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Subject: How come only white people can be racist?

If I criticize a black person, I am accused of being a racist white cracker-ass. However, if they call me a cracker ass, it is not racist, but just a part of there culture. Why does this double-standard exist? What exempts African-Americans from being racist?

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Because double standards.

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Stuff that happened 200 years ago that your ancestors probably weren't involved in in the slightest.

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I don't know where you live, but over here there is no such double standard.

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Slavery: the way white people treated black people in the past was disgusting, and they had little-to-no rights. When they gained equal rights, I guess they decide to be racist back, and therefore it's more acceptable for a black person to be racist on occasion.

That's what I think anyway.

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Legally, any one can be considered racist. Socially, many seem to feel that racist remarks from any group other than white people are acceptable because such groups have been on the recieving end of racism for so long. Personally, I could care less about the history, if you want equality then lets be equal. Overcompensation and special treatment is not equality, socially, legally or otherwise.

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Yup.

Michael Richards says the "n-word" to some trouble-making hecklers, he is evil.

Jamie Foxx says "And then I kill all the white people" as part of an SNL script and people laugh and a few people cheer.

Hypocritical, hmm?

  • 12.14.2012 9:16 AM PDT

Probably will get locked, but I have wondered this as well. Im pretty sure it is well documented that Black on White attacks are much more common, be it verbal or physical, than White on Black. Though who always gets charged with hate crimes? Definitely not Blacks.

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Posted by: LC o MagiikZ
Slavery: the way white people treated black people in the past was disgusting, and they had little-to-no rights. When they gained equal rights, I guess they decide to be racist back, and therefore it's more acceptable for a black person to be racist on occasion.

That's what I think anyway.

But racism should never be acceptable.

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Yup.


Posted by: Kadoozy
Probably will get locked, but I have wondered this as well. Im pretty sure it is well documented that Black on White attacks are much more common, be it verbal or physical, than White on Black. Though who always gets charged with hate crimes? Definitely not Blacks.


Blacks are 250 times more likely to commit violence against Whites than Whites against Blacks.

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Oh boo hoo yeah it's sooooooooo hard being white.


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Posted by: LC o MagiikZ
Slavery: the way white people treated black people in the past was disgusting, and they had little-to-no rights. When they gained equal rights, I guess they decide to be racist back, and therefore it's more acceptable for a black person to be racist on occasion.

That's what I think anyway.

So you're saying it's okay for someone to be angry at someone else for doing something to another person, even when they didn't actually do it, rather some people a few hundred years ago did.

I don't know about you guys, but I never enslaved or treated a black person badly on the basis that they have a different skin tone. So if a black person did that to me, then surely they would be in the same league as the prejudicial people of an age ago.

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If I criticize a black person, I am accused of being a racist white cracker-ass. However, if they call me a cracker ass, it is not racist, but just a part of there culture. Why does this double-standard exist? What exempts African-Americans from being racist?
Nothing. Any person who uses a racist slur while calling you a racist is an idiot and a hypocrite, regardless of his or her race or background. Do not even stoop to the level of trying to talk to these kinds of people.

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Posted by: Locke357
Oh boo hoo yeah it's sooooooooo hard being white.


Nothing gets me more than Flood kiddies, typically privileged white boys, complaining about how they're soooooo oppressed


Hey now boy no need to play the suburban privileged middle class white boy wanna be gangster card.

  • 12.14.2012 9:25 AM PDT

White people are attacked the most. Go into a black run restaurant and they are all calling you a white boy but since they are the majority it's not an issue.

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Say White power and you're a racist.... say Black power and you're just proud of being black.

double standards

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Say White power and you're a racist.... say Black power and you're just proud of being black.

double standards
No. Not in the slightest.

It all depends on what the slogan is being used for. White Power is the slogan for the Neo - -blam!- movement. Black Power is used by several groups, some of whom are racist. It all goes to the meaning behind what is said.

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Anyone but Foman. He smells like cheese.

EDIT: looks like another moderator decided to lock this thread. I don't want to look like I was trying to "get the last word in" so I'm deleting this post.

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