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I like these. If I'm looking for a racist ass, I know right where to find one!
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So, what's so horrible about them showing their true colors? Are we better served by stomping down any evidence of racism that manages to see the light of day so we can pretend it doesn't exist?
I have often thought the same thing. George Carlin had basically the same thing to say about this situation: hate the person, not the word.
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Two thoughts:
I would object to letting it fly, due to how it might make minorities feel when they see stuff like that. I think of some of the young minority children I know, and I can't handle the thought of them having to deal with more of that.
I suspect we're all around people who are racist to some degree, and I don't favor hating them. Once you hate and reject them, you've given up any possibility of influencing them. kj.
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Keep it alive by finding and keeping every last and final vestige of it plastered everywhere you possibly can.
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i'm against racist crap like that, but people of color need to stop using that word, too.
don't ban the word - learn from it.
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Sticks and Stones, children...
I was called "Honky" and "Mick". So what ? Do we assume those with more melanin are somehow less proud of who they are, and have to be babied and protected from negative apellations ?This obsession is merely left-handed racism, IMHO.
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cbelt3 wrote:
Sticks and Stones, children...
I was called "Honky" and "Mick". So what ? Do we assume those with more melanin are somehow less proud of who they are, and have to be babied and protected from negative apellations ?This obsession is merely left-handed racism, IMHO.
Those appellations are not okay and if they are spoken around me I generally let people know I don't want to hear them used. When words are used to demean or dehumanize a person, it is almost always better that we speak out against that use. But not all words carry the same symbolism with them. Calling someone "four eyes" because they wear glasses is meant to demean that person but it doesn't have the same weight of history of bad things behind it that some of the words used to describe Jews for example. The "N" word has a long and terrible history of discrimination, repression and violence behind its use and that makes it much more unacceptable in my opinion when it is being used to demean a black person (or anyone).
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cbelt3 wrote:
Sticks and Stones, children...
I was called "Honky" and "Mick". So what ? Do we assume those with more melanin are somehow less proud of who they are, and have to be babied and protected from negative apellations ?This obsession is merely left-handed racism, IMHO.
This is a very disappointing statement from you. Something tells me you never had this problem growing up:
