Do you believe racists feel inherently stupid and infeior about themselves?
608540
Yes i think they feel totally inferior, fear and the insecurity that another person of a different race may succeed where they have failed and in their country too. Their actions are based on total inferiority complex
762957
no that doesn't make you racist...   especially if you are just showing pride in your own race and heritage.. your racist when you think a certain race is better, or think another race is inferior to yours, etc.
344090
No.  You just realized how sad, narrow minded they are.  Kind of like feeling bad for someone who has a mental handy cap.  It's also a sign of low class, so again that's kind of feeling bad for the underprivileged.  Remember, racists come in all colours.  I've been a victim of reverse discrimination a few times as well as one of my children in a school where she was the minority.
832919
you sounds racist and it sounds like you look at the outside and not the inside.... vary bad. The only way you will change is if you really want to and you are right that does get on other people's nerves. I bet some people look at you and feel the same way and you also sounds kinda pharanoid..... i knew someone who was pharanoid.... after 40 years she finally got sent to the mental hospital for loosing it at her job.... please don;t be like that... that's all we need is some more syco's!
193813
As a black male (and understand that I do not speak for everyone at all), I think it's all bull.  I have seen what the question maker has said happen too and it's nonsense.  But just as often as it is nonsense, it is real.\n\nI am not one of those (as I call them) "Angry "Insert race Here" People that blame everything on my race.  In fact, I blame nothing on my race, if someone is a jerk to me, I'll assume it's because I did something to offend them.  If it turns out they are racist, then no skin off my back, I know I'm a good person and they are lacking what could have been a good friend.  This does not mean I will treat them differently might I add, I'll act with them as I would with anyone else.  You may ask why, because it's not MY problem.  If I react to them being racist, it gives them a reason to be racist.  \n\nBack on topic, it is sad when people use the "race card" as mentioned above, but what I would ask folks if to look for the ones that are using that card just as much as you look to folks like me, that may be treated with racial bias for real and yet don't pull that nonsense.\n\nAnd either way it can be racism.
912107
you probably wouldnt have questioned yourself if you were racist before the great invasion of immigrants to descent on our doorsteps, our anger should be at the government and not the immigrants, its the government that is taking the piss out of us, the immigrants are only accepting what is being offered to them and if it is an improvement on their normal life, who isnt going to accept!\nits a very good question and i am sure will receive mixed views
372033
I don't believe people are racist.I truly think they are fearful of what my happen when they let there enter self take over with feelings that make them say and do fearful things . You do have to say a lot has happen.Give them time to get to know you and see if you still feel the same way .Are maybe them are the people you just need to still away from.
1157822
When they answer questions like me!!!\n\nI think being stupid is just an expresion that is used for any person that at the moment didnt take any time to think of the question he made or of the answer.\nOr it could also be a person that lacks the capacity to intelegently evualuate situations because of his childhood or because of some hard punch to his head.
452630
No. I don't categorically write off an entire race. I tend to write off small minded bigots though!
1050012
I'm African American.  And there are racists within my race.  There are also racists within the Caucasian race.  Also, Oriental and Latino.  I guess squeaky wheels get the grease.  Most of us that are not racist, of all colors and all races, are too busy living our lives and having fun with the different people of these races; mingling with them and living in peace.  While every waking day of these poor peoples' lives, they spend trying to find ways to hurt or make us guys feel bad or inferior.  Could you imagine, long ago, being a woman and not being able to vote?  i.e., Knowing damn well you're much smarter than the jerk off drunk idiot councilman who you work for.  This is the control of racism.  Luckily, women, African-Americans, some poor whites and Asians have pulled themselves up by their bootstraps and continuously fight to make it right.  And just remember, they wake up being racists.  We (non-racists) wake up accepting everyone until they give us a reason not to.\nGod Bless You All
313937
Why do you feel the need to call people out in such a way. I don't enjoy talking to ignorant people myself but we're on a public website and I wouldn't call anyone stupid. I'm not trying to be mean but that's rude not mention it makes it seem like you feel as though you're superior. \n\nMaybe people talk the way talk and spell the way spell and think the way think because they weren't given the proper tools as young-lings. Just maybe, you should try to know some of the people that you feel are stupid and you might see them in a  totally different light. I feel you on being annoyed by ignorance, but sometimes people need a break because of their upbringing/schooling or lack of. Feel me?
425225
what do you mean by "you people" are you some kind of racist?
419198
Damn, just when I thought I knew myself, I became a racist. Who knew?\n\nhmmmm........
1066291
Although, I was born and brought up in Britain, I feel, increasingly,  that I am living amongst people who's attitudes and views I simply cannot share.\n\nYou refer to people, who, all too easily throw the word RACIST about. This childish name calling, of course, is designed to silence those who hold a differing view. It implies, that if you don't conform to the "right on " political agenda, your opinions are simply beneath contempt. Many people who behave like that simply do not understand that creating a climate of fear, in which people are afraid to discuss perfectly reasonable areas of concern or perhaps express an opinion, leads us toward totalitarianism.\n\nOf course, most people who behave like this are pursuing an ideological agenda, generally associated with left wing or liberal politics. Others, particularly younger people, may feel that it is chic to espouse what seems to be the fashionable view. It's safer that way, your less likely to look stupid and you don't have to think.\n\n I know that your primary concern is - why do people behave like this?\nIf you consider the influences that are operating over people today, particularly younger people, you will be less surprised. eg. We have a government that is radical, if not revolutionary, pursuing a feminist agenda. We have a media which is also doing its level best to indoctrinate its viewers into left wing and feminist politics. The educational system is doing an even better job, and has done so for many years, of indoctrinating students with its feminist and left of centre politics. I could go on and include, The legislature, The public sector, etc.\n\nI suspect that you are concerned about immigration. That subject, above all, invokes the word "Racist" It's that kind of response that makes me believe that I am not living amongst realists. Do you ever remember being asked by any political party - what your views on immigration are? Have you ever seen the subject  included in any of their manifestos. No! you have simply been presented with a Fait Accompli.\n\nWhat many people don't seem to understand, is, that the issue is not a personal one, I am sure, like you, that  I would get on perfectly well with most immigrants. But that is not the point. Managing a country is not personal: It has to be managed at the macro level in the long term interest of the country as a whole.\n\nIf you tried to put that point to Matthew  Wright of the "Wright Stuff". TV. programme. He would probably put the phone down on you. I have watched him do that sort of thing usually after sneering at the Daily Mail newspaper.\n\n We observe similar sneering on "Question Time" that other TV programme with a rather lefty bias.\n\nSorry, for banging on, but your question cannot be answered simplisticly, one has to try and describe  the circumstances which have given rise to the attitudes underlined by your question.
1121211
I guess a lot of people aren't so sure about their own worth, and it's always nice to be able to look down on someone who you think is worse than you. Probably makes you feel better. In the absence of real achievements your own skin color/nationality/religion just has to do as THE important characteristic to base your worth on. \nThe great thing about racism is that you actually don't have to do anything to be superior. It allows even the most useless person some delusions of adequacy.
391785
yes.  i believe everyone is racist, including me.  we live in a world that tells us since childbirth that dark people are bad.  if u are in a family of dark-complected people, chances are they tell u the opposite- that white people are evil.  society is setup this way, so I'm wary of anyone who says they have totally escaped this conditioning- don't trust them on that. \n\ni realize that i contain this bias and I'm always trying to improve it... rather than most people who deny they have any racism in themselves, and never try to improve it, since they won't admit they have a problem. \n\nit's a worldwide problem.  I'm American but a friend from India once told me that "anywhere i go, I'll catch hell" because of my dark skin.
658057
nickelodeon05, this is for you:\nYou obviously feel strongly about your race and racism. I understand you feeling the way you do, but look at it this way. You(you in general) call white people profound racial names such as cracker and honkey, but when a white person slips the forbidden N word out into the open, that person and everyone they're talking to is "gonna get popped". You said that an African American only calls a white person racist when he or she feels that they are being racist, but you forgot to mention that because of the past, you feel even a slight look into your eyes is a racial remark towards you. You said your youth wasn't alive when Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcom X were alive, but you ALSO weren't alive way back when there was enslaving and brutality to your race. It's funny how people only act by the bad things and not the good. Look what you fought for, are you showing respect for what you got, equality, by trying to push yourselves higher in the food chain by pulling guilt trips on white people? I know many intellegent African Americans who have gotten over the whole "you're white and I'm black so that means you're racist" thing. And what would you have done if some black thug kids started threatening your children in such a manor that it bothered you enough to say something? Honestly, Put yourself in someone else's shoes before you go discriminating against someone who just acted upon their instincts of protecting their children. \n\nI'm friends with a lot of skinheads, but I'm also friends with a lot of African Americans. I see the view point from both sides, and it's just a big stupid misunderstanding. When people start threatening small children, then that's just going too low. I have no idea why teens are going back to the ghetto and wanting to be thugs again. Their motives are not usually the best, and these kids just don't understand much about anything. Ignorance is the start of all wars.