Questions I’m pondering at the moment:
How do you define a racist?
How do you define racism?
What would you say is the difference between racism and discrimination?
What’s reverse racism?
Words like ‘racist’ and ‘racism’ are bandied around very easily these days – to the point where they start to lose meaning. So I’m interested in how other people define them…
There is no such thing as ‘reverse racism’ racism is racism. Discriminating against someone else based on nationality, height , sexuality, color, or creed!
A ‘writer’ who defines themselves as a writer about race is probably going to over-egg the word racist by about a 1000-1.
Otherwise they are just going to be left with their own skills.
And if they had any, they would never have defined themselves that way in the first place.
You think Brendan Behan, James Joyce and Samuel Beckett didn’t get anti-Irish stuff in their lives?
Course they did sister.
Did it make for the navel they stared at?
No.
I don’t really get your point to be honest Dave…
strange that…at present…after all my years not understanding why one group of folks could possibly dislike another group based on race…I now find myself believing that none of this so-called racism is actually racism, but instead ‘culturalism,’ fomented and promoted on account of differing cultures rather than skin colors. I just cant bring myself to believe or agree that, a racial-epithet using white person for example…is properly labeled a racist when he/she isnt at all familar with the race of people they are lobbing insults against, in-so-much rather they may be MORE likely familiar with the culture and that which they dislike within the common culture, but not the race.
for example – white culture & black culture both contain “hangers on” whom are neither white nor black, yet they espouse the lifestyle and traits of the media-driven portrayals of what it is to be “white” or “black,” as in the backward-hat-wearing-hip-hop-listening-slang-using white kid OR the well dressed, uber-educated, perfect grammar using black man…..neither fit the media potrayed model that we are SUPPOSED to identify with yet both are very alive & well, representing countless numbers of people living in America right now.
Furthermore…as the tenets of philosophy would have it…racism is catastrophically flawed in that while a nigerian may be a black person, not all black people are Nigerians…this leads to the flaw….if not all black people are nigerian, then how can the supposed racist lump the unfamiliar-with-knowledge-of-self-african-american together with the highly-self-knowing-historically-proud & accomplished nigerian???? THAT is why I’m arguing that when someone cries racism, theyre really bawling about culturalism and that which they like not as it relates to a culture and not a skin color.
PS – supposedly I am white.