Racism

[loseyourname]

Does it exist? Does it not exist? Does race exist? Do you personally have anything against certain races, ethnicities, religions? Post your thoughts here. Mousy and feliz, get it on.

[Sirumemkez20]

yes it does exist, everyone is racist at some point.....

[Artsakhtsi]

Yes, it does exist...speaking from the bad expirience.... there are so many xxxxing racists here.....They just hate outlandish ppl. no metter if it's muslim or christian..... they call all of them (us)*xxxxing turks* .....
And one more thing, that bastards do not dare to attack if they are not dubble so much.

[Anonymouse]

Re: Racism

Originally posted by loseyourname Does it exist? Does it not exist? Does race exist? Do you personally have anything against certain races, ethnicities, religions? Post your thoughts here. Mousy and feliz, get it on.

Of course it can be argued that race and racism exist. But again it is more politics than it is anything else in our age. The politics of race is perhaps one of the most powerful politics there are. If race doesn't exist, why do we have all these so called "anti racism laws" known as "Civil Rights" and "anti-discrimination". If we are indeed "all equal" why do we need Big Brother and hordes of legislation and constant monitoring and affirmitive to insure that we are equal?

People fail to understand that discrimination is a healthy thing ( of course this will get me publically ostracised ). It is the natural, rather, it is the cognitive ability to differentiate. We discriminate in our everyday lives. Everytime we choose something, over something else, we are in essence discriminating. If I choose to marry an Armenian, that is ipso facto discrimination, for I am discriminating against everyone else. I cannot not discriminate, since it involves choosing something over another.

Furthermore, if by "race" we mean that there are differences among the population groups, then yes race does exist. Does this mean that one should hate based on these? My logic tells me no, but there are those that do. Even in our everyday lives, we feel more comfortable around our kin, our "family" or "race" or "culture", but egalitarianism forces integration out of its own natural setting. Integration and assimilation happen over time and always take place in history, however egalitarianism forces it. This is part of the reason why homogenous countries in general experience less crime and have more social cohesion, due to the lack of many conflict variables which we can attribute to chaos theory, and Japan is one of my prime examples of the wonders of ethnic homogeneity. They don't have the problems America has with regard to "race", since you are Japanese.

I find it very funny that the idea of "diversity" or egalitarianism is only pushed in Western countries. You don't see Korea, or Japan embracing such concepts. Of course if someone chooses to to stay within the confines of their own "family", "ethnicity", "race", etc., I see no harm in them doing it. If "African Americans" can have their own school clubs, why can't "European Americans"? That is in itself reverse discrimination by the standards of the same people that argue against discrimination. We are essentially creating these identities so why not give it to everyone as well? At the same time, if someone wishes to embrace diversity, I see no harm in that either, but our political conditioning has taught as that discrimination, the natural or cognitive ability to differentiate is somehow evil.

[SexyAries]

It does exist and maybe you can say I am, and most Armenians can be because I and most Armenians despise Jews!

[Anonymouse]

Originally posted by SexyAries It does exist and maybe you can say I am, and most Armenians can be because I and most Armenians despise Jews!

Jews are not a race. And the only Jews I despise are Zionists.

[patlajan]

People will always find a way to diferentiate themselves, spearate themselves by groups, and not like each other. It is inevitable. So whatever kind of ism we're talking about it is inevitable.

[Anonymouse]

Originally posted by patlajan People will always find a way to diferentiate themselves, spearate themselves by groups, and not like each other. It is inevitable. So whatever kind of ism we're talking about it is inevitable.

Behold the wisdom of the ages, as uttered by the opening on the eggplant left by the fork.

[SexyAries]

If Jews arn't a race then Im not a racist.........woo hoo!!!!!!

I can't really tell the future, but i think racism will be around for a very long time, even till the end of time. People are just born with those traits and it would be bull for anyone to say that they have never even said a racist remark. So i dunno what do you guys think? Raicism will be around or not?

[SagGal]

Aries, Jews coming from the word, Judaism. It's a religion. Just like
Chrisians coming from the word Christianity.

What about this forum? Don't u guys think that this forum can get kind of racist? I mean, there's a forum page of when ppl reveal members who are not Armenian. I do like this being only armenians forum, but it kind of shows a little bit of racism.
I bet you guys are gonna yell at me for that one.

What Artsakhtsi said is also a good point.

Quoting Anon~~ "If 'African Americans' can have their own school clubs, why can't "European Americans"? That is in itself reverse discrimination by the standards of the same people that argue against discrimination."

True. They use the reason that they used to be slaves, and they have always been discriminated and still are. But don't you guys think that sometimes they take it out of line? It's like, a white man is supposed to feel guilty about it for the rest of his life?