Originally posted by Shakyamunison
My opinion:First off, this is just because of the way I was raised, but anyone I see with a tattoo is automatically calorized as a deviant. I realize that is completely wrong, and that I should never judge a book by its cover. But it is the truth.
If I were to see a white man with a tattoo that said "white" I might think he was a deviant racist. Also, a black with a tattoo of the word black would also be a deviant racist. However, I would immediately remind myself that all people are Buddhas at their base nature, and that I should withhold judgment.
Well at least this is consistent. This country really needs to do away with all "okay for one race, but not the other" bs. So no words that only certain races can say, no topics only certain races can discuss, and no actions certain races can take that are not okay for others.
Oh and definitely no immediately jumping to speculation about things. You want to call someone racist this day and age? You need more then "dude had the word white tatted on him". This wasn't white power, it wasn't a tatoo of a black man hanging from a tree, it wasn't an image of this guy wearing a KKK uniform.
Every tatoo has a certain intent, so why not find that out before jumping to conclusions? This wasn't a life or death situation, nobody was in any danger. For all I know he could be the grand wizard of the KKK, but his specific tatoo doesn't tell us that.
Even worse, do you read motherf*ckers tatoo's if you see a person with one? I sure as hell don't take the time, even if I'm shaking their hand. So people get pissy with Hilary, this was just probably one of a crap load of people she shook hands with that day. Unless a tatoo is of massive size of has a variety of bright colors..I tend not to pay it no mind. So even if someone wanted to say "this tatoo is racist"...changing that to whining about Hilary doesn't fly unless you know she specifically knew this guy was a white supremacist.
This is the world we live in: immediately accuse people of racism. That is our new thing. Even if we don't know this person and even if we really don't have much of a leg to stand on in labeling them racist..we will STILL do it.
Originally posted by jaden101
Anyone with any kind of tattoo like that on their arm, regardless of whether it's a word or a date or anything, instantly goes in the 'arsehole' category in my book.
Do you think the same thing when you see a tattoo like this?
Also how do you know for sure he was racist, it didn't say white power. It said white, so until the person can be affilated with some group or ideology, this is all speculation is it not? If a black person had a tattoo saying "black" or "thug life", would he be an ******* too? Because we know its cool to be black and rep that status, however the same does not go for white's.
Fair enough?