Working with a racist colleague

[Greenman]

Originally posted by: BudAshes
he sounds like a republican?

You should read a little history before spouting off your blind hatred. Start with the equal rights amendment, then look at all the administrations since then.

 

[moshquerade]

Originally posted by: BudAshes
he sounds like a republican?

you sound like a jackass.

 

[se7en]

Originally posted by: Locut0s
I'm not trying to argue that African Americans can't be racist but whenever I encounter it in someone who is non-Caucasian I'm always thrown for a loop. Anyone else have similar experiences?

So you assume only white people are racist? NICE!!!

Makes it even better the thread is about a racist lol.

 

[Deeko]

Originally posted by: Saint Michael

Originally posted by: 3NF
You should have just told him you were an Earthling. You can't be racist about that because from that point of view, we are all in the same boat.

No, you can't be racist about that because "earthling" is not a race.

egh, yea, I hate when people say things like that, or "lolz im in the human race!!1!" Homo Sapien is a species. Whether people want to believe it or not, there ARE different races of humans!

Anyway, OP, kinda amusing that you're surprised he's racist. There are racists in EVERY race, and often times (not all, dont attack me kids) they can be MORE so due to their circumstances (the past, the fact that there are more whites, etc)

 

[BrownTown]

In my experience black people are the most racist of all groups, thats just statistically speaking from my experience so don't read much into that. However the reality is that racism is NOT a function of race nearly so much as it is a function of EDUCATION. The more highly educated a person is the less likely they are to be racist. Since statistically speaking the average black person is less educated than the average white person or asian that means that the average black person is likely more racist. But it is a problem that effects ALL races, and too many people in the USA think its all Black vs. White, there are tons of other races that didn't get along at some point in the past, it can be funny sometimes when you have people in the USA who think all Asian people are the same and they call a Japanese person Chinese or something like that and the Japanese person gets pissed off over it .

 

[lyssword]

Originally posted by: BrownTown
In my experience black people are the most racist of all groups, thats just statistically speaking from my experience so don't read much into that. However the reality is that racism is NOT a function of race nearly so much as it is a function of EDUCATION. The more highly educated a person is the less likely they are to be racist. Since statistically speaking the average black person is less educated than the average white person or asian that means that the average black person is likely more racist. But it is a problem that effects ALL races, and too many people in the USA think its all Black vs. White, there are tons of other races that didn't get along at some point in the past, it can be funny sometimes when you have people in the USA who think all Asian people are the same and they call a Japanese person Chinese or something like that and the Japanese person gets pissed off over it .

*Lex Luthor* Wrong!

 

[amdhunter]

Funnily enough, I think Black people are among the most racist people in this country. And they are the biggest crybabies when someone says something too. I hope they do fire his ass, he sounds like an ignorant ahole.

(Keep in mind that I myself have a Black father.)

 

[91TTZ]

Originally posted by: BrownTown
However the reality is that racism is NOT a function of race nearly so much as it is a function of EDUCATION. The more highly educated a person is the less likely they are to be racist.

This is completely incorrect.

Most people who are lower class may be politically incorrect, but they're usually not truly racist since they tend to hang around people of other races.

Wealthy people, on the other hand, usually hang around a much less diverse crowd. You'd have to be fooling yourself to believe that wealthy people aren't racist. They may not be stupid enough to express it in public, but look at their actions- they tend to mingle only amongst their own kind. They send their kids to exclusive, non-diverse schools. Look at the makeup of the functions they attend.

Actions speak louder than words. There is a big difference between one's publicly expressed beliefs and their actions. You will find that even by choice, lower class people are a much more diverse crowd than the highly educated elite.

 

[Inspector Jihad]

he's right...keep foreigners out.

 

[3NF]

Originally posted by: Deeko

Originally posted by: Saint Michael

Originally posted by: 3NF
You should have just told him you were an Earthling. You can't be racist about that because from that point of view, we are all in the same boat.

No, you can't be racist about that because "earthling" is not a race.

egh, yea, I hate when people say things like that, or "lolz im in the human race!!1!" Homo Sapien is a species. Whether people want to believe it or not, there ARE different races of humans!

No crap, genius. I just choose not to care about people's races. Maybe if people like you stop looking at these artificial boundaries man imposes on himself, the world would be a better place.

 

[Inspector Jihad]

Originally posted by: 91TTZ

Originally posted by: BrownTown
However the reality is that racism is NOT a function of race nearly so much as it is a function of EDUCATION. The more highly educated a person is the less likely they are to be racist.

This is completely incorrect.

Most people who are lower class may be politically incorrect, but they're usually not truly racist since they tend to hang around people of other races.

Wealthy people, on the other hand, usually hang around a much less diverse crowd. You'd have to be fooling yourself to believe that wealthy people aren't racist. They may not be stupid enough to express it in public, but look at their actions- they tend to mingle only amongst their own kind. They send their kids to exclusive, non-diverse schools. Look at the makeup of the functions they attend.

Actions speak louder than words. There is a big difference between one's publicly expressed beliefs and their actions.

your argument only works if you relate education with wealth. not all rich people are educated and not all poor people are uneducated.

 

[Deeko]

Originally posted by: 91TTZ

This is completely incorrect.

Most people who are lower class may be politically incorrect, but they're usually not truly racist since they tend to hang around people of other races.

Wealthy people, on the other hand, usually hang around a much less diverse crowd. You'd have to be fooling yourself to believe that wealthy people aren't racist. They may not be stupid enough to express it in public, but look at their actions- they tend to mingle only amongst their own kind. They send their kids to exclusive, non-diverse schools. Look at the makeup of the functions they attend.

Actions speak louder than words. There is a big difference between one's publicly expressed beliefs and their actions.

I agree with your second point about wealthy people, but not the first one. Having lived on the edge of West Philadelphia for 5 years, I'm going to have to strongly disagree that people in the lower class are not racist.

Every class has it's share of racists. In my experience, I'd say the middle class has the least - but that's just my experience, I'm sure there are plenty of places in the country where that isn't true.

 

[Deeko]

Originally posted by: 3NF

Originally posted by: Deeko

egh, yea, I hate when people say things like that, or "lolz im in the human race!!1!" Homo Sapien is a species. Whether people want to believe it or not, there ARE different races of humans!

No crap, genius. I just choose not to care about people's races. Maybe if people like you stop looking at these artificial boundaries man imposes on himself, the world would be a better place.

Get off your high horse, toolshed. You can acknowledge that races exist without treating people differently because of them. The idea of being "colorblind" is extremely ignorant. There are different races. There are different cultures. That doesn't mean any one or the other is any better or worse, but the differences are still there.

 

[91TTZ]

Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad


your argument only works if you relate education with wealth. not all rich people are educated and not all poor people are uneducated.

Education *does* relate to wealth.

Just because ALL educated people aren't rich and ALL poor people aren't uneducated doesn't change the proven fact that educated people are much, much more likely to have greater wealth than uneducated people.

When dealing with large groups, you have to look at percentages. You'll rarely find a case where it's all or nothing. You need to focus on the rule rather than the exception. The fact that there are exceptions does not change the predominant trend.

 

[3NF]

Originally posted by: Deeko

Originally posted by: 3NF

Originally posted by: Deeko

egh, yea, I hate when people say things like that, or "lolz im in the human race!!1!" Homo Sapien is a species. Whether people want to believe it or not, there ARE different races of humans!

No crap, genius. I just choose not to care about people's races. Maybe if people like you stop looking at these artificial boundaries man imposes on himself, the world would be a better place.

Get off your high horse, toolshed. You can acknowledge that races exist without treating people differently because of them. The idea of being "colorblind" is extremely ignorant. There are different races. There are different cultures. That doesn't mean any one or the other is any better or worse, but the differences are still there.

Again, no crap genius. I just said that I don't care about people's races - did I say that the differences don't exist? If anything, I'm a mut.

You started this whole thing by saying "I hate". You sound like a racist to me. Want me off the high horse? I'm from Q-town - come on up and knock me off.

 

[91TTZ]

Originally posted by: 3NF

You started this whole thing by saying "I hate". You sound like a racist to me. Want me off the high horse? I'm from Q-town - come on up and knock me off.

Oh smack- we have a gangsta in da house!

Where on the Rockwell scale would you rate your hardness?

 

[Deeko]

Originally posted by: 3NF

Originally posted by: Deeko

Get off your high horse, toolshed. You can acknowledge that races exist without treating people differently because of them. The idea of being "colorblind" is extremely ignorant. There are different races. There are different cultures. That doesn't mean any one or the other is any better or worse, but the differences are still there.

Again, no crap genius. I just said that I don't care about people's races - did I say that the differences don't exist? If anything, I'm a mut.

You started this whole thing by saying "I hate". You sound like a racist to me. Want me off the high horse? I'm from Q-town - come on up and knock me off.

hahah he's getting tough with me, hilarious. I don't know or care what q-town is, and I'm not going to come "knock you off" your high horse, I guess that's how you solve your problems huh? Sad.

I'm not racist at all. I hate people that are ignorant and make ignorant, false statements as a way to make themselves seem better than others. Believe it or not, I can hate things and not be a racist. It's amazing how that works - hating one thing doesn't mean hating everything!

 

[3NF]

Originally posted by: Deeko

Originally posted by: 3NF

Originally posted by: Deeko

Get off your high horse, toolshed. You can acknowledge that races exist without treating people differently because of them. The idea of being "colorblind" is extremely ignorant. There are different races. There are different cultures. That doesn't mean any one or the other is any better or worse, but the differences are still there.

Again, no crap genius. I just said that I don't care about people's races - did I say that the differences don't exist? If anything, I'm a mut.

You started this whole thing by saying "I hate". You sound like a racist to me. Want me off the high horse? I'm from Q-town - come on up and knock me off.

hahah he's getting tough with me, hilarious. I don't know or care what q-town is, and I'm not going to come "knock you off" your high horse, I guess that's how you solve your problems huh? Sad.

I'm not racist at all. I hate people that are ignorant and make ignorant, false statements as a way to make themselves seem better than others. Believe it or not, I can hate things and not be a racist. It's amazing how that works - hating one thing doesn't mean hating everything!

Let's piece meal this .. What false statement did I make, genius?

 

[Deeko]

Oh, so now you want to resolve your conflicts with words rather than fisticuffs? We've made a breakthrough! I'm so proud of you, 3NF.

Anyway, if you read my post that set you off on this tangent, I said it is ignorant to say you can't be racist if you say we're all humans (or in your words, 'earthlings'). I understand what you're driving at - but as I said, you can treat everyone equally and not care about their differences without claiming those differences don't exist, and it's very annoying when people scoff at that.

 

[TehMac]

Originally posted by: 3NF

Originally posted by: Deeko

Originally posted by: Saint Michael

Originally posted by: 3NF
You should have just told him you were an Earthling. You can't be racist about that because from that point of view, we are all in the same boat.

No, you can't be racist about that because "earthling" is not a race.

egh, yea, I hate when people say things like that, or "lolz im in the human race!!1!" Homo Sapien is a species. Whether people want to believe it or not, there ARE different races of humans!

No crap, genius. I just choose not to care about people's races. Maybe if people like you stop looking at these artificial boundaries man imposes on himself, the world would be a better place.

That wasn't his point. :roll:

 

[SacrosanctFiend]

Originally posted by: 91TTZ

This is completely incorrect.

Most people who are lower class may be politically incorrect, but they're usually not truly racist since they tend to hang around people of other races.

Wealthy people, on the other hand, usually hang around a much less diverse crowd. You'd have to be fooling yourself to believe that wealthy people aren't racist. They may not be stupid enough to express it in public, but look at their actions- they tend to mingle only amongst their own kind. They send their kids to exclusive, non-diverse schools. Look at the makeup of the functions they attend.

Actions speak louder than words. There is a big difference between one's publicly expressed beliefs and their actions. You will find that even by choice, lower class people are a much more diverse crowd than the highly educated elite.

I fail to see how the diversity of the crowd you hang around determines if you are racist or not. Just because wealthy people 'mingle with their own kind' and their children attend non-diverse schools, does not automatically make them racist. That is a completely asinine statement.

The diversity of the crowd doesn't determine whether one is racist or not. One's own thoughts and/or actions indicating that they feel they are better than others based on their race determines whether one is racist or not.

 

[AlienCraft]

Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad
he's right...keep foreigners out.

Too late for that, I'm afriad.
Everyone would have to leave.

 

[Nemesis 1]

Their are stupid people in all races its not just a White thing.Illeagally entering a country has nothing to do with race. Whats wrong is making special laws for minorities. Its an insult to the majority.

You cann't mandate racism out of the law. People need to be educated and grow. The orginal constitution wasn't racist in any form . But the people of that time were.

The Federial government used this latter. To add to the laws, Effectively growing the federal government and removing freedom. Were we started from was great . Were we are now sucks big time.

The war on terror is a joke. Putting heavely armed guards in the subways is a joke,

When our boarder with Mexico is basicly wide open . 1 million illeagals cross it ever year.

I suspect its very easy for terrorist to cross that boarder.

But this false war on terror has done is remove some of our basic American freedoms.

All hail the illeagal federal government.

 

[Jschmuck2]

Originally posted by: TehMac

Originally posted by: BudAshes
he sounds like a republican?

Considering that democratic senators have been members of the KKK, I think you meant Democrat.


Nice try though.

I think you mean Dixiecrats.

What's it like to completely fucking nuts? I've always wondered.

 

[AlienCraft]

Originally posted by: 91TTZ

Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad


your argument only works if you relate education with wealth. not all rich people are educated and not all poor people are uneducated.

Education *does* relate to wealth.

Just because ALL educated people aren't rich and ALL poor people aren't uneducated doesn't change the proven fact that educated people are much, much more likely to have greater wealth than uneducated people.

When dealing with large groups, you have to look at percentages. You'll rarely find a case where it's all or nothing. You need to focus on the rule rather than the exception. The fact that there are exceptions does not change the predominant trend.

Only when speaking in Hegelian.
I believe you're correct if we modify the statement to be "opportunity for education".
In todays neo-feudalism, wealth is access, to better opportunity, to approaches free of bureaucratic encumberances, to people of similar class, that the unwealthy never have, bequeathed to offspring that has no incentive to advance anything, except their own principal fortune.
The only education these people seek out, trends to the greedy, rather than the innovative, in one's character.

You get the best legal representation, Government, and Education, as you can afford.
Sloth and Greed, our new National Credo.

Equal Representation under the law used to apply to people, now it applies to Corporations and their lobbyists, first, then to the Citizens that are actually referred to in the Founding Documents.
I've been doing some re-reading and I find NO MENTION of protections to Corporations, anywhere.</ hijack>


People ARE Racist. and Sexist.
As a Scots-Irish American Male, of middle age, I get it from droopy pants Hispanic and Black people of both sexes, & the occasional radical feminist.
Any snarky commentary from these types usually ends when I ask " why they need to continue the stereotype with me? What is it I represent that they can't deal with?.... I didn't hate you when we started , but I do now."