When you hear someone make a racist remark, which emotion do you feel first, anger or sadness?
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ANSWERS: 47
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Anger and disgust. And you know that whoever passed the remark is always a more disgusting human then whoever they're slurring with racist stupidity.
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Anger.
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Anger! Grrrr....
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I just shrug. There have always been ignorant people and therefore always been racist people. No one should allow them to gain any kind of psychological power over them.
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Anger, i tell them my opinion, dickheads
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Both It make me angry for people to put down another race and sad because there so ignorant.
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anger.:)
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Anger.
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Neither. I just assume them to be as ignorant as a person as their opinions on race are. No anger, no sadness, maybe a little pity (for them ofc).
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Ice cold shock runs through my veins then I just get PISSED! I cut ties with that person ASAP. That is the most ignorant thing someone can say and they dare say it in my company?
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Disappointment. I know that person can never be my friend.
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Anger, then sadness and shame for them. And shame for myself too, for allowing myself to be drawn into it at all.
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usually sadness....because I am sad that racism is taught at such an early age but anger usually comes soon there after
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Neither, I think alot of people use racism as a defense for their own race and that is something that I am totally fed up with and it makes me sick. Racism is something that would go away if people of their own race would stop bringing so much attention to their own actions and calling others racist because they aren't agreed with. On the hand when I know someone that is marking a racist remark about another race I still feel sick of it. Why can't this world just stop with the color thing!!!!
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Sadness, then pain, then anger.
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I usually cringe in embarrassment if I know the person. I suppose sadness would be the closest emotion that I feel then.
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Anger or disgust, that they could treat someone like that and feel that it is okay.
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In this day and age.............shock.
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Anger and distrust.
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The first feeling I have is that of deep and profound sadness as a human is being trashed for his ethnicity. Once I have sort of recovered I feel an extreme anger and resentment towards the racist. I must unfortunately state that I am white woman.
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anger...
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anger!!
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When directed at me, boredom or mild disgust, possibly amusement if they are particularly stupid racist remarks. I am pretty used to being the target of racist remarks. I have not received an original racial insult in more years than I know. When they are directed at someone other than me, disgust.
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Anger for sure.
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Anger, definitely. There's simply no excuse for racism. Eventually, I pity the person. But initially, I am too overcome with shock and disgust.
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neither
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anger bordering on rage that somebody feels entitled to spread their
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Anger.
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Usually neither, but that depends on who's making the remark and who it's directed at. I generally don't waste my time getting offended by words, powerful though they can be. I think that if a person knows and accepts themself, racist remarks can be treated like flies and just swatted away!
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Empathy because they should know better. Someone needs to educate them.
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anger
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can I say disgust. I know it's not one of the two choices but that's what I feel.
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I hate to say it, but I hear them everyday. Redneck, honkey, hillbilly, bumpkin, yokel. I have gotten where I just ignore them.
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Rage....
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Isn't freedom of speech a wonderful thing. Who gave you the label of racist. What exactly is a racist.
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I think its funny, but than I would like to punch them after I stop laughing. lol I don't mind being called names. I know im whitey the blue eyed honky. lol -Brad
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anger
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Sadness.
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Anger at the assumption that I won't have a problem with their language. A lot of racists assume that because they think this way that all others of their race think like them, and many times I have had strangers use racist language when talking to me for the first time just because I am the same colour as they are, and they think that I will automatically agree with them.
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Shock and anger. Hatred towards ethnic identity still shocks me, no matter how much I have witnessed it in my life. The sadness comes later, but I get really, really angry when I hear racist remarks.
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anger
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Anger but mostly in a weird way i actually make things seem like its racist. One day everyone who sits by me in science started talking about colors they came across yellow and they were all like i hate yellow. yellow is asian but they werent being racist but when racism occurs i am infuriated
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How many Martians does it take to make SlopkNeptu? Five! One to hold the sprikernok and four to shake the zoopzoop! Sorry, just being a little bit racist.
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Usually shock and confusion first. THEN anger.
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Makes me sad. If I know them, I call them out on it. If I don't I leave.
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Anger, because most racists are smugly convinced of their own superiority.
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Anger!
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