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.

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “racism”

• Glenn Beck’s White Supremacist Guests

  
  NewsOne — Authority: 600
  From The Huffington Post The Huffington Post took a look some of the bombastic host’s past guests and found names steeped in controversy. Beck has hosted, and even occasionally praised, a renowned white supremacist, a devout southern secessionist, a defender of slavery, and a 9/11 skeptic. On October 4, 2007, for ...
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• Arizona Tea Partiers: Neo-Nazis not welcome

  
  The Lonely Conservative — Authority: 594
  So much for Tea Partiers being a bunch of racist Nazis. I’m surprised this episode received any news coverage. I’m sure MSNBC won’t cover it – doesn’t fit their narrative. Well done, Arizona Tea Partiers! Those of us opposed to granting amnesty to illegal immigrants aren’t racist. We welcome legal ...
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• Wal-Mart arrest could head to trial

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 718
  St. Louis, Nov 16 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Heather Ellis switched checkout lines at a southeast Missouri Wal-Mart store three years ago and it simply changed her life. That day a dispute began that reeks of racism too, and if the case goes to trial then heather Ellis could also be looking at a prison sentence for [...]
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• TREASON…TREASON, COLD AND CALCULATED…TREASON

  
  Desert Conservative — Authority: 522
  Submitted by: Marie Woods TREASON   The OBAMA WAY  “Treason is any attempt to overthrow the government or impair the well-being of a state to which one owes allegiance; the crime of giving aid or comfort to the enemies of one’s government,” according to the Random House Dictionary . By that definition, ...
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• Sorry Slate, Islam is NOT Sole Religious Threat in the U.S.

  
  Brave New Wave - Children of a Lesser Revolution — Authority: 437
  In an article for Slate, Jacob Weisberg asks if United States President Barack Hussein Obama has been too conciliatory towards Islam and not taken a hard enough stance against terrorism purportedly carried out under the guise of Islamic duty. Though Weisberg does do a good job in separating Moderate Muslims from ...
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• Honouring The Rage

  
  Womanist Musings — Authority: 651
  As social justice minded people, we may bristle at homophobia, sexism, racism or ableism, however;  what we often fail to do is honour the rage, if it manifests in a way that makes us uncomfortable.  If said rage interacts with something that we have personalized, somehow it is not acceptable and we turn our backs ...
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• "DONT BE A SUCKER!" (1947). HOW ABOUT 2009+?

  
  REAL LIBERAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH — Authority: 128
  Dont Be a Sucker! (1947) "Dont Be a Sucker!" (1947). How about 2009+? Tell it to the banksters who have arranged things so all those common people in the film will have to pay the banksters 23-trillion dollars in additional taxes to bail out those banksters who actually crashed the U.S. economy for just that ...
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• Storm Warnings: Yelling fire

  
  Conservative Libertarian Outpost — Authority: 502
  American balkanization is going full steam. The regional separatism that is unfolding before our eyes is telling. Even the terminology is getting twisted. The term “Redneck” is just one example. It originated in the Appalachian region, and defined union workers. Not exactly your right wing terrorists as the DHS ...
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• But was it terrorism?

  
  AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth — Authority: 156
  I was in a a cab on my way to dinner with my friends Connie, Chris and Dennis, and I heard a rather odd public service announcement from the DC police. It was about the Ft. Hood shootings, and it noted how everyone agrees now that it was an act of terrorism. Really? I caught a glimpse of FOX News the other day, and ...
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• Racism Imposed From the Bench

  
  Stop The ACLU — Authority: 706
  So much for people being judged by the content of their character. Our president was chosen primarily for his skin color; U.S. District Judge Ivan L.R. Lemelle in Louisiana has ruled that the same should hold true for school board members : A federal judge ordered the Tangipahoa Parish School Board this week to ...
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• The Envelope Please: The Self Hating Jew Award

  
  Cafe Intifada! -Uniting Art With Critical Consciousness — Authority: 107
  Uzi Silber and the Jew FluThroughout years of European history, Jews were accused of casting spells, causing illness,  (often not getting sick themselves- usually because the illnesses were caused by the eating of pork and living in close proximity with pigs).   Jews were also blamed for the plague and the death of ...
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• China Confronts Its Racial Prejudices As Obama Visits

  
  NewsOne — Authority: 600
  From the Washington Post: SHANGHAI — As a mixed-race girl growing up in this most cosmopolitan of mainland Chinese cities, 20-year-old Lou Jing said she never experienced much discrimination — curiosity and questions, but never hostility. So nothing prepared Lou, whose father is a black American, for the furor ...
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• JUST CURIOUS: Are British Filmgoers Racist?

  
  NewsOne — Authority: 600
  From HuffingtonPost.com: Universal  changed “Couples Retreat” marketing material for the film’s UK release, and removed the black actors from both the poster’s photo and the list of stars typed out. The film, which features four couples who go on vacation together, costars Faizon Love as a divorced man ...
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• Philly Pool Accused Of Discrimination To File For Bankruptcy

  
  NewsOne — Authority: 600
  PHILADELPHIA — A suburban swim club accused of discrimination last summer after revoking the memberships of mostly black and Hispanic children plans to declare bankruptcy, a newspaper reported Saturday. Valley Swim Club president John Duesler sent an e-mail to club “friends and families” Friday saying the board ...
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• Scandal over UK ‘Couples Retreat’ all-white poster

  
  WagerWeb Entertainment — Authority: 543
  Campaign groups in Britain have taken aim at the Hollywood studio behind recent comedy movie Couples Retreat after two black actors were airbrushed from publicity posters in the U.K. American posters for the film — which stars Vince Vaughn and Kristin Davis — features all eight of the movie’s principal actors, ...
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• Belle de Jour’s Ex-Boyfriend Interviewed

  
  memoirs on a rainy day — Authority: 143
  image via Daily Mail My wife told me that this was pretty scandalous, and I agree. Sex blogger Belle de Jour unmasked herself over the weekend as a medical research scientist with a PhD. Are you shocked? We’ve been talking about this since the news broke and we still can’t really understand the situation. ...
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• Hate Obama? You may not be a racist. But you will be white

  
  Newsvine - Killfile's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority: 142
  The presidents critics are not all prejudiced but the crowd is mutating to the extremes. And we have a bad history on this topic
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• What Has Two Thumbs And Likes Jim Cooper?

  
  Post Politics: Political News and Views in Tennessee — Authority: 629
  This guy .
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• Cool Jewish Events: Being Indian, Being Israeli

  
  Memoirs of a Jewminicana: Aliza Hausman — Authority: 504
  Event: Being Indian, Being Israeli: A conversation with Dr. Maina Singh and Sally Oren Date: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 Time: 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM Place: Butler Board Room, Center for Israel Studies, American University, Washington, DC Mrs. Sally Oren, wife of Israeli Ambassador to the United States Michael ...
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• Racism is Well and Alive at Universal Studios

  
  Evil Beet Gossip — Authority: 625
  Did anyone actually see Couples Retreat ?  I didn’t, but according to my research, the black couple played by Faizon Love and Kali Hawk, had roles that were featured as prominently as the other couples appearing in the movie.  Then why did Universal Studios give them a big ol’ delete off the movie posters as ...
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