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Am I racist?
- Thread starter Electra
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RoaringSilence
Active Member
is that really a thing ? or you 're just bored?
RoaringSilence
Active Member
ive instantly started to mistrust since you din't change that line in your poem.
Ricktheheretic
"Do what thou will shall be the whole of the law"
Sounds more like a style preference to me.
White men or women with dreadlocks? I think that since you lump the men and women together without automatically looking closely for important details, you are standoffish towards white people. Which is sort of normal since people, like birds, tend to flock together with their own race, And It seems to be natural that people do that. I believe it would need to go to the next level to be called racism, such as either cutting off their dreadlocks, or raising cain until they do it themselves.
SpaceAgeLove
Sentient
Racist? No, but definitely prejudice against someone with a certain look.
The Holy Bottom Burp
Active Member
Does that mean you automatically distrust brown people with dreadlocks? If the answer to that is yes, then you are being racist. If I see a white person with dreadlocks I tend to think they are more likely to be people with perhaps an unconventional outlook on life, nothing more. Even then I recognise that to be a huge sweeping statement, they may lead completely conventional lives, hairstyle doesn't tell you much about the thinking of the man or woman underneath it. Reserve judgement until you've got to know the person under the hairstyle I say.
RoaringSilence
Active Member
its called cringe , it can happen with your own race's people ..i don't like people with longer gums ..and i keep staring at the gums when i talk to them.. i tried to fix the un-easyness with it but , they don't even shut their lips often.
Poisonshady313
Well-Known Member
I say if your distrust of white people with dreadlocks stems from the second Matrix movie, then you're fully justified.
Otherwise, i'd like to point out that a hairstyle is not a race. Feeling some sort of way about a person or group of people based solely on the color of their skin is what makes someone a racist.
I don't think feeling distrust for a particular presentation, or type of personal grooming is necessarily racist.
If you distrust all white people, or all black people, etc. that would be racist.
If a particular look is something you associate with feelings of distrust, my guess is there's something in your history that would spark that feeling.
If you distrust all white people, or all black people, etc. that would be racist.
If a particular look is something you associate with feelings of distrust, my guess is there's something in your history that would spark that feeling.
Father Heathen
Veteran Member
But if someone said "I don't trust black guys who dress like 'gangstas'." many would claim that's a racist notion.
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Seems to be, "Birds of a feather flock together".
A lot of us gravitate towards those with similar traits and qualitys that we identify with.
My cringe factor lays with white folks who talk using Ebonics. There are a couple in my area. Dunno if that's racist or not. I really don't care if people think in terms of perception and preferences as being racist.
Racism is the intentional disparagement and contempt levied upon another human being.
Simply not liking a person's physical or behavioral traits is not racist as far as I'm concerned.
A lot of us gravitate towards those with similar traits and qualitys that we identify with.
My cringe factor lays with white folks who talk using Ebonics. There are a couple in my area. Dunno if that's racist or not. I really don't care if people think in terms of perception and preferences as being racist.
Racism is the intentional disparagement and contempt levied upon another human being.
Simply not liking a person's physical or behavioral traits is not racist as far as I'm concerned.
VioletVortex
Well-Known Member
I don't trust fellow White people with dreadlocks either.
Yerda
Veteran Member
Not racist, just silly.
Father Heathen
Veteran Member
There is nothing at all "legitimate" about the notion of "appropriation". If a white person insisted that non-whites had no business playing the violin due to it's origins in European culture, no one would hesitate to consider such a statement racist.
Even if the whole "gangsta" look is associated with a culture that glorifies crime, violence, misogyny, etc? It would only be racist if someone thought that such a culture represented black people as a whole.
No, just a bit shallow.
Augustus
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It really is one of the most stupid concepts ever created.
'Appropriation' has basically been the single biggest driver of human cultural evolution.