People who believe in the big imaginary friend, Jesus...and that flying, half-horse/half-scorpions with long, pretty woman hair are going to come out of the center of the Earth and attack us are irrational and paranoid and do grave harm to the children they raise to believe such nonsense.
Wait, So the acceptence of the Black race as equal in the eyes of American whites is based solely on the quality of Hip Hop and R&B
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kainedamo said:It all depends really
If a parent tells a child repeatidly that adult/child sex is a-ok, and shows that child pictures of adults having sex with kids, but never actually touches the child, what should happen to the adult?
If a parent tells a child repeatidly that black people are ******s and scum and a lower form of life, and shows the child gruesome pictures of lynchings and racist beatings all the while saying "hehe, look at the ******s getting what they deserve", etc, what should happen to the adult?
Stop you right there. If it was a mental illness than virtually every American suffered it from the early 1700s to the late 1950s/early 1960s. So while some extremely racist people may and do suffer from mental illness and that may even make racism more attractive to them, it by itself is no mental illness. In fact some of our greatest minds in history have been racist.
Depends on your perspective. In white suburbia, no it doesn't happen that much. In inner cities, and some very rural country towns people still deal with racism.
actually I was responding to somebody elses post about blacks being accepted do only to music, I am fully aware of other forms of racism, I have been called an Arab by some racist ppl in my school who think Islam = Terrorism, the sad thing is that this is in the New York Metropolitan area, not in some red state where Muslims may seem alien
Not to argue semantics, but "racism" is a *fairly* recent phenomenon. The concept of "race" did not exist until a French man invented it in the 1500s I believe (it could have very well been the 1600s). Race is simply another criteria in that long list of arbitrary criteria humans attempt to group themselves by. And while "racist" sentiments can be found as far back as Jewish persecution (which is probably the first majorly disenfranchised group in history), that is not what racism is. Racism deals strictly with phenotypes; not cultural or ethnic differences. Hispanics and gays for example face something much more close to "ethnicism" than "racism". And they are different. Blacks were seen and categorized directly as sub-human. Jews (and it seems Gays, Hispanics and Muslims), for example, were never really thought of as sub-human. Gays, Jews and Muslims for example, unlike racism, are seen as "evil" by their persecutors or "morally corrupted". This is evident in the fact that they are often the victims of conversion campaignes, or attempts to make them human. Blacks were never really offered the chance to become "human" by racists; not that it would matter either, they'd still be black. It was directly assumed blacks couldn't, by their own steam, get ahead or become properly educated.
Why not?
Thomas Hobbes and John Locke for example.
