just leave...its over..

all of these awful threads make me want to start shitposting again
gotta resist those urges though...

just keep it to yourself, k? Don't make laws on it and down force it down my throat coercively

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also I realize i used a black guy in my picture please don't downfrag me nub_danish try to control that racism

jesus christ you're a fucking serial killer

I think the idea of Racism is interesting on a conceptual level, in that the very idea of Race is something entirely made up by people for ulterior motives. The idea of "Race" became an excuse to explain why the imperial powers had the technology and capability to conquer others. The way we currently identify race is by phenotype which in respect to race just means "looks like". There is no science behind someone's skin color defining their thought patterns, skin color is just melanin. Skin color is just another human adaptation to the ecosystem, the hotter a place is and the more direct sun it receives the darker the people are going to be. In colder places that receive much less sun the lighter. Hell, my skin color fluctuates over the year getting darker in the summer and getting a little lighter in the winter.

Race has usually been an excuse to explain why people seem to act differently, people are more apt to attribute random luck rather then any other factors. In Greek antiquity before there was any of idea of a unified "Greece" (aka before the Persian Wars where it was made up to cover asses), the people of one poleis would refer to those of another as an entirely different race. The people of Athens would refer to someone from Pherae as a different race, in the words of Herodotus being more inclined to piracy just because they were citizens of that city. It was attributed to something they were born with rather then the fact that the place sucked crop wise and was on the coast, so piracy was about a step up from starving to death.

So essentially the entire idea of being racist does not make sense conceptually, you're assigning imaginary qualities to an entire group of people for really no reason. (To be fair there are a ton of societal reasons that led people to believe certain things about "races", is generally passed down from parents, or the result of one sudden traumatic experience stretched across an entire race)

But the idea of being racist does not necessarily mean you are an inherently bad person, everyone has flaws. Like it has been said, the key difference is whether or not you act on it. One of the key pillars of society is being able to fake being civil. If you aren't burning crosses, taking part in lynch mobs, or actively hurting another person by acting on racist impulses, then chances are no one cares or will actually know. You can be racist as you want to be in your own privacy, legal and illegal is usually where a line is crossed. No one knew Donald Sterling as a quasi-sane racist until his wife ratted him out.

alternatively, an edgy kid with too much free time

God damnit, I was already writing my essay doing those exact things. I couldn't know.

Does occasionally saying the N word make me a racist?

general consesus, being racist is a bad thing but doesnt make you a bad person

now if u decide to kill 6 million jews idk man

I like how this fucking idiot says "im not racist, I was just asking a question" but if you go through his post history you find nice old white supremacy shit like

http://i.imgur.com/IOKvv10.png

You are cancer and should probably just leave this community you piece of shit

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where in my post did i say whites were superior

Being racist isn't good, yeah, but telling people to kill themselves isn't either.

Let's build a firewall around tf.tv, and make /r/the_donald pay for it.

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all humans have pretty much the same genes but different "races" (not the right word, as races encompass so many distinct groups of people) have different allele frequencies through natural selection, fine-tuned to the needs of their environment

it's impossible to hand wave over the entire issue of race and say that they are all the same, but believing certain groups of people to be inferior is ignorant. all groups of people are specialized to their environment and yet possess the same potential for growth, and over time the racial distinctions will disappear as the people who formerly had to adapt to slavery now have to adapt to living in society as equals with everyone else

The entire "races can be genetically superior" was invented by social darwinists who believed that whites conquered the world because they are genetically superior. "Superior genetic traits" can't belong to a race because the entire idea of race itself is based on genetic traits that are independent from other things like higher muscle mass and intelligence. For example, saying that white people have a higher intelligence is incorrect because the genetic trait that gives you white skin has absolutely no effect on someone's IQ.

Although judging from how close minded all your posts are you probably haven't actually sat down for more than 5 minutes and thought about what you are saying,

why am i the one whos close minded when people are berating me calling me a racist and when people like chunkey see this shit they go
11:04 PM - unknown error: like chunkey said in group chat after seeing your thread
11:04 PM - unknown error: "if i could kill racists, i wouldnt hesitate"
11:04 PM - unknown error: cmon they're human beings
am i the terrible close minded one or are the people who want to kill all people for having ideas different from there own the intolerant close minded people, people who may not have been causing any harm may have been looking past there racism and not discriminating

Honestly being a racist does make you close minded as a person, but you are correct in saying that the people who wish to inflict harm to others are also very close minded.
But, it doesn't really change the fact that racism is still a very discouraged thing to do, and that most racists these days seem to be hanging on to the past where they believed in these ideas of white supremacy and where every black man was a slave/being lynched.
Meanwhile on the other spectrum, the people who are close minded about their hatred for racism are just blinded by said rage they have, and wishing death upon the people who have wronged is still a wrong thing to do.
Two wrongs don't make a right.
People need to learn that we should discourage racism, but not destroy the racists.

The OP question is completely subjective and has no real answer. How do you define "a bad person"? Can someone be a bad person if they "think" a certain way? Can someone be a bad person if they "believe" something different that does not follow the crowd? I can go on and on because you can ask 100 different people and get a different answer each time. There are also different degrees to that answer you need to take into account, for example this saying:

"Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god."

You start off as a "bad" person (murderer) but turn that up a few notches and you become what most people think is a "good" or even "great" person (Conquering Hero). Obviously that saying deals with death specifically but it could just as easily fit with the "racist" label. The point is just how subjective any answer to your question can be. There is no right answer except the answer you make for yourself. So I ask once again, how do you define "a bad person"?

Once you personally define that, understand that other people will have a totally different definition. Then you can determine if someone you view as "racist" is a "bad person" according to your criteria.

For some reason this reminds me of the dog fucker thread that went down a bit ago.

It depends on your definition of "racism".

white race cadet weighing in

Leave me alone I just want to fetishize asian girls on tf2center in peace

racism doesn't necessarily make you close minded it's just a prejudice against people for there race that doesn't make you closed to ideas

just connor being a moron, nothing new around here

OH my god I can't take it

we are turning this into a learning thread

the phrase is "CLOSED-MINDED". it is a state of being open or closed, not a reference to a distance. your mind is not near or far from new ideas, it is open or closed to them.

have a nice day

p.s. lesson #2 is
there is a location
their is a possession
they're is a contraction for they are

whats with the amount of really bad threads lately

I would definitely feel a lot less safe walking around an area dominated by black people in america or around muslim illegal immigrants than I would walking around my 98% white city. It seems only natural looking at the crime statistics.