After a number of incidents at my work, it has ended up that a comment about an ethnicity making up a majority of people in a specific town (and i'm sure a number of unrelated issues that are also minor) has casued someone claiming four other staff members to have made racist accusations aimed at her. As such, currently a **** storm is kicking off, one that has shaken the majority of people I work with up and actually me as well. This matter wa poorly dealt with and has come with the accussation that someone could lose their job over this just tells me how deceitful and inable parts of management (and people in general) are. What I want to ask is, when is the accusation ofracsim really appropriate? Is every case dealt with fairly or openly? (From this issue I would say it defiantly isn't, but maybe you disagree.) Does calling someone a racist technically consitute racism? Please, discuss.
Bringing up someone's racial background when it's not you're own can for very stupid reason be seen as 'Racist' which it really shouldn't if the race of someone is the best way to drawn positive attention to them (This is why it's stupid as long as a person's race is brought up, another person can class it as being racist, no matter if the comment is nice or not). But to answer you question; When is the accusation of racism really appropriate? When someone turns around and show hated for everyone of one race, hating just one person for a different race is only a low level of racism when the race card is played for that one person, I'll admit I turned around and called a black girl 'Black head' when I was 12, but I don't hate black people for being black, I don't see the point in hating due to race (But I understand how some people can). Is every case dealt with fairly or openly? No, no it's not for what I've said above, a lot of people can by hyper senative(sp) to stuff like that, so everything can been classed as racism to them, even if it's not. Does calling someone a racist technically consitute racism? I think this is a 'It depend' question, if you know for sure that someone is racist, then no I don't think it is, but I think it is, if you say everyone of one race are racist, because it's impossible for a whole race of people to be racist, since everyone, even in a group of like minded people think differently.
