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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 17 2015 at 16:09
Originally posted by The Bearded Bard The Bearded Bard wrote:

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<span style="line-height: 1.4;">racism in the sense of people believing there are actually different separate races</span><span style="line-height: 1.4;">
There isn't? Confused That's what we learned in school, although that's 17 years ago now, so it's probably not political correct to use that term anymore. Call it ethnic groups instead then, that's not something you don't believe in, is it?</span>
I'm really not into you.
But really, as far as I know an amount of people believe that people with particular skin colours or origins are superior to those with different colour and origin on some sort of biological basis, and that I'm not into
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 19 2015 at 06:23
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Semi reality shows (like TOWIE, Geordie Shore etc)
TV talent shows (X Factor etc)
'Torture porn' horror movies (Saw etc)
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 19 2015 at 07:12
Originally posted by twseel twseel wrote:

Originally posted by The Bearded Bard The Bearded Bard wrote:

Originally posted by twseel twseel wrote:

<span style="line-height: 1.4;">racism in the sense of people believing there are actually different separate races</span><span style="line-height: 1.4;">
There isn't? Confused That's what we learned in school, although that's 17 years ago now, so it's probably not political correct to use that term anymore. Call it ethnic groups instead then, that's not something you don't believe in, is it?</span>
I'm really not into you.
But really, as far as I know an amount of people believe that people with particular skin colours or origins are superior to those with different colour and origin on some sort of biological basis, and that I'm not into


Without putting words into Audun's mouth I'd like to think that he merely accepts that there are different races, which there are. Humans are all of the same species but we have different races - just like all dogs are dogs but not every dog is a doberman or a poodle. There are distinct races. It's only when, as you yourself pointed out, folks start putting one over the other that the real problems begin.
Political correctness can have it's virtues but this is not one of them.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 19 2015 at 15:42
Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

Originally posted by twseel twseel wrote:

Originally posted by The Bearded Bard The Bearded Bard wrote:

Originally posted by twseel twseel wrote:

<span style="line-height: 1.4;">racism in the sense of people believing there are actually different separate races</span><span style="line-height: 1.4;">
There isn't? Confused That's what we learned in school, although that's 17 years ago now, so it's probably not political correct to use that term anymore. Call it ethnic groups instead then, that's not something you don't believe in, is it?</span>
I'm really not into you.
But really, as far as I know an amount of people believe that people with particular skin colours or origins are superior to those with different colour and origin on some sort of biological basis, and that I'm not into


Without putting words into Audun's mouth I'd like to think that he merely accepts that there are different races, which there are. Humans are all of the same species but we have different races - just like all dogs are dogs but not every dog is a doberman or a poodle. There are distinct races. It's only when, as you yourself pointed out, folks start putting one over the other that the real problems begin.
Political correctness can have it's virtues but this is not one of them.

I may not have been clear enough, but you could read the Wikipedia page about human races to see what I mean, there are no biological(not sure if this is the right word) differences between races, they are based on traits and often innocent prejudice based on these traits, but not something like genetics. The difference with dogs and most other creatures is that with those, the differences were caused by selective breeding and thus the various visible traits can be concretely linked to other biological aspects, although humans have been cross-breeding with all other humans around them as long as I, personally, can remember. But you have point, I was a bit presumptuous for calling out there are no races, I took the info from one documentary and my brain must've gotten fuzzy, and you do sort of get my point.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 30 2015 at 16:38
^^ Yeah, that was my point, thanks, David. And, yeah, the real problems starts when you say one race is better or worth more than another.

That said, I'm not sure I believe there are different races of humans myself. When I heard that in school I was like "really?". Then again, it's not a coincident that most of the world's best 100 meter sprinters are afro-americans from the US and the West Indies. Some of it's down to training, sure, but I don't think genes playing a part there can be ruled out completely.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 31 2015 at 09:10
Pornography....see condor's thread.
 
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