Casual Racists
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- flavorful0
Ah, so everyone is in this thread. I was wondering why everything was moving so slow this morning, haha.
69!
- skt0
tl;dr
- Spookyhome0
I used to be no-one on NT dobs. I tried to join, I asked how much it cost and got quoted soemthing like 1300.00$ a month so I never joined until the penny dropped years later. That's the story. Not sure why people come along now and then and think I may have been here as someone else. Do I remind you of anyone?
- maximillion_0
its yr height i dont like......and yes im a heightist
- kelpie0
hat's to understand and pin down? its a blatantly obvious phenomenon and after all these years of trying to address it, surely everybody of a reasonable standard of intelligence has a grasp of where it comes from.
I thought we were talking about Kuz' mates' compartmentalisation of their principles and not the issue as such anyway?
- vespa0
"Ha, ah lee, what a great day this is for my people." brilliant!
pretty fucking depressing kuz. people who are friends with dicks like that must be a bit slow, at first they can be forgiven for lack of awareness but if they carry on going there / hanging out with nobs they are actually supporting it by not speaking out against it. have you seen "This is England"?
- creative-0
Been through it all dude, so know exactly how you feel. S'pose you just get on with things. On a lighter note, I just looked out of my window to see some chap walk into a lamp post!
- Spookytim0
Didn't mean any harm?
That bloke was living breathing harm Khurram. It doesn't have to be overt intolerance.
Racism will proably never go away. I see it in the attitudes of a lot of people who would fall over in surprise at the suggestion they might be racist. Also, I see a lot of non white people slipping into auto-behaviour when talking with white people which i find hard to define here.
- I'm waiting to be jumped on here for my previous "Wont go to muslim countries" post. Well, I'm happy to offer my POV.Spookytim
- tank020
i see this sometimes happening with my girlfriend (she is korean/german ), the dodgy looks and general unfriendly behaviour from people who pass us by or in shops..it sickens me...
- raksasa0
funny!
- kelpie0
"Ha, ah lee, what a great day this is for my people."
aw Kuz, you rock :D
- Spookyhome0
See, this is what bugs me. About once every fortnight someone drops in a line like "By the way, who did you used to be on NT?" and I say "Nobody" and I ask why and the person always says I sem familiar, and I ask who I am supposed to be similar to...
and nobody ever answers me.
- honey, you gotta just work your mind round into that being a compliment! cos it is, i think.paraselene
- exactly, you fit right in so I assume you are an old timey.mrdobolina
- Do I fit in? Do I? Do I?MrOneHundred
- moth0
Tricky one Kuz.
I wanna be your friend but does that mean I have to disown my parents?!
- Jaline0
I know what you mean. And yeah, I would question those "friends" too.
- Llyod0
I like some black chicks
- creative-0
I have a mate who has an uncle that heralds from the Westcountry and has quite old fashioned values on this subject. Anyway, him, his Taiwanese girlfriend and half-cast (hate that term, but I'll go with it) I popped in to visit on the way back from dropping some stuff off in a van. He goes to the door and rings the bell. His uncle apperas, obviously pleased to see him. He points to the van and waves us out. The look on his Uncle's face as he saw us get out of the van was priceless. It was a look of 'what the hell is my nephew doing smuggling a van load of immigrants into the country?'. When his uncle asked how he knew me he was astonished to find out we'd known each other for 13 years and virtually been neighbours in the small town he grew up in for most of that time.
- Point50
ah yes, to be black... it's great. I could list all the bullshit I dealt with in my lifetime, but it's so minor and trivial compared to all the people in the world that have truly suffered and died in the name of racism. It's ugly. I joke about it mostly because if I didn't the only other thing I could do is get mad about it which would just self-destruct me. It's even funnier when you're mixed and raised by a white lady: "Man, you ain't black, you're half white", "Hey light-bright!", "High yellow!", "You don't speak like other black guys"... I used to get mad at that shit, but in the end, fuck it? Ignorance is one thing and racism and hate are something totally different. Some people just have it in their nature to sub-conciously put other people down as a means to make themselves look better amongst a group of people; at times they'll lash out and attack you with the obvious, which a lot of times can be your appearance if it isn't like that of the immediate majority. Just take that shit with a grain of salt. However, there can be undertones (like this "paki-mate" dude) or overtones of of true racism and that's where I'm done with people. I'm 34 and finally I can restrain myself from attempting to bash some idiot's teeth out; If a confrontation is unavoidable I just shine them on and go live my life and treasure my friend and the people out there that don't have problems with racism. The solution is in the children. I know because my very birth changed my grandmother's racist mentality a great deal. My own children are mixed as well and the time is coming when they get asked "who's that big black dude that picked you up from school yesterday". It's a just a shame that so much is assumed or expected from your skin color right off the bat
- kelpie0
its a funny old country we live in eh? I'd never consider myself to have any racist inclinations (except against rumanians, fucking gypsies), and have lived in some of the most heavily asian-settled areas of a city which has a huge asian population, but still after all these years, you are probably my only brown friend (and we've only met once).
I find this a bit bizarre, and wrong to be honest.
- Dude. I have ZERO brown friends. Now, THAT'S bizzare.Khurram
- Yeah, ummm...I don't think I have any brown friends either, and I live in Canada. It's strange...but it's b/c I am weird.Jaline
- you must be so lonely with none of your people for companykelpie
- so so lonely....Khurram
- I'm sure there are sites out there where you can buy brown friends to keep you company and do your houseworkcreative-
- vespa0
everywhere is racist, sometimes it's best just to laugh at the idiots and hang out with non-racists.
but when i talk to (older, non white) members of my own family i just have to smile and change the subject if they start coming out with racist stuff cos i can't bear it and you can't change their mind with reasoning so there's no point getting into an argument.
but if a friend of a friend tells a racist joke at the pub i'm not afraid to be the killjoy who says "i don't find racist jokes funny." these people have to be told publically that it's not socially acceptable. they might just think again before telling the joke next time.
- So true about older members of the fam. My family does the same, and there's no winning.Jaline