
Faxanadu said:
Seems my Quoting button doesn work. Anyways, cris described it perfectly.

Preferring girls just because of their race (e.g. Asian) and putting specific attributes toward that race (e.g. slender, hot, black hair) is pure racism.

Which also means that I am sexist because I am not bang smack in the middle of bisexual.



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ROFLMAO on 01 August 2012

When I'm being completely serious, I think racism is disgusting and as I do not discriminate against other people on race, rather on that individual's past behaviour, would not consider myself one.My friends and I tell incredibly racist jokes (Although we also make fun of our own race, Caucasian, a lot of the time too, so I don't think that really counts).



Faxanadu on 01 August 2012

@TWRoO: Only if you treat the different than men ;)



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crissindahouse on 01 August 2012
Faxanadu said:
Seems my Quoting button doesn work. Anyways, cris described it perfectly.

Preferring girls just because of their race (e.g. Asian) and putting specific attributes toward that race (e.g. slender, hot, black hair) is pure racism.

i meant exactly the opposite^^  just because you think some race is better looking for you or because you think, and that is a fact, that black americans have better chances to be a good 100 meter athlete than whites have doesn't mean you are racist. only if you think they are better humans because of that makes you a racist. if you say it is a fact that asians are better looking is racist against others but not if you say you like asians more than blacks if it comes to your personal preference for girls.

so, what i meant is that there is a differerence between beeing a racist thinking one race is superior to another one or thinking black girls are hotter than white girls on average for your personal taste as long as you know it is only taste and no fact that they are better looking.



RageBot on 01 August 2012
happydolphin said:
Racism is the fact of using race to make choices about someone like for example how you deal with them, talk to them, and making decisions based on the color of their skin or based on their physical attributes.

However, there is one thing I accept to use race on: 1) The cultural awareness (a positive thing). 2) Using peoples' physical attributes for a sport, and the people end up being of a certain race by that selection factor, that is acceptable because the selection factor was physical capability.

Every attribute is "physical", that's because there's nothing "non-physical" in the universe.

The brain functions on physical attributes, how fast the action potentials can run, how fast your synapses can have LTP, how much neurotransmitors are released in each action potential, how many synapses can your brain have, how big is your Pre-Frontal Cortex, how fast does your Amygdala react, how much testosterone there's in your body, how much serotonin is there in your BIS compared to your BAS and so on.

Everything's physical, and everything traces to genetics way more than it does to enviorment, just like with height.



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NintendoPie on 01 August 2012
Faxanadu said:
Seems my Quoting button doesn work. Anyways, cris described it perfectly.

Preferring girls just because of their race (e.g. Asian) and putting specific attributes toward that race (e.g. slender, hot, black hair) is pure racism.

That's called a preference. Which every human in the world has.