Is this racism?

Question

If you do not accept illegal activities like illegal immigration, you are racist.

If you do not agree with giving people a free ride based on YOUR tax dollars, you are racist.

If you do not want people NOT entitled to health care get health care, you are racist. (YOU are paying for this.)

If you refuse to give illegals education and scholarships to colleges, you are racist.

If you do not give money to LAZY minorities, you are racist.

I can go on and on. When do Whites and the deserving poor get the same rights as others get? Whites pay the majority of taxes yet get the least benefits. When will this stop?

I said LAZY minorities and not ALL minorities.

Answer 1

You should delete your use of the phrase "LAZY minorities" or at the very least reword it. The word "minorities" refers to the whole group of people that belong to a race, for example.

If you want to refer a specific person or a specific subset of that population, choose your words very carefully and be very precise. If you have to, specifically exclude people too, so it does not sound like you are condemning a whole group.

If you are trying not to be racist, and you use racist-style wording, people are going to go away thinking you are one. You could be going, "wait, that is just a technicality or semantics" - but they have already gone.

You have the right to choose your words carefully, so as not to condemn yourself midway through your own argument. If you choose not to exercise this right, no sympathetic party will be appointed for you.

Answer 2

Well, you are about wrong on all counts but one..you are a racist and a bigot!

You are paying for this? I doubt very much you are.

Lazy Minorities is a buzz word often used by racist, which the fact is they are not. you an call it that all you want. More Whites receive assistance than blacks,

Free ride! That is the down side to Free Enterprise. You are ALWAYS going to have those unemployed as it is part of a business cycle. Business causes unemployment!!!!!! They also like to go belly-up and let you pay off their debt! Their ride is not free, it comes at a great expense so people like you can complain about them.

You want to make children have children, but you don't want to support them!

Illegal Immigrants are illegal. But the racist remarks when most ask questions from the right are dripping with racism!

And there is a lot I don't want to spend my tax dollar on either, but I don't go blaming the victims!!

Answer 3

Let me say first and foremost that I am a third generation white, irish guy, born in this country. Now, to try an answer your question.

First off all, who is it that says those first four questions are rascist?

Did you create that in your head as answer to some paranoia reagarding immigrant rights?

Secondly,

The term race is defined as: a division of mankind possessing traits that are transmissible by descent and sufficient to characterize it as a distinct human type.

Therefore, to be a racist means you belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race over another.

So, your fifth question is not necessarily rascist, persay becausse you would have had to have specified the race of said "illegal Immigrants". However, the statement "lazy minorities" is a broad, sweeping generalization about several races and ethnicities and a sure sign of ignorance on your part. The ironic thing is, the caucasian race (which I believe you to be given your statement "When do whites...?") are slowly becoming the minority in this country. In fact, according to the US Census Bureau, "whites" as you say, are quickly becoming the minority. And the minorities you refer to do (too numerous to mention here) will be in the majority by 2012. And by 2034 Latinos will must likely outnumber whites by 10 to 20 million with whites in second followed closely by black then asian americans.

Hmmm..

I don't know why I bothered trying to explain this to you, you are obviosuly not that bright and I should not expect you to be able discern even the most fundamental points in a fully realized response.

Answer 4

For the most part, the examples you give are not overtly racist, though they have been used by racists in the past (and, arguably, here) to justify more extreme positions.

The bit about "LAZY minorities" is questionable. All races, religions, etc, include lazy people, and it's not racist not to want to give lazy people money. But if by lazy minorities you mean that lazy whites are entitled to more than lazy people of other race, or that any ethnic group is inherently lazy, then that's racist. The fact that you specify minorities suggests that yes, you are racist, or engaging in race baiting.

And the last bit, where you assert that white people, who have been the recipients of undue privilege for centuries, are somehow not given the same rights as others--well, that could be racism, or it might just be an unwillingness to get your head out of your ***.

Personally, though, I'd say, yes, that is racism.

Answer 5

You were doing fine until:

"If you do not give money to LAZY minorities, you are racist."

AND

"Whites pay the majority of taxes yet get the least benefits. When will this stop?"

That's racist. "LAZY minorities" and whites paying all the taxes. Common man. I'm white. I work hard for a living. I know I pay taxes to support all sorts of dirt poor people. Some are lazy. Some are just shitt out of luck. Some are black. Some are white. I'd go on, but you get the point. I know plenty of non-whites that bust their asses the same way and pay the same taxes I do.

When you develop your position around race you can't see the big picture.

The American government and the big money that lobbies it take ALL of working class America for fools by pitting black against white, and white and black against Hispanic. Without working folks united in one voting block we are utterly powerless. Do you like it that way? Then keep it up.

Answer 6

1) No. 2) No. 3) You're not a racist but everyone is entitled to healthcare. 4) That depends on your definition of illegals, all peoples born in this country are naturilized citizens, no matter the status of their parents citizenship. 5) Not unless you give money to LAZY WHITES! 6) Whites make up the majority of the welfare rolls, the latest statistics I heard it was around 70 %, It's not about going on and on it's about knowing the difference between racism and ignorance. You my friend, if you are intolerant of any race you are a racist, If you make statements and don't know the answer then your just ignorant.

Answer 7

It is racist, because you are breaking the issue down to "white" and "illegals" (read - brown people).

It is more stupid than racist (which go hand in hand) you have no facts.

The myth of “lazy” immigrants cheating U.S. taxpayers and living off welfare couldn’t be farther from the truth.

According to a 2004 study by the Urban Policy Institute, virtually all undocumented men--96 percent--and 62 percent of undocumented women are in the workforce. According to a March report from the Pew Hispanic Center, of the more than 11 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S., 7.2 million were employed in March 2005, making up approximately 4.9 percent of the labor force in the U.S.

Overall, immigrants--both documented and undocumented--are a huge boon to the U.S. economy. And as for what’s “fair,” the U.S. government takes far more from undocumented immigrants than it ever gives back...

learn, drop the racism. Your economic class gives you privilages far beyond racial terms... enjoy it, be a good person, be smart... don't roll around in the mud of racism and wallow in ignorace your whole life.

This issue, putting racism aside, is a class issue. Wages are kept low not by undocumented immigrants, but by corporations that have carried out a one-side war on U.S. workers since the 1970s.

This war includes you! If you weren't racist you would see the obvious truth, that these "illegals" as you say are closer to you than the elites who are exploiting both you and them.

therefore, you'd be smart enough to stand in solidarity with the immigrant rights movement, the new civil rights movement of our time and knwo that this battle is old and it is the battle of the people agaist a small elite (less than 8% of the population) who want to control and exploit us.

Si Se Puede - you should really try to understand that phrase.

Answer 8

It is certainly racist-- against the whites! It is too bad that the whites who promote this do not realize that they are acting under an unearned burden of guilt for being white, and they expect all whites, even the well-adjusted ones, to join them in this useless, senseless guilt.

I think that some (not all) American blacks may have a corresponding desire to treat whites cruelly, in what they think of as compensatory treatment for slavery. They forget that nobody alive today in America had owned or been a slave.

Jealousy is no less ugly if it is made official. It should not be used as an official policy,and for jealousy to be dignified by the name of affirmative action, or equal opportunity is a true perversion of justice. Let us not be so quick to play the 'reverse race card' and call others racist just because they don't automatically give in to us and give us whatever we want.

(My ancestors were slaves. I refuse to be a slave to an ideology.)

Answer 9

All races enjoy our highway system. And anyone can go anywhere and still be protected by the law. It can also be enforced against all persons. It is foolish to stereotype people as you have done. If I'm not mistaken most serial killers were white. That doesn't mean most white people are anxious to kill people. Education is the best defense against ignorance. When it comes down to it there is really only one race. The human race. And if we don't help each other fix the problems on this planet there won't be anyone left to fight with.

Answer 10

I agree with some of this for example I was a single mother of 4 when my husband left me. I refused to go on welfare so I worked and asked for assistance in child care and food stamps I was told unless I was on welfare I couldn't get child care assistance but I could be put on a waiting list and that I didn't qualify for food stamps, I was making decent money $18 dollars an hour but child care was $200 a week and rent was $1400 a month. As I was told these things I sat and watched lazy no good white trash and minorities as well who didn't work didn't want to work and blew there money on everything that I could never afford like BMW's, name brand clothes, hair, acrylic nails etc. and the state pays there rent, clothing allowance in september for school clothes, food stamps, there utilities, and they get child care for what so they can sit on there fat butts and do nothing but smoke, drink and do drugs while someone else takes care of there kids for them. Sorry this is so boring but you hit me in the wrong way. I am now no longer single but between my boyfriend and myself we have 6 kids 5 that live with us and he is currently the only one working because we can't get assistance for child care and we still don't qualify for food stamps either. I know way too many people that make way more money than us and lie and get everything paid for it disgusts me.