- Feb 22, 2010
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I don't think that is racist unless you said something with it or the way you would justify it. If you were to be angry at the fact your daughter brought home someone that wasn't white, that could mean you are being racist. There has to be hatred involved.So if I were to tell you that I would rather my daughter married a white guy?
It like for you to say I wouldn't want my daughter to bring someone struggling with money or poor, that doesn't necessarily mean that you have a hatred of the poor
See I understand why alot of people think this. I think potentially there should be a higher standard for justification of racial hatred(I don't know the current one). However I know that in my case it was quiet likely that I got racially aggravated assaulted but it was just labelled as a assault.Growing up, I felt this.
If you were called a fat bastard, no one cared. If you were called a black bastard, everyone gasped and the offenders suspended and probably with the police involved. I was bullied a lot and because the abuse I received was mainly because I was fat, no one gave a shit. If I was black it would have been a different story.
Also I don't like how "racially-aggrievated" ha led to this 2-tier justice system. You punch someone because you don't like them If they reason is anything other than race you'll get a sentence of X, but if is because of race then you get X+Y. You punched them with the same force. The impact is the same. Why should one person get a strong sentence than another?
I was walking through an area that was known to be racist and a group of 10 or so walked past me, then one of them hit me on the head for no reason and as I turned around and went towards the guy who hit me, the others blindsided me before it going to a brawl.
Now other than me having olive/beige skin, there was no reason for them to attack me, I didnt do/say/wear anything to offend them. This was also at a time when a iPod cost £250 which I had on me, after getting home from the hospital I wished that they took the iPod as least then it wasn't the colour of my skin that may of offended them. Again it was that isolated feeling of me hating/blaming myself, that I would consider to been racially abused and the fact they had a power over me(in this case me being a minority). However as I never heard anything racist it was just a assault and not racially aggravated.
However this is how I view racism. I have been picked on for the way I look or whatever(we all do at some point). BUT we can change the way we look and etc(despite it making me feel shitty and feeling like I couldn't change at the time). When suffering racism, there is nothing you can do as you will always be that skin colour and you feel alone and this person has something over you(racism is hardly ever done by the weak).
Racism is that lonely feeling of there is nothing you can do. Thats why I have deemed words that are racist, not racist and instead ignorant when thrown at me before like choc ice and bounty, as they never had that effect. Racism is normally done by those in that instance are carrying power over the victim, which I also think is crucial at times.