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racooneyes
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27 Sep 2009, 3:47 pm
Personally I think all organisms are naturally racist. Humans are lucky enough to have free will and we can easily overcome our instincts to segregate.
So in conclusion: Meh.
As for mental retardation, I am extremely uncomfortable around a ret*d person and don't know how to treat them. So I guess the answer to that one would be yes.
The fact you don't like gang culture isn't racist at all but the fact you speak about those "minorities" (the air quotes around that suggests you don't think they are minorities) as though gang affiliation were a racial characteristic which a few of them can be smart enough to work there way out of but speak of the white people as though only a few would be silly enough to lower themselves could well be.
I get uncomfortable around special needs folk who are really childlike but with old bodies, they get uncomfortable around me too. I think it's just not knowing what to do around them.
Imagine you'd been holding this prejudice all your life and one day find that you had in fact been one yourself all along
27 Sep 2009, 3:56 pm
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27 Sep 2009, 4:12 pm
Good 
didn't necessarily think you were just pointing out what you said could be but in a different way than you might have realised, I didn't think you'd mind since you said you might be anyway.
When thinking about these annoying people do you ever consider why they do the things that annoy you or do you think they do it because it's just what they do? This is a serious Q btw I'm actually interested/
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27 Sep 2009, 4:28 pm
27 Sep 2009, 6:57 pm
didn't necessarily think you were just pointing out what you said could be but in a different way than you might have realised, I didn't think you'd mind since you said you might be anyway.Nope, I don't mind
Thanks for pointing that out, I see how you could get that impression.I think its a culture/sheeple thing. They identify with a certain group of people so they all just copy each other because that's they way they're supposed to be. *shrug*
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Oh, i do believe i am!
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27 Sep 2009, 9:37 pm
I think its a culture/sheeple thing. They identify with a certain group of people so they all just copy each other because that's they way they're supposed to be. *shrug*
Yeah that's true. I was thinking more of why these minorities choose gang culture in the first place as apposed to say dance culture or modern art. I believe it's very complicated but a lot of it is to do with disenfranchisement and anger at the status quo. These people have no power and this is one way they see of getting some. Even the middle class white teens who emulate the lifestyle do it for the same reasons but against their parents rather than society. A lot of it is marketing too, there's a lot of money in race music
Oh, i do believe i am! Smile
Me too
This describes what children do from the age of 3 til 16, suppose they can be quite small but i'd hesitate to say 'less human'
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28 Sep 2009, 1:17 am
Racism and retardation?
Hmmmm..... 
Well I do get irked by people in general.
But as for groupism, I'm still learning in the process. I find cultures have more or less to do with my dislikes rather than it being pertained to race. There are even white cultures I can't stand.
As for the mentally ret*d, I won't lie I use to use that word a lot until I worked with children who were disabled. I really find the generalizations about mental retardation pretty sad and still way behind in this country just as autism and aspergers and so on... However I guess I can see how one would be afraid if a person wasn't behaving appropriately or "normal". It's easier to assume the worse in people than to get to really know them. I still make this mistake a lot and find out once I get to know that person, they're not out of the majority of the time what I had originally thought.
Anyway ignorance in general I think pisses me off more than anything. However, I know what it feel like to be somewhat ignorant when you grow in a world that negatively stereotypes certain behaviors and people. Some of the stuff I use to say was beyond my compacity to understand.
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