I wouldn't want be friends with someone who is a hard-core racist, even if they did keep it to themselves, because if they have the capacity to be a racist, then there is something fundamentally wrong with their thought-processing and perception of the world around them.
It is natural (on a primal level) to distrust those people who do not look the same as us. However, we have come to a point in our intellectual and cultural evolution where we don't automatically condemn those who are not genetically the same as us. Racism is a choice; a choice to ignore the civility and cognizance that we prize as beings who have evolved past our animalistic past.
I completely agree with this. Even if somebody doesn't put the hate into action, I just find it really uncomfortable and sickening to be around somebody who has such an awful belief system.
It depends on their reasons behind it. They could actually have valid reasons and may just have trust problems or run into a lot of jerks. Anyway, if they hate all races, that includes their own, most likely. It also depends on their style of racism - there are many things these days that are tagged as racist, aome of those things can actually be humourous. They might just have a thing for mildly racist tactless jokes, like you see on the Simpsons or South Park. Doesn't mean they really hate ppl. Personally, I find the tactless racist jokes on Simpsons/South Park to be pretty funny sometimes, but I'm a mixed person and have a Jewish grandmother and Indian friends, lol.
Would you be friends with a racist who won't put the hate into action?
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I wouldn't want be friends with someone who is a hard-core racist, even if they did keep it to themselves, because if they have the capacity to be a racist, then there is something fundamentally wrong with their thought-processing and perception of the world around them.
It is natural (on a primal level) to distrust those people who do not look the same as us. However, we have come to a point in our intellectual and cultural evolution where we don't automatically condemn those who are not genetically the same as us. Racism is a choice; a choice to ignore the civility and cognizance that we prize as beings who have evolved past our animalistic past.
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I completely agree with this. Even if somebody doesn't put the hate into action, I just find it really uncomfortable and sickening to be around somebody who has such an awful belief system.
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It depends on their reasons behind it. They could actually have valid reasons and may just have trust problems or run into a lot of jerks. Anyway, if they hate all races, that includes their own, most likely. It also depends on their style of racism - there are many things these days that are tagged as racist, aome of those things can actually be humourous. They might just have a thing for mildly racist tactless jokes, like you see on the Simpsons or South Park. Doesn't mean they really hate ppl. Personally, I find the tactless racist jokes on Simpsons/South Park to be pretty funny sometimes, but I'm a mixed person and have a Jewish grandmother and Indian friends, lol.