Racism
Posted: Fri Oct 02, 2009 6:38 am
What do you consider being racism?
Klux Klux Klan being the most famous racist and xenophobic organisation..but clearly if you investigate more, you will find similar groups preaching one "race" superiority compared to others.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_supremacy[/spoiler]
Racism is of course not limited to white towards others, but concerns every ethny and nationality.
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For further reading:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_supremacy[/spoiler]
Antisemitism being the other kind of "racism", but this time related to religion (most known antisemitic countries were USSR during Stalin's reign and Nazi Germany).
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However, racism is overly used nowadays, mostly by "antifascist" groups, placed on the far left wing
[spoiler]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_anti-fascism[/spoiler] and aren't much more respectable than whom they are fighting. Also, antiracism policy happend on some cases to promote reversed racism (towards white people), as in the below example
Affirmative action is another controversial concept, meant to increase minorities access to universities and jobs
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but obviously, it causes unwanted side effects:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_discrimination
I will end with an example of what is real racism, and so called "racism" (victimising racism). Try to find which one is racism.
Mr Turner is looking for an employee, he has two candidates. One is a black 22 years old black pot smoking dude who is still in first year of university. He obtained his high school diploma by few points. He is known to be lazy. He's not efficient and only speak a minimal spanish aside of english. The other is a white 25 years old man with a Master degree. He has a good CV, and speaks 3 other languages.
Mr Turner decides to pick the white man.
Mr Grove is looking for an employee, he has two candidates. One is a black 29 years old woman with a master degree. Very good CV, not a troublemaker at work, 4 languages well practiced. The other candidate is a white 26 years old man, who only has an high school diploma. CV is average, only speaks english. No other candidates.
He decides however to pick the guy, despite woman's CV. he didn't mention either high diplomed people weren't wanted to candidate. There was no specifying other than having minimal of high school diploma.
Yes, it's full of spoilers, but well...
Princeton dictionary wrote:# the prejudice that members of one race are intrinsically superior to members of other races
# discriminatory or abusive behavior towards members of another race
Klux Klux Klan being the most famous racist and xenophobic organisation..but clearly if you investigate more, you will find similar groups preaching one "race" superiority compared to others.
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wiki wrote:Ku Klux Klan (KKK), informally known as The Klan, is the name of several past and present hate group organizations in the United States whose avowed purpose was to protect the rights of and further the interests of white Americans by violence and intimidation. The first such organizations originated in the Southern states and eventually grew to national scope. They developed iconic white costumes consisting of robes, masks, and conical hats. The KKK has a record of using terrorism,[2] violence, and lynching to murder and oppress African Americans, Jews and other minorities and to intimidate and oppose Roman Catholics and labor unions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_supremacy[/spoiler]
Racism is of course not limited to white towards others, but concerns every ethny and nationality.
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wiki wrote:The term black supremacy describes a racist ideology based on the assertion that black people are superior to other racial groups.
For further reading:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_supremacy[/spoiler]
Antisemitism being the other kind of "racism", but this time related to religion (most known antisemitic countries were USSR during Stalin's reign and Nazi Germany).
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[/spoiler]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism
Antisemitism (also spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism) is prejudice against or hostility towards Jews, often rooted in hatred of their ethnic background, culture, or religion. While the term's etymology might suggest that antisemitism is directed against all Semitic peoples, since the term was invented it has been used to refer exclusively to hostility toward Jews.[1][2]
Antisemitism may be manifested in many ways, ranging from individual expressions of hatred and discrimination against individual Jews to organized violent attacks by mobs or even state police or military attacks on entire Jewish communities. Extreme instances of persecution include the First Crusade of 1096, the expulsion from England in 1290, the Spanish Inquisition, the expulsion from Spain in 1492, the expulsion from Portugal in 1497, various pogroms, and perhaps the most infamous, the Holocaust under Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany.
However, racism is overly used nowadays, mostly by "antifascist" groups, placed on the far left wing
[spoiler]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_anti-fascism[/spoiler] and aren't much more respectable than whom they are fighting. Also, antiracism policy happend on some cases to promote reversed racism (towards white people), as in the below example
Many of these uses have been controversial. For example, the pro-life movement often draws connections between its goals and the goals of abolitionism. In Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe has used anti-racist rhetoric to a land distribution scheme which resulted in widespread starvation. However, it has been argued that President Mugabe himself heads a racist government due to his blatant acts of hostility and oppression toward White Zimbabweans (see Land reform in Zimbabwe).[1][2][3]
Affirmative action is another controversial concept, meant to increase minorities access to universities and jobs
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[/spoiler]The terms affirmative action and positive action[1][2] refer to policies that take race, ethnicity, or gender into consideration in an attempt to promote equal opportunity or increase ethnic or other forms of diversity. The focus of such policies ranges from employment and education to public contracting and health programs. The impetus towards affirmative action is twofold: to maximize diversity in all levels of society, along with its presumed benefits, and to redress perceived disadvantages due to overt, institutional, or involuntary discrimination. Opponents argue that it promotes reverse discrimination.
but obviously, it causes unwanted side effects:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_discrimination
Reverse discrimination is denial of equal protection of the laws and is viewed as discrimination on the basis of race by opponents of racial quota programs (a.k.a. reverse racism),[1][2] while proponents of racial quotas and affirmative action programs generally view it as discrimination against members of a dominant or majority group in order to promote members of a minority or consistently disadvantaged group (benign discrimination).[3] However, to the individuals concerned it still discriminates against one in favour of another based on race/gender/disability.
I will end with an example of what is real racism, and so called "racism" (victimising racism). Try to find which one is racism.
Mr Turner is looking for an employee, he has two candidates. One is a black 22 years old black pot smoking dude who is still in first year of university. He obtained his high school diploma by few points. He is known to be lazy. He's not efficient and only speak a minimal spanish aside of english. The other is a white 25 years old man with a Master degree. He has a good CV, and speaks 3 other languages.
Mr Turner decides to pick the white man.
Mr Grove is looking for an employee, he has two candidates. One is a black 29 years old woman with a master degree. Very good CV, not a troublemaker at work, 4 languages well practiced. The other candidate is a white 26 years old man, who only has an high school diploma. CV is average, only speaks english. No other candidates.
He decides however to pick the guy, despite woman's CV. he didn't mention either high diplomed people weren't wanted to candidate. There was no specifying other than having minimal of high school diploma.
Yes, it's full of spoilers, but well...
