Could a blind person be racist?

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Odd question I know, but saw some pictures online suggesting that the alleged racist at the Liverpool match was/is in a wheelchair. Which somehow got me thinking: could someone blind (from birth) become a racist?

What's being blind got to do with being in a wheelchair?

Of course. It is indeed an odd question to ask.

This, but also, yes, because racism isn't necessarily about how someone looks, it is a perception that someone is lesser because of their background or cultural heritage.

For example you could be racist about somebody's accent.

Is the pope catholic 🙄🙄

What makes you think they couldn’t be?

Assuming this is genuine, of course, because the mental process that goes into a comment, whether verbally repeated or seen or heard is still racism.

take a very basic level of understanding. Think of the language used.

Nothing, I guess I was surprised that the racist fan was disabled (for no logical reason) and somehow my brain segwayed to blind people.

Don’t answer 😂😂 Please! The poster has a sad sad little life (Jane) Just report.

Perhaps the OP is considering that visual characteristics are frequently the basis for racial discrimination. A blind person obviously wouldn’t experience that characteristic. Thus the thought that they would / wouldn’t discriminate on that fact. Surely that is pretty clear from the OP?

Most definitely. As someone else said, it’s more than just how someone looks. Often “typical (insert race) bastard. Thieving rats the lot of them.” etc.

Yes, that's what I was thinking, thanks Hot Tired Dog.

I do understand what you mean. I’m a big football fan and it’s been floating around online about how on earth could he be racist when he faces so much prejudice in his own life?! But it’s obviously just hatred.

I do think a blind person could be racist because it’s about thinking, not just seeing. Racism is prejudice due to race, which anyone can have.

I was really thinking specifically in terms of skin colour. I should have been clearer

A persons accent, vernacular, name etc can all give big clues to what their ethnicity is. Blind people pick up the same negatives from the media, family members etc that people with sight do.

Isn’t assuming someone either would or wouldn’t be a racist based on their disability pretty ableist? Thinking of the disabled individual as primarily defined by their disability, and not a complete and complex human being?

This is how I read the OP.

But I will say of course they can, just as much someone can tell you that the sky is blue, they can also tell you that a person from X background is bad because of this and that. Racism isn’t just a given because of what someone looks like - it’s learnt because of your environment and content you consume about that characteristic. It’s like when children of nursery age don’t perceive differences, colour or what someone looks like doesn’t come in to it, it’s layer in life that the way they feel about it is shaped.

Also, you can be racist towards a traveller, but to the naked eye they could look the same as you. It’s what you think of that culture is what would make you racist.

Less than 5% of people registered as severely sight impaired (blind) see nothing at all. Many blind people have some vision. But also, racism isn't just about visual characteristics. So yes, a blind person can be racist.

As a visually impaired person myself it really annoys me when people assume blind means no vision at all - like many things, it's a spectrum.

Apologies, no offence was meant. Really my post is about those blind from birth and with concept of colour.

Yes
eg hearing accents they associate with different races that they then deem to be bad. The speaker could be white but the negative racism would still exist. If that makes sense.

• no concept of colour

I don't know of any, but a blind person could be racist because racism is an ideology, a set of beliefs. You don't have to be able to see colour to believe that certain cultures are inherently "inferior" etc.

A friend down the road is blind you saying this , she is in a wheel chair , she has nothing wrong in her thinking , l don't think she is racist but hears on the news about the usa at the moment and hates usa residents to how the rich treat the poor, disabled, and pensioners, so don't know , l suppose freedom of thought