Are you a racist?

RickRoll · 16-01-2012 02:25AM

NO

TheLynx wrote: »

I am not rascist, but I do hate eastern europeans with a passion

Umm... what?

El Weirdo · 16-01-2012 02:26AM

TeddyTedson wrote: »

Any time I hear people come out with stupid racist comments in work ect it put years on me. It's a sure way of knowing if someone is boring I find.

Was what I said racist? I hope not. Just in case it was, here's another black musician:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDZFf0pm0SE

... and he's blind too, so that proves I'm not disabledist, either...

Sindri · 16-01-2012 02:27AM

DON'T KNOW

grenache wrote: »

I don't like Americans, in general. Valid reasons for it too, many many bad experiences with them. Some are ok, but the nice ones are a large minority. Just from what i've experienced. But they're not a race, as such.

Americans are a nationality. Yes.

Napper Hawkins · 16-01-2012 02:28AM

NO

I voted yes because what a ****ing daft question to ask.

Most genuine racists think they aren't anyway.

Sindri · 16-01-2012 02:29AM

DON'T KNOW

Johnny Foreigner wrote: »

When I lived in London I was anti racism.
Since moving to Ireland I have become racist.
I think there are too many asylum seekers, and non EU citizens in Ireland now.
The Irish Governments have been too lax with regard to border control in the Common Travel Area. Many asylum seekers that come to Ireland have previously been refused asylum in the UK. Rather than return to their country of origin, they come to Ireland. Only now the Irish Government are tightening border control between the UK and Ireland, but its too little too late. The damage has already been done.
I remember Ireland in the 1980's as a child, and it being rare to hear an accent that wasn't Irish. Or seeing a black person was very rare. I have to say that I preferred it then. I feel that Ireland has lost its identity. We are European now, not Irish. Its not just our sovereignty we have lost, it is our identity. I used to be so proud to be Irish, it really meant something to me. Now I feel ashamed of what Ireland has become. It feels like the Irish have become the ethnic minority in our own country.
Multiculturalism in Ireland hasn't worked. The immigrants don't want to integrate with Irish culture. It is a small country and I feel that we have too many immigrants. Any place where you have a high concentration of one ethnic group, it quickly becomes a ghetto.
I honestly feel that Ireland would be better if it was not part of the EU. We would still have our sovereignty, and it would still mean something to be Irish.

Sure the Brits never destroyed our culture. We Gaelicised most of 'em. Just look at this. The Statutes Of Kilkenny.

How are a few Polish going to do it? Or is it just people who look different from you who you dislike?

TeddyTedson · 16-01-2012 02:29AM

El Weirdo wrote: »

Was what I said racist? I hope not. Just in case it was, here's another black musician:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDZFf0pm0SE

... and he's blind too, so that proves I'm not disabledist, either...

No.

Actually I do know some racists who I actually get on with, but they can never back up there racist views with anything of merit. They tend to be foreigners actually...seriously

Napper Hawkins · 16-01-2012 02:30AM

NO

RickRoll wrote: »

Umm... what?

It's not racist to dislike a nationality, xenophobic maybe..

TheLynx · 16-01-2012 02:30AM

RickRoll wrote: »

Umm... what?

Those eastern europeans came over here and took our jobs and earned a living, without the irish complaining.

When irish workers go to poland, we recieve endless abuse and are frightened to walk on streets at night as we are targeted for being irish.

Hitler and Stalin had the right ideas for eastern europeans.

Yakult · 16-01-2012 02:30AM

White people are stupid. And white.

blatantrereg · 16-01-2012 02:30AM

DON'T KNOW

For the "dont know" people: If you agonise over the possibility of some level of subconscious prejudice - then you really aren't a racist, not in the way the term is usually meant. You're probably very much the opposite.

Red21 · 16-01-2012 02:31AM

No, i'm sure I hate everyone equally

RickRoll · 16-01-2012 02:33AM

NO

TheLynx wrote: »

Those eastern europeans came over here and took our jobs and earned a living, without the irish complaining.

When irish workers go to poland, we recieve endless abuse and are frightened to walk on streets at night as we are targeted for being irish.

Hitler and Stalin had the right ideas for eastern europeans.

If only that was an Olympic sport.

Johnny Foreigner · 16-01-2012 02:33AM

NO

TheLynx wrote: »

I am not rascist, but I do hate eastern europeans with a passion

I can't say that I hate Eastern Europeans more than I hate; Africans, Albanians, Roma Gypsies, and asylum seekers.

TeddyTedson · 16-01-2012 02:33AM

Johnny Foreigner wrote: »

When I lived in London I was anti racism.
Since moving to Ireland I have become racist.
I think there are too many asylum seekers, and non EU citizens in Ireland now.
The Irish Governments have been too lax with regard to border control in the Common Travel Area. Many asylum seekers that come to Ireland have previously been refused asylum in the UK. Rather than return to their country of origin, they come to Ireland. Only now the Irish Government are tightening border control between the UK and Ireland, but its too little too late. The damage has already been done.
I remember Ireland in the 1980's as a child, and it being rare to hear an accent that wasn't Irish. Or seeing a black person was very rare. I have to say that I preferred it then. I feel that Ireland has lost its identity. We are European now, not Irish. Its not just our sovereignty we have lost, it is our identity. I used to be so proud to be Irish, it really meant something to me. Now I feel ashamed of what Ireland has become. It feels like the Irish have become the ethnic minority in our own country.
Multiculturalism in Ireland hasn't worked. The immigrants don't want to integrate with Irish culture. It is a small country and I feel that we have too many immigrants. Any place where you have a high concentration of one ethnic group, it quickly becomes a ghetto.
I honestly feel that Ireland would be better if it was not part of the EU. We would still have our sovereignty, and it would still mean something to be Irish.

I actually think we need more people in the country. Become closer to being a sovereign state.

The King of Moo · 16-01-2012 02:34AM

I think most people have an inbuilt distrust of any group they see as being "other" to them and the group identity they were socialised into.

But most people can reflect on that, and see it for what it is, and allow empirical evidence and common sense to override that instinct (and maybe not everyone has that instinct).

But to take that instinct for granted as being based upon universal truth, and from it develop ideologies and concrete opinions about different groups of people in the real world, is pretty stupid.

Millicent · 16-01-2012 02:34AM

DON'T KNOW

TheLynx wrote: »

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Hitler and Stalin had the right ideas for eastern europeans.

Jesus Christ. :eek:

Stained Class · 16-01-2012 02:35AM

TheLynx wrote: »

I am not rascist, but I do hate eastern europeans with a passion

Even the female ones?:eek:

RickRoll · 16-01-2012 02:36AM

NO

TeddyTedson wrote: »

I actually think we need more people in the country. Become closer to being a sovereign state.

What the fuck you on about? We can barely take care of the ones that are here sponging off of tax payers money.

The King of Moo · 16-01-2012 02:37AM

TheLynx wrote: »

Those eastern europeans came over here and took our jobs and earned a living, without the irish complaining.

When irish workers go to poland, we recieve endless abuse and are frightened to walk on streets at night as we are targeted for being irish.

Hitler and Stalin had the right ideas for eastern europeans.

Have you worked in Poland?

If so, what kind of abuse did you get, and is there a sizeable number of Irish people working there? (I'm curious as I've never known an Irish person who worked in Poland)

mercenary2 · 16-01-2012 02:38AM

i have black friends as i do white ,so i would like to say im not but everyone has hate of some sort..

and this does not help

if a white person calls a black person black ..it is racist

but if a black person calls a white person white it is not racist

so if it isnt racist to call a white person white why is racist to call a black person black,,and have you heard what they call each other...

Are you a racist?

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