Are my views racist?

[sasguru]

These people are ALL RACISTS

Whites who hate blacks are colour racists.
Blacks who hate Whites are colour racists.
Protestants who hate Catholics are religious racists.
Muslims who hate Christians are religious racists.
Sunni Muslims who hate Shī'ah Muslim are religious racists.
Flemish Belgians who hate French Belgians are linguistic racists.
Totsis who hate Hutus are tribal racists.
A racist is someone who hates someone different which ends up

Nonsense. A racist is someone who hates someone from another race (usually defined by colour of skin, but not always).
Guess what - the root of racist is "race".

[Moscow Mule]

1.I cannot be racist because I don't judge a person by the colour of the skin - which seems to be a common definition of racist (biology will tell you that races don't exist anyway, but that's a different story.)

The definition of Racism (legally) is much wider than just skin colour. It refers specifically to countries, and cultures.

[sasguru]

The definition of Racism (legally) is much wider than just skin colour. It refers specifically to countries, and cultures.

Are we to conclude that all cultures have equal value then?
Because I respectfully suggest that is not the case.

[BlackenedBiker]

1.I cannot be racist because I don't judge a person by the colour of the skin - which seems to be a common definition of racist (biology will tell you that races don't exist anyway, but that's a different story.)

2. I don't believe that western culture is necessarily superior. For example its materialism will eventually ruin the world (not that other cultures are not materialistic either.). But it doesn't include female genetic mutilation and killing of albinos because they are bad luck. Or opressing women by insisting on veils etc.

Racism is based purely on RACE duh!!!!!!

Do you mean genital mutilation???

I think that your generalism is indicative of not having thought things through. How many Tanzanians have killed albinos for the purposes of Witch Doctory????? Maybe 5? So does that make Britain a country of eugenicists as there are at least 5 people in this country who believe in that.

Think not

[Pondlife]

Are we to conclude that all cultures have equal value then?
Because I respectfully suggest that is not the case.

Does value = merit?

Who gets to set the criteria for this value/merit?

[Moscow Mule]

Are we to conclude that all cultures have equal value then?
Because I respectfully suggest that is not the case.

I wouldn't say so, but that is nothing more than an opinion.

[suityou01]

Gotta chuck in my tuppence worth. Recently some arse on strictly come dancing called his dance partner a "paki" as a joke, referring to her fake tan.

Obviously the populous were baying for blood, and when none came, said "Well Carol Thatcher got the push for her golliwog reference, why doesn't he?"

The response from the beeb? Carol didn't apologise, he did.

So just apologise to your kids, and everyone on here and all will be fine

(I'm kidding, I think you talk sense about immigration, but in today's society as soon as you even go near the immigrant word, you are AUTOMATICALLY a racist. It's like a kind of PC Pavlovian response)

[Xenophon]

Do you mean genital mutilation???

That reminds me of a time many years ago when the then girlfriend tried to swap my balls over.

It didn't go well.

[Churchill]

That reminds me of a time many years ago when the then girlfriend tried to swap my balls over.

It didn't go well.

WTF?

[BlackenedBiker]

Are we to conclude that all cultures have equal value then?
Because I respectfully suggest that is not the case.

How to attach value to a culture.

Westeners have a culture that creates wealth, that provides health and social security infrastructures and that allows for cultural diversity. But we also involve ourselves in empire building, in mechanized wars in foreign lands and have done a pretty good job of negatively impacting on our environment.

Australian Aboriginals (longest unbroken culture on the planet) produce nothing (in our terms) but have not killed in the millions nor have they lived in a manner that is contradictory to their environment.

So which culture has more value SG/King Of The World?