Comments on: “Gingerism”: Racism Towards Those with Red Hair

By: Allison

Allison — Tue, 25 May 2010 17:17:39 +0000

You are seriously mistaken in claiming that ancient Egyptians sacrificed redheads. I am a docent for the ancient Egypt exhibit at a world-renowned natural history museum, and as an Egypt scholar and a docent, I can tell you there is little evidence that supports the practice of human sacrifice in the many stages of Egyptian religion. There is absolutely no theory or evidence that ancient Egyptians sacrificed redheads. As for the implied notion that ancient Egyptians were racist towards redheads, the Pharaoh Ramses II had red hair, which is visible on his mummy. I implore you to check your facts before you make outrageous claims about a culture’s religious practices or way of life. It is incredibly disrespectful, I’m sure you understand why.

By: ErikTheViking

ErikTheViking — Wed, 19 May 2010 18:45:06 +0000

There’s definitely an ingrained hatred in Anglo-society against people with red hair; I haven’t heard about it in non-English speaking cultures. This, as well as the Celtic population existing in Northern Ireland and Britain, indicates that the Celtic population came from the Vikings in the Norman Conquests prior to the northern Ice Age; the red hair and freckles of the Vikings– chiefly the leaders like Erik the Red etc.– clearly played on the fears of the Britons, sending them into panic so that they fled without even putting up a fight, and these have clearly persisted through the centuries to the point where now the red-haired minorities will be mobbed against, just like any hatred.

This hatred is just like any other, and it should be treated the same way– it’s true that double-standards are hypocrisy.

By: DontWorryAboutIt

DontWorryAboutIt — Wed, 19 May 2010 18:34:35 +0000

So it seems that it’s only wrong to hate people on the basis of color, as long as that color is some shade of BROWN.

Also this notion that blacks and Jews etc. should be protected because they “had it worse,” is like saying that its only wrong to rob those who have been robbed before, and it’s no big deal if you steal from those who haven’t been robbed as much.

Obviously such hypocrites have a few brain-cells missing if they can’t figure out that wrong is wrong; a “hypocrite” is someone who only PRETENDS to be doing right– but 100 years ago he’d be lynching blacks and hating Jews with the worst of ‘em.

Likewise, those minorities who demand double-standards of protection are just as bad. It only gives bigots a license to oppress the unprotected.

By: Dontworry

Dontworry — Fri, 14 May 2010 04:24:24 +0000

By that logic, it should be politically correct to name-call, defame, exclude, degrade and run down hate blacks, Jews, Asians and everyone else, as long as you don’t treat them any worse than you treat redheads.

However since this isn’t the case, then clearly it’s politically-correct hypocrisy.

By: Kevin Armstrong

Kevin Armstrong — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 18:48:43 +0000

The double-standards show that it’s not about right and wrong, just popularity– i.e. they love and hate according to whether it’s POPULAR to do so– and they make up REASONS for it later. Blacks? Slavery and the KKK. Jews? Holocaust. Asians, Indians and Arabs? “Tolerance.”

So we see that American “tolerance” is just one big hypocrisy, since underneath it all it’s just one big popularity-contest, with a bunch of rationalizations to brazen it out.

By: Katie

Katie — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 03:06:07 +0000

i am in love with a ginger; he’s adorable

By: Norwegian Redhead

Norwegian Redhead — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 19:06:03 +0000

I have been teased while growing up for having red hair yes.
altho always being stronger and with a vicious temper it stopped.

I have never ever been turned down by a woman for being a red head tho and i would laugh at them if they did.
i occasional hear the red heads have no souls thing from south park but i generally just reply with something like and thats why im going to take yours or something

i see you`ve added jesus there as a red head wont comment on that.
but since he is there you should add a God of far greater awsomeness there and that would be Thor the Norse thundergod.
he was said to have red hair and beard.
he was also known as red Thor.

By: Demian

Demian — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:03:45 +0000

Red haired people are actually in the true seat of human power. This is subconsciously sensed by those less fortunate than us. It is our ability to see through other people with just a glance, which causes others to feel violated by our very existence. They are afraid to admit that it is our brilliant sensitivity which shocks them. They prefer to pretend to themselves that we are freaks. This is the ugly duckling scenario. But the light of truth illuminates for us so much more, in even our darkest moments, than they will ever have the ability to see.

If other people’s hair was the color of blood, they would be able to claim they had good circulation to their brains as well.

Alas. It is only us.

Don’t mistake our kindness for weakness.

By: MeMyself

MeMyself — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:22:30 +0000

I get SO sick of the hypocrites who rationalize double-standards saying “it’s not the same as anti-semitism or racism because redheads didn’t have slavery or the holocaust blah blah blah” etc. A hate-crime happens to YOU, not your goddamned ancestors!

By: Kevin C

Kevin C — Fri, 01 May 2009 21:43:10 +0000

Carrot top, pumpkin head ,devil hair , I ve been picked on bullied since I was a little kid. Being a teenage boy with red hair was pure hell . yuk you have red hair I wont go out with a guy with red hair. I had a old polish women that would chase me out of my buddy yard because I had red hair DEVIL BOY DEVIL BOY . Sound like fun growing up. Red hair is cuted when your 6 but not at 16 . Now im 55 and I still hear hes got red hair he looks like a trouble maker . I got bullied by a co worker at age 50 . sound crazy but I had to go to the company manager to get this idiot off my case because I had red hair . any one else have the same thing happen to them .