Has a white person that you know of ever complained about being racially insulted by a Black ,Asian or Chinese person.
What would be an insulting remark to make?
2007-03-11 23:37:32 · 25 answers · asked by territinsel 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Are you joking?!!
In South Africa they have Government policies in place in the work place to discriminate against "previously advantaged" whites.
It´s called Affirmative Action and now recently the additional Black Economic Empowerment.
It´s supposed to address and put right the wrongs of the past but many see it as Apartheid in reverse.
There has also been a segment about it on BBC news recently and is regarded as unfair labour practice - to put it mildly.
So this is not racism against a person but against millions of people.
2007-03-12 22:35:08 · answer #1 · answered by turniton5 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Quite a lot in fact. From the beginning of interracial contact there have been times when white people have been persecuted.
One example being that there have been many times more white people enslaved in the course of history than any other race.
Scots and Irish were racially abused quite regularly during the period when they were being herded off of their lands in the UK by greedy land owners and shipped to the US.
There were cartoons at the time comparing them to gorillas, much as has happened to many other racial stereotypes.
In the modern world it happens quite a bit too. Look at Nigel Denny who was beaten almost to death by rioting blacks in California for no other reason than being white and being available.
Not long ago I had a hispanic in Seattle that I caught trespassing call me a whole range of racial slurs for white people while at the same time spouting off the usual stupidity about how whites will always lose in a fight with a non-whites.
In college I saw a riot start between white students and korean students when one korean student whipped out a pair of nunchaku while screaming "now you die round eyed pig."
Just about every asian country has a racial slur for white people that translates into very unfavorable terms.
So yes, there is plenty of it around. The stereotype that whites are the only or most racists is just as much a form of bigotry as are all the other more publicly recognized ones.
Too many people don't see it as racist for them to hate white people, even when those same people would scream racism or discrimination in the blink of an eye when someone said something to them.
2007-03-12 00:12:04 · answer #2 · answered by Crusader_Magnus 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Peterborough, Cambs has a large Asian community. Take a walk around some of the subways there, you will be greeted with grafiti that reads things like 'Death to all whites'!
I think it's absoultely obsurd that in this day & age people are still racist at all!! We are all people! Our skin may be a different colour but the rest of us is made up of exactly the same ingredients.
At the end of the day, some people just love conflict...if they're not bitching about race they will find something else to discriminate against...
2007-03-12 00:00:41 · answer #3 · answered by sunshine_honey69 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, i was walking home after a night out and a car pulled up with 5 asians in. They started to call me a f**king white honkey, said they were going to cut my throat and called me a white peice of s**t. I did report it to the police but nothing came of it, a policeman never even called to take a statement.
It seems that you can only be rasist if it is against a non "white" person.
2007-03-12 00:12:19 · answer #4 · answered by benn26k 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wasn't verbally abused, but my friends and I were beaten up about ten years ago by a group of Asian youths. We had just walked out of a pub in Coventry, and all of a sudden they attacked! I cannot imagine that it was anything other than racial, and they just wanted to beat on a group of white guys, but it was quite scary - it lasted a couple of minutes, and then they just ran off laughing while we picked ourselves up, and got home as quickly as possible!
2007-03-11 23:46:59 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes and there is a new phenomenen these days called "reverse" racism.
This might happen in a work force where the local race is treated more poorly then the minority race as the employers are so scared of appearing racist so in their struggles to treat the minorities well they neglect the majority.
It is a crazy, politcially mad world!
2007-03-11 23:57:12 · answer #6 · answered by abluebobcat 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
This white person has been racially abused. Any of the same sorts of stereotypical nonsense that offends any other person will offend a white person as well.
2007-03-11 23:42:12 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
I used to live in bradford, england where there is a very large asian population and i experienced unprovoked racist abuse on at least two occasions. my ex girlfriend also was verbally attacked and my current partner was pushed over by a group of asians in leeds city centre. thank god i have moved away from that area now. white b**tard seems to be a popular favorite
2007-03-11 23:44:09 · answer #8 · answered by nick w 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
My cousin is mixed race, half British white half African black, and we were arguing when we were about 12 and she called me 'a waste of white skin' , 'an A4 piece of paper', 'a bleached out piece of white trash', I was furious and called her a chimera, luckily she had no idea what that was. But I was seriously hacked off she had chosen the colour of my skin to insult me, and her mom kicked her **** after I told my dad what she had said. My cousins only retaliation was I had called her a 'chandelier', we still laugh about it now.
2007-03-11 23:43:18 · answer #9 · answered by CHARISMA 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I was mugged when I was 15 by a group of mixed race and black girls they called me 'honky' 'white girl' 'white bit ch' and other things. BUT It didn't make me feel wary of people of other races, it was recorded as a racially motivated mugging by the police and the girls were found and prosecuted.
Why did I deserve the thumbs down people?
2007-03-12 00:43:37 · answer #10 · answered by Blackheath rugby wife 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋