"Of course ALL white people are racist" (Barf alert)

The Guardian ^ | 3 July 2002 | Joseph Harker

[Fzob]

As a black man, I admit I am bound to suffer from prejudices of my own. I cannot be racist, however, because in the global order I do not belong to the dominant group.

This man obviously has never consulted a dictionary. He suffers from prejudices yet he cannot be a racist. This notion that in order to be racist one must also have power or be a dominant group is just plain old nonsense. It is repeated only to rationalize and excuse their own racism.

This article is so stupid on so many levels it's hard to believe he has any credibility.

Oops, that criticism must be my whitey racist nature coming out.

[SauronOfMordor]

Any sentient being knows that Klingons are the highest form of evolution in this or any galaxy and are destined to rule!

I have Orcs that are smarter than any Klingon, pitiful mortal.

[Tomalak]

This man obviously has never consulted a dictionary.

Right. Racism isn't belonging to a power structure. It isn't being against a government that funds mass-murdering terrorists. It isn't thinking some cultures are more valuable than others.

Racism is the belief that an individual from one race is inherently inferior or superior to an individual from another race solely because of their race.

[c-five]

"Of course all white people are racist"

That's a racist statement if ever there was one!

[general_re]

A remarkably worthless column, even for the Guardian.

I respectfully disagree - it is rather pedestrian in its worthlessness, IMO...

[Tomalak]

LOL exactly!

[Right Wing Professor]

Let's try some classical logic on this.

P1: All white people are racist

P2:To be racist is to be evil

C: All white people are evil

P1: The author is black

P2: Blacks cannot be racist

C: The author is not racist

P1:The author is not racist

P2: The author says all white people are evil

C: It is not racist to say all white people are evil.

I reject conclusion 1 and conclusion 3. The logic, it appears to me, is flawless. I must therefore reject one of the premises in each case. Since the author insists all white people are racist, his point must be that racism is not evil.

[Icthus]

I feel so much better knowing that if "white people" are ever in the minority, things will be very different. There won't ever again be any unequalities, no social or economic problems....ahhhh....a complete utopia! </heavy.sarcasm>

[nathanbedford]

I actually read this damn thing thinking it was satire.

[albee]

This jerk makes about as much sense as saying that "Of course all people of color are welfare cheating, lazy, uneducated, watermelon-eating losers."

[Congressman Billybob]

It is not true that all white people are racist. It is not true that all blacks are dumb as a brick. But it is true that all writers for the Guardian are leftist flacks with a gross ignorance of both common senses and reality.

And no, none of my friends are writers for the Guardian, nor would I want my sister to marry one.

Congressman Billybob

Click for: "Stupid is as Stupid Does, Even Among Federal Judges."

[Tomalak]

And no, none of my friends are writers for the Guardian, nor would I want my sister to marry one.

Hahaha!

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

The Klingons will certainly take issue with this!

And they have. See reply # 17.

[Fzob]

I actually read this damn thing thinking it was satire.

I was about 1/3 the way throught before I realized it wasn't satire. Articles like this have become far too common in the last year or so. At some point in the near future there may be a need at FR to post a "Non-satire Alert" in the title to keep the confusion down.

[stands2reason]

You see, that's why we embraced Milosevic, because he's white...wait a sec...

[Under the Radar]

Every day the white power structure - be it global, national or local - makes decisions which impinge on the lives of black people. Take the Metropolitan police, who last year decided to allow people to go unpunished if caught smoking dope in Brixton, south London. This scheme was brought in without the backing of the local black population, who fear the effect on their children of scenes of overt drug taking. If the police want to experiment with drugs, why choose black people as guinea pigs?

I love it! Let's see, when cops do crack down on blacks, they are accused of unfairly harassing a community due to racsism. When the cops finally give up and let the community do what it will, why then, they are STILL racist for using blacks as "guinea pigs"!

It is time that we stop responding to the word "racist," which has lost all meaning. The next time one of these hustlers calls a white person racist the proper rejoinder should be, "So?"

[KSCITYBOY]

Romulans--- Don't get me started on those bastards...

[Tomalak]

LOL. Milosevic would be used by this crowd as a sign of what whites have done, though. Michael Moore started his latest book by naming Hitler as the worst white man who ever lived and so on.

So if Americans or Britons attack someone who isn't white, like Arafat, it is racism. If they attack someone who is white, like Hitler, that white guy just shows how bad we whites really are. It's win-win.