Is is racist to call someone White?

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05 Jan 2014, 6:53 pm

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This should be good.

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05 Jan 2014, 6:55 pm

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05 Jan 2014, 6:56 pm

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05 Jan 2014, 7:15 pm

Well, that was good. Three with one stone.

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05 Jan 2014, 7:23 pm

No.

As a general rule calling a person 'plaid', or 'magenta', or 'polka dot', or 'black', or 'white', or whatever hue- whether they are that hue or not-is not 'racist'.

And everyone else is going to say 'no' as well, so lets skip ahead.

Imagine youve already gotten your 20 replies all saying 'no' as answers to your question.

So: what is your response to these responses?

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05 Jan 2014, 7:30 pm

Is is racist to call someone White?

No, but calling them "cracker" most definitely is.

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05 Jan 2014, 7:34 pm

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05 Jan 2014, 7:35 pm

Wow. Discipline is getting stricter than ever on this forum.

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05 Jan 2014, 8:27 pm

Being racist is saying offensive things about a race. Identifying or naming a race is not racist.

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05 Jan 2014, 8:53 pm

No. People are way to sensitive these days about words, they only have the power that you give them.

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05 Jan 2014, 9:07 pm

"German pirates?"

Were they as bad as the Swiss, and the Bolivian, pirates that used to plunder the shores of Kansas?

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05 Jan 2014, 9:11 pm

naturalplastic wrote:

"German pirates?"

Were they as bad as the Swiss, and the Bolivian, pirates that used to plunder the shores of Kansas?

You must have missed the German pirate folly of 2012.

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05 Jan 2014, 9:13 pm

jrjones9933 wrote:

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This should be good.

Possibly.

Referring to a black person as white might make that person think you are dumb, trying to insult, or making a racist stupid comment.

Secondly, there are mixed race people, probably most people are mixed to some degree, and that person might look white but identify
as a different race.

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05 Jan 2014, 9:52 pm

It depends. When a Beijing cab driver calls me white and refuses to pick me up I find myself feeling racially insulted.

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05 Jan 2014, 9:56 pm

Why should it be offensive to say someone is black, white,brown, red, or even blue ( if a case ever occurs). I have seen some people of African ancestry who are white and Caucasians who are brown. When my marshmallow white brother laid out in the sun and hobbled inside burnt from head to toe I was correct in saying he was red. If a person is that sensitive about something mundane as skin color, then it would appear they view in rather racist terms.

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05 Jan 2014, 10:10 pm

yes, poor, poor poor white people.

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