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Originally Posted by theapportioner
Not to mention, you lumping people into broad, sweeping categories such as 'asian' or 'hispanic' is also racism, I would say.
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See, there you go. Literally, racism is making distinction between people of different ethnic groups. There's a thing practically everyone does. But would you agree with me that the word has been given a severely negative charge over the past fifty years or so? That is why I believe it shouldn't be tossed around so loosely. It makes it easier for people to be tempted to use it for their own gain. Let's reserve the word for when people are actually preaching negativity towards other races, and not everytime someone just uses the word "race". Focusing on, and searching for racism in everyday life seems to me only to sustain difficulties between people of different races. Fight it when it needs to be fought and don't go out looking for it.
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Political correctness is nice, but it's easily turned into a stranglehold.
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This is fucking crap. No one is burning down your house, or mutilating your genitals. All you are asked to do is change a few words you use in everyday language, and be a little more sensitive towards people who are sensitive to racism for whatever reason. Stop complaining. |
Unscrew your ass. Why is it perfectly OK for a black man to make jokes about specific qualities of white people, but a white man can only make jokes about black people as long as he's praising their enormous penises or ability to dance? Because white ancestors did atrocious things to black ancestors, white people now have to bite their tongue for a few hundred years?
Before you throw a fit and start screaming HATE CRIME, hear me out:
Lighten the fuck up. How are we ever going to beat racism if we're actually so scared of other races that we're afraid to talk to them, about them or incorporate them into our life at all? It's not just racism that's my issue here - people take political correctness of all kinds too far these days. The moment you start examining something for "undertones of hate" or try to ban something because it
might offend a group of people (particularly if you don't bother questioning representatives of this group about it), you take political correctness too goddamn far. FUCK political correctness. Let's make a good joke about Mexicans and if there's any of them around that feel offended, there's always the good old well-meant "sorry."