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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-19-08 05:51 PM
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Poll question: WHO is more likely to harbor racial biases or bigotry?
Edited on Mon May-19-08 05:53 PM by TahitiNut
Here's one of the elephants in the room, it seems to me. Let's see what the DUer "experience" has been.
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Bicoastal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-19-08 05:52 PM
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1. My vote goes for--anyone who's foolish enough to vote in this poll.
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AndyTiedye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-19-08 05:54 PM
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3. Even if You Voted for "Rob is a Dingbat"?
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rug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-19-08 05:53 PM
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2. You left out Micronesians.
If you're going to racially classify, at least be thorough.
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Adelante Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-19-08 05:54 PM
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4. All of those groups harbor racial biases
No one is immune.
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Forkboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-19-08 05:57 PM
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7. And there you go.
:thumbsup:
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-19-08 05:55 PM
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5. IF bigotry is a function of privilege, which I suspect may be the case,
then while hetero Christian males. :shrug:
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NorthernSpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-19-08 06:01 PM
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14. Bigotry is not a function of privilege. The ability to turn bigotry into policy...
... is where privilege comes in.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-19-08 11:37 PM
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31. It's got to be prior to that.
Because first you have to be able to imagine it, to think that way.
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Indenturedebtor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-19-08 06:03 PM
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16. I don't think bigotry is at all a function of priviledge
It's a function of xenophobia, ignorance, fear, tribalism, low self esteem (leads to tribalism), misattribution, and so on. Often all of the above.

And above all it's the inability to see people as individuals.

I didn't vote in this poll. Personally I've recieved more direct racism from black males in the form of about 20 fights when I was growing up. But I meet stupid bigots of every creed and color all the time. You see I know not to generalise to the entire population based on my own personal experiences. That's one step to minimizing your own bigotry ;)
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-19-08 11:38 PM
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32. LOL. What you did in that post was precisely generalize
based on your own experience. Maybe you should have a talk with you. :)
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Indenturedebtor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-19-08 11:58 PM
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36. How did I generalise?
I mentioned my personal experience, and the fact that I know not to generalise that to all black people.

I don't understand? Though your turn of phrase is lovely :P
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BuyingThyme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-19-08 05:55 PM
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6. The people who find creative ways of attributing those qualities to entire groups of people?
:P
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-19-08 05:58 PM
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9. Well, the thing is that bigotry needs a group agreement to matter.
It'd be pretty difficult to talk about it without talking about groups. :shrug:
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loyalsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-19-08 05:57 PM
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8. What exactly are you trying to determine?
I don't see a lot of value here beyond the obvious stirring of controversy.
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TheDoorbellRang Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-19-08 06:00 PM
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10. I'd say it's more by age than anything else
In my experience, people 60 or older tend to be more prejudiced, at least openly. There seems to be less prejudice in younger generations.
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silverojo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-19-08 06:16 PM
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21. I think younger people are more prejudiced
That's why hate groups are making a not-so-grand return.
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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-19-08 06:24 PM
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25. I'd say otherwise.
Which would be why the klan was real active back in the sixties, and back in the twenties 1 out of 5 white men was a klan member.
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Bucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-19-08 06:00 PM
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11. It's the French, dammit. Those fucking cheese-breath frog bastards are hateful.
Fuck 'em all to hell, I say.
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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-19-08 06:00 PM
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12. Using opposition towards interracial marriage as an indicator of racism...
White people would be twice as likely to be racist as african americans, according to Gallup.
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newmajority Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-19-08 06:01 PM
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13. Apparently Old Italian Congresswomen are prone to racism
http://bp1.blogger.com/_aztX1kgFFiA/R9ieurwRDuI/AAAAAAAAAD4/rLDip2-zsRQ/s400/20080312+ferraro+reverse+racism.jpg
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panader0 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-19-08 06:01 PM
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15. White males.
As a white male construction guy, I see a lot of it. I am already well-known around here for not putting up with racism, either against blacks, (not too many around here) or hispanics (many here).
My next choice would be black males, although the dynamic there is different. Blacks were slaves until 150 years ago, and the racism toward them has continued since. So the black "racism" toward white males is justified in a way. It's revenge.
Either way, racism is ignorance pure and simple.
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msongs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-19-08 06:11 PM
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17. all humans make judgements on other people from time to time nt
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chknltl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-19-08 06:12 PM
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18. Neanderthals
Especially those who think Billy The Talking Bass is wall art.
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silverojo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-19-08 06:13 PM
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19. I've found that whites and non-whites are equally racist
Like drug abuse, it's an ugly thing that reaches across all socio-economic boundaries.
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Tennessee Gal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-19-08 06:14 PM
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20. The person who posted this idiotic poll.
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-19-08 07:28 PM
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27. Aren't you missing a cross-burning somewhere?
:eyes:
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mrcheerful Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-19-08 06:20 PM
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22. My vote goes to the nit wit in another forum who says
If BHO gets into the white house affirmative action will kill all white peoples jobs and/or education. And these high gas prices are making it so only conservatives can drive. The nit wit also says his business is the only one in michigan that isn't effected by high gas prices, after all everyone needs clean, fresh, drinking water from the wells he drills. The costs in fuel can be passed onto his customers, if things get real bad in michigan he can pack up and move everything to a southern state. His signature line "to bad ignorance isn't painful", yet he fails to see just how ignorant his posts are.
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2rth2pwr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-19-08 06:21 PM
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23. It's human nature, doesn't matter which race your talking about.
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RichardRay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-19-08 06:23 PM
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24. Expressed or privately?
White males more likely to express, white females more likely to be and not talk about it.
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-19-08 06:27 PM
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26. That's why I used the term "harbor" ... whether expressed or not.
I also used the terms "racial bias or bigotry" to avoid the claim that "racism" is institutionalized and therefore cannot (allegedly) be ascribed to anyone but the societally-advantaged.

YMMV, of course.
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MyNameGoesHere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-19-08 07:32 PM
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28. Wow what a frigging idiotic poll and idiotic
responses. EVERYONE has the potential to harbor bias and bigotry. It is not immune to any culture or class. This proves it as the answers are stereotypical responses. So much for enlightened DU'rs
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galledgoblin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-19-08 07:36 PM
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29. depends on the individual community
an integrated one is always less racist than a divided one.

I've heard idiotic things said from people of all races and creeds and you cannot judge what all members of any "race" believes from any of those snippets.

I will say, sexistly, that I have heard more men outspokenly racist than women. that may just my own prejudices and misconceptions, but it could also be related to reality- men may feel more comfortable, even today, speaking out with unpopular opinions than women feel.
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reflection Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-19-08 07:38 PM
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30. I wish you had an 'all of the above'. n/t
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Danger Mouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-19-08 11:39 PM
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33. White males, without a doubt.
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cliffordu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-19-08 11:47 PM
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34. YA GOT MY VOTE!! Dingbat....
:rofl:
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madrchsod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-19-08 11:54 PM
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35. all of the above..even rob
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