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Originally posted by PhrozenGenius
Ok people, lets all take a deep breath and jump off our soapboxes for just a second.
It's already a given that the award was insensitive. Arguing that it's ok on the basis that "turnabout is fair play" based on the musings of black comedians is logically flawed at its base level.
The problem here is that we're beginning to play a game of semantics that will get us nowhere in the grand scheme of this debate. Pulling out different nuances in racial banter between different people will not solve the greater problem of anyone's insensitivity towards another minority whether it be social, religious, or (in this case) racial.
In the grand scheme of things this is an issue of white privilege and the reason many of the members of this board don't understand why a black person would get upset by the "Most Ghetto" award is an example of such. They have the privilege of opting out of any form of injustice or oppression that is perpetrated against any other non-white.
To the Chi O who is defending her sisterhood: We understand that it's not the enitre chapter, just a case of a few people in the chapter that didn't think before they acted. I respect you standing up for your sisterhood.
Peace.
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Nobody is saying turnaround is fair play. It's not an issue of 2 wrongs making it right.
Someone's intentions matter greatly. If this was a joke, just like countless other jokes that black and white comedians have made, and people of all colors laugh, it's strange that only this joke (made by both black and white people) upsets people.
hotghettomess.com is a great usage of the word ghetto. It's discussed with fondness in D9 forums.
-Rudey
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