How to deal with racists?

"That's your opinion"

"We all bleed red"

racists taste good when slow roasted,deep fried is good to but all that oil ick

I'd say 'thats not very appropriate'. And leave it at that.

If one of the older ppl at work does something (not racist, but goes through a procedure improperly or wrong) I say 'you know better than that'. It's a nice way of saying 'dont do that'. I feel like I'm coming down on them, but it's true.

It's actually a form of harassment, I hate to say it cause it is pretty dumb and childish. But people can be reported and repremanded or whatever for it.

I recently read that in some classes/courses I just took, and it's come up in a few tests. In Ontario there's policies and procedures to follow. I personally wouldn't report it, or do or say anything, but as far as the government here is concerned, you should.


I live in a town with literally <5 black people, I can't stereotype them. One randomly comes to the bar, never drinks (only coca-cola) and is super cool. And I worked with one of the other ones (i didnt really like his work ethic), the last 2, one works with children and one's a doctor. So I stereotype them as normal human beings.... Sorta like everyone else in my life I've met.


For the most part, every race has someone hard-working, lazy ugly, smelly, smart, attractive, strong, weak...etc. etc. etc.

Being somewhere small isn't really a good excuse to conclude ALL such-and-such people are like that.

I used to stereotype that all smurfs were happy, but along came grumpy smurf.

Being a white, Christian conservative, I hate racists.

Jesus was a Jewish guy from the backwoods part of Israel who hung out with prostitutes, tax collectors & sinners and was more concerned about their soul than the color of their skin.

^^THIS

My family looks like a UN peacekeeping force - we have English, Slovak, Ghanaian and Pakistani.

To be honest, it is the Pakistani part of the family who are racist, don't know what that's all about.

I live in a redneck town where if you are brown you are automatically mexican, and if you are "yellow" you are autimatically chinese. It's full of extreme conservatives who feel like since they are white and christian, they can say anything about anyone they feel is beneath them,

so i told him since hes white he must play his banjo in his trailor white the cousin he married is in the kitchen making possum suprise..so yeah, i need a WAY more tactful way of handeling the situation.

IRONY! Get yours while it's hot and fresh! That is not how to do it.

^ +1 :]

She was trying to show him how silly he sounded saying racial slurs about someone...anyone!. DUH!


Some people...thick as s***!

No need for that! Now waddle off & untwist your knickers, dear.

Yes, actually there was a need for that. I'm sure you haven't experience racism time and time again on a regular basis as I (as someone of mixed race in a small town in Pennsylvania) have. You are just squawking, my frustration comes from day to day life. You don't even know how life in the US is for a minority in small towns filled with ignorance.

Racism exists everywhere. Well this also happen here in Manila, Philippines where I live right now although I know most Filipinos won't admit it but there are really some who are racists who make fun of Blacks, Indians & Chinese. I'm half Filipino-Mexican & my father's side family background is Spanish (Andalusian to be exact) but sometimes I hear negative comments especially among the brainwashed people about Hispanic people & mestizos being stereotyped as snobish, corrupt elites or traitors which are really offensive. Although I try my very best to be good. There was a time where some of my classmates even went as far as not considering me a Filipino at all because of my family background or simply because I don't look like an average Filipino.

I'm also wondering how to do it. I find it really tough to handle this thing because in my case it ruined my self-esteem, ego & my sense of belongingness which is why I don't have much friends here in real life & instead those I consider my true friends I found online, mostly Latinos.

I get that, but I don't get why you would hit back at a racist with a racist/culturally derogatory comment aimed at them & not aimed at yourself if you mean it in a witty comeback way. It just seems wrong to fight one racist comment with another.

'No, then you don't get that. Read it again.

She didn't hit back with a comment against them... she ran it down with a deprecating comment about herself. SHE was from the inbreedin', banjo-pickin' holler. She tore herself down as a way of saying that she didn't understand what would be so great about her upbrining and hometown as to make her write off a whole race of people simply based on how they were born. It just so happened that the racist in question shared her background - just not her capability for introspection.

There's no point where she turned to the racist and said "Shut it, hillbilly." That wouldn't work... 'cuz then the hillbilly just puffs his chest and wraps himself in Ol' Glory and says, "Yeah, I AM a hillbilly and I make this here nation great with mah Toby Keith songs and monster truck jams!" And then he's beaten you by doing exactly what I suggested.

You're never going to change most people let alone an old racist.

Either learn to deal with the ever-present bigotry or move. That'd be how I'd see it if I were in your position.