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Poll: Is Reverse Racism Ever Okay?
Replies: 11Last Post June 28 7:30am by The Artful Dodger
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Yes; reverse racism should be encouraged. 1 5%
Yes; reverse racism is justified. 1 5%
Yes; only if the minority in question was personally discriminated against by the majority. 1 5%
No; but reverse racism is not as bad as plain racism. 1 5%
No; racism of any kind is never okay no matter what the reason. 12 66%
N/A: I don't believe that minorities can be racist. 2 11%
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Inspired by the responses I received in this thread, I thought I'd make a poll to gauge how everybody on Livewire actually feels about reverse racism and whether or not it's okay.  So in your opinion, is reverse racism justified?  Or is it completely wrong?  Or does it lie somewhere in between?

Below is a definition I provided for those of you unsure of what exactly reverse racism is:

Reverse Racism (noun): Discrimination or aggression directed towards the political majority (either a member or group of that majority or the majority in general).

Definition provided by: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/reverse_racism

I'd also like to add that reverse racism is often the result of past or present racial discrimination by the poltical and/or racial majority to a person in the minority, whether the actual discrimination is real or only perceived (hence why it's called reverse racism).


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No; racism of any kind is never okay no matter what the reason.

No racism is acceptable, and the idea of reverse racism is just idiotic! Whoever said well because some of them hated us we can hate all of them is horribly wrong...

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Reverse racism, as a phrase, makes no fucking sense whatsoever.

It is still racism.

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You're an idiot.

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There is no such thing as reverse racism.

Racism is racism.

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uhm racism isnt cool... but i mean... as a joke or whatever go for it... but not like... i hate black gay women who are jewish! and they should all die! thats stupid... but laughing at the shits fine... =)

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Quote: from TheOtherHorseman at 11:28 pm on June 27, 2008

Reverse racism, as a phrase, makes no fucking sense whatsoever.

It is still racism.



Agreed, although it's a little more specific than plain racism.  As a phrase, it suggests that the person was discriminated against by the majority and, as a result of it, is racist (or prejudiced) against the majority.

The problem with being specific in this case is that, to some people at least, it actually justifies it.  That notion is something I think we as a society really needs to work on, which I explained in my topic on reverse discrimination that I linked to in the OP.


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Reverse racism is worse than "regular" racism.

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This topic is confusing.  Do you mean blacks hating whites?  Yeah, that's okay, black people have the right to hate anyone they want for whatever reason they want, same with whites, Asians, etc.

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there is no reverse racism.  its just racism, plain old racism

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Quote: from smartlake at 1:08 am on June 28, 2008

This topic is confusing. Do you mean blacks hating whites? Yeah, that's okay, black people have the right to hate anyone they want for whatever reason they want, same with whites, Asians, etc.


In general, I mean racial minorities hating whites.  Minority in most Western countries outside of Latin America = black, east Asian, Indian, Native American, mestizo, Semitic, Turkic, etc.


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Yeah, in the Western World I think its necessary for all minorities to have (what I call) "a cautious level of prejudice". I don't mean being necessary combatant...just aware and careful. Just so that you don't embarass yourself or end up in places/situations you don't want to be in. I think black people in the South would know better than anybody what i'm talking about.

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