What is your definition of a racist?
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What is your definition of a racist?I Googled the definition for it and it gave me this:
"a person with a prejudiced belief that one race is superior to others".
It seems to me that the word "racist" is just given to anybody who criticises:
*Another country's government
*Another country's culture
*Any individual(s) who happen to be of a different race
*Non-EU immigration
*Members of a religion which will go nameless
*Crime when caused by a certain race which will go nameless
*Honour killings etc. caused by a certain race which will go nameless
For all of the above, anyone that criticises those things are not racist.
I stick with the Google definition of what a racist is, but now it seems people just call anyone a racist that talks of anything that is politically incorrect. Even when it has nothing to do with race.
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Re: What is your definition of a racist?What if he just thought certain things about other races but you wouldn't know otherwise?(Original post by sugar-n-spice)
A person who lets racial prejudices affect how he treats other people. -
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Re: What is your definition of a racist?How often does this actually happen though? 'Playing the race card' does happen, yes... however the 'PC brigade' cop-out is becoming increasingly common too...(Original post by im so academic)
but now it seems people just call anyone a racist that talks of anything that is politically incorrect. Even when it has nothing to do with race. -
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Re: What is your definition of a racist?If he thinks certain things about other races but doesn't let it make him treat them differently I'd say he is prejudiced (most people are to a degree, on most things) but not racist.(Original post by im so academic)
What if he just thought certain things about other races but you wouldn't know otherwise? -
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Re: What is your definition of a racist?Surprisingly more often than it should occur. Think Starkey v Penny.(Original post by Barden)
How often does this actually happen though? 'Playing the race card' does happen, yes... however the 'PC brigade' cop-out is becoming increasingly common too... -
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Re: What is your definition of a racist?That's xenophobia but yeah I see what you mean.(Original post by Theroomofstudents)
I just think the term 'racism' is now used in a broader way, to include not only race but other cultures and countries...
Racism = the belief that a race possesses certain traits/charecteristics or are superior or inferior to another race and hatred or prejudice based on those beliefs. That's what the dictionary says ain't it? I'd say it's pretty accurate. -
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Re: What is your definition of a racist?Hitler was anti semitic, not racist, which is why blacks etc wernt sent to his chambers(Original post by PoGo HoPz)
Adolf Hitler. -
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Re: What is your definition of a racist?It's also not a definition, it's an example, which isn't an example(Original post by badcheesecrispy)
Hitler was anti semitic, not racist, which is why blacks etc wernt sent to his chambers
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Re: What is your definition of a racist?Hitler was concerned with "racial purity". If you seriously want to argue this isn't racist, be my guest.(Original post by badcheesecrispy)
Hitler was anti semitic, not racist, which is why blacks etc wernt sent to his chambers -
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Re: What is your definition of a racist?My point, exactly.(Original post by Kibalchich)
Hitler was concerned with "racial purity". If you seriously want to argue this isn't racist, be my guest.
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Re: What is your definition of a racist?The OP is right - there is a real misuse and misappropriation of the word 'racist' in today's society. It stems from the left but affects all levels of society to some extent.
It's frankly shocking how anything that is in any way remotely disapproving of foreign ways is slapped with the label.
Ideas of race were different then. Jews were not merely a religious identity but a cultural group that contained some sort of Semitic 'race'.(Original post by badcheesecrispy)
Hitler was anti semitic, not racist, which is why blacks etc wernt sent to his chambers
He never concentrated on removing racial 'impurity' due to the presence of blacks because there simply weren't any (although I'm sure that the few around at the time didn't meet a good fate). -
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Re: What is your definition of a racist?"The number of black people in Germany when the Nazis came to power is variously estimated at 5,000–25,000."(Original post by Dux_Helvetica)
The OP is right - there is a real misuse and misappropriation of the word 'racist' in today's society. It stems from the left but affects all levels of society to some extent.
It's frankly shocking how anything that is in any way remotely disapproving of foreign ways is slapped with the label.
Ideas of race were different then. Jews were not merely a religious identity but a cultural group that contained some sort of Semitic 'race'.
He never concentrated on removing racial 'impurity' due to the presence of blacks because there simply weren't any (although I'm sure that the few around at the time didn't meet a good fate).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust#Non_Jewish -
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Re: What is your definition of a racist?Well pardon me for exaggerating then - although I find it hard to imagine Hitler rallying the German people against the common enemy of 'black people' when their numbers and presence most definitely pale in comparison to that of Jews (nearly all Germans will have never seen a black man or woman in their lives, and certainly not in person). The Jew had always existed as a scapegoat for problems in society and was simply brought up again.(Original post by Kibalchich)
"The number of black people in Germany when the Nazis came to power is variously estimated at 5,000–25,000."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust#Non_Jewish
