Can only whites be racist ?

According to View co-host Joy Behar, Only white people can be racist - Is this true or false ?

Jimahl, I think you are narrowing the definition of racism to a policy that is better defined as an apartheid state. To counter the argument, as you understand the definition of racism to be, we require a state without a majority population coming from any particular nation of people. I am unaware of such a state. Perhaps the next best solution would be to find any examples of two minority groups segregating themselves along a racial divide. The obvious example that springs to mind would be the demographic compilations of street gangs in the United States. Latinos enbody the overwhelming majority in such gangs as Latin Kings, MS-13. Blacks compose the majority of Crips, Bloods. One could argue that the composition of these gangs is derived moreso by neighborhood affilitions, but then the counterargument to this accusation would be that this is itself another example of minority evaluated segregation or racism. Another glaring example is found in prison society. Aryan Brotherhood being white, Mexican Mafia, Nuestra being latino, Black Guerilla Family being black.

Broadening the question back to how I interpret the word...well I wouldn't call the following examples of mere Racism...but Supremacism:
Japanese vis-a-vis Ainu
Arabian Iraqis vis-a-vis Kurds
Chinese vis-a-vis Tibetans
Zimbabwean vis-a-vis Rhodesian
Israeli vis-a-vis Arabian Palestinian (more an example of ethno supremacism)
Latinos vis-a-vis Indigenous South American Indians
Black Africans vis-a-vis Bushmen.

Taking a look back at the Y haplotype and its dispersal in comparison to the Mitochondrial dispersal, one can immediately see that the human male is a tribalist. I'm neither defending nor demeaning the trait. I believe we do ourselves a disservice by dismissing this reality. I admire you for transcending your boundaries. As you can see, many people find your interpretation of the problem unfair. This is the inevitable result when we institute biased amendments to supplant past wrongs. We only shift the weight to the other side.

NO IT CANO'T

The sad fact is most view it that way. The truth is there is racism coming from all races. The only difference is and I know people are going to take this how they want to but it is true. I am not being racist when I say it either. You can not have a whites only anything. You can have any other race only anything. If you have a whites only it brings back the thoughts of segregation. It is accepted in society for someone to say cracker, honky, white trash, redneck...ect. Yet the numerous other slurs towards another race is not. So given the outlook here I think that only white people can be considered racist as a whole.

Everyone can be racist. It is basically prejudicial attitude and behavior toward people of a given race (or institutional practices that subordinate people), I mean technically you can be racist towards your own race...

The reason it doesn't seem ok for white people to be racist but for other people to be racist towards white people, is because they are the dominant group in the U.S. (I.e. are the majority in number atleast for now, hold the most power, money etc...). Ofcourse that doesn't make it ok, but I guess that's just how some people see it...

Reverse racism exists, but it is usually just the persecuted minority responding to the controlling majority. Generally it is the controlling majority using their power to put down or limit the socio-economic standards of the minority.

But no matter what, we should not be looking for answers from the hosts of the View. While I think she is technically correct, her statement does nothing but further divide people.

Other races can definitely be racists. Honestly, you don't hear about as much, but its out there.

That may be the most racist comment I've heard. She's suggesting that non-whites are incapable of judging a book by its cover? She'd be horrified to hear some of the slang terms that are used for whites, by people speaking languages other than English. I have strong connections to at least 3 other racial minority groups and trust me, there is strong prejudice against whites, that comes from all three.

Whether you like it or not, humans are tribal.

Andyburton,

Excuse me but are you saying that only those who aren't as good of a believer as you are the only racists? Because if you are, you are wrong and you're a jerk.

If you didn't mean that, please explain it more simply so your message is clear.

EVERYONE IS RACIST IN THEIR OWN WAY.. (LITTLE OR BIG)..

I personally, cannot stomach those paleolithic Irish potato eaters. Give us a break with all the Guinness, Celtics, Notre Dame, deifying already. Go back to Erin you Erin go Braggarts. Bobby Flay is not the second coming of St. Patrick no matter how much air time the controlled media give him. That solifuges time in the sun has been up for a while now. Why, on this earth, the Anglo-Saxon People didn't put up that Irish Need Not Apply placcard on the Statue of Liberty, like Eiffel advised, I'll rue to my last breath.

Don't you dare dis my guiness!!!

1000 pardons.

Please...put that shillelagh down...no need to resort to violence. I swear to St. Patrick, I'll kiss blarney smack on the a$$ if you give me a three step head start. You can keep the gold.

Anyone is capable of racism. It makes me sick when people say only caucasion people can be racist. I dont even like hearing the term reverse racism because racial discrimation against anyone is exactly the same thing. I went to school with a lot of pacific island students and the truth was, they were more racist towards the nz european students than the other way around. For the most part, everyone got on really well, regardless of race but there were a few students who were very judgemental and yet they couldn t see that they were being racist because they had the mistaken idea that because they were not white, they were incapable of being racist. I think everyone just needs to stop judging people based on race. We're all the same no matter what colour our skin is. When it comes down to it, why do we seperate ourselves based on race anyway? The way we look is determined by genetics! I could have more genes in common with someone from Africa or Asia than a european.

ok your right

There is no such thing as reverse racism. If white people hate black people just because they're black, it's racism. If black people hate white people just because they're white, it's racism.

Racism refers to ANY race feeling prejudice towards ANY OTHER race. It does not simply refer to whites. Therefore, no such thing as reverse racism exists.

The definition of racism from dictonary.com:

1. a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human races determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one's own race is superior and has the right to rule others.
2. a policy, system of government, etc., based upon or fostering such a doctrine; discrimination.
3. hatred or intolerance of another race or other races.

Now if a minority race is being subjugated by the majority race, do you think the majority is practicing racism against the minority? Seems pretty clear that they are based on all three of these definitions.

Now, if the minorty hates the majority due to that subjugation, is that exactly the same thing as the majorities racism? I say no. The only definition that possibly fits this scenario is the 3rd one, but not really. Their hatred is not based on race per se, it is based on the minorities experience and treatment by the majority. If it weren't for the racism directed at them, there is no reason to believe they would themselves feel any hatred toward the majority.

There is a BIG difference.

Jimahl, I agree with your points but were they directed at a particular answer or the original question?

In a nutshell you're saying that racial minorities are not racist when and if their complaints about whites are based on the way they feel they've been treated by whites. Of course there's a big difference.

But aside from the repression factor, non-whites are surely capable of being truly racist and not only towards whites. Do you agree?

I think I was answering the original question, as well as the discussion in general.

Yes, any person from any race can be racist, in the right circumstance. But in general, racism usually emanates from the majority, not the minority.

no!!! everyones is racist in their own way but not in a mean evil way but a lot of people are not racist where they won't tlk 2 people except their own race

miscegenymiser, I did not narrow the definition at all, and it is not MY understanding of it. I provided the exact dictionary definition. There is no abiguity as you are trying to suggest. Appatheid is just a form of government based on racism, and not the definition of racism itself.

Your socialogical comparisons to criminal gangs and prisons do not represent any corellation to society is as a whole. I find that rather ludicrous.

I guess there are other types of segragation that have nothing to do with supremecy of one group over another, but just a desire to be apart. But that is not what we are talking about. That is not racism. Racism is about control and supiorority.

Yes, some people think it unfair to seemingly give blacks a pass when criticizing whites, but not vice versa. That is because of how some people try and represent the argument, like you have just done.

Biased amendments? Such as? Should nothing be done to correct a wrong against a minority? A wrong that has prevented the minority from having access to the same educational, social and economic advanatagesl as the majority.

Definitely. I have seen a ton of African Americans say how much they hate whites. Watch the Jeffersons, and you can tell George is a racist, the black Archie Bunker.