Are you racist?

[SzczerbiakManiac]

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

Chinese people are cheap.

Did I miss any?

Chinese are cheap? I thought it was those dirty Jews*...?
You also forgot that all gay men have the AIDS.
All gay people are trying to convert/recruit the Breeders into the Homasexshul Lifestyle©


*Chill people—it's a joke!

[Gemini Cricket]

Originally Posted by SzczerbiakManiac

You also forgot that all gay men have the AIDS...

I was going for race issues. But I do get your meaning, Girlfriend.

[Alex]

Except you hardly mentioned any racial stereotypes but rather nationalist stereotypes. Which points out another issue with racism, our tendency to equate culture with race in a causal relationship where there is none.

[Gemini Cricket]

Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

Except you hardly mentioned any racial stereotypes but rather nationalist stereotypes. Which points out another issue with racism, our tendency to equate culture with race in a causal relationship where there is none.

You lost me on that one...

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

You lost me on that one...

"Polish" is not a race, it's a nationality.

[Gemini Cricket]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

"Polish" is not a race, it's a nationality.

I get it.
But don't both play a part in stereotypes about people? That's what the list is stereotypes of people's race, nationality etc.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

I get it.
But don't both play a part in stereotypes about people? That's what the list is stereotypes of people's race, nationality etc.

Yes, but in explaining why you didn't include gay stereotypes, you said you were limiting your list to race. Alex was simply pointing out that in doing so, you highlighted a common confusion between race and nationality that adds to the complexity of the issue.

[Gemini Cricket]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

Yes, but in explaining why you didn't include gay stereotypes, you said you were limiting your list to race.

I see. Then I revise what I said.

[innerSpaceman]

But Alex can himself be confused about what's a race and what's something else. He has said he sees Jews as a religious group, whereas it's primarily a race. I have no religion, and yet I am certainly a jew. It's my DNA, not my spiritual beliefs, which determine that.

How can we separate race from nationality from religion when we can't even agree on which is which?

[Gemini Cricket]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

How can we separate race from nationality from religion when we can't even agree on which is which?

That is one of the reasons I didn't put Jewish people on my list (which was a joke until it was picked apart - unfunny bastards - <---that was a joke, too) because I'm confused about the matter.

So, am I to say I am a Catholic because I was born into the faith and baptized? I resigned from the Catholic Church in '97, so I'm no longer officially Catholic or am I?

Confused again. Which ain't hard, baby!