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Originally posted by sugar and spice
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.
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.
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I agree... I don't believe Sugar and Spice was saying that you need to read the book on the history of the N word or research things...or expect the school to teach you.. (because they aren't going to) she's just saying to stop and think before you say/do something, no I don't think it's acceptable for racial slurs to be used against whites either, however I agree with S&S here that if more people actually saw cracker as an insult it would be off the airwaves in a heart beat (it's mainly white men who rule the airwaves) most people I know could care less if someone called them a cracker and see it as kind of a joke word, although all may not... my suggestion is if it offends you say something or no one will ever know and as Elle Woods says if you don't say anything, you'll be in for a really bad hair cut.
I'm sorry but I don't see how anyone can not see that Blackface is offensive. If you were overweight, and some skinny guy padded himself up in some crazy funny exaggerated looking way (which is what blackface looks like, exaggerated and "funny") and said that he was being you for the mixer woudln't you be offended ?