Does This Make Me Racist?

[natashav]

Some of my close friends know of my Armenian heritage, but I haven't really bothered to tell too many people. One day, I was in the car with my mother, father, and my friend. We were being dropped off somewhere. Some person cut my dad off, and he has a bit ( and by a bit, I mean a severe case ) of road rage. So he started swearing, in englarmenian ( english and armenian ) Than, he noticed a bumper sticker on the driver's car. It was of the turkish flag. This juts set my father off even more. He said " Motherxxxxing Turk!" and a few other things I couldn't catch. My friend, who is not armenian, seemed appalled by that and I think he thinks my family are racists now.

So , a question ...
does this make my dad racist?
And, if I still hold a " grudge " against turks and prefer not to associate with them, does that make me one aswell?

[xcelr8Armo]

Re: Does This Make Me Racist?

Your dad is soooo cool

btw dont worry about being a racist because everyone is racist they just dont know it.

[jgk3]

Re: Does This Make Me Racist?

My advice for those who use the "that's racist" card whenever they see fit:

Ditch your "everyone is equal, I deserve good treatment by xxxxxing and whining about others, etc..." and you'll watch yourself improve and become more of a contributive, exemplary figure for your community that can earn the respect of others.

Also, based on my understanding, if you are Armenian and love America, or whatever country you live in that isn't Armenia, that's fine, it's an individual choice, though it makes you more of whatever that country it is you live in, than Armenian (trust me, at the moment this applies to me as a Canadian). If you feel that phobia of racism however is good for your country, regardless of which country that is, I think you're wrong, because in reality, you're attacking your own brain's ability to use a little thing called racial cognition and combine it with passing a dualistic judgement of good or bad on the traits you pick out from the overall behavior you've witnessed from that race, be it from individual experience or secondary sources.

I think the best you can do for yourself if you believe that it's wrong to have prejudices on ethnic groups/races is to go witness them first hand to whatever extent you can and come up with your own conclusion, be it one regarding how different you've discovered they are, or how they are in fact quite similar to yourself, or some combination of the two.

But please, drop your phobia of the label "racist", decide for yourself if you feel comfortable judging others based on patterns and categories that extend themselves along visible physical and behavioral differences, or if you want to always search for the underlying sameness we all have, which I believe will also lead you to seeing our sameness in many respects with animals.

[jgk3]

Re: Does This Make Me Racist?

Hostile feelings towards T urks aside, if you got rectal cancer one day, would you wish such a thing upon others?

[One-Way]

Re: Does This Make Me Racist?

No and no.

Tell your friend to get a life.

[Federate]

Re: Does This Make Me Racist?

LOL, sounds like my dad.

I second One-Way.

[Anonymouse]

Re: Does This Make Me Racist?

Rectal cancer would require chemotherapy.

There are some people who consider cancer patients a fetish. Rest assured, for all is not lost.

[MrHyeSev]

Re: Does This Make Me Racist?

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Some of my close friends know of my Armenian heritage, but I haven't really bothered to tell too many people. One day, I was in the car with my mother, father, and my friend. We were being dropped off somewhere. Some person cut my dad off, and he has a bit ( and by a bit, I mean a severe case ) of road rage. So he started swearing, in englarmenian ( english and armenian ) Than, he noticed a bumper sticker on the driver's car. It was of the turkish flag. This juts set my father off even more. He said " Motherxxxxing Turk!" and a few other things I couldn't catch. My friend, who is not armenian, seemed appalled by that and I think he thinks my family are racists now.

So , a question ...
does this make my dad racist?
And, if I still hold a " grudge " against turks and prefer not to associate with them, does that make me one aswell?

If someone cut my off to I would do the same thing, your dad was right to do that. Also, I think your friend might also be racist.

[Mos]

Re: Does This Make Me Racist?

no, it doesn't, americans can be so damn annoying sometimes with their fear of racism and over sensitivity

[One-Way]

Re: Does This Make Me Racist?

Also, I think your friend might also be racist.

Hahahaha.