Is This Racist?

Originally posted by lord xyz
You can say there's genes for determining skin colour and eyelid composition, sure.

Calling that a race or a subspecies is just stupid. Saying genes concretely define who we are is also stupid.

I agree. I've defined it as much more than just superficial observations.

I'm more for a "Gattica" type of medical future than I am a "Mad Max" type of future (for medicine). So race would be useless when treatment is nearly perfect for everything about you.

Originally posted by Omega Vision
Its from a movie.

You're kidding. If not, what movie.

Originally posted by meep-meep
You're kidding. If not, what movie.

Originally posted by Omega Vision
Confederate States of America.

Bloody Brits. I'll have to put that one on my "to see" list. Thank ya much.

if this is real, it's racist. if it's a spoof, fake, parody, satire, etc., then it's not.

racism begins and will end with white people and i aint afraid to say it , so there you go.

Racist.

Originally posted by majid86
racism begins and will end with white people and i aint afraid to say it , so there you go.

Before any significant contact with white cultures Japan developed a racist view of non-Japanese that persisted until the 20th century.

There are other examples, but Japan is the one that most easily springs to mind considering they were isolated and had no contact with the "white people" you believe invented racism.

The word confederate considering the confederate flag and the history behind it, with two black servants would spark the thought in ones head. I'm almost certain though, that the guy in the circle at the end of the commercial owned some slaves....lol

Originally posted by Omega Vision
One need only look at Japan to see that this is blatantly false.

Before any significant contact with white cultures Japan developed a racist view of non-Japanese that persisted until the 20th century.

There are other examples, but Japan is the one that most easily springs to mind considering they were isolated and had no contact with the "white people" you believe invented racism.

hmm

Very good point. I actually had not thought about it that way.

If memory serves, wasn't there some sort of study done that shows African Americans to be more racist (it was posited that it was a social safety mechanism rather than just malicious/baseless racism...for safety reasons against hundreds of years of racism from whites)?

BRB, I'll see if I can find it.

Edit - WTF? I'm finding stuff about voting, but no studies. I did find something about blacks AND whites being prejudice against blacks in one study...and the blacks were more racist than the whites against the blacks (odd...).

I can't find what I'm looking for, so never mind. Ignore it.