If i hate racist's, does that make me as bad as them??

Answer 1

no. anyone from any race can be a racist. it's also something they choose to be. hating someone because of something they have no control over is wrong, but hating someone because they choose to be something bad is fine.

Answer 2

It's not the racists themselves you hate, it's the poisonous mindset they have. Without any compassion for those of a different colour, or ethnic group, they display a lack of humanity. With the proper help and education, they can be redeemed. We have had an influx of white South Africans to our church, and we have helped them see that any idea that those of a different race are inferior to them has been mistaken, and they have changed, and been forgiven.

Jesus told the story of the good Samaritan when those who were listening to him would have expected the Samaritan to be the villain of the piece, as Jews and Samaritans hated each other. Jesus even broke the law and accepted a drink from a Samaritan woman, an 'unclean' act. The first Christians accepted everyone, as it says in Acts 10:34-35,
"Peter began to speak 'I now realise that it is true that God treats everyone on the same basis. Whoever worships him and does what is right is acceptable to him, no matter what race he belongs to."

Do not hate racists, pity them, and pray that they may learn to be better people. It is possible.

Answer 3

No.

Here's why:

You hate racists presumably because you think that people shouldn't yield to stupid and ugly prejudices - in other words, you hate racists for a reason that appeals to some of the better instincts in humanity. Racists hate people of other races because they think they're vile and subhuman - that is, they hate them for stupid reasons that don't hold up under examination.

In short, racism is based on a.) prejudice, and b.) the erroneous idea that some ethnic groups are inherently inferior to others. Hating racism is based on c.) justice, and d.) the strong evidence that there are no significant genetic differences that provoke any conclusions about the superiority of one ethnic group over another.

So no, don't feel bad about hating stupid evil people who want to cause trouble and make divisions between people.

Answer 4

The key to dealing with racists is to establish what makes a person racist. The British poet, Tony Harrison, who lived in Beeston, Leeds, has expressed this problem with sensitivity, saying that there would be no more chitterlings ( a traditional Yorkshire working-class food, made from pig meat) if "a Muslim owns t'corner shop".

The influx of people from Afro-Carribean and Asian backgrounds into British inner cities triggered a huge culture-shock, and many whites moved from their home communities to peripheral areas, or even other towns. Hence the large number of Cockneys living in North Essex. Interestingly enough, a large number of North Essex people moved away from places such as Clacton, as the Cockney culture clashed with theirs - in this case, white on white racism, or, perhaps beter expressed, white on white culturalism.

It is not right to hate someone for the colour of their skin. It is equally not right to hate someone for their culture or way of living, provided it does not impinge on the way of life as stated in English Law "A safe and tranquil society". However, when people move in to an area, tear up the front gardens, pave them over and assemble a collection of derelict cars on the site of the garden, and then work ob the resucitation of these vehicles to the accompaniment of blared pop music, tins of lager, and cheerful admonitions to the entire community to f*** off, you snobby c***;' perhaps the limit is being approached.

Hate without reason is bad. Hate as self preservation may have some merits.

Answer 5

I don't think so. My greatest weakness is that I am extremely intolerant when faced with intolerance.
Discrimination is an anathema. That goes for women's rights, racial, colour and religious discrimination.

When I worked as a translator/interpreter for a West African Embassy, I was the only white peerson working there. One day, during a coffee break a frequent visitor, obviusly trying to provoke me, said, 'One day there will be a black in the White House.' I replied, 'Very probably, but why not a black woman?'

He almost went beserk: 'A woman in the White House? No way, never.'

I simply shook my head and took my coffee back into my private office.

When working in an asylum hostel and paying out social money, I was obliged to confront an asylum seeker from Africa with a deduction of pocket money because of damage to property. He told me that I was the biggest racist in the world. 'Yes,' I said. He opened his eyes wide and I continued, 'That's why I work here. Every working day I get the opportunity to plague the blacks.' And then he laughed.

I always feel a cold shudder down my spine when someone says, 'I'm not a racist, but...' I remember an obviously right wing Turk, who said to me, during the entrance formalities, 'I'm not racist, you can put me in a room with Africans or Tamils, but not with Kurds.' The first night he spent in the Turkish/Kurdish room. He was then moved in with asylum seekers from the then Jugoslavia. One of them stole about £500 from him and disappeared. He insisted on going to the police and making a charge against unknown persons and I went with him, but inside I was chortling.

But I take my cap off to the asylum seeker from the then Jugoslavia. He said he was a racist and he could do nothing about it, and I accepted that. He never made any problems during his time in the hostel. He simply avoided contact.

Answer 6

Don't you just <> it, when someone asks these questions?
Seriously, "hate" is an enduring emotion that generally results in avoidance or else an explosive episode due to frustration. Often 'hate' is irrational and indicates a desire to destroy the object of the hate.
Racists, presumably, are those people who 'hate' others based solely on their race.
Bad is in this case a value judgment, typically associated with unacceptable behavior.
So, your question of whether it is acceptable to desire to destroy those who irrationally desire to destroy others based solely on their race is fairly obvious.
Your desire to destroy is an incorrect response to unacceptable behavior. Destruction is the last resort to be taken only when correction, remediation and rehabilitation fail.
If you have attempted to understand the cause of the racist's attitude and change it, ameliorate it or otherwise remediate it without success, then your frustration may lead you to call your own feelings toward his behavior 'hate'.
Does this make your feelings unacceptable?
If you did nothing to change the racists, yes, unacceptable.

Answer 7

Racists are troubling generally because they are people who operate on their passions- hate, scapegoating- as opposed to rationality.

So to answer your question yes. If you Hate, then any act that stems out of your hate is rooted not in rationality but in passion; you too are not a rational being. You and the racist would be wrong and that wouldn't right the situation.

Instead of wondering whether it's right to hate someone, try to rationally deal with racism in your surroundings.

Answer 8

Calling someone a racist is sterotyping them, which may be a similar failing to that of the racist. If people were born racist then hating them for that alone would be equally bad. Racists aren't born but their attitudes might have been imposed on them by their environment family etc. Dismissing any view on its end point is myopic, if something is worthy of an emotion as powerful as hate then it should be worthy of looking past the label.

Answer 9

Not at all. Several people hate racists, because of their judgements. Though you should not judge a person simply because they are racist. Perhaps it isn't right to hate them. Maybe you should just disagree with their points of view.

Racism isn't something to root for, that's for sure.

Answer 10

I think you need to examine this "hate" you feel. You certainly do not have to like them, but 'hate is another matter. The one who harbors those feelings of hatred, really is the only one to suffer from them. To hate, is to drain energy from yourself. Chances are, if "they" were to know that you hated them; that would make them smile.
Perhaps finding a way to channel your energy into a more positive force would help you to find a way to help "them" to realize a need for personal change.
Merely asking that question sets you miles ahead of any racist!