but to say that racism is harmless is something entirely different and a notion that I completely disagree with.
I guess a better way to put it is, racists are harmless.
but to say that racism is harmless is something entirely different and a notion that I completely disagree with.
I guess a better way to put it is, racists are harmless.
I think you're overgeneralizing. Sure, like I have said already fight against racism has gone a long way, but it's not as if hate crimes are a thing of the past. And I'm putting that very, very lightly.
Racism? Harmless? Those two words do not go into the same sentence.
Racists are the ones inciting racism; without them, there would be no racism.
Well, it's not like you end up having a blue eye and lots of bleeding wounds, because of Racism.
It could be emotionally harmful, but as I said before, Racism differs in every Continent.
Here in Europe, the only thing you can call Racism, is when you take advantage over the skin colour you don't have.
Like:
There's a group of white people doing Multiplayer on Wii U.
Black person: "Can I participate"?
The group: "No, get a Banana from the trees, blacko"!
Islamitic person: "Can I participate"?
The group: "No, we don't want to be killed".
White person: "Can I participate"?
The group: "Sure"!
That's really the only form of Racism we know of.
Meanwhile, I've met multiple fates with Americans, who called me "Racist" for the following:
- Making a normal joke with a different Nationality in it.
- Making a normal joke with a different Gender in it.
- Telling the truth about what one Religion finds normal to do.
- Telling what happened in reality, which either I saw myself, or what was on News.
And many more ********.
racism can lead to violence.
In really minor cases, yes.
The difference is, you can get to jail for violence, not for Racism.
That's why it's doesn't happen as much, because they can't take away human rights from you for giving someone emotional damage, but they can for giving someone physical damage.
At the same time, the people who end up propelling things like the civil rights movement and a more equal worldview have racist parents themselves eh? Parents will always be more conservative than their children (actually I hope that's debatable), so what I think whatever overturned racism (or matters in terms its presence/absence) were the social movements.