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Originally posted by KSig RC
There's no sort of history behind these supposed white racial slurs. Your views are implicitly flawed by ignoring this fact.
FACT!
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Exactly.
Let's get married.
The bottom line: there can't be a "double standard" when you're comparing two totally different situations.
Side note: As a white woman, I don't give a flying bleep if somebody of another race calls me a cracker because guess what? The fact that their racism is going to affect me significantly in any way is slim. Most non-whites in America don't have that luxury if somebody uses a racial slur against them, and it's a reminder that racism against them is still a part of their daily existence.
No, I don't approve of every aspect of this situation . . . for example, I think calling these guys up and threatening to beat them up is hardly an effective way to go about changing things. But on the other hand, it was their own stupidity that got them into this mess. So I'm not too inclined to feel sorry for them.
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Originally posted by PM_Mama00
I STILL don't know the history of blackface. I had a Pursuasion Speech class in which all we talked about the whole semester was civil rights protests. Never learned abotu black face and every little thing that is offensive. Now I know it's offensive, so ok. But alot of people don't know that it is offensive.
What do you expect teachers to do? Teach every damn thing that is offensive to people? Students would be in school for a lifetime.
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THIS is exactly what I'm talking about. It's not the school's responsibility to educate you on every little thing that might be offensive. It's your own damn responsibility.
Seeing that you've been on GC, you've read threads on blackface, you've even contributed your opinion to threads on blackface . . . but you admit you don't even understand the history behind it? Yet blame your teachers for your own ignorance? Despite the fact that you've been exposed to it, and apparently formed an opinion on it despite not researching it whatsoever? WTF?
Seriously, I give up. I don't understand isht like that at all and I kind of doubt that I ever will.