Why are some white people extra rascist over the internet?

Question

See this is why I dont use yahoo for a lot of ****, except 360, cause everytime I do, I start running into pricks who wanna leave racists messages, like they doing something to hurt me, wow, your on the other side of the computer, I bet if I caught you alone in public, You'd shut up real quick and put your head down and walk right past me, like Im bout to steal your purse or wallet, it seems like the internet has become a safe haven for "closet" everything; gays, rascists, athiests, haters, freaks. maybe Im wrong, what you think, I know its gonna be a lot of ignorant people replying so go ahead, and make your scary selves known.

Answer 1

I think people feel safer because they can't face you in real life cuz they think they'll get beat up. Also, I think that people who are racist are ignorant, they don't understand other cultures or people. I go to a predominanty African-American school and I took a class called African American history and I did terrible but I appreciated them. They're the sisters and brothers! My parents are not racist. They embrace all races and I've been raised the same. My Italian teacher told me he went to the south and the clerks in the store who were all white were not helping the man in line and my teacher was behind him and he put the clerks in their place. He's not racist either. I have another friend. She's cool with my friends that are African American but once she got robbed by some guys that were black. Then she got racist for a while. I learned in my African American class that African Americans call eachother degrading names but it's not necessarily considered degrading to them because it's accepted. You don't see a white person calling another person, hey cracka!!! Wassup mah Cracka!!! lol. Why do people on the internet feel more relaxed to talk ****. Cuz you can't see their faces. You don't know where they live, and honesty, don't let it get to you, cuz someone online is talking **** to them, saying their ugly or fat or something negative. Karma, Justice whatever you want to call it, be cool about it cuz I've got neg stuff given to me, too. You're not alone.

Answer 2

I've written about the lack of common civility in a blog. What you say is basically true. People think they're anonymous on the Net and therefore will say things they never would in public or private.
But what they don't realize is that the Internet is NOT imaginary.
I am posting my blog in it's entirety here for you.



The Interent is REAL

The internet is REAL folks! Stop this dream that it's not! If you think it's not real, then grab a stick and poke yourself hard in the leg while you read this. You're real, I'm real. The notion that it is not real is nothing more than an excuse for angry ppl to behave badly. Feelings are real!
If, in fact , it were true that when you turn off your computer and go do something else you define as "real", it therefore follows that what you were just doing wasn't real, and that you were not alive, functioning, participating or feeling within it. Thus, you do not exist!
The fact is , this is still a very new medium of communication. So new that ppl. just haven't figured out how to act yet. It was very much the same way in the early days of the telephone. No one ever had spoken to a voice in a machine that was distant and not in the same room as them. It simply did not happen. Someone you spoke to was standing next to you, or at least across the room.
There were no rules , no ettiquite for this new medium. People did not say "hello" when they picked up, nor "goodbye" when they hung up. My own Grandmother, to her dying days, did not say goodbye when she hung up the phone. She just hung up! We considered that rude and a bit crazy, but she was born in the 19th century. When the phone was new, she did not know how to act on it. I, her grandchild, did grow up with ground rules for telephone behavior. My parents taught me to take messages, say hello and goodbye.
This will eventually happen on the internet as well, I believe. The potty mouths of today will themselves grow up and realize that their own behavior was rude to the max, and will teach their children differently. Even Grandma just hung up, her son, my dad, said hello and goodbye.

Answer 3

I am truly sorry that you have run into this situation. I am white in skin color and not proud of people who do this. And I believe that there will be some smart aleck answers. I wish it wasn't so. These people do not represent everyone.

I think people are scared of each other because we do not really understand each other. Or have been hurt by someone or told incorrect information. Some react in mean ways, others shy away. Doesn't mean it doesn't hurt or bother the other person who is being taunted or ignored.
If we could take our skin off, would anybody know what color we were? Everyone would look and function basically the same
It's just the color of skin...Any color can choose to be loving or hateful. In heaven in won't be that way.

I'm looking forward to meeting Jesus. What if his color is black or another color other than white? Makes me no difference. He will be beautiful and pure. He the Savior and KIng and my Lord...and He loves me.

Answer 4

you mean a bit like you hiding behind your computer being a racist pig by refering to 'white people extra rascist over the internet'?.

You dont use yahoo for a lot of **** because your too stupid.

And you made a good job of embarrasing your own race by stating that a person when in a sitauation with you alone would think that you are 'bout to steal your purse or wallet'.....in fact, if was alone with you in a room i would be thinking "what a stupid looking hat".

Answer 5

It's like everyone is saying, a person can more easily get away with being hateful when he/she anonymous. The good news is, that like you, many of us find racists idiotic. Also, after reading everyone's blogs and chatting with people from around the world, some of these racists might change their minds. For example, i have an atheist friend that is a really good person. She's not overt about it, but she is also not in the closet about it. She is certainly not a freak. Have you changed your mind?

Answer 6

This would have been a good question if you had made it about people of all races, sexual orientation, beliefs, etc... but instead you directed it at White people which makes you just as racists and cowardly as the ones you attacked by asking that question. Who's hiding behind the computer now?

PS: I agree that there are people.. black white Hispanic Asian... that hide their true feelings until they can disguise themselves behind a computer just as you did but unfortunately there is nothing we, you, or anyone can do about it so why let it bother you? maybe I'm biased because I have never had to face racism directly, maybe I would feel differently if I had.

Answer 7

So what if they are. All this time they've been hiding their true feelings smiling at you wave to you. Hey what's up and all that crap but inside they don't like you. I would rather racism be open so I knew who to avoid. Who is a real friend or not. Hell I don't even hate racist let them be I just want them to leave me alone. At least they ain't tying someone to a truck and dragging him. Or hanging his *** out to drift in the wind. So if they want to write let them but I suggest avoiding their rants. Because communicating over the Internet is less destructive then actually going out and doing something so let them type away. It's not just white people who are extra racist over the Internet a lot of people are.

Answer 8

On the internet, people can be whoever they dream up, and/or they can be more than one person; a schizophrenic's dream. And it's true that they can hide behind the computer and be as real or unreal as they choose.
Not that things are all that different irl (in real life), except in reality you have to have either the guts or the stupidity to be a total jacka$$ to another person's/group's face(s).
It's too bad that people have to be racist or anti-whatever, but then nobody ever said that everyone has to have a clue about simple human decency.
As for myself, I just try to sift through the idiots online, just like I do in my day-to-day life. In short, I don't have the time, tolerance or patience to deal with someone else's hatred; almost all hatred directed outside of one's self is based on one's individual lack of self-acceptance.

Answer 9

I guess for the same reason that black people are, you can't judge an entire race because of a few ignorant people, makes no difference if they are black or white. But the Internet is a good place for many people to let out their emotions, like you for example, you have a lot of animosity built up inside you, so this is a good way to let it out, I hope after wards you feel better and see not everyone is a a*ss hole!

Answer 10

The internet gives them a false sense of anonymity. They don't know that pretty much everything can be electronically traced. Even the Department of Defense computers have been hacked into. Idiots will continue to be idiots - the Internet just is another tool to use for them to spread their hate. BTW: If you think its only white racists, you are not paying attention. Racism is an equal opportunity employer for idiots of any color.