Mar. 25: A bit of a change...

(I'm trying something a little different today. Due to a severe lack of time and significant frustration caused by people not answering my questions, I took the approach today of using a question posted by someone else that I felt fit in well with this blog's theme. This way I have to do less work and, at the same time, I avoid depriving my adoring fans of their daily question. Nothing else changes, you still get an entertaining question and my commentary. Call it laziness. Call it a lack of creativity. Whatever you call it, I'll probably steal that name and use it if this becomes, say, a once-a-week kind of deal. OK, that's enough explanation. Today's question is...)

Poll: Have you ever been racist before?

posted by Beetlebot29

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Yahoo! Answers:

Yes...after having the same thing happen over and over again from a certain race, I tend to be prejudiced....

heck yeah. all the time

Nope never.

No, and don't plan on it!
(You don't plan on it? That would be interesting...

Friday the 26th - Lunch with Hank. Afternoon meeting. Insults and hate crimes directed at Asians.)

Who hasnt, whether it was jokingly or not, we are all a little racist.
(I don't know, I went school with some pretty racist dudes, and some of them were rather large...)

yeah all the time
white power

Well... I think that when people are younger they are, if they are raised to do so. But when you start to grow up you aren't as ignorant [Or at lease I hope so] and you can change your mind.
So my point is: Yeah I think that everyone was at one point when they were young and didnt understand the differences in people
('When they start to grow up you aren't as ignorant.' I'm going to have to respectfully disagree with that statement. My source... just click the 'Older Post' link down there at the bottom.)

yea with my friends lol and others in the street

Unfortunately, yes, in my head at times. Although I'm too polite and softhearted to hurt others in the face.
(That's so kind of you.)

hell yea.

i cant stand midgets

yes when i was teen age but not now

Before what? I've always tried never to be racist, as far as I can remember.
(Grammar fail!)

When i'm driving real fast on a race track!
(Haha, good one. Wish I had thought of that.)

yeah november 4th 2008

If politicians are a race then yes I have been
Otherwise no.

I hate racist people.

Not really, unless jokingly.
Edit: O.O ..I just realized I'm pretty darn racist with my asian friends...
(So let's follow this train of thought. He answers that he is only jokingly racist. But then he amends his answer to say he's racist to his Asian friends. Conclusion: Racist remarks to his Asian friends are not jokes.)

yes when i was little. i didnt really understand. i just thought racist things though i didnt every do anything wrong.
(All those racist toddlers are a real problem.)

Uhh, I believe we all have been racist, you dumb bimbo. I've been racist to asians, blacks, hispanics, germans, and even my french people. The only reason why I critized asians was because I said Judo is better than Aikido.

this one time I laughed at a gnome when he couldn't hang his coat up in my house. Thats about it.

yes, sadly :( I used to be medium racist, but then I realized how stupid I was being and how much it didn't make sense
(Now she's only a kid's size small racist.)

24/7 everyday of my life...
I EAT FROSTED CHEERIOS FOR BREAKFAST...
NOT COCO PUFFS

you would be lying to say you havnt been racist.
you would of brought it up some stage in your life.
but not to a full extent... well in some cases... to a full extent

Somewhat. I said a racist joke and felt bad about it.

Yep I'm very racist

No...It depends on the education and the degree of accepting people, whatever their skin color, or mental disabilities or others.....
(Anybody else notcie that she compared having a different skin color with having a mental disability?)

Yes and I still am.......

no im not racist actually i get very mad at racist people it ties into that dont be ignorant thing that i keep as my basic rule of life lol
(Judging from the overall appearance of this sentence, I think you need to adopt a new rule.)

In a way, I suppose so. It was when I was about 4 or 5 years old. My parents had taught me about what happened at Pearl Harbor, and for the next few weeks I was scared of anyone I saw who looked Japanese.

does sterotype count
(Can someone find a dictionary for this guy?)

hahahahah yes
i use to work at a fast food restaurant i was the only white girl for around 3 months. and as ignorant as it sound i turned racist. but now im back to normal.
(Makes it sound like a disease...)

(This guy went into a whole thing about how racism is bad and said that the only time he ever says anything that can be construed as racist is joking around with friends of a different race. It all sounded quite intelligent and legitimate until...)

If we were all so uptight about race all the time we'd never smile or enjoy life.

(Administrative Comment: As you can imagine, several additional people came up with very informed, intelligent, and noble answers to this quesiton...

I deleted them. That crap doens't belong here.

Things should be back to normal tomorrow. )