What is racism?

[wayneL]

Supposing somebody puts on a theme party with famous singers you love, as the theme:

A white man dresses up as Stevie Wonder, making his skin dark and a black man goes as Bruce Springsteen, making his skin light.

Which one is racist?

 

[Tisme]

Supposing somebody puts on a theme party with famous singers you love, as the theme:

A white man dresses up as Stevie Wonder, making his skin dark and a black man goes as Bruce Springsteen, making his skin light.

Which one is racist?

That's a no brainer....Stevie Wonder of course

 

[dutchie]

Supposing somebody puts on a theme party with famous singers you love, as the theme:

A white man dresses up as Stevie Wonder, making his skin dark and a black man goes as Bruce Springsteen, making his skin light.

Which one is racist?

Obviously the white man (because he's white).

 

[wayneL]

But what's racist about it?

 

[Wysiwyg]

Racism is not what is said or done but whom it is is said or done to and if they take offence.

 

[crackajack2]

Obviously the white man (because he's white).

Hey go and live in london. No white people there. lol

 

[crackajack2]

Hey go and live in london. No white people there. lol

Actually go and live in Melbourne or Sydney not many white people there either lol

 

[wayneL]

I'm offended cracka.

Arrest that man, Ms Triggs!

 

[wayneL]

I'm of course leading to this BS

http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/re...e/news-story/c5b300bb641cc84d376cbe57492cb044

 

[IFocus]

Is there a history of rampant racism lets say 300 years of blacks against whites?

Is there a history of blacks dressing up as whites mocking their low intellect?

For what it's worth I am ambivalent but understand the sensitivity of the issue for some.

 

[Wysiwyg]

Maybe racism is any words or actions that offends any person or group of people of a different skin colour. If one sees that as racism then potentially anything could be offensive.

 

[moXJO]

Supposing somebody puts on a theme party with famous singers you love, as the theme:

A white man dresses up as Stevie Wonder, making his skin dark and a black man goes as Bruce Springsteen, making his skin light.

Which one is racist?

Blackface is more a Yankee thing. People get outraged here off the back of it.

When I was seven I was told by my primary school teacher to: "go pick up 1000 bits of rubbish you little black c.unt". He was an outright racist old prick when I was unlucky enough to come in his field of vision.

Was called dirty f.ucking abo and every other name by adults. Chased off peoples front yards (council strips) like I was niggering up their property or something. I pity the guys who were actually aboriginal, it must have been hell. All this while I was under 12.
Had an older Italian friend and they use to spit in his beer at the pub for being a "wog".

Can't say I gave much of a shi.t though. Funny thing is my bloodline goes too the first fleet on my mothers side.
It does affect your trajectory in life. I learnt how to box and never had a problem again.

Honkeys don't get it. It could happen in front of my white friends and it was basically invisible to them. Shame you crackers are becoming the minority now.
You guys will eventually learn what racism is first hand via the ridiculous anti white guy cr.ap coming out.

 

[wayneL]

Blackface is more a Yankee thing. People get outraged here off the back of it.

When I was seven I was told by my primary school teacher to: "go pick up 1000 bits of rubbish you little black c.unt". He was an outright racist old prick when I was unlucky enough to come in his field of vision.

Was called dirty f.ucking abo and every other name by adults. Chased off peoples front yards (council strips) like I was niggering up their property or something. I pity the guys who were actually aboriginal, it must have been hell. All this while I was under 12.
Had an older Italian friend and they use to spit in his beer at the pub for being a "wog".

Can't say I gave much of a shi.t though. Funny thing is my bloodline goes too the first fleet on my mothers side.
It does affect your trajectory in life. I learnt how to box and never had a problem again.

Honkeys don't get it. It could happen in front of my white friends and it was basically invisible to them. Shame you crackers are becoming the minority now.
You guys will eventually learn what racism is first hand via the ridiculous anti white guy cr.ap coming out.

Totally get that Mo.

What you experienced was denigration, true racism.

That in the article seemed to me to be more honouring Yunupingu.

How can that be racist. Am I wrong?

 

[luutzu]

Supposing somebody puts on a theme party with famous singers you love, as the theme:

A white man dresses up as Stevie Wonder, making his skin dark and a black man goes as Bruce Springsteen, making his skin light.

Which one is racist?

What black guy would ever dress up as Springsteen?

 

[SirRumpole]

Maybe racism is any words or actions that offends any person or group of people of a different skin colour. If one sees that as racism then potentially anything could be offensive.

Indeed so, which is why "offend" and "insult" should be removed from 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act.

(a) the act is reasonably likely, in all the circumstances, to offend, insult, humiliate or intimidate another person or a group of people; and

(b) the act is done because of the race, colour or national or ethnic origin of the other person or of some or all of the people in the group.

 

[Wysiwyg]

Actual racism is becoming less and should be extinguished. The lingering bad smell of a past European colonisation that didn't treat the native inhabitants with equal human rights. The native inhabitants would have reacted aggressively to the Europeans just as tribal boundaries were attacked and defended among themselves. Communication would have made coexisting impossible at the beginning.

 

[moXJO]

Totally get that Mo.

What you experienced was denigration, true racism.

That in the article seemed to me to be more honouring Yunupingu.

How can that be racist. Am I wrong?

How can that be racist. Am I wrong?

Personally I think its bs. If it isn't mock insult I don't see the issue. Welcome to generation snowflake.

 

[luutzu]

Dove got itself into a bit of trouble with an ad showing a black woman turning into a white woman... who then turn into a Jewish woman then into an Asian[?]

Reading too much into an ad that simply want to sell soap I reckon.

 

[Tisme]

Blackface is more a Yankee thing. People get outraged here off the back of it.

When I was seven I was told by my primary school teacher to: "go pick up 1000 bits of rubbish you little black c.unt". He was an outright racist old prick when I was unlucky enough to come in his field of vision.

Was called dirty f.ucking abo and every other name by adults. Chased off peoples front yards (council strips) like I was niggering up their property or something. I pity the guys who were actually aboriginal, it must have been hell. All this while I was under 12.
Had an older Italian friend and they use to spit in his beer at the pub for being a "wog".

Can't say I gave much of a shi.t though. Funny thing is my bloodline goes too the first fleet on my mothers side.
It does affect your trajectory in life. I learnt how to box and never had a problem again.

Honkeys don't get it. It could happen in front of my white friends and it was basically invisible to them. Shame you crackers are becoming the minority now.
You guys will eventually learn what racism is first hand via the ridiculous anti white guy cr.ap coming out.

Where was that?

I don't remember much racism, especially overt racism when I was a kid in WA. The ones who came in for stick were the English kids who tried to exert their superiority. Otherwise we just spent time time with peers who suited our happy play time, regardless of how they looked. Childhood racism was like asthma and fat kids back then ... rather rare.

 

[moXJO]

Where was that?

I don't remember much racism, especially overt racism when I was a kid in WA. The ones who came in for stick were the English kids who tried to exert their superiority. Otherwise we just spent time time with peers who suited our happy play time, regardless of how they looked. Childhood racism was like asthma and fat kids back then ... rather rare.

Na 70- early 80s were bad. It was nsw just out of Sydney.
The overt stuff slowed a lot in the late 80s and by early 90s there were only a few pockets and aussie bashing became a thing.
But before that, it amazed me how people acted.

If you are white its a lot harder to notice. But asian,wog and blackie would have all experienced something different. Asians are still copping it now. I was in town the other day when a couple of guys were shoving a young asian guy around and throwing racial slurs.