Rasism!!

[The_Cobra 0]

Rasism sucks. I see that every day, like people lookning at people that is from a different country/religion or have a different color of their skin. I had a friend (he moved to an other country, and after that I lost the contact with him) and his teacher was a rasist. The teacher was white and as soon as he could he blaimed one of the two black boys in the class, even if he did know that neither of the two boys were even near the happening. This happend in the US, where I had my friend over MSN, but he´s not talking to me anymore. I think that everyone just could accept that it isn´t just one color of the world. If you are white, accept that it does exist black people (I took this example ´cause I think this is the most common way of rasism) in this world. Even if your parents, grandparents and other older relatives learned when they were young that white and black should stay apart, you shouldn´t stay away from other. It´s the inside that counts, isn´t? Or maybe the world is becoming weirder and it´s starting to be the outside that counts...

Please post what you think about rasism..

Rasism should be a crime  

[theavonlady 2]

I think rasism is spelled incorrectly.

[The_Cobra 0]

I think rasism is spelled incorrectly.

How do I spell it then?  

[theavonlady 2]

I think rasism is spelled incorrectly.

How do I spell it then?  

Racism.

[sanctuary 19]

In my langage and even in english there is a c instead of the first s you used.

But racism is a crime in some countries, at least in my french contry there are now laws about this, and being racist (every kind of racism) can lead you to court quickly.

The problem that often occurs is that some racists try to disguise their racism by speaking about "but that is normal in my culture" after making a racist act or trying to disguise this as "that is just a joke" or just accusing "it is this other guy/race/country fault ".

Then you have the ones that try to hide their racism by telling "the other are the racists , not us".

And that is why it is very good when it is defined by a real law, as you will have a lot more difficulty to disguise or hide it by whatever mean you can use or trying the populist way.

[Thunderbird 0]

In the majority of the rich countries, of Europe mainly, racism born

with a rate of criminality coming on behalf of the immigrants,

which I apprecie not it is the fact of implying everyone for a false

cause, I hate racism, but unfortunately there are many racists who

claim themselves not to be it

[red oct 2]

racism is a international problem. it's not limited to just one part of the world and its unlikely to go away anytime soon.

[Nemesis6 0]

There are two ways the poison dubbed "racism" can spread - Bad parents, and the Media.

Warning! The following link contains a forum discussion on a racist site. Read the very first post to see what I'm refering to, nothing else!

Read the above before clicking here!

I mean, after reading that, I wish that guy didn't have any genetalia! With a father like that, that child could become the next Rachel Corrie.

First point proven, now for the second -

The Media, more specifically, the BBC, has been accused one too many times of Anti-Semitism. Here's a long, conclusive article to show that I'm right - http://www.honestreporting.com/articles/reports/BBC_In-depth.asp

As for black people - We mock what we don't understand, or what we're not used to. Personally, I don't think this is explainable, it's just plain stupidity, if not a mental abnormality.

[shinRaiden 0]

There's also the problem of "us vs them". When I was in Japan, I did the best I could to blend in culturally, but there is only so much you can do when you're 188cm and as white as they come.You will always get stares, and people talk to you funny no matter how good your Japanese may be. Now when I see someone of Japanese descent in the US, my brain switches to thinking in Japanese, and I can't speak coherent English to them, even if they don't knowa single word of Japanese beyond sushi.

Also, I was born and raised on the east coast of the US, in areas with a lot higher percentage of African-americans. There was only one reliable babysitter that my mom could trust to manage my brothers and I, and she was african-american. Now up in Seattle there is a much lower demographic percentage and dispersion, and I can see the resulting effects.

[raedor 8]

there are several different silhouettes of racism. the list begins with a strange look and ends with a massacre. and just to remind you: racism is more than anti-semitism. jews are not the only semites (aren't palestinians semites, too? ).

i hate racism, too. it is very easy to always blame the foreign persons. you can easily see this here in germany when people are discussing about the EU and turkey... they say "oh, the turks have a culture different from ours" and you know they mean "oh, turks only want to take our money!"... that was just an example.

if you see our secretary of interior talking about something you know what not very well hidden racism is. things like dragnet investigation. everyone who has a black beard and wears a turban is guilty...

[lukemax 0]

BLAME Canada!

[EiZei 0]

The Media, more specifically, the BBC, has been accused one too many times of Anti-Semitism. Here's a long, conclusive article to show that I'm right - http://www.honestreporting.com/articles/reports/BBC_In-depth.asp

Please stop equating the policies of Israel to every jewish person in the world. Even the article you link to does not mention anti-semitism.

EDIT: Now that I have done a little searching it's cut'n'paste time:

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VIOLATION 4 - OMISSION OF KEY DETAILS

On 17 December 2001, Israeli troops shot a child in Gaza who was holding a toy firearm, which the Israeli army claimed it mistook it for a real firearm. Most news agencies reported the facts as follows:

"...Palestinian doctors said soldiers shot dead a 12-year-old boy identified as Muhammad Haneideq. But the IDF said troops near Khan Younis spotted a young man approaching their position who drew a pistol and cocked it. The soldiers shot him before he could fire at them, the army said." (Jerusalem Post website, December 18, 2001)

BBC omits the important fact of the toy gun, creating the misleading impression that the IDF killed an innocent child without cause.

On another occasion, the Israeli army shot dead a Palestinian who was found in possession of arms and ammunition and with explosives strapped to his body. BBC merely reports that the Israeli army shot dead a "suspected suicide bomber." (BBC website 28 December, 2001)

However the article DOES mention that:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/1732185.stm

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He was carrying an assault rifle and an anti-tank missile and had explosives around his waist, according to army officials.

Just because they told who said that made them anti-semite?

[blackdog~ 0]

i figured someone might get offended.

[sanctuary 19]

/just a reminding on

Racism is not the property/target of a group of individuals/race/color/size/country/job/etc.. more than another group of human.

Racism is one of the most widespread disease of the humans , with his friend the other disease called xenophobia.

Those are found in every group of human, no less in one group no more in another.

Just don't forget that racism has a very lot of different forms, not just one or two, and is not a one way road, but a 2 ways road.

/just a reminding off

[NZXSHADOWS 0]

Racism will live forever.theres nothing you can do to change that.I hope a mod will lock this thread for being abit offtopic from the standard BIS Offtopic rules.

Purpose of off-topic forum

[Tex -USMC- 0]

Racism? Bad? Getting a bit controversial in here, n'est-ce pas?

[sanctuary 19]

@ Jan. 17 2005,03:19)]Racism? Bad?

Well, looking at the history of the world, according to too many people, it does not seem as obvious as i would like it to be.

[Homefry 0]

The only real thing you can do, is to look at each person on an individual basis, and not as a member of a group... and not let what other people and their opinions affect you.

[FragMASTER 0]

In my opinion, racism started with religion.

I'm not a religios person. I stay away from that kind of stuff because religion causes too many problems in this world.

[hellfish6 7]

Too OT for OT.