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I do often find myself viewing discussions with an anti-white bias, where I feel white people are somehow more inclined towards being racist, or are less racially sensitive and more in need of understanding of the impacts racism has.
Is that a negative racial stereotype towards whites that I hold?  The idea that they are more racist simply because they are white.

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How should I counter balance that tendency in order to be more positive in my interactions with people in a general sense?

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How do I foster understanding when I myself am coming from a negative point of view with the presumption that whites specifically don't understand?

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If I see someone make a statement such as "Natives cause so much crime in this city" I feel them to be racist and I feel put off by that sentiment.

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If I see someone make a statement such as "Whites are so discriminatory to other races" I feel like I just kind of view it as a statement of fact, rather than a racially discriminatory statement in itself.

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I was brought up with the perception that elevating my view of one race above that of others is still a form of racism, but it does not feel like racism.

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I like apples and I like pears. But I like pears more, its a matter of personal appeal. That doesn't mean I would turn an apple down if it presented itself but I would not that hey, it's not a pear.

If I thoughts apples were an inferior fruit, or bad, or wrong or more dishonest as a produce than pears then I'd be harboring anti-apple sentiments.

Men and women. Lets presume you are a male, who particularly enjoys to get intimate with women. Me, I'm a man who prefers to get intimate with men. Would I have a point if I said that you were sexist against men for not preferring them intimately? I think not, you watch sports and drink with them, its just that you're a heterosexual male, no offense to other men

In my view its not racist to have a racial preference (and I think almost everybody does) as long as you don't harbor negativity towards the other races.

Lets take racial pride. Suppose you are of a particular race, it happens to many people. You could feel good about that. "Awesome, I'm white/black/asian/native/mulatto etc". That's racial pride that is not racist. But then you have the "white/black etc Pride" groups who basiucally say "we are the best and the others suck". Thats racist. Those are hate groups.
See the nuance?

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is it more important to endeavour towards viewing all races as totally equal?

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Burke Dennings said:

Asante said:

A website attracts the people it appeals to, and when the biggest forum we have is a frickin Jerry Springer Show where it comes to racism and full of trolling and shittalking and with "tits or GTFO" for female members, that does not bode well for the future members attracted to this place.

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"Everything is all right exactly the way it is"

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Asante said:

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By differentiating between race (hardware) and culture
(software) and realizing not all of one race are part of one culture.
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I appreciate the addressing of the various points.

I liked this in particular, thank you.

Asante said:

Burke Dennings said:

Asante said:

A website attracts the people it appeals to, and when the biggest forum we have is a frickin Jerry Springer Show where it comes to racism and full of trolling and shittalking and with "tits or GTFO" for female members, that does not bode well for the future members attracted to this place.

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Its OK not to agree with a status quo.

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The status quo is fine.

D.M.T said:

Well then you should complain to Merriam-Webster for fibbing about what racism is

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You could change the Wikipedia definition right now in fact:
"Racism consists of both prejudice and discrimination based in social perceptions of biological differences between peoples. It often takes the form of social actions, practices or beliefs, or political systems that consider different races to be ranked as inherently superior or inferior to each other, based on presumed shared inheritable traits, abilities, or qualities. It may also hold that members of different races should be treated differently."

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Racism consists of both prejudice and discrimination based in social perceptions of biological differences between peoples. It often takes the form of social actions, practices or beliefs, or political systems that consider different races to be ranked as inherently superior or inferior to each other, based on presumed shared inheritable traits, abilities, or qualities. It may also hold that members of different races should be treated differently.[1][2][3]

Among the questions about how to define racism are the question of whether to include forms of discrimination that are unintentional, such as making assumptions about preferences or abilities of others based on racial stereotypes, whether to include symbolic or institutionalized forms of discrimination such as the circulation of ethnic stereotypes through the media, and whether to include the socio-political dynamics of social stratification that sometimes have a racial component.

In sociology and psychology, some definitions only include consciously malignant forms of discrimination.[4][5] While some consider any assumption that a person's behavior is tied to their racial categorization is inherently racist, regardless of whether the action is intentionally harmful or pejorative, because stereotyping necessarily subordinates individual identity to group identity.[citation needed] Some definitions of racism also include discriminatory behaviors and beliefs based on cultural, national, ethnic, caste, or religious stereotypes.[2][6] One view holds that racism is best understood as 'prejudice plus power' because without the support of political or economic power, prejudice would not be able to manifest as a pervasive cultural, institutional or social phenomenon.[7][8][9]

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D.M.T said:

It's not reducing the Wikipedia definition. Everything after the first paragraph is saying it's a matter of debate if they should be considered racism or not.

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D.M.T said:

When did I say that?

I said those are not universally accepted definitions.

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If they were, then it would be OK, considering the very last definition in the paragraph you posted insists blacks cannot be racist

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Prisoner#1 said:

D.M.T said:

When did I say that?

I said those are not universally accepted definitions.

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so universal acceptance should be the litmus for this, then there's nothing racist in the world

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D.M.T said:

Yep, read on prejudice plus power, the last definition in the expanded list of possible interpretations you posted. It would insist blacks cannot be racist to whites. You can't pick-and-choose what defines racism outside of what racism is commonly understood to be. That's why blacks can still be racist.

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One view holds that racism is best understood as 'prejudice plus power' because without the support of political or economic power, prejudice would not be able to manifest as a pervasive cultural, institutional or social phenomenon.

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Look, I can say your brick-house is made of straw because I think it's straw. Does that make it true?

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If I don't like your culture then yes that's racist, that means I must assume my culture is superior.

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I assumed he meant an ethnic culture. Like saying I don't like Bedouins.

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