• bassman21 User is online now
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    		 I am so sick of seeing racist comments on YouTube and on news stories. I mean the level of it is just sickening and it seems to be gettin worst. I have seen videos that people of color posted of something as simple as their kid doing something cute and it will be filled with racist hate. While I see it with all races, blacks and Hispanics appear to be the biggest targets. A Hispanic guy post a video of his dog doing something funny and people are calling him a "spic" for no reason.

    What I find interesting is how many don't even live in the USA that post these comments. Also while I see racist comments from other races, it's usually in defense against others comments. I know many of these are just punk kids hiding behind their computer, but I know many are grown adults. As I'm getting older I'm started to see how it must feel to be a none white person in this world.

    At my sales job I have never once had anyone make racist comment towards me, but many none white sales reps have. What really pisses me off is how white people will do this over the phone and online, but thn act all anti racist 'I voted for Obama the half black president raised by a white woman' in person.

    This got me really depressed tonight for some reason.
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  • thabz
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    		 I feel for you and I usually ask myself "Wheres this coming from?" Attention-trolling or what?

    Others even have the nerve to say "Oh c'mon, It was just a harmless joke/fun" ESPECIALLY when they clearly KNOW they were wrong and that's what usually gets me.

    Anyway, I let these ass-holes be because mostly what they say has ABSOLUTELY no meaning/bearing what so ever.
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  • vkimo
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    		 The internet gave a lot of morons a voice.
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  • thecrow174
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    		 The corrupted YouTube community sickens me. That's why I'm not a member of the site.
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  • yhaz
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    		 I didn't vote for Obama. I only have one real black friend and I haven't really kept in touch with him even though he's had some health issues over the past few years so he was a better friend to me than I am to him. I refuse to be racially blind. I am not going to carefully pick my words to keep from offending anyone. I will not hire or do business with anyone who doesn't speak proper English (that's only inside the US.) And to top it all off I think I might be turning into an honest-to-goodness genuine bona fide homophobe; I don't feel to bad about that because my (pseudo ex) boyfriend is starting to feel the same way. But I agree with you completely about the hourse s#@% people post on line about race.


    I make no apologies for my own opinions. Beyond issues of race there are people I just don't care for as a group: "evangelical" Christians, vegetarians, "progressive" liberals, Mormons, The French (but I am getting past that,) The TSA-ICE-CBP-DHS, the people in apartment 7, and a few others. But the people that really get my dander up, the ones I really really can't stand are those people who feel they have to attack others for who they are or what they believe. If you don't like someone, fine just don't hang out with them, but you can still be civil.

    I don't care who you are, if you are attacked, insulted, or belittled because of your race, religion or beliefs you have every right to be good and mad. And if you feel like socking someone in the jaw because they think they are better than you because of where they go to church or the color of their skin or who they F&%# I don't blame you one little bit. I don't think you should do it but I understand how you feel.

    For years I carried a chip on my shoulder because no matter how politically correct we got it was always ok to bust out with the gay joke, really it still is but that's a different post. It bugged me that it was ok for pop media to make jokes about me and keep pushing these same old worn out stereotypes. I heard my straight friends go on an on about how wonderful it was that gays were going main stream, and I wonder if we lived in the 50's would they think Amos and Andy elevated the profile of black Americans?

    I am oldder now, I still don't like what I see on TV about gays. I am so sick of hearing about "same sex" (IT'S GAY, IF MY MOM CAN SAY IT SO CAN CNN) this and that. I don't care that two dudes are home coming kings. If a military chaplain doesn't want to marry a gay couple, fine there are others who can. Like I said it's turning me into a homophobe!

    I read some moronic things people say on line and I want to make out a check to the NAACP even though I am politically 180 degrees out of synch with them most of the time.

    And in closing (yeah took me long enough) the reverse is also true, please don't call someone a racist just because you disagree with them. Racism is still out there so don't minimize it, please.

    Oh one last thing, not all gays are militant pseudo Marxists who want "homo" sex ed taught in kindergarten, in fact most aren't. So please don't lump us all in with them, that's the kind of thing the French would do.
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  • vkimo
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    		 I think if we all made it a habit to look at people at the individual level and try not to group people on whatever criteria, we could limit a lot of ignorance.
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  • yhaz
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    vkimo wrote:
    I think if we all made it a habit to look at people at the individual level and try not to group people on whatever criteria, we could limit a lot of ignorance.


    You're right about that, but for me that's not so easy.
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  • thecrow174
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    		 If you think the racism is bad, you should see the discussions of rape! Sometimes when I'm watching a video on YouTube, there's someone who really likes the video saying ''I keep raping the replay button!" I don't wanna hear all that! :evil:
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  • Dyzfunk7ional
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    		 You have to admit that some comments can be funny as hell. Don't matter the race.
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  • ActionBastard
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    		 Some people are just ignorant as fuck. I see racist comments all the time and You're right Bassman, They are usually directed towards hispanics and blacks (especially blacks). It's just sad that there are still so many ignorant racist people out there. We're all the same color on the inside.

    I say hate the person, not their race.
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  • vkimo
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    		 The really bad thing is that racism spurs more racism. If you're on a bus and it's filled with 2 races. If one moron makes a racist comment, the others on the bus will probably feel some form of racism for the others.
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  • bassman21 User is online now
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    vkimo wrote:
    I think if we all made it a habit to look at people at the individual level and try not to group people on whatever criteria, we could limit a lot of ignorance.


    I agree, but it can be hard when people go out of their way to fulfill a stereotype. Most that are young do it to be accepted by their peers. As I posted not long ago I saw this a lot when I was in high school as well as around town. If you look around most people do fit into a stereotype and generally associate with people that are like them. A lot of white people try to be multicultural, but end up just looking silly (at least to me they do) .

    Dyzfunk7ional wrote:
    You have to admit that some comments can be funny as hell. Don't matter the race.


    You're right and I'll admit that I make racial jokes sometimes and I find jokes about white people to be just as funny. In fact I can't stand it when people get all butt hurt over a joke not intending any harm. It can be a slippery slope though. The problem online is it's becoming so common that none whites especially black folks can't get a break from it. I mean it's to the point where if there are none whites in a video at least one person will make a racial statement every single time.

    What bothers me the most though is the flat out hate towards people of color for no reason and sheer amount of it on the web.
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  • princess of power
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    		 It saddens me too, Bassman, but then again, it's more of a reflection of them and their own feelings of emptiness than the person they're hating on. It's not the individual they hate; it's something within themselves they hate, such as hating something you don't know. It's hard not to take it personally, though.
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  • Mezase Master
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    		 Ever been to Stormfront? They use these cute internet smilies and lingo in their posts while saying such racist shit extremely casually... it's so sad and funny at the same time.
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  • randomuser2349
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    		 If you go to any video with Animal Cruelty involving any foreign country, you will see a pile of racist comments. I've seen stuff like "You stupid [racial slur] I hope your race gets wiped off the planet" and "I was happy when [natural disaster] happened to that race" and they got voted as top comments.
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