Article: Racism still alive: Mujati

Former Springbok tighthead prop Brian Mujati has accused South Africans Heinke van der Merwe and Steven Sykes of making racist remarks towards him in a pre-season rugby match between Leinster and Northampton Saints in Dublin, Ireland on Friday.
 
Its a rugby match, and he was on the opposing team.

The context is it was psychological warfare, and you know what Brian.. it worked... you obviously cracked..
 
It's good to see that the rich culture of always starting by defending any potential white racists is still alive and well here at myBB.
 
alf101 said:
Name calling is usually childish.

In sports it's called sledging.

Brian wants to go cry to his mommy.
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I don't actually know if this was racist or not. It's worrying though that the white knee jerk reaction is to claim the negative.
 
Well if you look at some of the photos floating around the net with images of Mugabe as a baboon or depicting Miss South Africa as one as well; the offensiveness behind calling another black person a baboon increases.
 
So then if a black player called a white player a honkey you wouldn't be outraged by the remark? Quite a few threads in this section reflect otherwise.
 
alf101 said:
Yes, we know what the black man's knee jerk reaction always is.
race card...
race card...

shame I'm black. :(

It will only change when black people become proud of their race and immune to insults.

If you're fat and somebody calls you fatty, what is your reaction?
If you get upset then they'll keep taunting you.
If you laugh and it doesn't bug you, they try something else...
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It's still hate speech or should people get over that too?
 
alf101 said:
Why would a white person be upset by that?

Please call me one, I don't find it offensive at all.

I don't see it as hate speech, I'd just think you are childish.
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Unfortunately people not everyone is as thick skinned as you. Like the player who took offense in this story or Afriforum against Malema.
 
alf101 said:
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I have heard of "white guilt" before, not something I suffer from, but it must be an extremely rare case where a white person is offended by a racist remark.
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Well thats the great thing about being white. We're hardly ever judged by the colour of our skin, unless of course you are freckled and ginger, then you must be burnt with fire :D
 
R13... said:
Depends on the context.
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Depends on your understanding of the term and personal bias as well.

bush-monkey1.jpg


Bush characterised as a monkey was never racist. Why? Because of his race. That idea is also thus racist.

So we have a paradox.

The correct idea is that he was characterised that way because he looked like a monkey and arguably wasn't particularly smart. Which means, in order to not be racist, anyone who looks like a monkey and isn't particularly smart could be called a monkey.

Ironically anyone who responds that calling them a monkey is racist is assuming a lot, and is just an assertion. We have to judge people by the same standards, what if he looks like one and isn't smart? Is it then okay?

If it is still not okay, then where you when GW was characterised as a monkey...

See the problem.

Playing the race card is just stupid, it has to be warranted.
 
Fudzy said:
Well thats the great thing about being white. We're hardly ever judged by the colour of our skin, unless of course you are freckled and ginger, then you must be burnt with fire :D
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Whats the difference between a ginger and a brick?

Bricks get laid.

PS: IS A JOKE ADMINS!
 
Fudzy said:
Well thats the great thing about being white. We're hardly ever judged by the colour of our skin
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Absolutely true. The next question is why?!?!

The simple fact is that "white Europeans" and Asians have a fundamental difference to most colored races on the planet and we're only now starting to realize what that is (within scientific circles) and why the idea of "white" makes such a difference (TIP: Skin colour is barely an indication these days, but still has a significant correlation leading to a Pandora's box of biological differences that range from the immune system to cognitive processing etc.). Racism is genetic, and anyone that argues against that is either in denial or has the mental capacity to push cognitive dissonance aside and be "politically correct" by suspending their instincts, either consciously or subconsciously.
Those differences aren't catastrophic though since actual speciation has never had a chance to occur within Homo Sapiens Sapiens. In fact, it's actually better to breed with someone that's from a different human race since the probable genetic variances could actually lead to a more genetically "robust" being by thwarting bacteria and viruses that have evolved alongside a certain human race for eons.

Unfortunately, we're a long way off from having a honest discussion about this. I do hope one day we'll live in a world where people can get over their self inflicted issues and create an economical and social structure that takes advantage of the fact that there are differences within each race that make them better suited at some tasks than other. In other words, there's no such thing as "better", there's just "different", which could either mean better or worse based on the task at hand. Of course, there's always exceptions, which makes my idea pointless and unfair as a generalization. Flawed, but relevant.... I guess.

I just don't know anymore... Give me a new idea, give me something I haven't considered before. Give me something I can process and think to myself: "This will make everyone happy." No-one can and has done that yet. Until then, I'm unimpressed and bored.

Damn my ancestors for having sex with a hot, preteen Neanderthal.
Hug a Boesman. :D
 
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alf101 said:
How is calling somebody a baboon racist?
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Blacks are often referred to as monkeys/baboons as a reference to the belief that they are an inferior race or subhuman or lower on the evolutionary chain.

Have often heard this term being exclusively applied by Afrikaners on black people, with no doubt about the implication or intention.

White people in general must remember that just because they were forgiven, where they come from hasn't been forgotten. 200 years of oppression doesn't change in 20 neither for the oppressed nor the oppressor (active or passive)


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nadimm said:
White people in general must remember that just because they were forgiven, where they come from hasn't been forgotten. 200 years of oppression doesn't change in 20 neither for the oppressed nor the oppressor (active or passive)
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Please go into a bit more detail about 200 years of oppression and just where it happened.
 
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