[siffyh]

Lately, there's been a 'racist' picture flying around my high school. Now, the reason why I'm making this question thread is because I believe there are two ways to see this picture.




For those of you, who does not speak Swedish, here's the translation:

Sign says: "Terrorist school"

The man says: "Now look carefully, I'm only showing you this once!"

And so we come back to my question, is this racist? The two ways of seeing this picture, in my opinion is:

1. People thinks this is racist because the characters in the comic are obviously from a Islamic country, and it's racist because it targets that one group of people.

2. This is a picture meant to be a joke, against the people who are actually terrorists, and it's a way of making fun of them.


That's just my opinion, but I want yours too! Please describe why/why not you think it's racist

/Siffyh.

[Asuna_mybb_import7736]

The picture is broken, comrade.

[siffyh]

The picture is broken, comrade.

Sorry about that! Fixed it.

[Snipa]

The picture is broken, comrade.

Sorry about that! Fixed it.

You fixed it ? right ...

and about the pic, not racist,
why they are wearing pink shoes ? :lol: imo thats a funny pic because first two guys (from the left) have darker legs than arms ! what the hell ?

[siffyh]

The picture is broken, comrade.

Sorry about that! Fixed it.

You fixed it ? right ...

and about the pic, not racist,
why they are wearing pink shoes ? :lol: imo thats a funny pic because first two guys (from the left) have darker legs than arms ! what the hell ?

I have no idea, as I said, the picture has been sent around my high school, and the principal has taken the school laptops of everyone possessing this picture.

[1llusion]

This is not racist because Islam is not a race. It is a religion.

[siffyh]

This is not racist because Islam is not a race. It is a religion.

I wrote it in a way of meaning that the islamic country, is a country where islam is the head religion.

[1llusion]

This is not racist because Islam is not a race. It is a religion.

I wrote it in a way of meaning that the islamic country, is a country where islam is the head religion.

Yeh, but still it has nothing to do with the race. I just say that because... well... people call 'racist' on almost anything

I don't see anything wrong in the image. Sure, it makes fun of a minority group in your country, but this is what you get for the right of freedom of speech. You can't go ahead calling "freedom" and then expect people to behave exactly as you wish. Everything comes at a cost. The majority of countries refuse to see this though.

[siffyh]

This is not racist because Islam is not a race. It is a religion.

I wrote it in a way of meaning that the islamic country, is a country where islam is the head religion.

Yeh, but still it has nothing to do with the race. I just say that because... well... people call 'racist' on almost anything

I don't see anything wrong in the image. Sure, it makes fun of a minority group in your country, but this is what you get for the right of freedom of speech. You can't go ahead calling "freedom" and then expect people to behave exactly as you wish. Everything comes at a cost. The majority of countries refuse to see this though.

Great reply, and I agree with you at 100%. People see 'Freedom of speech' as something they can use to say anything, not expecting to get consequenses, and when these consequenses come, they aren't expecting it, and in southern Sweden, (where I live) there is a large number of arabic immigrants, and when things like these come out, they tend to use violence on the source, just making people do more of these "stereotyphical" images/posts, not helping to reduce the amount of hate and racism.

[Nailo]

This is not racist because Islam is not a race. It is a religion.

I wrote it in a way of meaning that the islamic country, is a country where islam is the head religion.

Yeh, but still it has nothing to do with the race. I just say that because... well... people call 'racist' on almost anything

I don't see anything wrong in the image. Sure, it makes fun of a minority group in your country, but this is what you get for the right of freedom of speech. You can't go ahead calling "freedom" and then expect people to behave exactly as you wish. Everything comes at a cost. The majority of countries refuse to see this though.

Great reply, and I agree with you at 100%. People see 'Freedom of speech' as something they can use to say anything, not expecting to get consequenses, and when these consequenses come, they aren't expecting it, and in southern Sweden, (where I live) there is a large number of arabic immigrants, and when things like these come out, they tend to use violence on the source, just making people do more of these "stereotyphical" images/posts, not helping to reduce the amount of hate and racism.

edit: waiting for rebuttal