so who is....

[gooseman the first]

racist over steriotypes?

i play online in c&c 3 and there's so many racists there, when i ask why, they reply with total steriotypes. its the most dumb thing in the world!!
you cant judge an entire country or race on what you think they're like, you have to meet at least a few people before you can make any form of decision and anyone who doesnt is just stupid.
one example i came across was a guy who was racist toward irish, which you may have guessed is what i am (irish, not racist). so i asked him what was wrong with them, his reply was a list of steriotypes, all red haired, all drunk etc. which is rediculous and completely wrong!! (sorry to burst some of your bubbles about the drunk bit)
another guy joined in with stupid uninformed nonsence that we're all stupid, we have no money(both of whitch is completely wrong), we dont use nucular energy(we dont have to) and several others.

sorry for the rant but it just really pisses me off when people are blatantly ignorant and steriotypical and especially racist, i feel like punching them in the face for it, and since they havent perfected the virtual punch yet i have to vent another way, thus this post.

so does anyone here make uninformed decisisions about their opinion of an entire country or race? (i do hope not)

p.s. if any mod feels that any of this is innappropriate feel free to edit, i just had to say it that way at least once

[Biscuit]

I know too many racists
I'm Irish and I only know like 3 ginger people.
It's the same everywhere.. everyone has stereotypes of people who are of another race or from another country.
I don't care what race or what country they're from as long as they're nice.
There will always be racism as there will always be idiots around. Fact.

[Spacey]

...its the most dumb thing in the world!!...

All that and you use a negative term describing mentally handicapped people to describe someone who is racist?

You post has been edited in olive.

[gooseman the first]

sorry, i didnt realise. i dont describe mentally handicapped people as anything other than just normal people.

[Come_Forth]

It is easy to do, several commonly used words are like that.
dumb
lame
retarded
gay

Stereotypes are annoying, but sadly humans fear the unknown so we would rather make up crap then learn the truth.

*goes back to wasting time and typing spam*

[The Xeno]

i play online in c&c 3 and there's so many racists there, when i ask why, they reply with total steriotypes. its the most dumb thing in the world!!

You've heard nothing unless you've been on the old Tribes servers. I've found that most online-games have their own culture, and (some servers) of tribes happened to revolve around finding the most ludicrous racial slurs googleable and cobbling them together into an ignorant wad of self-mockery ... I think it got so bad a web-comic even alluded to it. <_<

However, I would like to be sure we separate racism from stereotyping. I see the first as always a negative - but I find that stereotyping has both positive and negative sides, for there is often some truth to it - while racism has nothing but hate.

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It is easy to do, several commonly used words are like that.
dumb
lame
retarded
gay

All unfortunate, but the last especially (from a word and not societal standpoint), for it has been distilled and butchered the most.

[Biscuit]

gay

The funny/sad thing about that word is that most people don't even know the actual meaning of that word.

[Adnihilo]

, i see you were dealing with a race for which all steriotypes a true

a dumbass

gay

The funny/sad thing about that word is that most people don't even know the actual meaning of that word.

happy

[Biscuit]

Looks like you found the online dictionary
Only joking.
I have actually asked a number of people who use the word "gay" in an "insulting manner" what it meant and they had no idea apart from it meaning homosexual and most people would (should) know what it really means.

[The Xeno]

I have actually asked a number of people who use the word "gay" in an "insulting manner" what it meant and they had no idea apart from it meaning homosexual and most people would (should) know what it really means.

Aye - the hijacking of gay, and queer especially, always makes me rather furious. The ignorance that accompanies such a takeover is however, the real disease.



*sings*.... I'd love to change the world... */sings*

[Biscuit]

It's a shame really.
We all wish we could change the world to the perfect image in our minds but there will always be nae-sayers and ignorant people.

[Adnihilo]

Looks like you found the online dictionary
Only joking.
I have actually asked a number of people who use the word "gay" in an "insulting manner" what it meant and they had no idea apart from it meaning homosexual and most people would (should) know what it really means.

i always known that

in shool if you were called gay the comeback was always "yess i know im happy"

[Biscuit]

That's my reply to being called that as well

[Desnar]

Hard to ignore a racist when he is waving a fist at you.

Thats a long story

[Vendetta]

in shool if you were called gay the comeback was always "yess i know im happy"

Ohhhhh so thats what I was doing wrong. I always said "I know im gay"

Then they would laugh and laugh, and I would cry and cry

Ohh and Spacey, you would have to be pretty "mentally challenged" to be racist, so i dont think it needed changing.

But yeah racism sucks.

N.Ireland FTW.