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Im not convinced the squirrel is bothered.
I am!
I'm convinced that the squirrel has no concept of racism, immigration, or prejudice of any sort.
Kind of makes ELFImpudence's comment all the more pathetic.
 
His ridiculous attempts at trying to prove racism does not exist was not funny.
Please quote a post of mine where I said that.
Please note ALL of MY posts are still available to view.

Racism is dangerous and divisive to social cohesion and a contemptuous characteristic of some individuals.
Please quote a post of mine where that would apply to me to anyone with a basic understanding of English.
Please note ALL of MY posts are still available to view.

Now that EFLImpudence's definition of racism has been proven to be nonsense,
Please show evidence of that and, if you can, that it was not written by someone only as intelligent as you.

is he trying to suggest that racism is funny, with pathetic attempts at jokes?
No. It was two humerous posts in a thread about squirrels.
You may not have found them so, fair enough, but that says more about YOU.

His pedantry was not funny, neither are his attempts at tivialising racism.
Why would you think that?
My 'pedantry' in trying to show that racism can only relate to things where race is concerned was obviously not intended to be funny.

Incidentally, as you believe racism can apply to things other than race (almost anything it seems), why are more appropriate words not used?
Oh I don't know - xenoism, ethnicism, religism etc.

Then we could reserve racist for racist and it would maintain its true meaning and serioussness - so is it you who is trying to trivialise it?
Please note - Islamist means you are a member of that religion. So the language has been messed up somewher along the way; perhaps that is why you find it so confusing.

Why do you want to dilute the seriousness of true racism by including mere forms of dislike and stereotypical nationalistic jokes?

The Scots are tight - racism? Don't be stupid. Go on - try.
 
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I am!
I'm convinced that the squirrel has no concept of racism, immigration, or prejudice of any sort.
Kind of makes ELFImpudence's comment all the more pathetic.
So, it will be quite happy to be shot by the RSPCA or have its head bashed in.
 
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That was Bas' reply to John re: electrocution. I don't know why it came out like that.


Me:
Perhaps altering someone's quotes is a sign of desperation because you have no logical expanation for the word meaning things that are unrelated to the obvious one.
 
The grey squirrel is an immigrant and doesnt have the same rights as the red squirrel. Its a clear case of discrimination.
Perhaps you think all immigrants should be shot rather than released.
You are taking the discussion into a ridiculous and nonsensical realm.
Animals are incapable of treating each other with prejudice depending on their colour, culture, ethnicity, religion or nationality..
They are incapable of treating some animals with discrimination and giving others preferential treatment, based on their colour, culture, ethnicity, religion or nationality.

If you want to participate in sensible debate, I suggest you learn what sensible debate is first.
Otherwise you descend into infanities again.
 
I am!
I'm convinced that the squirrel has no concept of racism, immigration, or prejudice of any sort.
Kind of makes ELFImpudence's comment all the more pathetic.
So, it will be quite happy to be shot by the RSPCA or have its head bashed in.
Someone else is descending into ridiculous realms and infanities.
Because animals have no concept of racism, immigration, nationality, culture, religion, etc., it does not mean that they are devoid of self-preservation.

I think the direction of ELFImpudence's and Notch's arguments demonstrates the stupidity of those arguments.
 
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His ridiculous attempts at trying to prove racism does not exist ....
Please quote a post of mine where I said that.
You really want me to find one of your posts claiming that racism does not exist?

1. "...but the point is it's not racism if they're the same race. Probably tribalism but can't be racism."
Read more: https://www.diynot.com/diy/threads/more-censorship.466428/page-14#ixzz5b0BauKZ0

2. "Whether it's racism or not depends on the races of the victim and perpetrator. Not difficult is it?
Read more: https://www.diynot.com/diy/threads/...eek-the-year-ever.513490/page-3#ixzz5b0CEoN3R

3. Please don't use 'racism' when it does not apply. You will encourage the hard of understanding.
Read more: https://www.diynot.com/diy/threads/...wr-by-those-who-are-lwr.465088/#ixzz5b0CQZwwu

4. Jews and Palestinians are definitely the same race, so racism between them is not possible.
Read more: https://www.diynot.com/diy/threads/weapons-of-mass-construction.466951/#ixzz5b0CiHrRZ

Need I go on?
There's pages of them.
 
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That was Bas' reply to John re: electrocution. I don't know why it came out like that..
Socially constructed concepts are subject to changing social environments.
The difference of race, between humans is now considered to be scientifically and anthropologically illogical.

Words and their meanings change over time.

Words have been changing meaning — sometimes radically — as long as there have been words and speakers to speak them. Here is just a small sampling of words you may not have realized didn’t always mean what they mean today.​
  1. Nice: This word used to mean “silly, foolish, simple.” Far from the compliment it is today!
  2. Silly: Meanwhile, silly went in the opposite direction: in its earliest uses, it referred to things worthy or blessed; from there it came to refer to the weak and vulnerable, and more recently to those who are foolish.
  3. Awful: Awful things used to be “worthy of awe” for a variety of reasons, which is how we get expressions like “the awful majesty of God.”
  4. Fizzle: The verb fizzle once referred to the act of producing quiet flatulence (think “SBD”); American college slang flipped the word’s meaning to refer to failing at things.
  5. Wench: A shortened form of the Old English word wenchel (which referred to children of either sex), the word wench used to mean “female child” before it came to be used to refer to female servants — and more pejoratively to wanton women.
  6. Fathom: It can be hard to fathom how this verb moved from meaning “to encircle with one’s arms” to meaning “to understand after much thought.” Here’s the scoop: One’s outstretched arms can be used as a measurement (a fathom), and once you have fathoms, you can use a fathom line to measure the depth of water. Think metaphorically and fathoming becomes about getting to the bottom of things.
  7. Clue: Centuries ago, a clue (or clew) was a ball of yarn. Think about threading your way through a maze and you’ll see how we got from yarn to key bits of evidence that help us solve things.
  8. Myriad: If you had a myriad of things 600 years ago, it meant that you specifically had 10,000 of them — not just a lot.
  9. Naughty: Long ago, if you were naughty, you had naught or nothing. Then it came to mean evil or immoral, and now you are just badly behaved.
  10. Eerie: Before the word eerie described things that inspire fear, it used to describe people feeling fear — as in one could feel faint and eerie.
  11. Spinster: As it sounds, spinsters used to be women who spun. It referred to a legal occupation before it came to mean “unmarried woman” — and often not in the most positive ways, as opposed to a bachelor …
  12. Bachelor: A bachelor was a young knight before the word came to refer to someone who had achieved the lowest rank at a university — and it lives on in that meaning in today’s B.A. and B.S degrees. It’s been used for unmarried men since Chaucer’s day.
  13. Flirt: Some 500 years ago, flirting was flicking something away or flicking open a fan or otherwise making a brisk or jerky motion. Now it involves playing with people’s emotions (sometimes it may feel like your heart is getting jerked around in the process).
  14. Guy: This word is an eponym. It comes from the name of Guy Fawkes, who was part of a failed attempt to blow up Parliament in 1605. Folks used to burn his effigy, a “Guy Fawkes” or a “guy,” and from there it came to refer to a frightful figure. In the U.S., it has come to refer to men in general.
  15. Hussy: Believe it or not, hussy comes from the word housewife (with several sound changes, clearly) and used to refer to the mistress of a household, not the disreputable woman it refers to today.
  16. Egregious: It used to be possible for it to be a good thing to be egregious: it meant you were distinguished or eminent. But in the end, the negative meaning of the word won out, and now it means that someone or something is conspicuously bad — not conspicuously good.
  17. Quell: Quelling something or someone used to mean killing it, not just subduing it.
  18. Divest: 300 years ago, divesting could involve undressing as well as depriving others of their rights or possessions. It has only recently come to refer to selling off investments.
  19. Senile: Senile used to refer simply to anything related to old age, so you could have senile maturity. Now it refers specifically to those suffering from senile dementia.
  20. Meat: Have you ever wondered about the expression “meat and drink”? It comes from an older meaning of the word meat that refers to food in general — solid food of a variety of kinds (not just animal flesh), as opposed to drink.

Racism, between humans, according to all definitions, (except out of date dictionary definitions that rely on the out-dated concept of different human races, which modern science refutes) define racism as prejudice/discrimination based on cultural, religious, nationality or ethnic differences.
 
Ok. You tried.

You really want me to find one of your posts claiming that racism does not exist?
Yes.
Also I have been accused of being a racist just because I pointed out something was not racist. Namely that a joke about the French by Transam WAS racist because of a line on a map.

1. "...but the point is it's not racism if they're the same race. Probably tribalism but can't be racism."
Read more: https://www.diynot.com/diy/threads/more-censorship.466428/page-14#ixzz5b0BauKZ0
That is true.
Please point out where that implies or states your accusation

2. "Whether it's racism or not depends on the races of the victim and perpetrator. Not difficult is it?
Read more: https://www.diynot.com/diy/threads/...eek-the-year-ever.513490/page-3#ixzz5b0CEoN3R
That is true.
Please point out where that implies or states your accusation.
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3. Please don't use 'racism' when it does not apply. You will encourage the hard of understanding.
Read more: https://www.diynot.com/diy/threads/...wr-by-those-who-are-lwr.465088/#ixzz5b0CQZwwu
That is true.
Please point out where that implies or states your accusation.

4. Jews and Palestinians are definitely the same race, so racism between them is not possible.
Read more: https://www.diynot.com/diy/threads/weapons-of-mass-construction.466951/#ixzz5b0CiHrRZ[/quote]
That is true.
Please point out where that implies or states your accusation.

Need I go on?
It seems you will have to. You have failed in your quest so far.

For clarity - i.e. I am claiming racism does not exist because I pointed out something was not racist

There's pages of them.
So, none of them does what you think they do.


So, can two people of the same race be racist to each other?
You replied earlier that the troubles in Northern Ireland were in fact NOT racist; they were "sectarian".

Are the troubles between Israelis and Palestinians sectarian?
 
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