Curried Goats
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Which people? What I see are people and society becoming more and more tired of racism and less interested in the opinions of people wanting to dismiss the fact that racism exists.Because that is exactly how it sounds when they say it. We’ve been hearing and seeing people screaming “racism” over the last ten years or so for the stupidest reasons and people are getting tired of it.
Your hate for innocent words that express the sentiments and feelings of minorities was more than obvious.As for the word “microagression” itself, I in fact hate the term, just as I hate the terms “woke” or “tone deaf” or any idiotic fad phrase they come up with to make themselves appear more hip and virtuous than they are.
Of asking to touch black women's hair and making people feel strange and less than because of the color of their skin? That's because that is mostly white people. If you knew more black people you'd know this.These videos notwithstanding, the concensus seems to be that only whites are guilty of this. They are not.
As I said if your kids loud observation was that the person was fat, and was going around commenting on people's weight you'd talk to them about that and explain why it was inappropriate.So they hug it out. So what? Like I said, in the scenario in the video, there was no reason to lecturing the kid about microagression when all he did was make the observation that he was darker than his mom.
So now you're the arbiter of what makes other people embarrassed and uncomfortable? Maybe you're fat and so you more easily empathize with that scenario but it isn't different for black people when they are emphasized as different from what white people consider the "normal".Completely different. Obesity is a source of embarrassment for many people, skin color is not. At least, it shouldn’t be.
Even if they were friends with the overweight kid you don't think that kid would be uncomfortable with your child commenting about their weight? You wouldn't talk to your child in that case and explain why that's insensitive? I'm failing to see the difference other than your empathy for the over weight and your lack of it for minorities.You’re talking about an entirely different situation. You’re talking about kids blurting out shit to strangers in public. I’m talking about kids interacting with their friends who are from different races, cultures and countries.
I'm talking about the video, not about how some random black person hurt your feelings.I never suggested anyting like that in regards to the video. However, I have encountered that type of thinking right here on this forum. There are actually blacks (and to some degree, whites) who seriously believe blacks cannot be racist. Which of course is bullshit because I was the target of black racism once.
Sorry if reality hurts your little feelings.This is precisely what I’m talking about: “...as long as WHITES refuse to listen...”
Not what I said at all. My family is from Jamaica and I'm Chinese, Indian and African ethnically. In Jamaica there is this rude and insensitive thing where black Jamaicans call every Chinese man and woman Mr or Ms. Chin. Doesn't matter what their names actually are it's just a thing that Chinese Jamaicans get called all the time. Something my chinese jamaican mother used to get called all the time. That's uniquely cultural to Jamaica. I understand racism exists everywhere in varying degrees and forms. It just happens in this country its mostly white people asking to touch black peoples hair and asking people who are not white what they are. That's a question I got asked a lot growing up and my reply was always the same, "American". It did make me feel less than when white people didn't see me as American and something foreign. I was born in this country, I'm as American as anyone else.That remark right there tells me you think whites are the only reason we don’t have racial harmony and in so thinking, ironically, YOU are also part of the problem.