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    What does real Racism Look like ?

    So we have a lot of threads where there is some really silly things being said about racism, and certainly there are those that are at the far end of the spectrum that believe some of this is true.

    I also don't think that anyone will deny that there is REAL RACISM in this world. So I have a question. As a conservative I am often labeled a Racist by the left. I ask for examples and have yet to know the policies that are supported by someone like myself that make me a racist.

    So I will ask everyone to keep this thread civil and respond to one another with facts and supporting information and not just insults and platitudes

    I really would like to know what real racism looks like to different people

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    Quote Originally Posted by zelmo1234 View Post
    So we have a lot of threads where there is some really silly things being said about racism, and certainly there are those that are at the far end of the spectrum that believe some of this is true.

    I also don't think that anyone will deny that there is REAL RACISM in this world. So I have a question. As a conservative I am often labeled a Racist by the left. I ask for examples and have yet to know the policies that are supported by someone like myself that make me a racist.

    So I will ask everyone to keep this thread civil and respond to one another with facts and supporting information and not just insults and platitudes

    I really would like to know what real racism looks like to different people
    Well when I was a kid I noticed there was a third door outside gas stations in the south. I asked why and learned that not too many years before there had been 3 bathrooms outside southern gas stations. That's my take on real rasism

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    Juding a person by the color of their skin only.

    Racism is not disagreeing with their lifestyles, religion, legal status or any other stupid ideas they can come up with.

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    Quote Originally Posted by roadmaster View Post
    Juding a person by the color of their skin….
    That would be prejudice. Not necessarily racism.
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    Racism is judging other races inferior and your race superior based on skin color.

    Admittedly that's somewhat circular in that I use race to define racism.


    Racism originally had to do with seeing different people superior or inferior based on culture, originals, language, and geography. Hannah Arendt calls it race-thinking. It could intranational like in France between Gallic/Celtic people and Gallo-Roman people. Or international, like French vs Germans, France vs England.

    The skin color definition is scientific or biological racism.

    Nowadays racism has a power component, an element of oppressor and oppressed attached to it. This comes from Critical Theory.
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    In simple terms

    the belief that different races possess distinct characteristics, abilities, or qualities, especially so as to distinguish them as inferior or superior to one another.

    I believe true racism goes further than that and that belief must lead to some action on the part of the believer.
    "theories of racism"
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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris View Post
    Racism is judging other races inferior and your race superior based on skin color.

    Admittedly that's somewhat circular in that I use race to define racism.


    Racism originally had to do with seeing different people superior or inferior based on culture, originals, language, and geography. Hannah Arendt calls it race-thinking. It could intranational like in France between Gallic/Celtic people and Gallo-Roman people. Or international, like French vs Germans, France vs England.

    The skin color definition is scientific or biological racism.

    Nowadays racism has a power component, an element of oppressor and oppressed attached to it. This comes from Critical Theory.
    Agree with your first sentence.

    Your second scenario is more into the definition of bigotry. (Which often seems to get muddled with racism.)

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    Quote Originally Posted by zelmo1234 View Post
    So we have a lot of threads where there is some really silly things being said about racism, and certainly there are those that are at the far end of the spectrum that believe some of this is true.

    I also don't think that anyone will deny that there is REAL RACISM in this world. So I have a question. As a conservative I am often labeled a Racist by the left. I ask for examples and have yet to know the policies that are supported by someone like myself that make me a racist.

    So I will ask everyone to keep this thread civil and respond to one another with facts and supporting information and not just insults and platitudes

    I really would like to know what real racism looks like to different people
    The western democracies are not racist - none of them. That charge,, like many other flaws coming from the left, is a propaganda tool = and we should all know and understand that

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris View Post
    Racism is judging other races inferior and your race superior based on skin color.

    Admittedly that's somewhat circular in that I use race to define racism.


    Racism originally had to do with seeing different people superior or inferior based on culture, originals, language, and geography. Hannah Arendt calls it race-thinking. It could intranational like in France between Gallic/Celtic people and Gallo-Roman people. Or international, like French vs Germans, France vs England.

    The skin color definition is scientific or biological racism.

    Nowadays racism has a power component, an element of oppressor and oppressed attached to it. This comes from Critical Theory.
    Those hatreds would be better called "Culturalism" but it will likely never catch on.

    The Costa Ricans and Nicaraguans openly hate each other, though more from the Costa Ricans, yet they're of the same race, The same is true of many neighbors around the world but we don't often hear of it until a war breaks out.

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    Quote Originally Posted by pragmatic View Post
    Agree with your first sentence.

    Your second scenario is more into the definition of bigotry. (Which often seems to get muddled with racism.)

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    Right, but that is how people originally referred to races. It was cultural and not biological.
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