Racism

[Hypocrite]

Good old classic racism, almost everyone but the racists hate it, but why are people racist? I've thought on this topic and did some research by observing other animals. I have two cats at home, one is part tiger and the other is some gray cat.(I don't know the specific species) And what I did was I observed my cats' actions, I noticed they fought a lot. I went over to my friend's house one day, and he has three cats, all of the same species from different parents! These cats got along great, using each other as pillows, fluffing each other and occasional playtime.(not actual fighting) I was astonished, then I thought about human action compared to these cats. I came to a conclusion that it is plausible that we as humans have a natural instinct of racism. If you think about it, it's not like we lived with blacks, Asians, etc. when we didn't even have language, we only lived with the same race. But then I thought, why isn't everyone racist today? I began to think that maybe we only feel racist to what we do not live with, which is indeed so just as plausible, but I began to disagree when I see all the racists out there today, native to America, or any other melting pot. Assuming my first theory is true, we have to be taught to not be racist, or just open minded. What do you think? Discuss.

[MonkiX7]

You got to keep in mind that the fact that cultures/races are still allowing the racism and making jokes about it won't make racism go away any faster. And I'm not talking about inter-racial I'm meaning the races are being racial to themselves.

[Hypocrite]

You can also be taught racism, when we're children, we're dogs and believe anything that we're told. But my point is, we'd be racist if we were never taught not to be.

[MonkiX7]

That is a very loose claim. Because our generation and our parents generation and their parents generation are all coming out of the big racist era. So we aren't really taught it, we just have been taught what has come from it and that unknowingly, the idea could be placed in our subconscious due to the history we learn, the comedy we listen to, the television we watch and even our peers.

[Hypocrite]

We have to be taught not to be racist, but can be taught to be more of a genetic racist. I said that already, and also take note the subconscious is just like the conscious, our subconscious learns, what would it be considered otherwise? You said that we don't learn it but we learn it. I don't understand. But people were racist before we even knew there were different races, why do you think we enslaved blacks? If we went to Asia, I'm sure we'd enslave Asians.

[JeweyK]

You actually learn to be racist. If someone is never exposed to any jokes or stereotypes at a younger age, how would he possibly view someone like an African American as different? He isn't able to discriminate because he doesn't know how to.

[EvilSinz]

You do realize mainly the ones that says people are racist are just as racist their selves.

white man gets in trouble throw the book at him
black man gets in trouble says the judge is racist gets tied up in trails and set free


white man says white power hes a racist
black man says black power its perfectly fine

racism will exist as long as everyone with a different color skin wants to have laws bent to their will.

[MonkiX7]

Exactly EvilSinz, that was my point. Some kid called the mexican in my class an idiot, and he is truly a fucking idiot. So he just blurted out "because I'm mexican!" He is the one bringing racism in this. I know this might turn flags but: People always call the white people racist because the fact of slavery over one hundred years ago. But now white people are just the figurehead of it, not the actual main cause.

[EvilSinz]

It just pisses me off when I see that happen. Like if you say to a black man oh your no good cause some black raped a girl in the park he would be like don't judge me just cause I'm black, but that same guy would scream racism at a white guy for something his ancestors did hundreds of years ago.

[Hypocrite]

You actually learn to be racist. If someone is never exposed to any jokes or stereotypes at a younger age, how would he possibly view someone like an African American as different? He isn't able to discriminate because he doesn't know how to.

Why did we enslave blacks? If we learn to be racist, how could we have been racist against the blacks, but we only thought there was one skin color, and I agree with you sinz.

[donjorge]

wow a sensible topic by hypocrite for once, most idiots these days, if they get in trouble, use the fucking race card if they are not white to get out of trouble and that pisses me off since they did something dumb/illegal and than say the white cop is racist when he/she does their job. Also with the cats it depends on what age they are introduced since the cat may see it as a competator with resources instead of growing up with the cat like a sibling. The fact that the cats just may have different personalities is needs to be taken into account.

[Hypocrite]

My little equations of anger and the psychology of those "idiots."
R=Anger
A=Person A
B=Person B
X=Event
D=Disagreement
Y=Agreement
E=Escape
P=Power

1. AR+D=-BX=RD
2. ABY<ABD
3. ARD+P=BE

What these equations are saying is:

1. An enraged person with a disagreement is the equivalent of the opposite of the other person's "bad deed" which is equal to anger and disagreement.
2. Two people agreeing is not as important as two people disagreeing.
3. The psychology of those "idiots," an angry person who disagrees with another that has power is equal to another person attempting to escape from the argument.

[dlord257]

Well i have another thing to add to this whole racism thing. I have black neighbors that for some reason my family does not get along with very well. i dont know if its just just they're attitude or what, but we have had several altercations with them and the cops have been called on some of these occasions. Whenever a white cop comes and tries to talk to them, they get all angry and throw the racism card. But when a black cop comes up, they try to agree with everything that they say. One time i had to laugh since a black cop came up and they were being all nice to him, but then he came right out and said that they did not need to be so racist against us. Respond however you want to this.