Racism?
- Thread starter OriginalGStar
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If you call that racism you must also call it gender discrimination. Both result from profiling based upon past experience and statistics - whether it's right or wrong is a can of worms.
But White western women have the easiest life on the planet. It's the luck of the draw.
But White western women have the easiest life on the planet. It's the luck of the draw.
More stereotyping than racism, with some good old-fashioned sexism thrown in at the end. The last guy, knows she's stealing the bike and offers to help her steal it.
It's all a matter of perception. We pre-judge based upon appearances. In my younger days, I got called out to haul off a car that was blocking a manufacturing facility's dumpster. Someone in the apartments across the alley had parked there. The man that called was very nice and apologetic and offered to pay me just to move it out of the way, rather than impounding it. He said he had knocked on all the doors, and not a single person was home. About the time I started to tow the car a woman came running out to retrieve it. The guy, one of the nicest people I met in that line of work, could not understand why no one would answer the door when he knocked. He was a large white male (maybe 6'2", 220#) with long hair, past his shoulders and his whole face was tattooed to look like a tiger. Can't understand why no one would answer their door.
It's all a matter of perception. We pre-judge based upon appearances. In my younger days, I got called out to haul off a car that was blocking a manufacturing facility's dumpster. Someone in the apartments across the alley had parked there. The man that called was very nice and apologetic and offered to pay me just to move it out of the way, rather than impounding it. He said he had knocked on all the doors, and not a single person was home. About the time I started to tow the car a woman came running out to retrieve it. The guy, one of the nicest people I met in that line of work, could not understand why no one would answer the door when he knocked. He was a large white male (maybe 6'2", 220#) with long hair, past his shoulders and his whole face was tattooed to look like a tiger. Can't understand why no one would answer their door.
The racism is in the reaction of the bystanders. When a young white man was trying to steal the bike, even telling people he was stealing the bike, people just shrugged their shoulders and walked away. When the young white woman was trying to steal the bike, people, even when they knew she was stealing the bike, helped her do it. When the young black man was doing the same thing, people actively tried to stop him. The only difference in the situation was skin color. While I personally wouldn't call that racism, more of racial stereotyping, I can understand why many people would consider it racism.
We can agree that the girl has it the easiest. One of them actually offered to help her steal it.
