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11-23-2006, 07:58 PM
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Inexplicably Back
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: New Zealand
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Sexism now, Eh? 
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11-23-2006, 08:02 PM
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Freeskier
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Istanbul was Constantinople now it's Istanbul not Constantinople...
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 The bottom line is, for me, racism in its most basic form is any kind of derrogatory or driscriminatory actions based on race. I do agree that when one racial group goes to the extreme of exerting control over another race that it is more serious than someone shouting a racial slur, but they're both different forms of racism. historically, racism has been used by MANY different races to put minority groups in a place of extortion and submission. China did it with Tibet, Iraq did it with the kurds, turkey did it with armenia, ethiopia and eritrea were locked in a racial war for years, rwanda committed one of the most autrocious racial genocides in history. in no way is this kind of racism reserved for whites, and it's absurd to say it is.
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What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do -- especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road. William Least Heat Moon, Blue Highways Your toughest competitor lives in your head. Some days his name is fear, or pain, or gravity. Stomp his ass. HOOKED ON THE WHITE POWDER |
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11-23-2006, 08:02 PM
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dontcareaboutyou
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: North Carolina
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But, it's a simple concept, anyone can be racist. The minority, the majority, anyone.
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11-23-2006, 08:06 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
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It's not reserved for whites on a worldwide scale, and I would wholeheartedly disagree with that statement if it came from anyone. But racism, if I was going to use the definition that I feel best represents it, can only be exerted by the majority/people in power, and in the case of the United States, that is whites.
Other forms of racial prejudice certainly exists, but they are just that, racial prejudice, but not institutionalized racism since the racism would have no means of institution if there was no power behind it. Phew. Quote:
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11-23-2006, 08:08 PM
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dontcareaboutyou
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: North Carolina
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For second I'll pretend to agree with your suggestion just for the sake of a question. If 5 people of the same different race beat me up and kill me because I'm white is that racism because in that occasion they were the majority?
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11-23-2006, 08:09 PM
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Freeskier
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Istanbul was Constantinople now it's Istanbul not Constantinople...
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yeah i'm out. i'll accept that you're not gonna change you're argument, and we're all pretty much just repeating ourselves at this point. plus I've gotta concentrate on my job search so I can get myself out of debt.
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What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do -- especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road. William Least Heat Moon, Blue Highways Your toughest competitor lives in your head. Some days his name is fear, or pain, or gravity. Stomp his ass. HOOKED ON THE WHITE POWDER |
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11-23-2006, 08:12 PM
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dontcareaboutyou
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: North Carolina
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Another question what determines majority? Your neighborhood? Your city? Your state? Your Nation?
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