Racism

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LOL. Great comments, BTW. Thanks!

Mexicans are not a race. Explain how you came to this conclusion that they are.

You may want to look up the word racist before you start accusing others of being one.

I agree with you about the Anti-Semitic comments. I'm also Jewish, Shalom! Oh, and I hope you have a happy Hannukah too!

On the subject of the term "cracker", check out this Foamy cartoon. There most likely will be bad language:

http://www.illwillpress.com/kosher.html

Great cartoon, violet yoshi!

It could arguably be a result of greed. As more and more people seek to live above their means, they look at money as being more valuable than the potential children they could have. Africans tend to live in agricultural societies; thus they see the financial benefit of reproduction. Lack of birth control could also be a factor. Many who are on the brink of starvation can't seem to stop having children and some outright refuse any forms of birth control.

We know that that the minor genetic differences between races are influenced by climatic adaptation. What I find amusing is the idea that black people are 'Nocturnal Super-Predators', a bit like Batman but with more attitude...


Magliabechi.

That's funny. I don't see anything wrong with it.

Recently, I was at this Love's gas station, and I saw these neat dolls I wanted to get one for my niece. They had like 3 black ones and a bunch of white ones. My sister is white, but she's all about black pride. So I know she'd rather her daughter have a black doll rather than a white one, that and she's mentioned it on occassion on how hard it is to find black baby dolls. But, the three black ones they had didn't work as well as the white ones (squeeze the hand, and it cheers). So I'm sitting here debating on which one to get. Mind you, my sister and i had been arguing about racism via email because she's like the NAACP where she'll create racism when it's not there. Mind you I do more with the NAACP than she does, but she thinks she's more the authority on that one than I. Anyway, she had just gotten done telling me that comments aren't as insulting as then turning around and saying "I didn't mean that to be insulting" because that's more insulting than the comment because you wouldn't add that if the person you weren't talking to were black. Anyway, I pick a black doll and go to the check out counter. I'm half asleep, so I am talking out loud when I think. It was like 2 AM. I originally went there for some Diet Coke and of course had to buy some toys. Anyway, I started to tell the lady my dilemma trying to make sure I made the right choice, and in my talk on it, I threw in there that I didn't think skin tone should have anything to do with cultural heritage and that I keep trying to tell my sister that (a big portion of our argument). A black man came running from, of all places the Chester's Chicken next door to it but inside the Loves, just to look at me. He had this look on his face like, What kind of crazy white woman is saying this? Then he left a second later, so I know I was the reason for it. Then, about a minute later, I'm done paying, and I turn and another black man was behind me, and I didn't know he was there. I didn't know how long he was there either, and in fear that I insulted him as I did the other guy, I apologized, but then I remembered what my sister said, so then I apologized for apologizing. I just left red faced and was so embarrassed. I sent my sister a nasty email that night because she's the one that got me paranoid on it.

This is what I mean by animalistic behavior. You would rarely see a White man run over, just to glare down a woman for maybe saying something insulting against him. Like a wild animal glaring down their prey.

I don't think that it has anything to do with race...i.e. white dude versus black dude. But I will say I didn't deal with the situation like I normally would. I should have said something to that dude like, "What are you looking at?" or "Don't tell me you came running over here just to see the white girl talk." Or better, "Do you disagree?"

Black men who live in far northern climates have, I believe, greater incidence of prostate cancer. Black men also suffer from more aggressive forms of prostate cancer. They also have much lower Vitamin D levels, and vitamin D has recently been found to play an important role in limiting prostate cancer. Vitamin D is produced by our skin when exposed to sunlight. The heavy pigmentation of black skin impairs the ability of the skin of black men in northern climates (where the sun is weaker) to make enough Vitamin D. So it is important for black men who don't live in sun-drenched countries to take enough vitamin D (and presumably this is important for black women too, as vitamin D deficiencies will increase bone density losses with age).

White people who live in tropical and equatorial climates suffer from high rates of skin cancer. They have the opposite problem, where their pigmentation is too light to block enough of the ultraviolet radiation from damaging skin cells and DNA.

The pigmentation adaptability of human skin, a mammal's skin without feathers, fur or scales, is really a wonderful thing, as is the skin being a vitamin-producing organ that uses energy from the sun for chemical reactions to produce micronutrients. The human pigmentation levels developed in perfect balance with the latitude where each person's ancestors evolved. What a cool thing that is, in terms of cool human adaptations!

The 'Nocturnal Super-Predators' theory is pretty funny.

First of all, I want to say prejudice is different than racism. NT's are not a race.

Second of all, I wanted to say that although many people think I'm wrong with the idea that it's possible Aspies are less racist, I think this has proved that it's still a good possibility. I think because we see it as a genetic trait, and because we don't fully understand the social spectrum of things, we take it lighter unless we learn otherwise. When we are subjected to a form a racism, we take it more seriously because we know. Otherwise, people here seem to look at it pretty objective. It looks like it gets to the point where Aspies are more apt to make comments that sound racist, but they really aren't meant to be like that...as opposed to really being racist. A lot of the views I've read so far seem to prove that concept more. For example, these are summaries of what I've seen on here...

Jokes are just jokes. Don't take them seriously, unless they are really stepping over the line.

Too many people claim racism when it's not there and that contributes to racism

The N word is a social thing that doesn't make any sense.

We shouldn't have to avoid discussing things (i.e. statistics) because we are trying not to offend

etc.

Also, to point out, the only real racist comments I've seen are either related to jokes where it was stated the purpose of explaining the differences in jokes or discussing them but without any real intention to be racist and I saw a couple on just trying to analyze the situation which seems pretty innocent and without hate.

I don't think this conversation would be much different if we were comparing blondes to brunettes.

There is a certain level of prejudice in people. It's in the Meyer Briggs. Judging and Perceiving scale. Judging is a very prejudicial way of approaching things. It really can't be avoided. But to do so on race alone is racist. Now culture is a different story, and I liked the term "urban culture." I'll be adding that to my vocabulary, and in my arguments with my sister, I'll be using that a lot.

Well I'm not racist as such, but I do discriminate, mainly between levels of education and spelling.

On the race side, I see no reason why one race would be better or worse than another. I do enjoy a solidly racist joke at its time, but I know better.

[quote="Tantybi"
Second of all, I wanted to say that although many people think I'm wrong with the idea that it's possible Aspies are less racist, I think this has proved that it's still a good possibility. I think because we see it as a genetic trait, and because we don't fully understand the social spectrum of things, we take it lighter unless we learn otherwise. When we are subjected to a form a racism, we take it more seriously because we know.[/quote]

And where do you get this impression? This thread seems to me mostly a bunch of non-ethnic minorities who haven't the faintest idea what it's like to be stereotyped due to race/religion.

How, exactly?



What's "really being racist"? Generalized statements about people of certain groups feel highly uncomfortable to members of those groups, regardless of intention. Being aspie doesn't give one a "get-out-of-jail" free card--especially because so many people here *know* that what they say could be interpreted as racist! When someone says that a comment might be racist, they're probably not saying that the person who made the comment is an evil person or a KKK member. It means they made a stupid, race-based comment and need to learn to keep their nastiness to themselves in the future.



You clearly aren't looking hard enough. Anyway, there are subtler, milder forms of racism. They can be nasty even if there is no real hatred behind them.



Oh, please. Wake me up when there's a thread with gross generalizations about people based on hair color.

Tantybi it doesn't have to do with race, it has to do with the culture that certain groups of people who may or may not be a part of a race participate in. Such as Rap culture, which encourages agression in males, and has women who are treated like little more than objects. Now it just happens that the majority of people who listen or paritcipate in Rap culture are black, therfore this guy probably thought being agressive was a cool thing.


furthermore this is why White people learn to fear Black people, because they don't want someone who behaves based on agression first and thought second. It seems that from the Black people I've met, most of them don't understand the concept of personal space, nor do they understand that it's inappropriate to "get all up" in a White person's face.

I'm sorry, see, I was reading all the posts thus far, and I remember at least two different people that were Jewish who made comments. So, they probably do have a very good idea of what it's like to be stereotyped due to race/religion. Just because they were few compared to other posts, I wasn't trying to leave them out.



I explained that when I gave examples of summaries in that post you were referring to.



No, most people I know think a person is racist no different than the KKK based on one comment, and that's even for people they know who aren't racist. Have you ever read the NAACP newsletter? What I meant by that whole comment was that sometimes we don't think it's an insult or should be taken as an insult, and that's very well related to our social skills or lack thereof. Yeah we know our comments are sometimes misconstrued by NTs, but not all Aspies know that, especially the kids. Even then, the problem is that our comments are misconstrued. If we knew how to make comments for people to take them the right way, we would. I think you answered what I meant by being really racist when you say that their comment may be a stupid race based comment rather than evil person.



I obviously must not be looking hard enough to find racism when it's not there. If people could stop doing that, then the world would function better. It's like auditors back in the 50's, when they audited you, they didn't leave until they found something. But, if you claim it's here, why not be a little more specific?

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You want me to wake you up now for this thread? Hair color is just as genetic as skin color (which is why I used that as a point of comparison).