If you use a racist word  who does it demean more? Yourself or the person who is the victim of your ignorance?
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you because anyone who matters(who has thought) will know how offensive you are and avoid you.
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I totally agree.  I always say this but you have to be careful who you say it too because they'll think ur racist.  im not racist in the least. in fact, i took a black women's histor class last year at the university level and the whole year was devoted to talking about how bad the 'white man' is and i had to sit there and take it.  i think we should stop being persicuted for what happened to their ancestors.  Noone alive today was either a slave OR a slave owner so the sympathy card should stop being played.  white people can't blame their downfalls on anyone but in the opposite case, its always okay to blame white people for anything that goes wrong. I think its about time to give it a rest because the sooner we get rid of the double standard, the sooner we can get rid of racism too.
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I haven't see the users question .the fact that so many of you is offended means the question must be pretty bad..i don't think reporting him is the answer .it'll be far better to do as you are doing now and voice your displeasure.to their questions .when they see that they are not getting the response they want .in time they will stop and move on .thank you for apology.i'm black and i'm not a spokesman for the whole race .i can only speak for myself .and my view is this .someone saying hateful things on a computer site can't hurt me .if you read my name backwards that's what i think of people like that ...once again thanks for the apology but  there's no need .you can't be held accountable for the whole white race anymore than i can for the black race
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Racism is drawing negative conclusions about another person's traits, ethics, worth, ability, etc based solely upon that person's racial origin. And then acting upon those assumptions. \n  I think we all have "stereotypes" or "preconceptions" to 1 degree or another. Whether we like to admit it or not. A racist is usually aware of, and willing to act on these preconceptions.
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my opinion is that you are a racist...
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Racist question.\n\nNext?
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I think Black and Whites are both racist. They both victimize themselves when it is not even neccesary. BLack people are always talking about how the white man does this and that to them. Even though Im Black, That stuff still gets annoying hearing it all the time. White people put the balck people down all the time and put labels on them. I think thatn if people cant grow up and forgive the past, then Black nor White people are never going to evolve as a whole. And thats REAL...
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I think you are the rotten one.  You reek of racism.
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because you're a racist moron
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Many people are instantly offended when this question is asked, even in the most respectful way from a curious mind.  So now instead of getting information on your question people are attacking you for asking the question.  This is why this question and the word in fact remains a taboo, because most people will not talk about it openly with another race and automatically take offense to the inquiry.  \n\nI don't know why any race would refer to themselves with an offensive word or term.  But in the same sense a word only has the power to offend you when you allow it.  And in reference to this word it carries so much meaning historically, and not in a good sense, that Americans as a culture should make the decision to omit the word from our vocabularies.
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I call people of various races much worse than colors...but only when they piss me off.  By the way, you're not white but a dago.
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Ignorance really gets to me.  Ignorance leads to other problems like racism, sexism and intolerance.  People spout off about stuff that they really know nothing about and I just want to smack them.
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Ignore them. They want you to get mad. That is the whole point. Racists are that way to annoy the rest of us. It is kind of like when a child throws a temper tantrum, if you ignore it, they realize that they aren't getting anything accomplished and they eventually stop.
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Shepard in the Land Of Sheep hit it right on the nose!\n\nI am racist because that is what fools lable me for be honest to tthat which I see.\n\nFor instance : If I say black people are loud and obnoxious while their walking by being loud and obnoxious, the person next to me would call me racist for the truht I spoke even though he hears  and sees the same thing I do.\n\nCalling someone racist is a trained response to silence someone from speaking the truth about a certain race or ethnicity. Calling someone racist does not make them a racist by definition but it does make them guilty of being truthful in the verbal or visual ( by what they see) sense.\n\nRacist is an old worn out word that has no more meaning or teeth considering  it only  lables someone for  speaking a percieved truth. In fact , calling someone racist would often today mean in a sense you are calling them a truthest whom has no fear of speaking that truth.\n\nBeing a racist is most often being closer to the truth than those who try to diguise it by being appeasers. \n\nBut the definition does not fit the word because it makes one believe that one is racist because he believes his race is superior to another.  Fact is that is not true. Most often people whom have been labled racist are often teling the truth. The word is desgned only to silence that person from speaking the truth. \n\nFact is , blacks are more racist than any group of people but that lable is  almost taboo to try and attach to a black person because of false diverstity and appeasement expected unto them .\n\nAnyone who says they are not racist or have never been racist is a liar. Fact is anyone who will not admit that blacks are most racist people on earth is a liar!\n\nWe are all racist. some of us are honest enough to admit it and hold no shame of the lable because it bares us as truthest who will not lie to ourselves or others out of trained appeasement and and fraudulent diversity . There is no such thing as diversity . As a white you are expected to be diverse to all other groups while yu are also expected to forget your own heritage and pride in order to bolster theirs. Diveristy is as fraudulent the alledged Civil Rights Movement. To admit the Civil Rights Movemnet is a failure would be to destroy your pretty little lables of white people and make them the word of truth and destroy the meaning of racist , diverstity and any of the anti's people love to lable whites with.\n\nTo hell with diveristy! being called a racist is confirming  your honesty and should be worn as a badge of honor that you speak the truth. To be diverse is to be controlled and phony, and untruthful to ones self and reality of perception of what one sees as truth.\n\nWE all hate something or some race, anyone who says they do not is a liar of the highest degrees. I love the racist who talk about other races and when in their company suck up and demean other people who are racist in front of them. They are the greatest of the hypocrits adn the greatest of the liars!\n\nQuit searching for answers. Deep in your soul you know who the real racist are so quit lying to yourself and others. The real racist are those who are first to lable you racist because they wish to shut you up about telling the truth about their race or another race they have been trained to protect  from the truth.\n\nBeing a called a racist means someone is trying to protect that race from the truth. That is lying and all liars go to hell. Be truthful, that is not racist. That is the only way you can help another race. By covering for them with stupid words to guard them against the truth , you are hurting them as a race and giving them the excuse to live the lie and to go on doing the racist things they do while calling others racist.\n\nRoyal" You are wrong that color comes from "UV" if that were the fact then all babies would be born "white" thereby letting the "UV" change them to their known race today. Do yo
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You know, Jesse's a trip.  Sometimes he seems a complete wacko and other times he makes very good sense.  I think he's right on target with this one though.  I agree with many people in the black community - Oprah, and my stepmom for example - that feel the use of that word, even the altered use among blacks, is never anything but degrading and just causes the word to be used carelessly by those who are ignorant.  We all know white people who love to try and "act" black, talking ghetto and using the "n" word because they want to fit in with that culture.  They are laughed at and deserve the derision they receive for doing so.  So even though many black people feel their use of the word negates the negativity of it for them in their culture, it still serves to propel the word forward as fodder for those who just aren't too bright.  I can't even count the times I have chastised someone for using that word and have them reply back to me "well black people say it why can't i?"  At that point I realize they are too much of a moron to even continue with the conversation.
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That people on this website don't know the meaning of the word "ignorant." They throw that word around as an insult, but it's not really that kind of word. Well, I'll letcha' go so you can look up that word for yourself. Thanks for letting me share.
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See. I told you. Their whole reasoning is flawed, and when you bring it to an intellectual level, they have no comments to make. Unless of course it is to call you a racist, or some similar nonsense.