What makes everybody automatically call Americans racist?
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You know maybe I'm different.The race card has no effect on me.Its simply to detract you from stating your point of view.I don't care what anyone calls me .I know who I am.I know whats in my heart.So call me anything your heart desires.I will still be anti illegal alien,I will still support the Border Patrol and the Minute Men,I will still be against amnesty.And I will still be very proud to be a native born American that loves her country.Words are not bullets they can not hurt you unless you enable them by reacting to them.Words hold no mysterious power over what kind of person I am or how I'm going to react to something some one labels me with.\nI am a woman that is very secure in my views and my outlook on life.
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Hating is ignorance, I don't think that anyone hates you because of your ethnicity/race or religion. America is a diverse country too. Some naive Americans may hate certain people and it is around all races hating on each other, not just everybody hating on Arabs. Just because of the acts of few of your people is all it takes for some Americans to draw a conclusion about your ENTIRE RACE and start to hate. IGNORANCE.\n\nI am sure, there is racism in your countries as well against Black Arabs, or the Filipinos or other Asians working/living there. No doubt.
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Not racism, a stereotype. Different word. It is a stereotype to call all Americans racist.\nA very incorrect one, too.
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Listen, you ignorant person. \n\nNobody is against IMMIGRATION. Its ILLEGAL immigration thats the problem. And everybody should be upset about it, not just Republican and Democrats. To say thats racist is absurd, ignorant and morally dishonest.
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Yes, African-Americans can be racist. \nHowever, it is my firm belief that white people are the superior domination of this planet.(this is not meant to be racist)This means there are more white people than any other nationality in the world, Japan/China is second. \nThere are many other races and all of them are capable of racism even the dominating "species" can be racist. \nIt is unfortunate that racism exists. But it does and once taught, it stays with us and gets passed down.\nRacism has been around since the dawn of man, NO ONE is immune to it. \nWe have all experienced racism once or twice(if not more) in our life. \nI am only one person out of the trillions of people who live on this planet. \nI DO NOT discrimate anyone, and I do not tolerate racism. \nI am only one person, but anyone who try to put thier racism on me will be PUT IN THIER PLACE!!!\nWe are all beautiful, no matter what color we are. We are all unique and special. NO one has the right to judge/discrimate anybody. \nI don't want to be like the others who maybe racist. I choose to be different and love mankind as a whole, NOT based on color. \nPS...Whatever your nationality is being african-american, caucasion, etc. we should cherish our heritage and be proud of who we are and were we came from!! \nGod Bless America and all the other nations of this Earth!!\nHope this helped answer your question.
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I've noticed that here, too.  You don't have to mention anything about any particular race of human beings; just say you are against all illegal immigration in the USA, and you are jumped on and called a racist.  I do know that it is because they cannot reasonably and logically justify the presence of illegal immigrants and so they resort to name calling because of their lack of anything to back up their stance.  Usually, too, I have found that most of those who back illegal immigrants are either in a romantic relationship with an illegal, have close friends who are illegals, have family members who are illegal, sometimes are illegal themselves, or own a business in which they prosper by hiring illegals and benefiting from their slave labour by paying cheap wages without having to pay the employers share of taxes, etc. (thereby cheating legal immigrants and American citizens), or like to also pay cheap by hiring illegals to do their housework, yardwork, childcare, etc. (again, benefiting personally from illegals).
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Saying someone is racist is a quick way to get out of a debate if you are losing. just like that english national language bill passed recently. Many people called it "racist" because they were against it. It only damages their own side and makes them lose credibility. I liked when one senator asked "what color is english?"\n\nNow if someone is losing a debate on illegals (can't find positives for illegal immigration) they will say "Well you're just racist!" or "you're a redneck!". They just resort to name calling'\n\n"Because your racist." -- Pancha\n\nsee pancha is probably the worst one on here, all of her posts say what I just pointed out. She either says "you're racist" or "you're a redneck". Even though I live in new england.\n\n\n"primarily because "whites" were the last to have slaves in our country and that wound is still fresh albeit it happened 40 to 50 years ago."\n\nWhat?? Slavery ended in the early 1800s. Hundreds of thousands of white people died in the civil war over it.\n\nAnd your comment about racism still existing. yes it does and we must not put any laws against it. Whether it be black on white or white on black. We can't become anti-freedom of speech.\n\n"Take a trip outside of your safe borders and get a whole new perspective of the WORLD. Then you will begin to see........ if you'r not in denial or a coward."\n\nYeah we are not talking about third world countries, we are discussing people selfishly using the race card in the USA to win arguements.\n\n"IF YOU WERE ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE I'M VERY SURE YOU WOULD NOT BE COMPLAINING ABOUT PULLING "THE RACE CARD.""\n\nUhh yeah because the klan is still running around lynching people and blacks and minorities aer still being oppressed by the gov. Wake up in the 21st century, its over. No one is being discriminated. May be someone will make fun of you for who you are in life, but how is that severe? Happens to everyone.\n\nAnd the people using teh race card are usually white liberals who are losing the debate on illegal immigration.
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Racism is everywhere.  In the south, it's turned more from people of color, to immigrants.
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Don't generlize not ALL american are racist..that is a misconception. Some are racist by the way they are taught or just plain hate. I hope you know that not all americans are racist and this answers your quesiton
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We are all racists in one way or another.  No matter what you or anyone else says.  Everyone is profiled by others and we all do it.  You see a fat person and you treat that person different then another, a whore that stand on the corner, the bum in the park, the Jew, the black man, the white man.  There has always been racism and always will.  It is a part of our inperfect nature.
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People can be brainwashed to become racist.  Their ignorance clouds their thoughts and they take it out on other groups. Some people use sterotypes to generalize about other races.  It is a shame.  \n\nAmerica is a melting pot and sometimes conflicts between groups arise.
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Who says we americans are racist? some are.. but not all of us.
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It's only racist if you chosse to make it racist. \n\nUnfounded racial hatred is deplorable, but the looney left have reclassified perfectly innocent phrases as racism.
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What is wrong with just being called AMERICAN?
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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.
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I agree with you 100%.  It makes us racist because throwing the race card is the easiest way for someone who has a differance of oppinion, to shut you up.  If you dissagree with someone of a different race, then calling you racist is the fastest way for them to win the argument whether they are right or not.  Because I am white, just agreeing with you makes me racist.  (even though my best friend is black and my girlfriend is asian)  the great american hipocracy.
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First of all let's be clear--the vast majority of people who talk of racism the most generally don't even understand what racism is.  By definition racism consists of one of three things:\n\n1.  Taking a specific example and applying it to all people of a particular race (a driver is cut off by a white driver and from then on claims that ALL whites are impolite or unware drivers.)\n\n2.  Assigning similar traits to ALL people of a particular race (all blacks enjoy basketball, all Asians are good at math, all whites marry their relatives, all Mexicans are lazy and inherently uneducated, etc...)\n\n3.  Placing the various races on tiers of some sore (the smartest race is _____, the best athletes are always _____, the dumbest race has to be ____)\n\nIf your attitudes or opinsion do not fall into this category they are not racist opinions or attitudes.  For example if one were to say, "The vast majory of crimes committed in America are commited by non-whites," that is NOT a racist statement, because it is a proven fact that can be verified with statistical information.  If one were to say, "A lot of whites are intolerrant of non-whites," that is a true statement, because they do not say, "ALL" whites, they simply state that a lot are--which is true.  There are many statements that uneducated and poorly read people claim are racist which in realilty are not racist at all.  Simply because someone says something about your race that makes you angry, does NOT make that statement racist in nature.  To say that most Asians are good students is a correct statement--the drop-out rate among Asians is the lowest in the United States.  Inversely, to say that Hispanics are the lest educated group in the United States is also correct--Hispanics drop out of school at a MUCH higher rate than any other race.  Because that statistics makes someone angry does NOT make it untrue or racist.\n\nSo in answer to your questions--I think that virtually everyone has some racist notions to one degree or another.  Those who claim to be totally unracist probably don't understand what racism really is.  Being a professional teacher for 20 years I have found more EXCEPTIONS to racial stereotypes than examples of racial stereotypes.