Right/Left Wing- whos more racist?

[Zardnaar]

A stereotype has right wing people as more racist probably due to WW2 and the Nazis who are associated with the right. In your experience whos do you think is more racist and why? I classify myself as right wing and although I think the left regards itself as liberal in my experience the right is less racist on a personal level. My beliefs are ore in line with the individual which I judge on a case by case basis. I also have an odd group of friends who I play cards with and have been around to my house this week. The group includes.

German
Canadian
Taiwanese
Sri Lankan
Korean
American

No one gives a crap about where they come from but we do give the Taiwanese guy crap about being asian- as opposed to the crap we say about each others mothers and sisters and sexual preferences. Basically we're all being guys. I also live with a Vietnamese flatmate.

The left over here seems to be dominated by two types. Academics and trade unionists who seem to give lip service to don't be racist but don't seem to include different racial groups that much in their social activities. At university here it is full of white people and the trade unions are dominated by polynesians which work togather alright at the political level but not so well at a social level.

Politically the left is more inclusive IMHO while the right is less racist at the social level. This is only my experience. Also after last years elections the parties here drew stong support (usually 60%+) from.

National (rigth wing) white males, asians/indians, business people
Labour (left wing) women, polynesians, trade unions.

 

[puglover]

Why do we always have to measure racism and balance it out with affirmative action and regulations? Why can't we just treat both sides equally and not point fingers?

 

[Perfection]

Frankly I don't care.

The variation of racism among people classified as left or right is just as great as humanity as a whole. Such spectum-centric reasoning does not concern me.

 

[malclave]

Neither side can claim to be free of racism. Any effort to determine which side is "more" guilty will, no doubt, lead to the thread's closure.

 

[.Shane.]

Can we quit making grossly overgeneral, negative assumptions about such broad groups of people?

Especially, given that "leftwing" and "rightwing" vary dramatically from country to country, I don't see this as being a discussion that will yield much at all in the light of positive dialogue.

As I've asked in other threads... Are there any INDIVIDUALS on this forum or just people who actually enjoy being part of a stereotype?

 

[FriendlyFire]

To far to the left = communist
To far to the right = facist

same difference

 

[malclave]

Are there any INDIVIDUALS on this forum or just people who actually enjoy being part of a stereotype?

Hmm, I don't see that answered in my latest talking points memo. I'll have to send the question up and get back to you.

 

[.Shane.]

Hmm, I don't see that answered in my latest talking points memo. I'll have to send the question up and get back to you.

ROFL, it definitely feels that way sometimes!

More seriously, I guess I'm just surprised at how many people here seem to get hung up on tying their identity to some interest group or stereotype. While I realize that if someone read my posts they might dismiss me as this or that, I'd never pigeonhole myself in the first place. I don't see myself as left or right. I don't see myself as gay or straight. I don't see myself as black or right. I just see myself as an individual and tbh, I don't care much beyond that insofar as people don't force me to choose sides.

 

[Elrohir]

That's far too large a generalization to make fairly. There are racists on the right, and racists on the left.

 

[sysyphus]

Racism isn't so much a left or right thing as much as an ignorant bastard thing.

 

[CaptainF]

I started a thread about this a while back.

I don't know really.

 

[History_Buff]

Niether is anymore racist than the other, as it's too wide of a field to make generalization. I care way more about your Socio-Economic position than what color your skin is.

 

[Tycoon101]

Exactly as the others have said. Niether is more racist. It is only when people say that they are not racist when you find that they are the most biased of all.

And that biased description is fairly right. I WOULD like to become a Fascist Dictator and clean this world up, No offense to anyone else.

 

[Commie #4522]

I cant believe this is actually being discussed. that's like asking who is more anti-Semetic, hitler or Al Gore.

Hitler is always known to be an anti-Semite theres no doubts about that, just like the right wing is always known to be racist (KKK, neo Nazis, hate groups are all right wing, duh), while Al Gore isn't.

Seriously how can this even be disgussed? left wing always tries to help minorities while the right seems to always oppress them and always focus on a white domination of politics.

 

[Tulkas12]

I cant believe this is actually being discussed. that's like asking who is more anti-Semetic, hitler or Al Gore.

Hitler is always known to be an anti-Semite theres no doubts about that, just like the right wing is always known to be racist (KKK, neo Nazis, hate groups are all right wing, duh), while Al Gore isn't.

Seriously how can this even be disgussed? left wing always tries to help minorities while the right seems to always oppress them and always focus on a white domination of politics.

Al Gore's dad voted against the Civil Rights Act. He is the domination of white politics. I think you have been mislead. Its neither and it doesn't matter. What matters is that we try to offer equal oppurtunities, not favored one way or another. Bush has more minorities in his cabinet then Clinton ever did. This isn't the point though, the point is that opinion is opinion.

Some of us equate Hitler with the left by the way, this is because the two extremes become intermingled with each other. The Nazis were a socialist party after all.

Socialism has changed and Al Gore certainly isn't his dad, and probably meant well towards minorities. My argument was that he was seeing them as minorities and not as americans or just people.

 

[Tulkas12]

A good point regarding this might be that currently, both extremes seem to be sharing the same racist world conspiracy. Neocon-jew one about 9/11. So my geuss is that centrists tend to be the least while the closer you get to extreme would tend to be more and more racist as you got closer to each other in the politics circle.

 

[Archbob]

Its up to the individual, not political divisons.

And Chuck Norris is the most racist, Chuck Norris only cares for Chuck Norris.

 

[CurtSibling]

Both right and left elements can be perfectly wicked when they choose to.
I think commies and fascists are not so different from each other.

Both use violence and intimidation without hesitation.

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[bhsup]

Collectively, I would have to say that leftist policies are more racist, but you can't make that apply to the individual people. They are deluded into thinking affirmative action is actually a good thing for minorities when it is actually a very racist policy.

"You're <insert any minority group here> and incapable of succeeding on your own, so we the government are going to give you assistance so that you may have a chance against the superior white people". That's affirmative action in a nutshell.

 

[Gingerbread Man]

To far to the left = communist
To far to the right = facist

same difference

I agree.

Left and Right seems to be an over-arching label we use to judge people that we don't understand, or don't know. If we were all categorised by the ways others see us, there would be to boxes - "commies" and "nazis".

Too many people think that the group of people that they don't belong to is the lesser group. Maybe we should realise that there are good and people in every box before throw it in the skip.