Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
We have Reps being hard "no-ist" when it comes to dealing with Dems as further support it's not a good point.
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Are You a Racist?
- Thread starter Nakosis
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I'm curious what you are talking about. Can you clarify?
Sgt. Pepper
All you need is love.
I'm also curious.
Ok, but I see it as an attempt to support the party's political power than racially motivated.
The party with more power get more political influence. You do whatever is necessary to keep the power in your party. Within the party, there maybe disputes but in this political climate you are more likely to negotiate within your own party.
Too bad independent thinking is being squashed by the two party system. So you end up voting for a type A government or a type B government as a voter instead of a selection of better ideas.
Anyway none of that is about being a racist.
InChrist
Free4ever
I am not a racist. My father was a racist and I hated the racist comments he used to make while growing up. As I got older I would confront him on such bigoted remarks.
That was before I was saved by Jesus Christ and understood that the biblical scriptures are clear there is only one race; the human race.
One lord, one faith, one baptism. Amen
I don't recall hearing any racist remarks from my family.
Of course there never was a lot of communication between me and my parents. So maybe it just never came up.
Audie
Veteran Member
Or yellow fever.
"Yellow fever" sounds like something to be avoided.
Have you run into much of that?
(Not the deadly disease kind.)
Am I a racist? I don't know -- I honestly don't know.
Do I notice that there are differences between humans that are physical (rather than just in their personalities)? Of course I do. Does it matter to me? That's where I don't know.
Once I get to know a person, then I can honestly say that physical differences don't matter -- or at least their import wanes until they eventually disappear. But that could be true of skin colour, physiognomy, or even genetic anomalies like Down's Syndrome (my best friend's brother-in-law has Down's). Where I notice them at first, with deeper connection with the person within, they take on less and less significance until (I hope) one day they have no place at all.
My own suspicion is that it is part of our human nature to notice what connects us and what separates us from others of our kind. This no doubt is the result of natural selection for the protection of the tribe. But we have been successful as a species world-wide (rather than as a whole lot of different, tribal species) because we have been able to make that connection to that humanity within that connects us all.
But I still know that I notice differences...I am as I am made to be. I don't know if that makes me a racist. I hope it doesn't.
Do I notice that there are differences between humans that are physical (rather than just in their personalities)? Of course I do. Does it matter to me? That's where I don't know.
Once I get to know a person, then I can honestly say that physical differences don't matter -- or at least their import wanes until they eventually disappear. But that could be true of skin colour, physiognomy, or even genetic anomalies like Down's Syndrome (my best friend's brother-in-law has Down's). Where I notice them at first, with deeper connection with the person within, they take on less and less significance until (I hope) one day they have no place at all.
My own suspicion is that it is part of our human nature to notice what connects us and what separates us from others of our kind. This no doubt is the result of natural selection for the protection of the tribe. But we have been successful as a species world-wide (rather than as a whole lot of different, tribal species) because we have been able to make that connection to that humanity within that connects us all.
But I still know that I notice differences...I am as I am made to be. I don't know if that makes me a racist. I hope it doesn't.
I've boinked (and been boinked by) a few people of another race. It wasn't jungle fever, it was often quite delicious.
I think that verb works sufficiently without the portion in parentheses.
Everyplace is the right place for grambling (grammar quibbling).Is this really the right place for grammatical arguments?
Audie
Veteran Member
I had guys in USA whose idea of a " pick up
line" was along the lines of, " I only date
Oriental girls".
That kind of y- fever.
Audie
Veteran Member
I know guys like that.
But they're all Asian.
(Must marry someone acceptable.)
But at least they don't say "oriental".
I once tried a pick up line....
Me: "Hey, we're both here for the same thing."
Her: "So it seems."
Me: "Let's go do it."
Her: "Yeah...let's go pick up some chicks."
See the wonderful play "M Butterfly" by David Henry Hwung
If "RBG" means Ruth Bader Ginsburg, then Clinton nominated her for the Supreme Court, not Reagan.
Honestly, there's many people who fetishize those of certain ethnicities, and it comes from racist stereotypes. I've met multiple women and a man who had a racist sexual fetish for black men (and it's formed its own nasty subculture), and it's totally gross and dehumanizing. It happens with other racial and sexual combinations, too. People are certainly capable of having sex with people they don't view as equals or fully human.