Conan O'Brien a racist? What is a racist?, page 1
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Topic started on 16-2-2004 @ 11:47 AM by THENEO
Surely by now you know the story of how the white race is racist and how everyone else is not.

Add to this story the recent kerfluffle in Canada re: Conan O'Brien and his comments directed towards Quebecers. Frankly, I didn't know that French people were a distinct race!

here is a link to a more recent article on same:

www.msnbc.msn.com...

OTTAWA - Canada’s government Friday condemned a show by U.S. late-night television host Conan O’Brien that insulted people in French-speaking Quebec and seemed to suggest everyone in the province was homosexual.

--this is racism? uh?

So the reason I posted this thread is this:

What do you think racism is?
What consitutes racism in day to day life?
Who is really the racists out there? Is it whites or who else?


reply posted on 16-2-2004 @ 02:56 PM by IMMORTAL
Originally posted by THENEO
So the reason I posted this thread is this:

What do you think racism is?
What consitutes racism in day to day life?
Who is really the racists out there? Is it whites or who else?


I think that racism is an expression by some individual or a group of individuals that "criticize" some identifiable characteristic about some other person or group of persons. Originally, I believe that racism was a belief held by a group of people to have thought they were the superior race of humans than another race of humans. I think that racism is basing uninformed decisions on another persons physically identifiable characteristics; I don't think that language has nothing to do with it. Can u see language?

Racism in day to day life is actions or decisions based on another persons physically identifiable characteristics. I think I read somewhere that studies were done about Caucasian and Black relations. Anyway, the conclusion was that a caucasian is more likely to stop for another caucasian and vice versa with Black people.

As the human species evolves, I think that racism is becoming outdated. People being born are not of one race of humans, but a combination.

I think that everybody is a racist in a way, people like to associate with people that "look" like them, or are from the same culture.

I think that we learn racism through the media, and that we have to learn tolerance.

In the article above posted by THENEO, people can't just reinvent the meaning of the word "racist" using language as the basis. Language is not readily identifiable as the colour of someones skin, or their other physical characteristics.

[Edited on 16-2-2004 by IMMORTAL]
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