Anti-Semitism & Racism

[escobert]

Nope, everyone here gets along pretty well.

[Discord]

Oh jeee... not this topic again. Guys, how often do we not talk about racism on this forum?

[escobert]

atleast once a week.

[Discord]

Just my point. I think we could just as well stickey a thread for ranting about racism. This is going a bit over the top, IMHO.

[Miriel]

Hahaha, Yamaneko is being a smartie.

[Yamaneko]

I feel obligated to put the piece of paper to use somewhere.

[Miriel]

Educate the internet masses!

[The Ceej]

Why hate someone for the color of their skin when, if you get to know them as a person, you can find so many other reasons to hate them?

Yeah. I think we can all agree that racism is bad. But we're supposed to have freedom of speech and freedom of beliefs. I don't like to hear people saying hateful, offensive, racist things, but I will defend to the death that person's right to say them.

Well....
Maybe not. But as much as I hate to hear hate speech, the fact is, they have a right to say it. We have a right to be offended by it. And we have a right to relaliate by saying something that offends them. That's how freedom of speech works.

At least, that's how it did work before 80% of the US Constitution was taken out of effect.

[Araciel]

not that i know of.

[Heath]

Well out of 600 votes in the a recent council by-election where I live a fifth of the votes cast were for the British National Party. Going back slightly earlier to May, in the North Wales electoral region, the BNP scored 5% so if you wanted to count BNP supporters as 'racist' then I suppose you could say there's a fair bit in North Wales. There's certainly a bit of hatred towards the English, though 'English Go Home' but at least such messages are in both English and Welsh nowadays.

I suppose with the recent influx of eastern European workers into Wales there's a fair amount of prejudice towards the them, especially when you consider how hard to find a job and how relatively economically weak Wales is anyway. There is some what I call 'casual racism' amongst a lot of the young people around here. By 'casual racism' I mean jokes about different people, remarks that are not politically correct and on the surface are racist, but are not explicitly meant to offend or cause distress (merely get a cheap laugh).

Having said that by some definitions being anti-Semitic is quite easy. I've read a few people saying that disagreeing with Israel is an example of anti-Semitism.

[Rengori]

"Dem Mexicano imgrents been stealin' our jorbs!"

Anyway, it's LA. There's racism here but the racist people just get tired eventually.

[Iceglow]

Well I live in London, UK Racsim is everywhere but at the same point you generally don't hear about the majority of racism present in London. In the news you hear all the time about racially motivated assaults/comments by white people on black people but you don't often hear the racially motivated assaults/comments on white people by black people. The reason I mention that is in a debate with people I know living here (both white and black) we agreed that the majority of racist assaults/comments in London are perpertrated by black people now ironically this came from the black people in the debate as they admitted racist comments for white people are often used commonly in discussions and sometimes in gang culture white people are the prime targets for muggings and other crimes because they don't want to be seen as targetting "a brother" or something similar. However in my opinion racism gets you nowhere you're far better off being friendly towards everyone in London I know I don't have any predjudices against any minorities and I get no trouble from anyone either.

[KentaRawr!]

I doubt that racism can really be completely wiped out. Racism is just a negative opinion on someone based upon their inferences on other people with a common trait. So, if someone's been annoyed with 3 people with purple and green polkadot skin, he's probably going to form a negative opinion of the 4th before he meets him.

As for if I see racism where I live, very little. In fact, most of the people here are the type that jump to the word "racist" whenever someone mentions the word "black".

[Rocket Edge]

Ireland to my knowledge, for the most part is racism free, but there is always going to be a little of it in whats growing to by a much diversifyied cultural nation.

[The Ceej]

Speaking of race, I'd like to apologize, on behalf of all white people, for Vanilla Ice. We didn't know he was going to do that. He didn't mention it at any of the meetings.