racism

Racism is the belief that genetic variations among human beings, especially those pertaining to skin color, serve as the basis for the superiority of one race over the other. It is grounded in the prejudice and belief of racial hierarchy and justified with pseudoscientific claims.

The greatest crimes against humanity, including genocide and the Holocaust were motivated by racist ideologies. Racism, then, typically results in violence, intolerance, and in its most extreme forms, death and mass extermination.

Bloggers fiercely debate the concept of racism as controversial issues such as reverse racism and its role in affirmative action programs speak to the heart of our interactions within the workplace and the economy’s influence in our lives. For bloggers, racism is a very sensitive topic as we all identify with a race or combination thereof. Thus, to discuss race is to potentially include one’s own biases into the discussion.

Original Technorati articles tagged “racism”

• in Politics
  Ron Paul versus Racism
  How to unplug the media frenzy.
  by insteadofpolitics / on Dec 25, 2011
• in Politics
  Anti-Christian Rabbi Uses Tebow To Espouse Hate
  Leader of the Temple Beth El in Stamford, CT, pens hateful missive on Tebow, Christians and even the South.
  by sdgully / on Dec 14, 2011
• in Politics
  Jesse Jackson Slanders the Truth
  Jesse Jackson finds racism in Newt's simple stupidity
  by robeiae / on Dec 13, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “racism”

 

• Racism Report: Africans in Israel

  
  P U L S E — Authority: 458
  David Sheen‘s devastating report for the African Refugee Development Center (ARDC) on the mistreatment of asylum seekers in Israel was submitted to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) on January 30, 2012.
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• On Conservativism

  
  Bitter Harvest — Authority: 120
  Another word word for conservativism is “ separatism ”. If you look at the world today, you see both the world from bygone years, and the world of tomorrow. For all through human history there have been those forces,  in the human condition, that have sought to maintain a kind of singularity within various ...
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• The Learning Network Blog: Feb. 1, 1960 | Black Students and the Greensboro Lunch Sit-In

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 866
  On Feb. 1, 1960, four black college students, Joseph McNeil, Franklin McCain, David Richmond and Ezell Blair, sat down at a "whites-only" lunch counter n Greensboro, N.C., and refused to leave after being denied service.
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• Wednesday link roundup: lost in translation

  
  The Plaid Bag Connection — Authority: 112
  Australians and Americans should not be learning foreign languages? Chris Berg argues in The Age that Australian students’ interest in … Continue reading »
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• Migration Board employee: “Your baby looks like Saddam”

  
  IceNews - Daily News — Authority: 424
  A man working at the Swedish Migration Board is to face disciplinary action after telling an Iraqi couple that their baby looks like Saddam Hussein. The administrator, who has worked for Migrationsverket for 30 years, also admits assaulting a female colleague after she reported him for making racist remarks. The ...
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• The Most Powerful Photos Ever Taken

  
  The Urban Times — Authority: 499
  Last Sunday evening, I saw a post on Reddit, asking users what the most powerful photo they have ever seen is. It became flooded with scenes of liberation and compassion, but also with scenes of war, terror, and everything which makes us question the world around us. I selected just 6, of the hundreds of [...]
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• Liverpool thought the racist gesture was a highlight of the Manchester United game

  
  Off The Post — Authority: 500
  Liverpool have apologised after they used footage of a fan making a racist gesture towards Manchester United defender Patrice Evra in a highlights package on their official website. A spokesman for Liverpool FC told the BBC: “We can confirm that footage was mistakenly included in the highlights package that appeared ...
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• For those still harboring illusions...

  
  Upper Left — Authority: 114
  Bill White , Commander, American National Socialist Party... (Ron) Paul is a white nationalist of the Stormfront type who has always kept his racial views and his views about world Judaism quiet because of his political position. It takes a Nazi to know...
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• White Woman Sentenced to 100 Months for Lying on Black Men

  
  EUR This N That | Urban Black News Blog — Authority: 466
  Historically, there have been cases where white men and women have committed crimes and have used black men and women as their scapegoat out of harm’s way.  But only now, are those that commit these awful crimes being brought to justice.  Bearing false witness is a horrible injustice that victimizes the black ...
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• Republican Book Burners

  
  Politics Plus — Authority: 468
  Images of Fahrenheit 451 come to mind, so I imagine today’s Republicans will not be the last book burners.  Supply-side pseudo-Christians burned the great Library of Alexandria.  The Nazis burned books that did not support their devious ways.  Here in the US, we have the Republican party, and sadly, Joe McCarthy ...
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• Open Thread–1/31/2012

  
  Politics Plus — Authority: 468
  Yesterday, I wrote a letter to the Parole Board on behalf of one of the prisoners I serve.  I also worked on the website of the non-profit group behind my prison activities.  I made a big kettle of rice and beans.  It is responsible for the green cloud that proves I support green energy.  I’m [...]
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• Joke Of The Day

  
  Evaluation — Authority: 126
  Barack Hussein Obama was travelling in China. In a remote village, he came upon an elderly Chinaman skipping stones across a lake. At each bounce of the stone off the water, the mountains surrounding the lake echoed back, "CHING...CHANG...CHUN..." Obama was amazed. He asked the Chinaman what was going on. "Oh", ...
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• Songs about the Asian diasporic experience

  
  The Plaid Bag Connection — Authority: 112
  The Sociology Source teaching blog has started a new section called Sociology Sounds for songs that can be used as … Continue reading »
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• In Klansas, Anchor Baby Nazis say, “No Food for You!”

  
  Reconstitution 2.0 — Authority: 115
  The REAL Uhmuhricuns of Klansas have a two-pronged approach to ridding their lily-white society of those foul brown stains. You may remember the proposed first part of that approach, which would be to shoot them brown vermin from helicopters, as proposed by Jesus-loving Klansas Rushpubliscum Virgil Peck. Part II of ...
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• Quote Of The Month: Special Stephen Lawrence Edition

  
  Ambush Predator — Authority: 498
  From Richard at Going Fast, Getting Nowhere : "The publication on national television of covert videotapes showing the accused behaving in a racist and violent manner in their own homes (is it even legal to do this?) which, while causing revulsion in anyone who saw it, was not criminal in itself, and was not evidence ...
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• Post Of The Month: Special Stephen Lawrence Edition

  
  Ambush Predator — Authority: 498
  So January brought us the conclusion to that travesty of justice, the on-going Stephen Lawrence murder retrial. Many, many people in the blogosphere were concerned at what it cost us as a nation to put these two men on trial again, and so weighed in with good, thought-provoking posts, among them Angry Exile , ...
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• The TAM Airlines’ Story That Went Viral On Facebook

  
  Value Investing — Authority: 440
  TAM Airlines is one of the largest airline for both Brazil and Latin America. Their headquarters are in São Paulo (Saint Paul) the largest city of Brazil. They provide scheduled services to destinations within Brazil, as well as international flights…
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• Racist Afrikaans language pack to stay in Minecraft for now

  
  LazyGamer .:: Console and PC Gaming News ::. — Authority: 130
  A racist language pack in the hit game Minecraft is going to have to wait to be fixed
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• UK NEWS: MAN ARRESTED AFTER MAKING MONKEY GESTURE AT PATRICK EVRA DURING MAN U VERSES LIVERPOOL FA CUP

  
  MAD NEWS — Authority: 120
  59-year-old man caught making monkey gestures at Patrick Evra during yesterdays FA Cup A 59-year-old man has been arrested after a picture was posted on Twitter showing him making racist monkey gestures during the FA Cup Manchester United verses Liverpool game yesterday. Tensions were high as the two  clubs were ...
  3 days ago

• Liverpool fan arrested for racist gestures – Video

  
  Off The Post — Authority: 500
  After the race row surrounding Liverpool and Manchester United this season, everyone was hoping that yesterday’s game could just pass without any unsavoury incidents. And then this pr*ck turned up. In the first game between the two clubs since the result of the FA verdict that banned Luis Suarez for eight games ...
  3 days ago

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