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“Racism today is the ultimate evil in the world”
“Racism was just a tool to deal with frustration and pain and that people are in denial about the way we feel and desperately trying to control their environment the way their lives are. And ultimately their scapegoats aren't going to make them feel better, it's just going to increase hatred and the problem gets worse and worse.”
“Racism was never acceptable to the people who suffer from it.”
“Racism was not a problem on the Discworld, because - what with trolls and dwarfs and so on - speciesism was more interesting. Black and white lived in perfect harmony and ganged up on green.”
Source: Witches Abroad: (Discworld Novel 12)
“Racism watching is a puzzle solving activity and often involves debunking pseudo-science. The investigator must try to figure out what makes people believe in weird ideas. As Stieg said in an interview, ‘Fifty years later, people still believe in this; the whole Neo-Nazi movement. There is absolutely no sense in this. They do it contrary to everything science tells us. Contrary to human goodness or altruism, contrary to rational thinking. And this is fascinating, why?”
Source: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Philosophy: Everything Is Fire
“Racism will continue to thrive until we see and threat ourselves as humans. Black people stuck in Ukraine are being subjected to racism even as they attempt to flee to safety in Poland during a time of war. Black people are treated with complete and utter contempt by white supremacists all over the world. We should all be condemning this barbaric act.”
“Racism will continue to thrive until we see ourselves as one. Black people stuck in Ukraine are being subjected to racism even as they attempt to flee to safety in Poland during a time of war, Black people are treated with complete and utter contempt. We should all be condemning this.”
“Racism will disappear when it's no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it'll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.”
“Racism wont end. When the elders or parents lie to their children about other races to extend the hate.”
“Racism wont end. When the elders or parents lie to their children about other races to extend the hate. Tell their children. Don’t say those words or do those things in from of them. They will hate you, beat you, judge you or prosecute you. They don’t tell them that the reason they should not do, think or say those words or things it is because those words or actions are harmful, bad, inhuman, discriminating, antagonizing, degrading ,hateful, wrong and evil. Because you are different or more privileged than them. It doesn’t mean you are superior to them. We are all the same.”
“Racism, xenophobia and racial segregation never disappeared. These things went underground and are now being applied by companies like Google, Amazon and many others. It is not a coincidence that despite the equalization of opportunities that the internet provides, the resources of the world keep going to the same 2 countries and you keep buying information from people that live in those same 2 countries and being exposed only to products of those same 2 countries. The opportunities are not the same for everyone because they are being monopolized and controlled. The excuse of always, your security, is being used to bomb nations and also steal all of your rights, including the right to privacy and to the same opportunities. When there are threats against those nations by some who want to annihilate them, they also make you believe that this is something horrible, while making you believe that the opposite is justified. And like dumb rats in a lab experiment, the population keeps pressing the same buttons until they die in absolute misery and ignorance, fighting each other and never seeing the real enemy. Work harder, they say! The least thing they need is for you to notice these differences. They then put some Indian as the CEO or Prime Minister of one of these companies or nations to gaslight you and make you think that you are crazy, and that the opportunities exist and that they are liberal. And when your warn the dumb chickens that they are heading to the slaughterhouse, the dumb chickens, in love with their captivity and their corn, say that you are the crazy one.”
“Racism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, sexism, anything Nazi and a boatload of other things have no place in my life.”
“Racism, because it favors color over talent, is bad for business.”
“Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.”
“Racism, pollution and the rest of it are themselves very close to extinction.”
“Racism, prejudice and discrimination are an inexplicable collective stupidity”
“Racism, specifically, is the state-sanctioned or extralegal production and exploitation of group-differentiated vulnerability to premature death.”
“Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden.”
Source: God Is Not A Christian
“Racism. It's ugly. Even in tubers.”
“Racism? But isn't it only a form of misanthropy?”
“Racisme is niet een individuele instelling, het is een systeem, dat individuen blijven uitvoeren”
Source: Feminist fataal: Alles wat je lekker zelf mag weten over gender, seks en je lichaam
“Racisme is niet het gevolg van kolonialisme, kolonialisme is het gevolg van racisme.”
Source: Zwarte trots, witte schaamte? Over kolonialisme en racisme
“Racist” and “antiracist” are like peelable name tags that are placed and replaced based on what someone is doing or not doing, supporting or expressing in each moment. These are not permanent tattoos. No one becomes a racist or antiracist. We can only strive to be one or the other. We can unknowingly strive to be a racist. We can knowingly strive to be an antiracist. Like fighting an addiction, being an antiracist requires persistent self-awareness, constant self-criticism, and regular self-examination.”
Source: How to Be an Antiracist
“Racist dermatologists think all black people have really bad skin.”
“Racist ideas clouded the discrimination , rationalized the racial disparities, defined the enslaved, as opposed to the enslavers, as the problem people.”
Source: Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
“Racist ideas make people of color think less of themselves, which makes them more vulnerable to racist ideas. Racist ideas make White people think more of themselves, which further attracts them to racist ideas.”
Source: How to Be an Antiracist
“Racist individuals often demonstrate a pattern of dishonesty. Engaging with them in an attempt to reason or present the truth can be futile, as their hatred and falsehoods cloud their judgment. They tend to argue not to understand or discover the truth, but simply to win.”
“Racist individuals will fight, attack, and even hate one of their own simply for not sharing their racist views. It takes a truly evil person with a wicked heart to embrace racism.”
“Racist insults leave you feeling dirty because, even at five years old, we already know
on some level that, in this society at least, we are indeed lesser citizens with all
the baggage of racialised history following us ghost-like about our days. We are
conquered people living in the conquerors’ land, and as such we are people
without honour. At five years old we are already conscious of the offence caused
by our black body turning up in the wrong space, and have begun to internalise
the negative ideas about blackness so present in the culture.”
Source: Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
“Racist is a very strange phenomenon that requires more investigation and exposure, because as it is today, seen as politically incorrect, is basically just making people hide their thoughts while continuing to defend them. Three of the most interesting aspects related to racism that I have found correlate to intelligence, spiritual vibration, and eyesight. I say intelligence because a lot of people are really too stupid and don't know what it means having their genes altered through many generations of marriages between communities and tribes, long before there was the concept of country and nationality. Besides, many borders have changed over the centuries as the result of political agreements. As for what concerns the vibration of fear, it does seek for external validation, which is why the most paranoid tend to be the most racist. Their obsession with survival makes them seek for a group of people to blame. This is quite obvious in nations where locals hate immigrants but will go to other nations for better salaries. Then there is eyesight, which is surely associated with how the mind operates. Because for many people I look like a local citizen, while for many others I belong nowhere and they can't associate me with any country. Consequently, it is impossible to look at the topic of racism without looking at what it says about the spiritual level of someone. I have never seen racism among cats or dogs of different colors, so what makes humans inferior to animals is puzzling, especially when the most inferior among us think that this anomaly in their thinking makes them superior. That would be like a psychopath, unable to empathize with anyone, to believe he is superior to other humans, which actually is the case. Are racists then mentally ill? Quite certainly! Is xenophobia a mental illness? Most likely! We should look at both mental conditions in the same way we look at depression and anxiety, as self-destructive states.”
“Racist legacy laws and modern racist practices are all part of the same system, and it needs to be changed now.”
“RACIST: One who is supporting a racist policy through their actions or inaction or expressing a racist idea.
ANTIRACIST: One who is supporting an antiracist policy through their actions or expressing an antiracist idea.”
Source: How to Be an Antiracist
“Racist people are few, in the minority. But you can do nothing to change them. You can talk, you can do what you want, but you can't do anything because they are just stupid people.”
“Racist people are like a disease or virus. They are a problem everywhere they go. They infect everyone with lies, misinformation, and propaganda. Equality to other races to them feels like an abuse or violation of their human rights. They always want to be superior to different races, supreme, or to benefit more than other races. If not then they see themselves as victims.”
“Racist people are small-minded individuals who lack the intellect to comprehend what is happening in the world beyond their hate. You can't be a racist and be truly happy. Happiness does not reside in an evil, filthy heart.”
“Racist people choose not to see the wrongs or right been done, but they choose to see skin color or the race of the person doing that. If an act, behavior, or crime is committed. Racist people want to see the color of the person who did it, then they can decide if what was done right or wrong. Some will complain and say how bad or how wrong what was done, until they see it is one of their own who did it. Then they choose to change the tone or goal posts, and they start to justify the wrongs or crime that was done. Some people protect each other and hide every wrong and bad thing they are doing. Then they lash out, exaggerate, throw tantrum, lie, and fake outrage for the bad things done by others, because they don’t look like them. Most people principles and morality are racial, or gender based these days. That is why there is much wrong things been done and there is no love.”
“Racist people, interestingly, are never as polite as smokers. Have you noticed that? Smokers always go, "Do you mind if I smoke? Oh, you do? Okay, I'll go outside and have a cigarette."”
“Racist writing is a craft failure.”
“Racist, sexist, and homophobic thoughts cannot, alas, be abolished by fiat but only by the time-honored methods of persuasion, education and exposure to the other guy's-or excuse me, woman's-point of view.”
“Racists are everywhere, but historically speaking the real danger came from Progressives that desired the power of the state to engineer society upon a racial lines.”
“Racists are irrational and illogical in their attempts to justify their prejudices.”
Source: Point of the lance
“Racists are not born, they are raised. Isolation is the breeding ground for racism. The more you come to know the world around you and people different than you the less likely you will become an extremist. The Church needs to bring the world together.”
“Racists are not the pipe-smoking type, I thought to myself.”
Source: Black Like Me
“Racists are snakes. Their minds are closed but their mouths are wide open, full of venom, ready to sting and destroy people around them.”
“Racists cling to the false notion that we are separate. They refuse to acknowledge that they are connected to, and even descended from, other people of different skin color. Their egos demand that they be superior and that others be inferior. This is how they seek to justify their hatred of, and cruelty towards, others.”
Source: The One Idea That Saves The World: A Call to Conscience and A Call to Action
“Racists have often used pseudoscience to justify their socially damaging views; watch these films to see how science, by replacing ignorance with knowledge, can undo that damage.”
“Racists, then, are indoctrinated citizens who think they are entitled and superior to all others, and therefore capable of committing racism and violence against them. I contend that indoctrinated individuals are prisoners to the walls built around them that keep them indoctrinated. Therefore, instead of seeing them as ‘enemies’, we need to apply the same methods of reform some thinkers have suggested to the prison system in that rather than being purely punitive, prisons should aspire to rehabilitate prisoners in such ways that they may return to society with better attitude, understanding, and healthier minds and bodies (all things lacking in racist people, if you think about it deeply). Even more important is to build a society in such a way that there would be little need to have prison systems in the first place.”
“Racists violate the principle of equality by giving greater weight to the interests of members of their own race when there is a clash between their interests and the interests of those of another race. Sexists violate the principle of equality by favoring the interests of their own sex. Similarly, speciesists allow the interests of their own species to override the greater interests of members of other species. The pattern is identical in each case.”
“Racists will always call you a racist when you identify their racism. To love yourself now - is a form of racism. We are the only people who are criticized for loving ourselves. and white people think when you love yourself you hate them. No, when I love myself they become irrelevant to me.”
“Rack your brains, that should only take a couple of seconds.”