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How can it be racisim .....

guns-n-painthorsesguns-n-painthorses Member Posts: 6,462 ✭✭✭
edited July 2002 in General Discussion
So answer this one...

How can it be racisim if it's the truth?

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  • jdb123jdb123 Member Posts: 471 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    give an example GPH's
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  • idsman75idsman75 Member Posts: 13,398 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    How can WHAT be racism?

    I know that there are certain scientifically documented truths that, when mentioned, bring cries of bigotry and assumptions about the intentions of the messenger.
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  • Gordian BladeGordian Blade Member Posts: 1,202 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    If you took story after story about only the bad things done by persons of any category, that would be racism by omission and implication even if each individual fact were true.
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  • 4wheeler4wheeler Member Posts: 3,441
    edited November -1
    idsman 75,read the post on weird,may be what he is speaking of,just guessing.
    "It was like that when I got here".

    Edited by - 4wheeler on 07/06/2002 00:08:56
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  • guns-n-painthorsesguns-n-painthorses Member Posts: 6,462 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'm just asking the question.

    I heard this line the other day and I wanted some other imput. There was a heated argument the other day I overheard (not hard to do) about some hispanic folks at the carnaval(sp), and this line was used.

    I have no example to give.

    It's all open for discussion, say what you think!

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  • dads-freeholddads-freehold Member Posts: 1,361 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    greetings, altho i tend to agree with gord' blade i believe that some data dealing with stastisical info could be misconstruded as racist when that may not be the intent. generally generalizations of a ethnic group are considered racist (whether good or bad). on some forums your question is considered racist. get my drift? respt submitted dads-freehold

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  • Gordian BladeGordian Blade Member Posts: 1,202 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    dads-freehold (any relation to Farnham?) has a good point. When a statistical study of, for example, IQ, shows a marked difference between races, the knee-jerk liberals are quick to call that racist. Maybe the person doing the study was just trying to identify a problem, which obviously must be done before a solution can be found. And in any case, the statistical variations for human beings are so large that one always needs to take each person on an individual basis.
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  • dheffleydheffley Member Posts: 25,000 ✭
    edited November -1
    Anything can be racist depending on the reason and manor it is used in. That being said, truth is truth reguardless of what it is used for. If people can use truth to attack you, you may want to re-examine your position.

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  • nunnnunn Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 36,085 ******
    edited November -1
    There is truth and there is truth. I don't mean moral relativism, but your version of the truth may differ from mine.

    I was raised in a conservative Christian church. VERY conservative. I heard racism preached at times. Once we had a guest speaker, a black man with a number of degrees. He had all sorts of statistics and studies to show us exactly what we had always believed, that the black race was inherently inferior.

    I was only about 12, but I remember distinctly him proving by a number of scientific studies that the Negro skull has a smaller brain capacity than that of the Caucasian, and that the brain is therefore correspondingly smaller. This the average black man can never hope to achieve as much as the average white man. According to him, the only blacks, including himself, who had ever accomplished anything academic, were the light-skinned blacks who most likely had white ancestors.

    Besides all his studies to back up his claims, the fact that HE WAS A BLACK MAN tended to give the ring of truth to what he said. After all, he could not be prejudiced against his own people, could he?

    Needless to say, I grew up suspicious and fearful of black people, mostly because of the terrible stories I had heard about them from my elders. It was not until I was in high school that I was ever around any on a daily basis. It was after I got into a people-oriented business (law enforcement) before I ever really got to know any black people. I found that they vary in intelligence and integrity just like whites.

    That was a long-winded way of pointing out that this speaker presented the "truth," and it was not the truth that I learned later.



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  • Judge DreadJudge Dread Member Posts: 2,372 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I know how to end racism ....

    make Woopy Goldberg marry the KKK grand dragon ....

    MAY the best genetics win.....


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  • Patrick OdlePatrick Odle Member Posts: 951 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Racism. Please name me one word that is more widely used or for that matter mis_used. IT is on the tip of the tounge of the weak minded for in today's modern society no word has the power to silence the speaker whether he speaks the truth or not.those that had not rather bear the label racist or bigot to politically correct were some how denide the good raising I was fortunate enough to be subjected to.
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