You are right- I didn’t explain myself clearly enough. Of course white people do face stereotyping, but from individuals, not really from the state and the media, which is what I should have said.

Da-Dah!

Rumbold – I see where you are coming from there. But I think that this skates a bit close to confusing race and religion. The attacks mentioned in the article are, I would suggest about religion with a racial overtone. There are, of course people who have asked me as a white person to apologise for white people’s actions in empire.

There is also a point that the article (possibly by intent) looks at this in a rather limited way. I know several people who loathe orthodox countries, and a racial aspect in that type of situation would me much harder to draw out.

SE (30) – ‘You really must be fucking stupid to not realize that white people are a majority, Reverse racism is fucking bullshit concocted by the fucking conservatives.’

I suspect you are just fishing for responses there, regardless I shall deign to indulge you on this occasion.

Do you feel better now you have got that off your chest?

The same percentage as are working for Hamas’s publicity machine.

Amusing. I very much doubt anyone here is being paid to post stuff.

“Since this stereotyping doesn’t happen to white people, most people don’t really give it much thought.”

Very amusing way of putting it. stereotyping doesn’t happen to white people, really? i think i have an inkling of what you’re getting at, but i wouldn’t phrase it the way you have. for most certainly there are stereotypes about ‘white people’….didn’t you know.. just like there is about any other group.

but what i think what you are talking about is that people notice and point out differences. in an attempt to exclude/flag up difference. that’s the whole point of ‘groups’ after all, tradional cliquey groups – emphasise the similarities to feel ‘in’ and the differences to those who aren’t in. what do we think this fuss about defining britishness is about if not the same sort of thing? Some groups will say they are doing it for ‘positive’ cohesion purposes, and some will say that that cohesion comes at a cost of the exclusion. who knows.

so, in a group, what is the commonality between the majority, doesn’t get pointed out. what is the difference, between ‘them’ and others – in a loose grouping -does. think how music sub-cultures seek to differentiate each other.

So because here, ‘white’ people are the majority so that commonality between people, doesn’t get pointed out/thought about. Differences, in that group – do. So class for instance. chavs – stereotype about a particular ‘subset’…toffs..country bumpkins, so on and so forth.

Similarly, if you grow up in a muslim society, for example, the fact that you are muslim, doesn’t get ‘thought’ about, by the majority, within that majority. we focus on the next ‘axis’ of difference. along.

nice isn’t it.

so..i take it ..you haven’t you heard that much about the stereotypes about ‘goras’? I’m sure you will soon..:-) (“they” don’t wash is prob. the no.1 stereotype. of course some just think of this as Truth, not stereotypes). white men only want sex, is another stereotype one hears quite a lot (always told to one by some ‘well-meaning’ indian man with a waggle of the eyebrows. indian men not being interested of course.

ashik can provide a few more no doubt.

Why do you persist in mentioning Derby, Nottingham and the fact that you know him, if for no other reason than threaten?

In fact your threat is implicit in one of your posts.

Rumbold dealt robustly with a very similar situation and deleted such comments and gave the person in question quite an earful. Can’t recall whether expletives were involved.

Rumbold, can you please have word with Beavis. This is becoming too regular an occurence with him.

White people can of course be victims of racism. But they (or rather, we) are not stereotyped in the same way. When was the last time a white person in Coventry was asked to apologise for white person’s crimes in Norwich?

You never know, if you can get just one person to stop the hatred and tribalism, imo its worth it.