How many of your friends and or family are racist?

Triangular · 05-05-2013 10:19PM #1

I can't be the only one that hears regular racist comments dropped into every day chit chat.

How often do you hear racist stuff being said?

My examples over the last few weeks and months;

- Bus driver (black) beeping at children to move aside on their BMX's? ..."You fcuking n1gger, fcuk off back to your own country n1gger"...kids aye?
- Random dude in a Spar when a black man in front of him paid for his stuff and left the premises...."They're like a vermon they are, once they get in they take over the place" ...??? Big man when the bigger man has gone!
- Friend in the pub..."Driving down the motorway, this stupid n1gger pulls out in front of me" ...No white person has ever been stupid?
- Elder Friend after the recent Dominique Strauss Kahn rape trial..."She was a black cleaner...maybe he didnt rape, maybe he only touched off her"...???WTF!!
- Guy in a pub in town..."I'm telling you, all those black drivers [taxi] are double-jobbing. Sure they have one fella in the picture and a few of them drive the car...I love hailing one down and when I see he's black, I tell him to fcuk off"....ok wait in the cold you fool?

I really don't know what to say or do in these situations? Every time anything racist is said I kinda know that the majority of people sitting around me, Irish people, aren't actually racist but not really arsed defending the racism stance. When these racist people have children, they will just continue the trend of racism by dropping racist comments in front of the kids or the kids of their friends.

Solair · 05-05-2013 10:21PM

Your friends / family are a LOT more racist than mine then!

I never hear stuff like that.

Banjo String · 05-05-2013 10:21PM

Extremely cleverly way of getting a racist point across OP?

next up, the bus stop and pram tale.

HazDanz · 05-05-2013 10:22PM

We are all racist! In a heart warming way. Like a hot chocolate on a cold winters night. Is that the right answer

Triangular · 05-05-2013 10:22PM

Not racist at all, I've experienced racism in front of me, I can't be alone.

HazDanz · 05-05-2013 10:25PM

Triangular wrote: »

Not racist at all, I've experienced racism in front of me, I can't be alone.

Your name makes me think of pythagoras theorem. Is that racist?

Stovepipe · 05-05-2013 10:25PM

several of the people I work with are routinely racist, especially about Nigerians, Romanians and Travellers.

regards
Stovepipe

Triangular · 05-05-2013 10:26PM

HazDanz wrote: »

Your name makes me think of pythagoras theorem. Is that racist?

I don't mean to evoke racist thoughts by it, maybe you're just naturally racist?

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 05-05-2013 10:27PM

I see a lot of anti-immigration and anti-multiculturialism, but I'm not sure if it qualifies as racism. Still comes acrossas ignorant, though - especially when, half an hour later, they're ordering a chinese or indian takeaway...

HazDanz · 05-05-2013 10:27PM

Triangular wrote: »

I don't mean to evoke racist thoughts by it, maybe you're just naturally racist?

Being naturally racist does that excuse the racism?

Triangular · 05-05-2013 10:28PM

Racism is never excusable.

Supraman · 05-05-2013 10:29PM

There's a couple of mates would have racist comments from time to time . That said I've no issue with hispanic , chinese , indian , black , eastern european etc. Roma gypsies and travellers I don't have any fondness for if I'm honest . I don't know if that's racism on my part or something else but my experiences with both of these kinds of people would be very negative .

wallyMe · 05-05-2013 10:30PM

Johnny Rebel

Duzzer · 05-05-2013 10:31PM

I've a lot of black friends who can be quite racist.

Remmy · 05-05-2013 10:31PM

I have an aunt that is an unreal racist. Anytime she is about to come out with some bile she always prefaces it with "I'm not a racist but...".

TheUsual · 05-05-2013 10:33PM

All of them, but then again I am president of the N.R.A.

Triangular · 05-05-2013 10:35PM

nut_in_a_rut wrote: »

those people sound nasty

Welcome to Dublins public transport network.

plannerscanner · 05-05-2013 10:36PM

Racism is def rife in Ireland in the ways that we speak about and perceive foreigners of all colours and creeds. I would be interested to know if there have been any incidents of violent racist crimes in the country?

Mr. CooL ICE · 05-05-2013 10:38PM

I can't fap to porn with black people in it. Aside from making me go semi, nothing against them

Alter-Ego · 05-05-2013 10:38PM

Triangular wrote: »

I can't be the only one that hears regular racist comments dropped into every day chit chat.

How often do you hear racist stuff being said?

My examples over the last few weeks and months;

- Bus driver (black) beeping at children to move aside on their BMX's? ..."You fcuking n1gger, fcuk off back to your own country n1gger"...kids aye?

The bus driver was black?

Tigger · 05-05-2013 10:40PM

what do you call a black pilot?

a pilot

Henlars67 · 05-05-2013 10:40PM

I often hear people saying stuff about travellers, but more often than not the traveller family they're giving out about has done something. It's not a case of travellers are....[insert insult here]

Is it really racism against travellers anyway? They're white Irish people like the majority of the population, they aren't a separate race. I'd call the negative attitude and comments towards them as bigotry, but not racism.

Triangular · 05-05-2013 10:45PM

Alter-Ego wrote: »

The bus driver was black?

Yes.

Alter-Ego · 05-05-2013 10:48PM

Triangular wrote: »

Yes.

That's ok then. They're allowed to say the N word. Us honkys aren't.

Tigger · 05-05-2013 10:50PM

Alter-Ego wrote: »

That's ok then. They're allowed to say the N word. Us honkys aren't.

er?...

Nodin · 05-05-2013 10:51PM

Alter-Ego wrote: »

That's ok then. They're allowed to say the N word. Us honkys aren't.

I think you're misreading the OP...

Alter-Ego · 05-05-2013 10:59PM

Nodin wrote: »

I think you're misreading the OP...

Oh the kids were being racist sh1ts?

Nodin · 05-05-2013 10:59PM

Alter-Ego wrote: »

Oh the kids were being racist sh1ts?

Ja.

Triangular · 05-05-2013 11:02PM

Yeah, twas the kids shouting at him after he beeped them.

Same kids probably idolise Tupac and Biggie...

whatdoicare · 05-05-2013 11:02PM

I've encountered more racism from foreign workers towards other races of foreign workers if I'm being honest. I've often heard my colleague from Nepal making racist remarks about my other colleague from China and visa versa.

I've often heard Polish people pass remarks on Latvian people and Roma people too.

So, I guess racism is everywhere - not just a thing white people have a monopoly on.

suicide_circus · 05-05-2013 11:09PM

whatdoicare wrote: »

I've encountered more racism from foreign workers towards other races of foreign workers if I'm being honest. I've often heard my colleague from Nepal making racist remarks about my other colleague from China and visa versa.

I've often heard Polish people pass remarks on Latvian people and Roma people too.

So, I guess racism is everywhere - not just a thing white people have a monopoly on.

Achieving a state of absolute non racism is a step along the path to zen i guess. Casual racism is everywhere, even in the most tolerant heart.

How many of your friends and or family are racist?

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