Will you teach your children to be racist?

Balanadan

Even just a little bit? Come on now, be honest about it.

How Soon Is Now

This thread has huge potential! Fair play OP....

theteal

Eh, her little best friend is Indian, I think I missed the boat. . . nuts!

ILoveYourVibes

No. So long as your friends in school are rich who cares what color they are.

biko

Having kids?

Didn't you hear? White folks having white kids is now racist.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/having-white-nuclear-family-promotes-white-supremacy-says-new-york-professor-report-says

Harry Palmr

ILoveYourVibes wrote: »

No. So long as your friends in school are rich who cares what color they are.

Not sure which is more heinous - racism or bad speiling.

McMurphy

No, what a stupid question.

Spon Farmer

I have thought my kids some aliens are bad, like the Borg, and some are good, like Wookies.

Del2005

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Not sure which is more heinous - racism or bad speiling.

You are being racist against spelling!

biko

Spon Farmer wrote: »

I have thought my kids some aliens are bad, like the Borg, and some are good, like Wookies.

Did you mean "taught"?

ILoveYourVibes wrote: »

who cares what color they are.

**** off back to America, we already have a word for that word. In fact our word is the original word.

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Spon Farmer wrote: »

I have thought my kids some aliens are bad, like the Borg, and some are good, like Wookies.

Ah but the Borg as Savage at making furniture..

Your Face

Its none of your business how I raise young Adolf.

MissShihTzu

Subscribing. And making the popcorn at the same time. This should be good...

frag420

Balanadan wrote: »

Even just a little bit? Come on now, be honest about it.

Nah, I am going to teach them to hate everyone equally regardless of the colour of their skin!!

Spon Farmer

biko wrote: »

Having kids?

Didn't you hear? White folks having white kids is now racist.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/having-white-nuclear-family-promotes-white-supremacy-says-new-york-professor-report-says

They didn't give any examples of the kind of responses she got.

This has to be the daftest thing anyone has done this century.

A white man and a white woman now cannot have kids?:rolleyes:

ILoveYourVibes

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Not sure which is more heinous - racism or bad speiling.

My spelling has gone to **** lately. TO ****.

I will write rein when I wanna say reign. I will to when I wanna say too.


I will say ' ah sure **** it if they sound alike they must type alike.'

Feisar

brown sugar, how come you taste so good!

Spon Farmer

biko wrote: »

Did you mean "taught"?

Wish I could say for sure that my spell checker did that but I think I actually changed from "taught" myself.

NeinNeinNein

Only inadvertently.

Dude89

Op needs some attention ahhhh

Spon Farmer

Balanadan wrote: »

Even just a little bit? Come on now, be honest about it.

How would a person do that?

You clearly mean to do intentionally but how do you teach "just a little bit" of racism"?

ILoveYourVibes

We need to talk about spelling in general though. The conversation needs to had. Some things need to be said. For the good of the human race.

Cordell

Of course not, they will have to learn that themselves, the hard way, just like the rest of us.

Ulysses Gaze

biko wrote: »

Having kids?

Didn't you hear? White folks having white kids is now racist.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/having-white-nuclear-family-promotes-white-supremacy-says-new-york-professor-report-says

Bat**** insane.

biko

Did you know brown people are better spellers than white people?

partyguinness

What type of horse ****e is this?

Nobody teaches anyone to be racist.

I believe the correct question is "Will anyone act in a racist manner in front of their children?" or "Will I resort to lazy/casual ethnic stereotyping in front of my children?

ILoveYourVibes

biko wrote: »

Did you know brown people are better spellers than white people?

That might explain my difficulty.

RWCNT

theteal wrote: »

Eh, her little best friend is Indian, I think I missed the boat. . . nuts!

You could still teach them to hate one of the other races. All is not lost.

Spon Farmer

partyguinness wrote: »

What type of horse ****e is this?

Nobody teaches anyone to be racist.

I believe the correct question is "Will anyone act in a racist manner in front of their children?" or "Will I resort to lazy/casual ethnic stereotyping in front of my children?

I'm fairly sure that many people have taught their kids be racist.

KKK members for example and the general ignorant.

AllForIt

I'm sick and tired lately of ppl trying to convince us that we are all racist.

One particular British radio presenter talks about racism at every available opportunity on this show. Just this week he did a segment on 'unconscious bias' which to my mind is not the same as racism but in his view it's racism-lite and leads to racism, and sanctimoniously directs us all to watch our unconscious biases. And of course he just had in mind western white ppl's unconscious bias, not the ub of everyone which of course everyone has to some degree which wouldn't in all cases have to do with race at all. It could be related to physical appearance, gender, social class, any number of characteristics.

It really is a dangerous thing to do to accuse ppl of being racist when they are not. Look at the problems caused in the UK within social and family groups where they have fallen out with each other as a result of how they voted in the brexit ref. For me a major reason for that is a result of accusing ppl who voted out that they are racist.

ILoveYourVibes

AllForIt wrote: »

I'm sick and tired lately of ppl trying to convince us that we are all racist.

One particular British radio presenter talks about racism at every available opportunity on this show. Just this week he did a segment on 'unconscious bias' which to my mind is not the same as racism but in his view it's racism-lite and leads to racism, and sanctimoniously directs us all to watch our unconscious biases. And of course he just had in mind western white ppl's unconscious bias, not the ub of everyone which of course everyone has to some degree which wouldn't in all cases have to do with race at all. It could be related to physical appearance, gender, social class, any number of characteristics.

Wha?

Spon Farmer

AllForIt wrote: »

I'm sick and tired lately of ppl trying to convince us that we are all racist.

One particular British radio presenter talks about racism at every available opportunity on this show. Just this week he did a segment on 'unconscious bias' which to my mind is not the same as racism but in his view it's racism-lite and leads to racism, and sanctimoniously directs us all to watch our unconscious biases. And of course he just had in mind western white ppl's unconscious bias, not the ub of everyone which of course everyone has to some degree which wouldn't in all cases have to do with race at all. It could be related to physical appearance, gender, social class, any number of characteristics.

Why are you listening to foreign radio broadcasts?

What is wrong with RTÉ Radio and SpinFM? Not "good enough" for you?

Racist ******!!!

NeinNeinNein

Is it old style racism yiz are teaching or the more modern catch all type?

Turquoise Hexagon Sun

AllForIt wrote: »

I'm sick and tired lately of ppl trying to convince us that we are all racist.

One particular British radio presenter talks about racism at every available opportunity on this show. Just this week he did a segment on 'unconscious bias' which to my mind is not the same as racism but in his view it's racism-lite and leads to racism, and sanctimoniously directs us all to watch our unconscious biases. And of course he just had in mind western white ppl's unconscious bias, not the ub of everyone which of course everyone has to some degree which wouldn't in all cases have to do with race at all. It could be related to physical appearance, gender, social class, any number of characteristics.

Yep, just when you thought you weren't racist, you are. So many mental gymnastics, moving of goal posts. It's almost like these people want there to be racists or some sort of boogeyman so they can continue to score victim points.

And I think it's perfectly natural we're all biased. We may feel a kinship for people nearest us, that resemble us or have a shared history with us. It's why some of us might grieve more about people dying in an accident in France or Europe than say a group of tribes people in Papa New Guinea.

These same people think that if a man doesn't find transsexual man-to-woman attractive as biological women, you are being discriminatory/sexist. Amazing.

To answer the OP's question:

I'll raise my children to judge people on character: education, values, critical thinking skils over their sex/gender or colour of their skin, which to me is most arbitrary of features to judge someone on. A lot of of these vocal minority extreme "far-leftists/progressive" types seem to value group identities over these things.

gammygils

How did you get interested in that kind of thing?

begbysback

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Not sure which is more heinous - racism or bad speiling.

It’s actually the correct spelling of the US version, given the current context you could say that version is technically correct here given the origination of the word “colored”

Spon Farmer

Turquoise Hexagon Sun wrote: »

Yep, just when you thought you weren't racist, you are. So many mental gymnastics, moving of goal posts. It's almost like these people want to there to be racists.

And I think it's perfectly natural we're all biased. We may feel a kinship for people nearest us, that resemble us or have a shared history with us. It's why some of us might grieve more about people dying in an accident in France or Europe than say a group of tribes people in Papa New Guinea.

These same people think that if a man doesn't find transsexual man-to-woman attractive as biological women, you are being discriminatory/sexist. Amazing.

To answer the OP's question:

I'll raise my children to judge people on character: education, values, critical thinking skils over their sex/gender or colour of their skin, which to me is most arbitrary of features to judge someone on.

I was accused of homophobia in an old job because I disliked a gay fella. However, I disliked him because he was a nasty person and he horrible to everyone. Being gay had nothing to do with it. The fact that a regular after work drinking companions another gay lad from the job didn't seem to matter.

And this was before the world went PC mad (I think). Years ago anyway.

EDIT: These accusation came other co-workers, not the fella himself. And all I did to earn was not tolerate the nasty behaviour - didn't go out of way or anything.

Church on Tuesday

It's a No from me.

Balanadan

How Soon Is Now wrote: »

This thread has huge potential! Fair play OP....

Cheers m8, it's going well so far

B.A._Baracus

Heck no.
You raise your kids right. You teach them whats right and wrong. Then, sadly, the older they get you tell them the real dealings of the world.

just for the record, am talking about the hard truths of life! Like you can't be telling a 5yo that most blokes would ride a cat going up a skylight and you should be very careful who you trust etc

Turquoise Hexagon Sun

Spon Farmer wrote: »

I was accused of homophobia in an old job because I disliked a gay fella. However, I disliked him because he was a nasty person and he horrible to everyone. Being gay had nothing to do with it. The fact that a regular after work drinking companions another gay lad from the job didn't seem to matter.

And this was before the world went PC mad (I think). Years ago anyway.

EDIT: These accusation came other co-workers, not the fella himself. And all I did to earn was not tolerate the nasty behaviour - didn't go out of way or anything.

Reminds me of Louis CK's bit about the word "f.aggot."

"I'd never call a gay guy a ******...unless he's being a ******.. but not because he's gay..." :P

Aglomerado

I hear you're a racist now, Father.

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all children need to be told the hard truths about certain parts of our society, and how to ignore their very existence.
for example, i never knowingly spoken with a work shy doler.