Am I a racist?

[urbanrealtor]

[quote=pri_dk][quote]African origin in the US connotes, but does not necessarily denote, descent from slaves.
Descent from slaves can connote lower social class and less affluence.
Lower class can connote propensity toward criminality.
Criminality is undesirable in a tenant.
Here is the problem with that chain:
It is literally true but complete bullshit.
Most welfare recipients are white.
Most criminals are white.
[…][/quote]

Someone needs to revisit their Logic 101 textbook.[/quote]

What was illogical about that statement?

[urbanrealtor]

[quote=walterwhite]Wait up. When I think of a racist I think of someone who believes one race is superior to another. Someone can be afraid, rationally or irrationally and not think his race is superior. I just think it shuts down dialogue to say a discussion like this is off track or that someone is definitively a racist when they express what they’re actually thinking. Is Jesse Jackson a racist fir his crossing the street comment? Does he believe whites are superior?

Racist is a title that requires something extra.[/quote]

Well there you are complaining about its connotation rather than its denotation.
Using race as shorthand is racist (for good or ill).
I mean, there are degrees I suppose.
I don’t think that Jesse Jackson thinks whites are superior.
I do think he is a racist.
I think he believes that society is inherently racist.
He may have a point in that people create lines of cleavage almost at a neurologic level.
Those cleavages may be different in, say, Brazil than in the US but that is a feature of most sentient beings.

[urbanrealtor]

[quote=walterwhite]Wait up. When I think of a racist I think of someone who believes one race is superior to another. Someone can be afraid, rationally or irrationally and not think his race is superior. I just think it shuts down dialogue to say a discussion like this is off track or that someone is definitively a racist when they express what they’re actually thinking. Is Jesse Jackson a racist fir his crossing the street comment? Does he believe whites are superior?

Racist is a title that requires something extra.[/quote]

Well there you are complaining about its connotation rather than its denotation.
Using race as shorthand is racist (for good or ill).
I mean, there are degrees I suppose.
I don’t think that Jesse Jackson thinks whites are superior.
I do think he is a racist.
I think he believes that society is inherently racist.
He may have a point in that people create lines of cleavage almost at a neurologic level.
Those cleavages may be different in, say, Brazil than in the US but that is a feature of most sentient beings.

[urbanrealtor]

[quote=walterwhite]Wait up. When I think of a racist I think of someone who believes one race is superior to another. Someone can be afraid, rationally or irrationally and not think his race is superior. I just think it shuts down dialogue to say a discussion like this is off track or that someone is definitively a racist when they express what they’re actually thinking. Is Jesse Jackson a racist fir his crossing the street comment? Does he believe whites are superior?

Racist is a title that requires something extra.[/quote]

Well there you are complaining about its connotation rather than its denotation.
Using race as shorthand is racist (for good or ill).
I mean, there are degrees I suppose.
I don’t think that Jesse Jackson thinks whites are superior.
I do think he is a racist.
I think he believes that society is inherently racist.
He may have a point in that people create lines of cleavage almost at a neurologic level.
Those cleavages may be different in, say, Brazil than in the US but that is a feature of most sentient beings.

[urbanrealtor]

[quote=walterwhite]Wait up. When I think of a racist I think of someone who believes one race is superior to another. Someone can be afraid, rationally or irrationally and not think his race is superior. I just think it shuts down dialogue to say a discussion like this is off track or that someone is definitively a racist when they express what they’re actually thinking. Is Jesse Jackson a racist fir his crossing the street comment? Does he believe whites are superior?

Racist is a title that requires something extra.[/quote]

Well there you are complaining about its connotation rather than its denotation.
Using race as shorthand is racist (for good or ill).
I mean, there are degrees I suppose.
I don’t think that Jesse Jackson thinks whites are superior.
I do think he is a racist.
I think he believes that society is inherently racist.
He may have a point in that people create lines of cleavage almost at a neurologic level.
Those cleavages may be different in, say, Brazil than in the US but that is a feature of most sentient beings.

[urbanrealtor]

[quote=walterwhite]Wait up. When I think of a racist I think of someone who believes one race is superior to another. Someone can be afraid, rationally or irrationally and not think his race is superior. I just think it shuts down dialogue to say a discussion like this is off track or that someone is definitively a racist when they express what they’re actually thinking. Is Jesse Jackson a racist fir his crossing the street comment? Does he believe whites are superior?

Racist is a title that requires something extra.[/quote]

Well there you are complaining about its connotation rather than its denotation.
Using race as shorthand is racist (for good or ill).
I mean, there are degrees I suppose.
I don’t think that Jesse Jackson thinks whites are superior.
I do think he is a racist.
I think he believes that society is inherently racist.
He may have a point in that people create lines of cleavage almost at a neurologic level.
Those cleavages may be different in, say, Brazil than in the US but that is a feature of most sentient beings.

[scaredyclassic]

I’m just looking at the definition in my websters; belief in the superiority of ones race.

A Jewish dude could be afraid of rooming with Arabs but not be racist. Nit superior, just…wary. Same race anyways…

So white people discriminating against Caucasian Arabs isn’t really “racist” is it, per the OP?

[scaredyclassic]

I’m just looking at the definition in my websters; belief in the superiority of ones race.

A Jewish dude could be afraid of rooming with Arabs but not be racist. Nit superior, just…wary. Same race anyways…

So white people discriminating against Caucasian Arabs isn’t really “racist” is it, per the OP?

[scaredyclassic]

I’m just looking at the definition in my websters; belief in the superiority of ones race.

A Jewish dude could be afraid of rooming with Arabs but not be racist. Nit superior, just…wary. Same race anyways…

So white people discriminating against Caucasian Arabs isn’t really “racist” is it, per the OP?

[scaredyclassic]

I’m just looking at the definition in my websters; belief in the superiority of ones race.

A Jewish dude could be afraid of rooming with Arabs but not be racist. Nit superior, just…wary. Same race anyways…

So white people discriminating against Caucasian Arabs isn’t really “racist” is it, per the OP?

[scaredyclassic]

I’m just looking at the definition in my websters; belief in the superiority of ones race.

A Jewish dude could be afraid of rooming with Arabs but not be racist. Nit superior, just…wary. Same race anyways…

So white people discriminating against Caucasian Arabs isn’t really “racist” is it, per the OP?

[scaredyclassic]

Let’s say 98 percent of Palestinians are on parole. Would an Israel be irrational on crossing the street late at night if a pelestinian approached? What about 80 perc? 60 percent? Is that really racism?

[scaredyclassic]

Let’s say 98 percent of Palestinians are on parole. Would an Israel be irrational on crossing the street late at night if a pelestinian approached? What about 80 perc? 60 percent? Is that really racism?

[scaredyclassic]

Let’s say 98 percent of Palestinians are on parole. Would an Israel be irrational on crossing the street late at night if a pelestinian approached? What about 80 perc? 60 percent? Is that really racism?

[scaredyclassic]

Let’s say 98 percent of Palestinians are on parole. Would an Israel be irrational on crossing the street late at night if a pelestinian approached? What about 80 perc? 60 percent? Is that really racism?

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