I think I am a racist

cat of curiosity

cat of curiosity

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heckler73 said:
I've been mentally scarred by that commercial since I was a child.
It will haunt me to my grave (or reasonable facsimile). That voice of her's just echoes throughout my brain, spontaneously. It's a piece of marketing genius!
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fucking brilliant! it's in my head like a bad viral jingle...
 
heckler73

heckler73

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cat of curiosity said:
fucking brilliant! it's in my head like a bad viral jingle...
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You see? This shit is dangerous...I almost regret posting it.
How many people will suffer by my naive cracking of the lid to Pandora's (Bento) Box?
Only a thorough sterilization and quarantine by a mod can save us now!
Or maybe Godzilla...
 
cat of curiosity

cat of curiosity

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heckler73 said:
You see? This shit is dangerous...I almost regret posting it.
How many people will suffer by my naive cracking of the lid to Pandora's (Bento) Box?
Only a thorough sterilization and quarantine by a mod can save us now!
Or maybe Godzilla...
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GOJIRA! please save us from MUTO!
 
crazyhazey

crazyhazey

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racism or prejudice is similar to a survival tactic if you think about it, psychologically someone of a certain ethnicity scarred you or had an effect on you thats still relevant to this day, or more commonly, you were raised to think that certain stereotypes are true. your mind just brings up those memories when someone you believe has similar attributes comes along, and then you go into a sort of "defense mode". i still have friends with some underlying racism issues, hell they have friends that are the ethnicity they are subconsciously racist towards, its just something that gets mixed up in our puzzling psyche.

just try to get around more people that you dont feel comfortable around, race wise, im not saying go chill with some crackheads because they were the ethnicity you arent to fond of, try to make more memories that positively correlate to the types of people you probably wouldnt have good relationships with in the past. im sure on a level you understand race is just another dividing factor, theres someone just like you of every ethnicity. our populations too vast to make generalizations, youll end up missing out on good experiences if you dont try to interact with people of other races, dont be the reason you miss out.
 
Nutes and Nugs

Nutes and Nugs

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Commander Strax said:
I will start by saying first and foremost I was not raised to dislike anyone. I was raised by my mother after my father died and she was a saint. She worked at an Episcopal church and never had a bad thing to say about anyone.

I grew up in the beach cities of Los Angeles and although I was exposed to people of various ethnic backgrounds I grew up in a predominately white neighborhood. I can not think of any instance where race was really an issue, except one time a car load of Hispanic folks yelled something at me and I flipped them the bird. They turned around and were hassling me and one of them punched me in the face. A car stopped and a couple guys came to my rescue and the Mexican folks ran off.

So I know that it was not an environmental cause so I must have been born this way.

I can remember as a little kid watching Batman and the episode where cat woman is played by Ertha Kitt and he kisses her. I may have been 6 or 7 at the time and can remember thinking to myself why is he kissing her Shes Black!

I also thought that Archie Bunker was the smart one and that Meat Head was the dumb one.

I understand that it is not a good way to look at the world and when I have negative thoughts I try to tell myself that it is not right to think that way.

Like when I went to the urgent care and the Doctor walks in and he is from India, in the back of my head I am like "Oh great here we go"

Well there you are, when a person starts a sentence saying "I am not a racist but..." they are
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Why can't you stand Orel then?
 
DonAlejandroVega

DonAlejandroVega

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Commander Strax said:
I will start by saying first and foremost I was not raised to dislike anyone. I was raised by my mother after my father died and she was a saint. She worked at an Episcopal church and never had a bad thing to say about anyone.

I grew up in the beach cities of Los Angeles and although I was exposed to people of various ethnic backgrounds I grew up in a predominately white neighborhood. I can not think of any instance where race was really an issue, except one time a car load of Hispanic folks yelled something at me and I flipped them the bird. They turned around and were hassling me and one of them punched me in the face. A car stopped and a couple guys came to my rescue and the Mexican folks ran off.

So I know that it was not an environmental cause so I must have been born this way.

I can remember as a little kid watching Batman and the episode where cat woman is played by Ertha Kitt and he kisses her. I may have been 6 or 7 at the time and can remember thinking to myself why is he kissing her Shes Black!

I also thought that Archie Bunker was the smart one and that Meat Head was the dumb one.

I understand that it is not a good way to look at the world and when I have negative thoughts I try to tell myself that it is not right to think that way.

Like when I went to the urgent care and the Doctor walks in and he is from India, in the back of my head I am like "Oh great here we go"

Well there you are, when a person starts a sentence saying "I am not a racist but..." they are
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TV's first.............don't get scared by Nimoy.........lookin' rough
 
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