Born to be racist
I was born racist. How could I not be?
I don't remember choosing it, it has just always been a part of me, a piece of my identity. Who I am. Why should I change my identity to fit in with an unaccepting society? They expect my acceptance of them in all their different colors and forms yet are unwilling to grant me the space to be me. This is hypocrisy at its finest. No wonder those bleeding hearts are so conflicted.
Don't get me wrong, I understand what they want, an equal playing field, they want to be treated fairly. Well, some want more, they want to flip the table to favor themselves. Their kind. They got to get it through their thick heads though, life ain't fair. They talk of minorities, who are they kidding? The minority is the person willing to stand up for their belief system rather than bow down to whatever society demands. The one willing to protect what is theirs.
This country is going to the dogs. Everywhere you look you see an invasion of those unwilling to live to the standards of this country. How can they ever dare call it home? My father taught me the hard way 'while under my roof, my rules' and this country is my roof and I will do my damndest to make sure the rules are followed. If we don't protect our home, what is worth protecting?
My father is a veteran who took shrapnel, he has the medal to prove it. He was young and dumb when he joined the army but it turned him into a man, hardened him. He became a patriot willing to die on foreign soil for what he believed in, his flag and this country. The enemy was whoever stood in the way, whatever color they were. Two tours before he lost the use of his arm. He says he would do it all again to keep them out. He taught me a lot about life.
I remember one time we were at the corner store, and some high as a kite fuck came in and tried to hold it up with a .308. I was just a kid. We were getting an ice cream and some smokes and this clown came in and pushed my dad as he pointed the gun at the scared guy behind the counter. With his one good arm my dad smashed the gun from the hands of the dumb prick and then elbowed him square in the face. The guy tumbled over backwards and then scrambled scared shitless for the door while my old man shouted after him 'Go back to your own fuck hole of a country!'. He even pocketed the revolver, he treasures it like all his guns. Yeah, I learned a lot from him.
My mother too for that matter. She wasn't one to hold back about what is up with the world. She used to work down at the factory until they fired her for taking too many sick days and probably replaced her with some foreigner. Works for less no doubt, don't mind being slaves I guess.
Family dinners were always talking politics and the condition of the country and where it is headed. Down hill fast was the general conclusion. In the privacy of home there is no need to hold back, no political correctness required. It makes me laugh to think of all the names we use to describe this type or that type of them, we even made up some of our own so we could use them in public without them or sympathisers kicking up a stink. It was always fun to see how creative we could get and out of all of us, my mother was the best at it. Sharp as a tack that woman.
Yeah, people call me racist, but it is not that simple. I am proud of my race and if they keep to their own country, I have no problem with them. Is that racist? The issue is when they come in here and tell me how to live my life, bring their messed up traditions with them and expect us all to bend over and accept it willingly. Would they accept it if I invaded their country and opened up some cheap, shitty restaurant on every block corner?
Turn on the TV now and it is all subtitled foreign crap. I don't care what you are saying, and I as sure as hell don't want to read it. This might be the worst part of it. Cultural appropriation. They start to act like us and wear our clothes and think that makes them like us. One of us. It doesn't. They are never going to be like me, they don't have the balls to stand up for their beliefs. They aren't willing to do what I am willing to do.
I am sure that some of them are okay, they can't all be like they are in the news screaming in the streets and attacking each other like animals. Fighting over shit that happened hundreds of years ago that no one alive remembers. Who knows, maybe they are all like that and this is why I don't want to risk it. Let one in and then what, they bring in their family, have kids here with my nationality? Worse, mix with us? It is disgusting.
It disgusts me that people tolerate this behavior, endorse it even. Tell us to be tolerant and accept everyone as the same. That is nonsense. I am not the same as them, I have the pride to stay in my country and the honor to die for it if I must. I don't fear death, I fear being overrun and trampled to be the same as everyone else, I am proud of my heritage.
Call me racist but, fuck that shit.
Out of curiosity, what color did you imagine this person to be and where from?
Taraz
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Very "controversial" writing you have here.. I definitely agree with the sentiment of what you are saying. Society is becoming too "Politically Correct" and no longer believe that EVERY INDIVIDUAL IS EQUAL.
Just because I don't agree with you, doesn't mean that I'm immediately racist. It means that I don't agree with your views. I disagree with people all the time. I don't care what color, nationality, race, religion, etc. you are. If you don't have the same view as me, I have every right to disagree with you. The same as you having every right to disagree with me!
Now.. that doesn't mean that I'm completely stuck in my ways and not willing to hear alternate opinions and sides. I will listen to you and make a decision (On My Own Accord) about whether or not I agree with you. My Opinion will be based on my personal experiences and knowledge, as well as whatever argument that you decided to share about your point of view.
That is all.
I keep thinking about the "too politically correct" thing and I'm not sure it really makes that much sense. If it's OK for somebody to say that a race or a minority are inferior, why isn't it OK to call them inferior in the exact same way? If one doesn't think they owe equal respect to others, why should they expect any respect to be given to them at all?
Because what does "society is becoming too politically correct" really mean? That most people are not willing to accept one's ideas and that is also and important part of free speech.
I find it quite amusing that the same racists that are calling other people snowflakes are willing to play the victim for political correctness which is nothing more than wide-spread disagreement with their ideas. If one is saying FU to a race or a minority, they shouldn't be surprised when the majority of people return the FU right to their faces. And I don't think they have any claim to victimhood in this case.
In the way I was describing political correctness, I feel that society has reached a point where they are allowing themselves to be vicitmized by small groups of individuals simply to try to not offending these small groups of individuals.
Rather than suggesting that a group stands up and acts in a positive way for the group, instead of that group standing up and claiming to be a victim, society is letting the group claim to be a victim and nothing changes.
Pulling yourself out of any situation is always going to be more successful than saying "Hey, look at me. feel sorry for me because of my situation. Now you have o help me get out of it because I've been placed here by the big bad man." Granted, some people need a little push, or a bit of support to get out of really rough spots, but after that LITTLE push, you have to prove that you can do the rest on your own in this world.
You can't continue to play the victim card and expect other people to do everything for you. Everyone is fighting some sort of battle; just because you don't know what it is doesn't make your battle more important than theirs.
In my opinion speaking out against political correctness in a way puts you in a bit of a vicious circle. Political correctness is criticizing speech. What you are saying is criticizing speech too. If you are OK to criticize it, it should be OK for other to engage in it as it is essentially the same thing - criticizing somebody else's speech which is indeed speech and should be something people are free to do.
Free speech is not about having zero consequences, it's about you having the right to say what you want. But others are also free to react as badly to it as they feel appropriate as long as they don't somehow violate your rights doing so. You certainly don't have the right not to be disagreed with.
Additionally, I think you are wrong while rationalizing where does the political correctness thing stem from for most people. When people are reacting negatively to racism or homophobia and are deeming it offensive, they are not doing so because they thing something should be given to somebody else for free - people are speaking out because they disagree with your assessment of the situation and because they think people are unjustly discriminated against. That's a very different motivation from what you are describing.
For instance, when I say that I support LGBT rights like same-sex marriage, I'm saying it because I see an inequality, not because I think people from the LGBT community deserve equal rights, not more rights than others. My attitude about this issue has nothing to do with giving somebody something that they don't deserve and/or haven't earned and has nothing to do with individuals members of that community and their actions, it's simply about seeing discrimination and speaking out against it. What is wrong with that even if you somehow disagree with my assessment?
I think the main reason many people are annoyed by "political correctness" is the fact that they don't enjoy being a target of criticism. But that's always an option for others and all you can do is try to convince them of your point of view's correctness. But to do so effectively you have to understand that they do not want to give something to somebody, they want to fight discrimination, so your main point of disagreement would be if there is reasonable equality or not and whether the particular act being criticized constitutes an act of discrimination. If you are just telling them that they want to give additional rights to some group, they will reply that they don't and the conversation will break down.
Hmm, I don't think any of my statements have directly criticized free speech. If they have, it was unintentional.
I'm going to come back to my initial statement and call it a day. I can't honestly tell if you're trying to convince me of something, or just tell me that your opinion is more correct than mine. In either case,
If you don't have the same view as me, I have every right to disagree with you. The same as you having every right to disagree with me!
Some groups who feel like they are being slighted (when in reality, they are overwhelmingly not being slighted at all) and these groups want "special rights". I don't have any sympathy for those people. Those who are truly being slighted, and in an overwhelming way, I can see an argument for ensuring a "level playing field".
However, everyone is judged by everyone else at some point. There's no way for you to fix that by complaining, or enacting laws for every little specific group. That's fixed by action, and most likely, education. If we start enacting laws for every specific group, you will start infringing on the rights of the other groups who you did not support by law. It's a slippery slope and it should not be followed.
In Conclusion: Speaking out against discrimination is not the same as "Political Correctness". Political Correctness is the act of not trying to offend anyone else because they're going to get into an uproar if you tell them that you don't like the shirt they're wearing and their immediate response is that you must not like them because you're a bigot or racist or whatever else, as opposed to the fact that you just don't like their damn shirt!
I'm saying that you are criticizing their expression which is something that falls under free speech, not that you are trying to limit their free speech. I was trying to say that that's a fair thing to do and that's what political correctness is (unless somebody is trying to write it into a law - then, it would be a low limiting free speech).
Oh, I'm just trying to share my opinion and to hear your thoughts on it. This is honestly an issue where I'm not even sure I've gotten it right which is more of a reason for me to engage in this.
Absolutely. We have zero disagreement here.
I think this is where our disagreement lies. You feel like this is common, I feel like this is marginal at best. That's what I was trying to point out in my contrived way. I think that's the point worth discussing.
Additionally, I don't think that the political correctness you are describing is that common either and I feel most of the people that speak out or even most of the people that get angry do so for valid or at least defensible reasons. Limiting free speech by law is not something you would find me advocating. We see how problematic something like this can be here in Europe where you can get sued for libel for things that I believe everyone should be free to say, even if most of us would find them outrageous or horrible.
Keeping an open dialogue (and an open mind) is always good :)
I don't disagree with you that the political correctness which I described is uncommon. However, it does seem to me that while uncommon, it gets the most media coverage and "political attention". That's probably where my greatest frustrations are rooted.
I try to do that though I don't know if I'm always as successful as I'd like to be.
I guess it gets a lot of attention because it's an easy target and an good way to paint the other side as unreasonable.
This is excellent.
I did write a piece a couple months back that I would try to explore some more controversial areas from time to time and I guess this qualifies.
It was a bit of 'fun' to write and was aimed to get people thinking a little about racism and perhaps nationalism. I definitely need to work on getting into character for writing such things but for different parts of it I tried on a few different skins.
Hopefully it was interesting to read.
Absolutely; I enjoyed reading this a lot!
Thanks for the post :)
I agree and disagree.
I agree that you must have the right to be racist. and i agree that different races are culturally and even in a way genetically different.
In that aspect I'm a racist too.
However, I am not a RACIALIST.
I don't care about anyone's race, and it plays no role.
If You differ, then you are no different than the "anti racist" who talk shit about white people and don't even realize they'r hypocrisy.
Races have to be genetically different by definition and of course all of the differences in genes are going to have effects on a range of various factors. The level of importance of these differences might not be newsworthy however and their description of an individual within any race is likely to be very poor as we are all more similar than different and in any one group, the variation between traits can be huge.
Yeah.
I meant genetically as it affects mental factors, something that many refuse to accept despite being scientifically proven.
What I meant was in short that dealing with race outside the world of science and academia is futile. It has no real value or benefit.
I see that due to the current social implications of race it must be dealt with until it is academic and scientific/medical only. This is not the case now and there is the emotional aspects that most heavily dictate discourse. Until a general understanding is developed, this is likely to propel forever on taking resources away from where they are better utilized.
Awesome writing..In my opinion little kids playing. Black, white, Asian...kids don't see color. My kids, never showed any racism or even acknowledged that they were different. By bringing up differences kids will view them differently. My son asked me, at age 3 1/2 "Brian has dark skin. Why?" I said "he's black. Not different on the inside, just on the outside ". He said " I know. He's my best friend ". Kids are indifferent to race, and these people piss me off. THEY are the ones that are racist.
My family was surrounded by different skin types, including my parents. It was my first day of kindergarten that I discovered not everyone was raised in the same way and skin colour was something to judge upon.
I imagined you being in Australia when your dad took the gun from a lilly white American. Your remark about cheap restaurants again made me think America. So I am guessing Irish-American: or one of my parents cousins.
Do you think your experiences skewed the view. Could you imagine someone in the middle east or asia having some of these thoughts?
If my dad showed aggression in a situation like that I would be most shocked.
I imagine that person as a lower-middle-class white rural American.
It is interesting how stereotyped it all is isn't it? Do you ever wonder what views other countries get of the US?
Well I am outside the US, and I think the views are all pretty similar.
I thought white Swede or Norwegian, because of the "subtitled foreign crap".
Here I have to watch subtitled Swedish and Norwegian crap. It is actually pretty good. I think they make decent series. Problem is it is subtitles in stupid Finnish.
Modern Western Caucasian. People from the East of the Suez do not bother to reflect upon their racism because they do not believe in equality, universality, or even fairness. "Karma," they will say and move on with their miserable lives without a second thought regarding the systemic problems of their society.
It can almost be no other can it? I think it is interesting that people likely had an image of what the person may look like from just the title and the text would likely have supported there position most likely.
Only the Western mind seems to be concerned about fairness and universal justice. That the West has individuals who feel marginalized by a system that overly caters to the sensibility of a foreigner is a credit to an inherently just system of governance. I empathize with the person in the story and agree with much of his grievances. Those who choose to relocate to another culture need to adapt to the majority cultural sensitivity, not demand subversion. The grievances outlined need to be addressed fairly and not be dismissed as "racist" ramblings.
That there is a social class of people who are economically disadvantaged and culturally marginalized remains critical problem that requires resolution. After all, we live in civilized Helsinki, not some backwards hole in Ugistan or something.
Or somewhere like Helsinki.
Yes, this is true. When I wrote it I wanted to try to mix some legitimate claims with some ramblings as in my experience, there is generally enough legitimate to listen. The issue I have come across is that often the legitimate is overshadowed by the ramble as they do not realise what they hold.
There are many facets to the gem that I find interesting and several that I do not at all. But, it does not mean that someone may not feel the same. I would personally still try to err on judging the individual as I am one of the people that has been consistently judged as a group in the negative but am generally the 'kind of foreigner' that people talk about wanting in a country. Skilled earner that adds value and tax revenue without having taken nor needing any integration support. Walking down the street this is not what people see though.
It does have its advantages also.
Well, while reading this piece, what I was thinking about was a bit more meta. I was wondering what country and person you were imagining and writing from the point of. I anticipated some type of provocation or twist, so I was imagining all kinds of scenarios or endings.
As the first association I got was with a US white-supremacists (especially with the protecting your country on foreign soil and the gun-loving parts), I wondered what point of view this narrative could more or less work from as an antithesis and I though about Native American.
But as I try to argue in one of my recent posts - it doesn't really make a lot of sense for somebody to actually be proud of their country, race, culture and even immediate ancestry - it's just our primitive need for tribal belonging and is not really justifiable in any logical sense.
I agree. I actually have several ongoing posts about pride in these things but I have not finished any. It is a very immature view of the world in my opinion and limits experience, raises suffering a lot.
Looking forward to reading your take on it then :)
Hi @tarazkp - I am in the same line like @truedwell - I agree and disagree on some points. However, I think your post and statement is truth statement to discuss on, what I really like. I found your post on my daily writing top list and believe your post is undervalued, so I upvoted and resteemed your post ! All the best @minnowhelp
Thanks for the support. I wrote it in a way that there are things I support and disagree with also. Fiction can make a person think just as well as fact and in many cases, have more impact.
I don't expect or even want readers to agree, just have an interesting read and think a little.