racism and prejudice are gay ( why im I using one atm ? doh)

if only people would hate each other for the person that they are :O

heh, i just saw, three threads below the one i linked, theres one called "he deserved the curb". lol anyone whos seen the film knows what i mean.

history x

hm i didnt see it, and yes i know what you mean ;]

I had a dream today...

So many people are so DUMB.

I think it's far too easy to discriminate against people based on experience. I once spoke to a guy who was openly racist. When I asked why, it turned out that the area in which he lived had a large Asian population and he had been mugged by Asian people several times. He decided to make the generalisation that it must be Asians that do this sort of thing and started to dislike them for it. This to me isn't the intelligent assumption to make. I would put it down to age and social situation.

Now this is only one example of why people can build up a hate for one or more races of people. If you look at certain towns and cities in the UK you will see another reason for racism. You see a massive increase in the population of a certain race of people, Bradford is a good example. It is too complicated to go in to why there is so much racism in these towns but it is partly to do with low wages, unemployment and a large amount of migrant/immigrant workers. This is not helped by older people within the community who are racist because they have probably pushed their views on to their children (who will all be adults now).

I am fortunate to come from London which has such a mix of people from different ethnic backgrounds. I also went to schools that were representative of the community and as a result I think I benefited from my environment. I think a lot of children didn't have/don't have this privilege and if their parents have racist views what's to stop them thinking racism is ok? This tied with young peoples behaviour in this country is just a recipe for disaster. It also doesn't help that the BNP has taken advantage of this situation.

I don't know what it is like in other countries but I'm sure that if racism is on the increase they could possibly share some of the same problems as the UK. I think what we need is better education about racism in schools, especially in areas where racial tension is running high.

> I think what we need is better education about racism

I think that's the wrong way.

> where racial tension is running high

Decrease the tension :)

How do you decrease the tension though? When you are a child you learn a lot from your parents and you inherit some of their views. If your parent is always there making racist comments you will think it is acceptable to be racist. So what can you do to stop these children from growing up being racist? In my opinion education is a great way to go about it. I mean we have classes in school where they talk to us about safe sex and family planning. It may not work for everyone but it works for a lot of people and so I don’t see why it can’t do the same for racism. However, having said that, I also think that the government needs to have more input.

Ideally the government needs to try and improve the social situation in many towns and cities. I'll take Bradford as an example. Bradford used to be a highly industrial town and its main trade was wool. The problem was that companies started to move their production to other countries because labour was cheaper. As a result the economy of Bradford collapsed and it has never recovered. The government needs to help towns and cities like this get back on their feet. This will raise wages and increase job chances which will make everyone happy and will take away some of the reasons for racism in these areas.

You already mentioned education and the improvement of the social situation. The latter has to be both directed at the own country and through development aid for third world countries. Beside that integration is an important measure. Immigrants have to integrate into the society they are surrounded by by at least learning the language properly and achieving a comprehensive understanding of their culture (note the difference between integration and assimilation). Education has to be furthered and demanded on both sides. The foreign must not be strange. Thereby you decrease fear which is essentially the reason for racism.

plus for frank :)

thing is tho, i grew up outside of london, and then moved there as u know, and i found that this made it easier to see why people could be racist..
i didnt have any concept of why people could hate others because of their differences, until i moved to london.

that might sound a bit odd, but when you hear stories like the asian kids and the black kids fighting on the top of a london bus yesterday, you kinda get what i mean, i think

Goddamn i hate racists. They really are the scum of the universe.

You're right, you should blame age and environment.

If you're poor as fuck, you wouldn't be racist - you'd be very angry and selfish in order to survive poverty

If you're rich as fuck, you would be racist towards those beneath you - "the animals" And since it is true 95% of the rich people are white, and remember... you can't forget... many rich people come from old money - which means they probably had slaves in their family before and the "family theory" lives on to this day

If you're in between rich and poor, you would be racist toward anyone who thinks differently or is different. And since MOST people in USA are in-between, they abhor blacks because of the way they talk, dress and what they believe in.

"They don't even wanna get outta the ghetto! They don't even wanna work a legit job! They either grow up to be the smart crack seller or in prison!"

Dumb to be racist, it only means you're so uneducated. If a person was white and lived in absolute poverty, they are going to do whatever the cost to live, just like anyone else would. If you asked me why many mixed cultures live in ghettos, it is because they're afraid to be alone in the huge country of USA. It is better to be where most of your kind is, and since blacks have an internal intuition to be amongst their own kind (tribal influence throughout generation in africa).

I say down with racist people too, but black people are just as bad towards whites too... Its gotta stop both ways

aahahahah.

thats lol. the media and entertainment industry is racist. movies from the middle east and africa should be shown more, but they wont be because the west is full of racists. iranian movies are some of the best movies i have ever seen in my life and many have won awards, yet they get no attension.

every multi culture show is about how we can live together with one another. these shows are the manipulative crap which fuel more hate.

name one available

they arent available, thats my point. couple were on tv in uk but they were on at 4 in the morning

ive seen cow, still life and a couple of others i cant remember the name of. english is partly a barrier i suppose, but east asian films havent had this trouble.

aw another was " Where Is the Friend's Home?", this one is very good, very moral.

"but i am worried about the increase in racism recently"


reading from the pov of a half-black, half-korean U.S. American that grew up going to a pre-dominantly black elementary/middle school in an all-black neighborhood, and then to a pre-dominantly white catholic school (and i'm not catholic)...and not to mention living in europe for 3 years where i could walk into most any of north/eastern europe's discos (i should add austria, italy, and even paris) and all but bring most clubs to a halt just by walking in (this wasn't always a bad thing)...and now being back in my own country, and in california of all places - i get pulled over by police at least once every few weeks because my face is darker than theirs' and i drive a nice car.

i must ask: recently what? were y


ps - i'm so floored by this that i no longer have the will to finish this post.

thank the media, which has probably been influenced by the government. the US people have become completely blind to politics since they stopped teaching politics in schools decades ago. its happening in the UK now with all those "school reforms".

these comments are nothing compared to whats going on in places like guantanamo bay. its nazi like.

24 years old and seen so little:(

hey naz :)

and youre right, its scary. times are changing and its just as scary as the little thug children that are growing up on the estates and that

everyones so badly behaved, and usually its because of their parents no having enough control and its just a downward spiral from there.

thing is, where racism is definately "handed down" thru families, its also become "cool" to be racist, and some people take it just that far.

we see more of it on the internet because its so anonymous, and easy to say those things (and i dont mean cs kiddie racism, i mean like you pasted).. but thats where it spreads around easiest too.

wonder how many american hist x rallies go on now ?

times are changing

littewoods man did a song of same name ahhaha

who is this littlewoods man?

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I think I broadly agree. There are two things going on: racism is an absurd prejudice based on something individuals have no control over and that can only lead to conflict. This should not be confused with a clash of cultures (although this is never an excuse for racism, people like the BNP are becoming more subtle with their use of tags to abuse a racial group without breaking anti-race hate laws). There are growing problems in the UK with groups not intergrating at all into mainstream society. It does not require that people abandon their identity but there are certain absolutes of British society (the rule of law, democracy, women's equality and rights) that have no leeway. It is not 'culturally relative' to flout these precepts of our society.

As a nation free speech is being erroded by political correctness for it's own sake that does nothing to promote equality and a broad mono-culture. Multi-culturalism implies seperateness to me.

political education went bye bye decades ago and within the last 60-40 decades, it begun having a big effect.

Unfortunately the average IQ of people online (int he world?) is estimated to be equal to that of a common garden snail.

Especially the kiddies, who throw racist remarks around with no real intelligence around the subject. They do not understand the suffering and killing that people endured over the decades.

And it'll never change, because the world is over populated, because stupid people keep breeding. If I ruled the world, people would be born sterile, and would have to pass an IQ test before allowed to breed. Killers and rapists would be used for medical testing, instead of cute fuffy rabbits and cool monkeys.

I would also remove arrogant online people, who turn out to be complete spineless pussies (I refrained from using a more accurate swear word there) at LAN's *spit*

Edit: American History X is already a classic film, love it.

meaning *b0se DNA would be wiped from existance.

haw haw [-]

:p

what this movie shows us is that not all racists are white trash low iq rednecks.

sure it does

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In the past hatred against foreign people and countries have always existed. After WW2 then the end of colonialism and communism in European countries things have calmed down.
Only remains some racism amongst a still strong minority of people. It will surely progressively diseappear if we care enough about it and the political situation doesn't degrade too much.