Will you teach your children to be racist?

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.

How did you get interested in that kind of thing?

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.

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