What is racism and when does it start?

[Digman]

A German author and self-proclaimed anti-racism activist (Rebecca) Meyers says that starts when you call her "African? Do you see it that way too?

Original tweet:

https://twitter.com/wonderful_becca/status/1398477310114811906

 

[Joe Swanson]

I remember being in elementary school and there was one black kid in my class (actually from Africa) in my class. He was a little asshole who stank like shit, his actions negatively affected my perceptions of blacks long before I was aware of their shitty culture and violent tendencies

 

[Chilson]

A German author and self-proclaimed anti-racism activist (Rebecca) Meyers says that starts when you call her "African? Do you see it that way too?

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Original tweet:

https://twitter.com/wonderful_becca/status/1398477310114811906

I will take "Pics or it didn't happen" for a 100.

 

[TFT-A9]

Racism starts when you notice patterns of behavior.

The first time a white, or Asian, or Hispanic, or... well, pretty much any other racial identity but black kid gets hurt, stolen from, etc. by a black kid, it's "that kid is bad."
The second time, with a different black kid, it's confusion. They can't all be like that, right? You can't assume that. That's racist. That's bad. We learned that in class the other day.
The third, fourth, fifth times an initially-dim awareness starts to glimmer a bit brighter, and this non-black kid just habitually starts avoiding black kids. Pretty much all the black kids tend to stick to themselves anyway, when they're not marauding the other kids.
After that, the pattern recognition has come more or less fully into play. The non-black kid, if he hasn't already gone looking for satisfactory answers to all this, is looking for them. Maybe he finds some fucking bleeding-heart who shames him for being so racist, which leads to either intense internal conflict and self-loathing, or an immediate distrust of anyone who throws around the word "racist". Maybe he finds someone who very frankly acknowledges that blacks tend to be bad news more often than not.

Eventually a number of these non-black kids recognize that sure, they're not all awful people, but there's enough of them there. It's not like there aren't other kids who aren't awful, you're not really missing much by just avoiding the black kids entirely. You might agonize for a bit over why they are that way, but usually you'll just move on and quit wasting your time trying to figure out why bad people are bad.

 

[Peanut Butter in Peril]

My dad used to tolerate blacks, but then some ghetto niggers stole the copper pipes out of a house he rented out. He's hated them ever since.

 

[Seminal Ointments Lain]

1) a natural response to subhuman species
2) when you start paying attention

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

I remember being in elementary school and there was one black kid in my class (actually from Africa) in my class. He was a little asshole who stank like shit, his actions negatively affected my perceptions of blacks long before I was aware of their shitty culture and violent tendencies

Any specifics? This sounds like it'll be interesting. For all I hear about Africans being either shitty or hardworking I never get to hear anyone's first hand experience.

 

[UncleFezziesPantsPuppet]

Racism started when humans started to think.
This lady thinks only whites hold racist views. That’s pretty racist. But in all seriousness, no matter where you’re from, there will always be a form of racism.
Googled Racism in Africa and saw this.
But no, white invented racism like Christianity and Christmas.

 

[Bongocat]

Any specifics? This sounds like it'll be interesting. For all I hear about Africans being either shitty or hardworking I never get to hear anyone's first hand experience.

I had an African exchange student in my computer science courses. He not only struggled to understand fairly basic concepts, but he would get very angry when he didn't understand. He repeatedly made jokes about "killing his project partner". At some point I just stopped seeing him in class and I'm pretty sure everyone was relieved.

 

[TerribleIdeas™]

Racism started when humans started to think.
This lady thinks only whites hold racist views. That’s pretty racist. But in all seriousness, no matter where you’re from, there will always be a form of racism.
Googled Racism in Africa and saw this.
But no, white invented racism like Christianity and Christmas.

It started before that, every social species (at least, the mammalian ones) with any territorial instincts fears outsiders, and racism isn't anything other than fear of "the other tribe."

 

[WeWuzFinns]

Racism started when humans started to think.
This lady thinks only whites hold racist views. That’s pretty racist. But in all seriousness, no matter where you’re from, there will always be a form of racism.
Googled Racism in Africa and saw this.
But no, white invented racism like Christianity and Christmas.

Blacks are way more overrepresented than whites in the incapability to form thoughts, so it is no surprise that some of them can't even fathom that certain people can recognize patterns.

 

[Rungle]

Racism is when you wish harm upon black people physically or encourage harm to black people for just being born a different skin color.
I believe we moved on from saying nigger as an insult towards black people to use it as slang for a criminal/crook

Sadly all black people usually are niggers

 

[A Welsh Cake]

I was racist in the womb. I came out holding a Ben garrison comic.

 

[Fireman Sam]

Nigger.

That is all.

 

[Pokemonquistador2]

There is no racism, in that it's a constructed term used for political purposes. There's own-group preference, which people have been practicing since the dawn of time. At some point, human beings (mostly white people) realized you could forms groups on the basis of mutual shared interests and religion and leave race out of it, but the tendency to prefer those who look similar to you is too strong to die out. Once grifters realized they could profit by dividing people into victims and oppressors based on their race, and sell their services as "crusaders for restorative justice" to the "victims," it was the beginning of the end. A Prisoner's Dilemma has now risen up whereby those who prefer their race to others gain an advantage over those who refuse to discriminate based on race, or those who prefer other races to their own. You pretty much have to screw over other races if you want to survive in the long run, as long as they have it in their head that they must screw your race over to survive. But white people are so attached to pathological altruism thanks to pop culture and college brainwashing, that they'll happily lay down and die because they think it will make the world a better place. (It won't.)

 

[Lemmingwise]

(((Meyers)))

Has there been a single jewish activist in the history of the world who has tried to tackle jewish racism?

 

[Unyielding Stupidity]

Racism generally comes from two different origins, from what I've seen - those that've never had any experiences with said group and have racist opinions based solely on what they've been told by other or read about, and those who have had extremely negative person experiences with the group in question and despise them as a result. These two groups are going to behave differently, and the former is more likely to change their overall opinion and cease to be racist compared to the latter.

For example, compare and contrast an American who's never seen a Muslim in his life, but has a vitriolic hatred for them that could put even A-log's opinion of Chris to shame purely based on /pol/ shitposting or what their local pastor told them, and a Yazidi who had a large chunk of their family beheaded by ISIS for being infidels, who began despising Muslims as a result.

 

[Haim Arlosoroff]

A German author and self-proclaimed anti-racism activist (Rebecca) Meyers says that starts when you call her "African?

I mean, shes either Black, of Color, or African. If Blonde people were like Hollywood depicted them, we would have Jewish opinions of them too.

I would treat them like Israel treats Black Jews, kindly to their face and then somehow they're all sterilized. I would prefer more open honest dealings, but the situation is ongoing and I was born to late to allow such ethical niceties. However the majority of whites today are liberal so I don't even know what my in-group is coherently.

Do you see it that way too?

She is of another breeding population which competes with mine, and they are too socially close. White liberal women should be sacrificed while every other type of white girl but "fellow" escapes to better lands where white people can form healthy societies again. That is my honest emotional reaction, and I believe the majority of people feel that way and chose instead to suppress such thoughts.

 

[💗Freddie Freaker💗]

Racism beings when someone assumes every member of a racial group is the same.

 

[Willie Thrills]

Why do blacks keep commenting on racism like they experience it widely, without any regard for its formation?

Racism is politics on a tribal level, and at its core, "Grug think dark tribe is dangerous to Grug's tribe"

It can take form in some horrific ways, sometimes based on such minor lines as religious sect or vague ancestries, and you usually need a thousand-year history course to fully comprehend the problem.

I don't think blacks have ever actually experienced racism from any other race on that scale - they were considered as inhuman, not as threats. This is why black slaves were akin to livestock, whereas European slaves were usually there for "punishment"

This is why mullato farms existed, something which the current media fails to adequately describe, and why Australian convict ships had a 30% mortality rate.

The two are worlds apart, yet we use the same word to describe both. There are a lot of people heavily invested in convincing the public that those people rioting and screeching for your heads are no threat.