While I agree that calling someone "black", "white", "brown", etc. is limiting and very inaccurate, it is by no means racist.
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White is a racist term!
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Hypersonic
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I think being called Lebanese is insulting to me but that is just a cultural thing! I am of mixed background myself, and when I took a trip to New York I was called "colored" once. What that means I don't know!
But you've got his package! Does the address label say "tall black guy standing to the left of the two white guys"?
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Chisti
Active Member
It means Black. I was called that too in western countries (Aus. specifically). Whites mostly believe that anyone who isn't white is black.
Yeah, Asians are just a shorter variety of black folk.
Those darned whities are always over-generalizing!
Draka
Wonder Woman
Don't forget those Hispanics, they're just Spanish speaking black folk. Darned whities right?
They used to use the term "colored" before they used "black" to describe people who were of African descent. It didn't (back then) mean any insult, although it is probably considered insulting now (I don't hear it anymore, where I am). But people get insulted if you pronounce their name wrong, nowadays.
Whites are a real and only threat to the United Nations plan of making a one world Government. All racial laws villify and make the whites the main offenders in PRACTISE! Whites through immigration will not exist in a few hundred years as we now know as the majority, they will be bred out I suggest. They have even hijacked religion through interfaith, social justice etc.
Wake up!......... what mass migration of whites to third world countries are of dark races? Who created the inequitable boundaries of countries in asia , the middle east, pakistan and India......the U.N. and it's illegitimate parents the League of Nations? They have caused more major wars than the whole of human history.
The U.N. bandaid aid is a joke they created the problem of refugees and extended this category enormously to economic as well, including racism...........never knew or heard of racism until mass migration of dark and yellow races in the 70's to now, when they got rid of the white australia policy without a referendum! Sure racism[tribal warfare] existed always in Africa, including slavery and still does. Racial, cultural and religious chaos like in the U.K.[the first large western country to go socialist] is exactly what the U.N. needs to create more laws and controls for the future New World Order! In which your one vote in 7 billion, or even a whole nations vote will be worthless! Are white's the recipients of huge largesse, or is it the blacks? Whites are so tolerant they pass extreme racial laws against themselves! There are always traitors to their own race, they are glorified by U.N.Our educational system and mass media are biased, scared to hell of anything that smacks of racism, because of the power of the Bankers, institutionalised apostate churches and a Government controlled not by the people but the U.N.
Wake up!......... what mass migration of whites to third world countries are of dark races? Who created the inequitable boundaries of countries in asia , the middle east, pakistan and India......the U.N. and it's illegitimate parents the League of Nations? They have caused more major wars than the whole of human history.
The U.N. bandaid aid is a joke they created the problem of refugees and extended this category enormously to economic as well, including racism...........never knew or heard of racism until mass migration of dark and yellow races in the 70's to now, when they got rid of the white australia policy without a referendum! Sure racism[tribal warfare] existed always in Africa, including slavery and still does. Racial, cultural and religious chaos like in the U.K.[the first large western country to go socialist] is exactly what the U.N. needs to create more laws and controls for the future New World Order! In which your one vote in 7 billion, or even a whole nations vote will be worthless! Are white's the recipients of huge largesse, or is it the blacks? Whites are so tolerant they pass extreme racial laws against themselves! There are always traitors to their own race, they are glorified by U.N.Our educational system and mass media are biased, scared to hell of anything that smacks of racism, because of the power of the Bankers, institutionalised apostate churches and a Government controlled not by the people but the U.N.
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Yeshe Dawa
Lotus Born
Hi everyone!
As someone who is only slightly less pale than my icon, I just want to say I want a cool name too! I would like to be called Anglo-American, or Angloceltic, or something more interesting than "white". I always get jealous when I fill out college forms and I see cool names like "Pacific Islander".
Peace and blessings,
Yeshe
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As someone who is only slightly less pale than my icon, I just want to say I want a cool name too! I would like to be called Anglo-American, or Angloceltic, or something more interesting than "white". I always get jealous when I fill out college forms and I see cool names like "Pacific Islander".
Peace and blessings,
Yeshe
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Guitar's Cry
Disciple of Pan
Labels always discriminate, but they are necessary in defining the world. I think political correctness can go too far, but it can also help in making folks feel more secure and to quell possible violent upsets.
There is a difference between saying, "You are white," in a descriptive manner and "You are a retard."
There is a difference between saying, "You are white," in a descriptive manner and "You are a retard."
Kathryn
It was on fire when I laid down on it.
My biracial kids have had very little drama in their lives when it comes to dating anyone of any color, but my oldest daughter did have some teenage angst once when she was in the 8th grade because a "white boy" said he really liked her but his parents wouldn't let him take her to some little dance. Of course, this didn't make her sad - it made her mad (you go, girl!). Anyway, her best friend's mother said it best. She said, "Oh that's so stupid of him! You're not Natalie the black girl, or Natalie the white girl - you're Natalie, the American!"
Cute, and simplistic - but very true. To this day, if asked about her race, my daughter says, "I'm American."
Cute, and simplistic - but very true. To this day, if asked about her race, my daughter says, "I'm American."
Yeshe Dawa
Lotus Born
Yeshe Dawa
Lotus Born
wayward_teen
Beautiful Disaster
"White" isn't a racist term. It's a color.
I see no problem in acknowledging skin color; it's just visible pigmentation. Would you be offended if somebody observes that you have a specific eye or hair color? No. As long as it isn't being used as a reason to mistreat somebody, I have no problem with colors used as physical labels.
I see no problem in acknowledging skin color; it's just visible pigmentation. Would you be offended if somebody observes that you have a specific eye or hair color? No. As long as it isn't being used as a reason to mistreat somebody, I have no problem with colors used as physical labels.
Yeshe Dawa
Lotus Born
Ozzie
Well-Known Member
Two different questions. Applied to myself, "white" isn't; applied to others, "white" is racist if others think it is (no absolutes when applied to others).
Rakhel
Well-Known Member
You could always do what my daughter taught me to do.
When it comes to filling out that part of the application, she marks "other."