Atheism and racism are quite separate. In my experience, people living in China and Russia are commonly quite racist and a significant proportion would also be atheist. However, people who are inclined to question things and live in places where religiosity is expected, may question both religious and racist beliefs.

Usually Atheists are a lot more intelligent than the rest...so, racism isn't an issue for us.

I come from a town where the kkk marched through the streets with signs calling for the death of Oprah when she wanted to come down after hearing our segregation "laws" ended in the late 80's.
We had a bronze plaque on our court house lawn that read "nigger don't let the sun shine on your back in Forsyth county" that was taken down in the late 90's. They passed out kkk and white supremacist recruitment fliers in my highschool.
Basically if you are black and it's dark in my home town, Good luck. At least that's how it was. These days it's not nearly as bad. Just a bunch of old racist white people and their less racist hick spawn.

Now I'm white. I have a Dutch mother and a father who was never around who is half white and half Arab. But I look white.
I consider myself somewhat racist. A recovering racist if you will. Even though my mother was married to a black man in the 70's and is dating another black man now.
Even though I have many minority friends and have dated many dark colored women. I still have subconscious and even conscious racist tendencies.
I'm 24 and I still have these thoughts.
But to answer you're question.
Most of the atheists in my hometown are like me.
Will stand up when someone is being overtly predjuced and try to better themselves.
It's a weird thing. I don't want to be racist. But I am :/

yes sometimes atheists could be more evil than religious people. Especially if they are communist.
some of atheists don't believe in religious rights or in Individual freedom.

I think atheists are more open minded in their attitude to people, having no inbuilt bias for any particular group or sect. Having no atheist church, means each atheist thinks for themselves and is not influenced by the prejudice of religious dogma. Which accounts for quite a bit of inter-racial strife.

I believe that atheists usually have arrived at atheism by examining their own minds and conclusions. Atheism is not taught as a belief as other religions are. The reasons atheists do not join together is because they have not been taught faith. They believe in their own minds and abilities to distinguish bias. In my past, I realized that I could not love or respect a god who demanded allegiance above all as in the first three commandments.

I don't believe that atheists are as racist as religious people. They have at least one less bias to begin with. In addition, atheists usually have arrived at their decision by themselves and each has slowly realized that they are individuals and respect others for that reason.

I am origionally from the Netherlands. Many people are agnostic or atheist there. Churches are closing. People are running away from religion. Most racism there came from the religious people. I moved to the US in 2010. People are way more racist here and way more religious. Makes you wonder if there is a relationship between religion an racism.

Religion is a practice that teaches its students to accept things as truth without proof, it even teaches them to find proof where none exists.

That, itself, is the definition of prejudice.

I'm quite certain that if you asked any mental health practitioner worth their salt, they would confirm this.

It is no surprise the religious are among the least intelligent and most uneducated, and often lack critical thinking skills and are accustomed to 'not seeing the obvious'.

Now, religion aside, it is also not uncommon for people to have a difficult time understanding that words, especially those describing the non-corporeal, can often have many multiple, non-congruous definitions, and have a very difficult time responding appropriately to certain ones, especially words with religious backgrounds, and especially if they are emotional about the topic.

Agreed. The most prejudiced people I've met so far are Christians.

Atheists all over the world have a very similar worldview, as do theists. The difference is that theism almost always evokes the idea of superiority, and that transcends to all kinds of hateful layers of thought.

Absolutely not.

I think not . Atheism offers a level playing field to all.Most causes of racism can be traced back to religion.

I don't think any particular group has the racism market cornered, so nobody is instantly off the hook, but it does seem that those with an in-group mentally are more likely to be conservatively religious. I try to take people as individuals, not as representatives of their group, so I don't tend to lump all Christians or members of other religions in together. Until someone shows me their true colors, I make an effort to reserve judgement.

Most racial arguments that I have heard are Biblical arguments. When there was great controversy around the civil war and during the early 60s a big part of the racist arguments were in fact religious. Slavery is never, not once, condemned in the Bible. The folks that wrote books supporting slavery around that time used the Bible more effectively than those who opposed it for the simple fact that the Bible does support it. The Bible also fosters a us/them whoever is not for us is against us attitude that quickly can take on a raciest bent. Atheist also tend to believe in evolution which treats us all as one species. In light of that, no I don’t believe that atheists are anywhere as racist as religious people.

No because they are more intelligent as a whole.

I'd say for the most part non-believers are less racist simply because we've educated ourselves, which tends to make most of us more liberal, hence, we actually believe in equal rights and treatment for all. Sure there's some exceptions, but most of the hate comes out of conservative/evangelistic ideas of white male supremacy.

I would be surprised if they were.

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Of course they can be as bigoted as anyone on the planet. Fortunately, it seems that the numbers are small and they don't seem to be in the public eye much at all. Part of that may be because of education, but I think the largest reason atheists seem to be accepting of all is the mere fact that they have not only rejected the god thing notion, but all the trappings that come with it in the form of religions. Rejecting that, it seems to me, also means rejecting all the nonsense regarding 'chosen few', 'superior moral ground', 'my god's thingy is bigger than your god's thingy', etc.

Here in Georgia there are more religious people than anywhere else I have lived. There are also the most openly homophobic and racist people. I think that atheists tend to be better critical thinkers, which is why we understand that race doesn't define a person.

I'm not sure there is a real correlation here. I have met many racist assholes of both theist and atheist leanings. The simple fact is that everyone has their own racial biases built in. No one is the perfect "anti-racist" ideal.

My feeling is that the average atheist is less racist as the average theist.

I think without the entitlement of religion, racism doesn't have as firm a hold. There are of course notable exceptions. The typical racist's argument is god intended them to be the superior race.

People are people. All can be and are racists. However, religious people are told to be racist as a way to gain immortality. I feel most racism is based on some sort of dogma.