People that use the term Reverse-Racism are morons

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Nealand Liquor

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Wouldn't Reverse-Racism be not judging people by the color of their skin? You know, the Reverse of Racism?
As far as I am concerned racism is racism regardless of race. Anyone who uses the term "reverse racism" has lost all credibility just by the sheer idiocy of using the term.
Can we stop using this stupid combination of words together please?
 
When two cars almost hit each other, people say it was a near miss. It was a near hit! A collision is a near miss! *crash sounds* Look, they nearly missed.
 
Cagey said:
When two cars almost hit each other, people say it was a near miss. It was a near hit! A collision is a near miss! *crash sounds* Look, they nearly missed.
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I agreed with you, but then thought about it some more.

Could it be describing a miss that was near? The saying isn't "We nearly missed each other", it's "we had a near miss"...a miss..that was near. Adverb vs preposition probably or something.

I dunno.
 
Not much to say other than I agree with the OP.

Racism in general is pretty damned moronic as well. You would think that in this day and age, people would put some of that energy into something a bit more productive.
 
Llyranor said:
So monkeys came from humans? They are our children? We eat our children?
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You eat monkeys?

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Some people argue that you have to hold institutional power to be racist, so a Black person could never be racist.

I disagree with that notion, but that's where those people are coming from.
 
Husker86 said:
I agreed with you, but then thought about it some more.

Could it be describing a miss that was near? The saying isn't "We nearly missed each other", it's "we had a near miss"...a miss..that was near. Adverb vs preposition probably or something.

I dunno.
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So using 'near' as a synonym for 'close' in this case. Ya, that makes sense.

Explain yourself Cagey.
 
From a grammatical point of you, of course you guys are correct.

Think from a social point of you why the term exists.
 
Would it be better if it was called reversed-racism?

Using adjectives does not change the meaning of the word. In this case it just states the direction from a group that is usually the victim of racism to one that is not.
 
Husker86 said:
I agreed with you, but then thought about it some more.

Could it be describing a miss that was near? The saying isn't "We nearly missed each other", it's "we had a near miss"...a miss..that was near. Adverb vs preposition probably or something.

I dunno.
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marrec said:
So using 'near' as a synonym for 'close' in this case. Ya, that makes sense.

Explain yourself Cagey.
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It's a George Carlin bit about the absurdities of common English sayings if deconstructed. We all know what they mean, but they're all stupid if broken down to a level they're not supposed to get broken down to.

Like overusing the prefix "pre". They tell you to place a turkey in a preheated oven. There's only two possible states an oven can exist in -- heated, and unheated. Preheating an oven is a meaningless fucking term.
 
Cagey said:
It's a George Carlin bit about the absurdities of common English sayings if deconstructed. We all know what they mean, but they're all stupid if broken down to a level they're not supposed to get broken down to.

Like overusing the prefix "pre". They tell you to place a turkey in a preheated oven. There's only two possible states an oven can exist in -- heated, and unheated. Preheating an oven is a meaningless fucking term.
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George Carlin sounded like a non-fun pedant.

Also that preheated thing doesn't even make sense. Preheating is a procedure you preform. "I have preheated the oven to X temperature". It's not a state of oven being.

George Carlin explain yourself.
 
marrec said:
George Carlin sounded like a non-fun pedant.

Also that preheated thing doesn't even make sense. Preheating is a procedure you preform. "I have preheated the oven to X temperature". It's not a state of oven being.

George Carlin explain yourself.
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George Carlin is either the best or second best stand up comic of all time, how dare you, good sir.
 
Reverse-racism would mean something that's not racist.
When I look at the things white people describe as "reverse-racism" that seems pretty accurate.
 
God Dayumm said:
Would it be better if it was called reversed-racism?

Using adjectives does not change the meaning of the word. In this case it just states the direction from a group that is usually the victim of racism to one that is not.
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I think the term has a place to describe situations like the one above as you described. It indicates racism against the majority group, which I think people have a hard time calling straight racism and so it needs a qualifier.
 
The word reverse implies direction or momentum. For something to go in reverse, it either needs to have an implied direction (the front of a car implies its direction, hence a car can go reverse from a stopped position), or needs to be already moving in a specific direction. Since racism has no implied direction, any race can be racist to any other including your own. Reverse racism can only mean that someone has said something racist, the momentum has started, but is so inept that it turns out that statement was racist ONLY to their own race, and the implication flies in reverse after already having left the mouth, or keyboard, or text whatever, and strikes the perpetrator right in the chin.

I already said you can be racist to yourself so that makes no sense either. Reverse-Racism makes ZERO sense.

Right?
 
AuthenticM said:
No, that's still racism.

I agree with TC. "Reverse-racism" is the absence of racism. The term doesn't even need to exist.
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no, reverse-racism is when you treat someone as better or superior to others based solely on their race.


An example of that would be assuming someone is good at math just because they are asian.

Obviously not all asians are good at math, but since being good at math isn't really considered bad or insulting, calling someone out as a racist for believing it wouldn't really fit.

That's were the term reverse-racist comes in handy because it's just like racism but in the opposite direction.
 
Dusk Soldier said:
no, reverse-racism is when you treat someone as better or superior to others based solely on their race.


An example of that would be assuming someone is good at math just because they are asian.

Obviously not all asians are good at math, but since being good at math isn't really considered bad or insulting, calling someone out as a racist for believing it wouldn't really fit.

That's were the term reverse-racist comes in handy because it's just like racism but in the opposite direction.
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Stereotypes are just racism. Reverse racism is something white people (within the context of being in the US) say when they have an agenda to push or don't know how to better explain why a certain thing bothers them.
 
Dusk Soldier said:
no, reverse-racism is when you treat someone as better or superior to others based solely on their race.

An example of that would be assuming someone is good at math just because they are asian.

Obviously not all asians are good at math, but since being good at math isn't really considered bad or insulting, calling someone out as a racist for believing it wouldn't really fit.

That's were the term reverse-racist comes in handy because it's just like racism but in the opposite direction.
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What you used as an example is called a "positive stereotype".
 
Nealand Liquor said:
Wouldn't Reverse-Racism be not judging people by the color of their skin? You know, the Reverse of Racism?
As far as I am concerned racism is racism regardless of race. Anyone who uses the term "reverse racism" has lost all credibility just by the sheer idiocy of using the term.
Can we stop using this stupid combination of words together please?
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Reverse racism usually refers to somebody of a specific race that are resentful of a perceived(true or not) prejudice against them by another certain race and thus become prejudiced against that race in return. It is quite literally 'reverse' racism and an apt name for it.

EDIT: I'm shocked at how many people are quite ignorant of what this term means. Was expecting somebody else to have hit upon this as well, but not one other person has. Its a pretty well known phenomenon that goes beyond just 'race'. This happens quite a bit in the Middle East with battles over territory and religious differences, for example.
 
Dusk Soldier said:
no, reverse-racism is when you treat someone as better or superior to others based solely on their race.


An example of that would be assuming someone is good at math just because they are asian.

Obviously not all asians are good at math, but since being good at math isn't really considered bad or insulting, calling someone out as a racist for believing it wouldn't really fit.

That's were the term reverse-racist comes in handy because it's just like racism but in the opposite direction.
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That's just racism. The term reversed racism does not need to exist.
 
Seanspeed said:
Reverse racism usually refers to somebody of a specific race that are resentful of a perceived(true or not) prejudice against them by another certain race and thus become prejudiced against that race in return. It is quite literally 'reverse' racism and an apt name for it.

EDIT: I'm shocked at how many people are quite ignorant of what this term means. Was expecting somebody else to have hit upon this as well, but not one other person has. Its a pretty well known phenomenon that goes beyond just 'race'. This happens quite a bit in the Middle East with battles over territory and religious differences, for example.
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That's not the definition most people are working off of.
 
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