The most disturbing thing about @YesYoureRacist isn’t the racism itself. It’s that the people I retweet - the vast majority of which appear to be teenagers - genuinely don’t understand whether they’re being racist. It’s a generation that never had to grow up during the times of Jim Crow, civil rights marches or apartheid, and has never been confronted by the institutional racism that older generations saw on a daily basis. As a result, many teens seem to think racism simply means active hatred of another race, and not the apparent prejudices and stereotypes displayed by the people I retweet.Good grief, Logan! Are you really saying that institutional racism is no longer a problem?
Wow! Some real heavy-hitters are going to be gunning for you...
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Oh dear me, have they discovered that their faux outrage and shrill squeals of 'racism' are not stifling debate or silencing awkward questions like they used to?
Imagine the horror of young people thinking for themselves.
When people think racism is active hatred of another race and when racism is defined in terms of lack of recognition of nationality, ethnicity, language, race, colour, descent, religion, etc. rather than of one race being superior to another than yes, racism is dead and institutional racism no longer exists.
Hatred of a group of people based on their race is no different to hatred of a group of people based on their religion or politics.
Racism should be redefined back to it's original meaning and not that which the progressive have continually tweaked to include more and more conditions just so that they can win the argument by saying "you're racist".
Racism is thinking you're superior to a group different from you. When the teenagers with the hatred of blacks are poor and uneducated then they are not likely to be superior, are they?
FTA: "When the United States finally elected its first African-American president in 2008,..."
... rather conveniently ignoring the fact that the US's first 'black' president is - in fact - half white.
Does this make all those calling him black (or whatever today's euphemism for 'person of colour' is[1]) racist. Against whites?
[1] I seem to recall that the term "African-American" is the term (ab)used in the US for those also from the Caribbean. Snigger.
What a racist post, Julia. I'm so very deeply offended.
What does that hand gesture the boys are doing in the Mail photo mean ?
"Oh dear me, have they discovered that their faux outrage and shrill squeals of 'racism' are not stifling debate or silencing awkward questions like they used to?"
Good!
"When the teenagers with the hatred of blacks are poor and uneducated then they are not likely to be superior, are they?"
I'm sure there's a thesis or two at a poly disproving that somehow.. ;)
" I'm so very deeply offended."
Heh!
"What does that hand gesture the boys are doing in the Mail photo mean ?"
The photographer must have caught them in a game of 'Rock, Paper, Scissors'. There's no other explanation.
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