4th October 2004, 7:35 PM
Quote:Wha... of course they can! Unless you have a different term for the same event when the people are the same color?
I personally do not, but the English language does. You cannot be racist towards your own race.
Quote:racism
n 1: the prejudice that members of one race are intrinsically superior to members of other races 2: discriminatory or abusive behavior towards members of another race
Quote:All I'm saying is that society, by and large, was much different back then than it is now and we can expect things like this from that period. We could probably debate whether or not the characterization of the Japanese/Germans/Italians as being patently evil helped the war effort in American, but, yeah, it probably wasn't exactly a good thing to do.
That's like saying that the KKK were alright because back then peope just didn't know better.