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[DaveB]

Mocking gingers isn't fair game, as they are genetically flawed. It would be as bad as mocking window lickers

[doomage]

wrong answer. sometimes culture can be the dominant factor.

If you came across a bunch of headhunters eating a missionary, and you went to do a poll to see if they were all like that
you'd end up with a boiled head the size of a shrivelled walnut

Was it a catholic missionary?

[doodab]

A tack that wim121 often tried to maintain.

Which? That it's ok to hold racist views if one is not nasty to people or that holding the belief that people of different races differ is itself unacceptable?

Given that it's hardly a settled question (i.e. genetic profiling can match race, some people are a surprising mixture, and there are phenotypic differences such as skin, eye, hair and so on, so there clearly are differences) I don't think the belief itself is necessarily harmful unless it spills over into value judgements i.e. believing that people are inherently worth more or less based on race.

I found an interesting service that gives you a 'genetic geanology' profile so you can see where your ancestors are from, i'll post the link up later.

[mudskipper]

I worked with a British born Indian. He was a knob.

Whether I am racist or not depends if I think he was a knob because he was of Indian origin, or whether he was a knob who happened to be of Indian origin.

IIRC, Spod's original post that sparked the accusation implied that he thought that Jewish people were bad to work for, rather than he worked for crap people who were Jewish (in which case the fact that they were Jewish really shouldn't come into the equation).

However, as CM has said, is Spod thinking that Jewish people are crap to work for, based on his experience really any different to one feeling dismay when you hear you're going to be working with offshore Bob resource?

I also think the example is different to EO's Japanese. The Japanese that EO's grandad met in the war were representing the state (if that's the right word) of Japan. So EO's grandad is entitled to dislike the state of Japan. One would hope that he would also realise that an individual Japanese person may be quite nice.

[Incognito]

I happen to think Admin on here is Ok and when he tells me to STFU, I generally do.

Unfortunately 'she' didn't and decided to get her two pence worth in. Then 'she' wonders why people don't pay any notice when 'she' plays the victim card.

[Platypus]

Then 'she' wonders why people don't pay any notice when 'she' plays the victim card.

Does she? I hadn't seen any evidence of that.

Do, pray, elaborate.

[mudskipper]

Does one have to target a group in a spiteful way to be racist? Could one not be kind and respectful to all while holding racist views?

Been studying art history. At the beginning of the 20th century, there was a sudden interest in African tribal art, with it being copied in the mask like faces used by Picasso et al, and having a strong influence on the modernist movement. This art was admired for its supposed primitiveness - being praised, but reinforcing the contemporary view of the Africans as uncivilised 'savages', and denying the concept that they had their own history and culture that had influenced their art.

[wurzel]

I found an interesting service that gives you a 'genetic geanology' profile so you can see where your ancestors are from, i'll post the link up later.

Nice one, I'd be interested in having a look.

[Troll]

Phew, I was worried this was going to be a dull Friday reading about lotus notes and DAB radios.

Yeah!...wonder how long it will be before this thread gets locked

[Incognito]

Does she? I hadn't seen any evidence of that.

Do, pray, elaborate.

You've been too busy sniffing round her arse hoping to get a bit to read any of her posts.