Which Socio (or) Economic Class is Truly Racist?

Zylka · August 5, 2003, 00:50

(In my experiences) Every chat room available seems to harbour some pseudo ghetto moron constantly spouting off what race he is or how his daily affairs are going with people of other races. Do people honestly have to care at all about this bullsh*t, or is frustration with such blindly repeated issues a well kept form of subtle racism itself?

In the end - who concerns themselves with "race" the most, and why?

st_swithin · August 5, 2003, 00:52

Those who are weak enough to lay blame.

Zylka · August 5, 2003, 00:54

What kind of blame?

GePap · August 5, 2003, 00:55

my bet, your econommic class Zylka. Though I have no clue which one it is.

Zylka · August 5, 2003, 01:01

Why's that? Because I'm sick and f*cking tired of race even being mentioned?

rmsharpe · August 5, 2003, 01:08

The people that are most concerned about race are the people that are most likely to fail on their own, so they can blame their failures on someone else.

st_swithin · August 5, 2003, 01:11

Zylka, it's really difficult to have a mature conversation when things that I probably shouldn't have said keep coming back at me.

'I am Jack's total lack of surprise.'

"Don't ya hate it when you see/hear people on TV having really loud sex and you're not getting any?" - Marla Singer, President of Class

Zylka · August 5, 2003, 01:19

Great

I go and stick my neck out for the chance of debate, and I have drama queens and someone whose PERSONAL ideology consists of snappy "fight club" scripting trying to sink the effort. Probably because IT'S RACIST

You guys should start a fun-club somewhere!

Worthingtons · August 5, 2003, 01:26

I find people on either extreme of the 'class system' would be more Racist, poor people because they are ignorant and can be pursauded by Tabloids/Racist parties scapegoating ala the National Front in London. The Rich Upper Classes are bad as well, they should know better, but since many of the lower classes in America are composed of blacks, they are not too caring for thier cause - after all improvement of conditions of blacks and rasicm against them would threaten the entire race of slaves they keep.

Thats my $2 anyway.....

monolith94 · August 5, 2003, 01:45

The richest ten percent, in my opinion.

Al B. Sure! · August 5, 2003, 01:47

wealthy white liberals who either are patronizing or subtly commiting genocide via drugs and abortion

monolith94 · August 5, 2003, 01:49

gee, that's me

Al B. Sure! · August 5, 2003, 01:52

i'd hope you're just a blind follower who got good intentions but ultimately don't realize the effects of your beliefs.

Koyaanisqatsi · August 5, 2003, 01:54

Hell, I don't even know what socioeconomic class I belong to.

Zylka · August 5, 2003, 01:56

Note title - Socio AND/OR economic class

You can blame just about anyone, baby!

Spiffor · August 5, 2003, 03:07

Quote:

Originally posted by st_swithin
"Don't ya hate it when you see/hear people on TV having really loud sex and you're not getting any?" - Marla Singer, President of Class

Is Marla still around ?

st_swithin · August 5, 2003, 03:34

Depends on who's asking.

BTW, I think the weasels are the LOWEST CLASS!

Maniac · August 5, 2003, 06:31

The lower social classes are racist because the coloured people are competitors on the job market.
The middle classes are racist because they fear for their safety and because they fear descending to the lower social classes, consisting of coloured people.
The higher classes are racist because now they're on the top, they feel superior to everyone else.

In other words, everyone's racist.

Maniac · August 5, 2003, 06:32

Quote:

Note title - Socio AND/OR economic class

You can blame just about anyone, baby!

Isn't one's economic status almost perfectly related to one's social status?

Spiffor · August 5, 2003, 07:45

Quote:

Originally posted by st_swithin
Depends on who's asking.

A big fan of hers

JohnT · August 5, 2003, 07:47

I haven't read the thread yet, but I bet that most respondents (if there are any serious responses) would name a class that is not their own.

CerberusIV · August 5, 2003, 07:58

The most racist group of people you are likely ever to meet are the lawyers, sociologists, community workers and others who claim to fight racial discrimination through court cases and trying to introduce anti-racism laws.

Why? Because they have the most to lose if racism disappears so they promote racism as an issue. This highlights socio-economic differences and encourages stereotypes such as that most black people are drug dealing criminals and heightens the fears of other groups so they in turn adopt racist behaviour as a defensive measure.

[/sociology essay]

JohnT · August 5, 2003, 08:04

Heh-heh. I expanded on the same theme a few weeks ago with my "law of the minimum:" No matter how much money the government spends upon a problem, you will always have the minimum number of people suffering from that problem as it takes to staff a 15 person lobbying group in Washington DC.

If it takes 1.2 million sufferers of Crises A to support 15 DC area salaries, then that's the minimum of Crises A sufferers that will exist in America, despite all efforts to solve Crises A.

DAVOUT · August 5, 2003, 08:43

Quote:

Originally posted by JohnT
Heh-heh. I expanded on the same theme a few weeks ago with my "law of the minimum:" No matter how much money the government spends upon a problem, you will always have the minimum number of people suffering from that problem as it takes to staff a 15 person lobbying group in Washington DC.

If it takes 1.2 million sufferers of Crises A to support 15 DC area salaries, then that's the minimum of Crises A sufferers that will exist in America, despite all efforts to solve Crises A.

In order to make sure that there will be an appropriate number of sufferers, in Europe we have socialists MP making regularly new laws designed to help the sufferers, but with enough perverse consequences which result in worsening the fate of the sufferers.

:) Smiley · August 5, 2003, 09:56

Quote:

Isn't one's economic status almost perfectly related to one's social status?

Not in the USA. There are people who get rich late in life, maybe from taking over a small business, and even though they'd be rich they still act and think lower or middle class. At the same time, a lot of Americans who are middle class live upper-class style by taking out lots of credit.

From what I've seen though, racism in the US has a lot more to do with which state one lives in than what social or economic class.

Solly · August 5, 2003, 10:53

"Not in the USA. There are people who get rich late in life, maybe from taking over a small business, and even though they'd be rich they still act and think lower or middle class."

Same for the UK, IMO, even over generations.

MikeH · August 5, 2003, 10:59

True, most people stay at the same status though.

Solly · August 5, 2003, 11:03

Most middle class in the UK have outlooks based on what was lower/working class in the 1960s?

MichaeltheGreat · August 5, 2003, 11:11

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Originally posted by Albert Speer
wealthy white liberals who either are patronizing or subtly commiting genocide via drugs and abortion

It's hard not to be patronizing when faced with blind stupidity, son.

Yeah, them white liberals are standing at every street corner in da hood, forcing "colored" folk to get knocked up, then to get abortions, and forcing the great, proud, free brothers at gunpoint to get ****ed up to excess on drugs.

Can you draw? Maybe you could do little tracts with your moralizing crap and be the Jack Chick of the hood.

Japher · August 5, 2003, 11:16

Depends:

Elderly are very racist because of the times they grew up in; yet old ppl generally hate everyone.

Whites; generally the lazy and the lower middle class who feel that those dam immigrants stole their jobs.

Blacks are racists towards everyone who is not black, except to those who have lots of money.

Mexicans are racist towards everyone, period.

Asians are racist towards everyone who doesn't speak their dialect of whatever language they speak; but you never really catch this because they usually just pretend that they can't speak English.

Indians are probably the least racist of people, but they do hold a lot of prejudisms and misconceptions.

Poor people hate everyone, because they are poor. Yet, while they continue to say money doesn't by happiness, the really want money to rent it for an hour or two.

Middle Class people dislike which ever race in their area is encroaching on their economic status.

Upper Class generally aren't racists, though they dislike anyone who is poorer then they are and black people and women who try and golf at their club.

The only people in this world who does not hold a degree of racism are the old, I guess. As they hate everyone for being younger than them...