Racism

It's unfortunate that many people will refuse to vote for Obama on the basis of race and Hilary on gender. Legitimate arguments against their positions is just fine though. However, people tend to use other factors in order to cover up their trend towards streotyping.

That's a good point, but it's not like many of our previous Presidents proved worthy of the office either.

I do however, think your basis for not voting for a woman is ridiculous. Although I haven't really seen a woman other than Hillary step into the limelight and try to take charge, it doesn't mean they aren't out there somewhere in our Congress. I also believe calling them tempermental is scary. That's a stereotype and fits well in to sexism. I could say that men are more aggressive which tends to get us into wars like the one we are in, but that doesn't make it absolutely true.

reclusivetorrid wrote: I see Dune...my favorite liberal law enforcment officer. :) Listen, about the racism topic I feel the I need to re iterate a simple point. Racism does exist (and I'm not just talking about against blacks). Racism is also a product of the environment, minorities are taught that they are being repressed, and non-minorities are taught (in some cases) to repress minorities. I believe that most of the problem stems from the continued promotion of sereotypical behavior. Simply put, if you want people to look at you as if you are different act, dress, and talk differently. America is supposed to be a melting pot, not a big muddy mess of people that hate their own country. Later

I definitely agree with some of that post.

battlefreak wrote: I agree with evillepaintball I believe if your around a certain group of people long enough, ie: the black people in his school, you may become annoyed by their behavior and notice things you that you wouldn’t when your just around that group for a short period of time. I also believe that racism isn’t the only form of discriminate bigotry, someone who constantly makes fun of or criticizes a person because they are religious or non religious is just as bad. In my opinion its kind of a you me leave alone and ill leave you alone issue.

People can make racist jokes about other groups of people and not actually hate them.

This is quite entertaining, I know I'm keeping Gatyr at the edge of his seat.

Which reminds me to ask, would you refuse to vote for either Obama or Clinton as president solely on the basis of gender and race? I bet there a few of you that would.

e-rok wrote: thats not my religious opinion i was just pointing out a statment from the bible, if i said that to my preist he wouldnt approve apon it, now do you know what i mean when i say if you dont know what your talking about shut the .... up and go away, you want people in the forum to be mature but you keep writing on this post about off subject bull. practice whats being preached and stop whining and whining, go talk about paintball thats why you signed up on this forum, now im trying to be mature so why dont who ever that wants to talk more crap, be imature but the rest of you respected people on this forum let it go while you can still claim to be mature

You're right, the thread needs to return to intelligent conversation. So go ahead and move on, but be careful. You're already on strike 2. For future reference, this is thoughts and opinions, often containing discussions not about paintball. They can get heated, you have to learn to have a cool head and take it on the chin or else you'll just get upset every time someone disagrees.

Seeing how racism still lives within our youth today is ridiculous. It scares me that people actually continue to use stereotypes as an appropriate means to judge people. That is true immaturity.