And I dont know when they stop being friends and allys and start being self important PC snobs or isolationists, paranoids, or worse, racists,sexists, homophobes themselves.
From what my silly white ass can tell, it's usually real fast.
lately i've started to really feel that people seriously need to loosen up. it's completely ridiculous to suspect that the mailman intentionally didn't deliver a letter b/c it's from a jewish organization, unless he has a lot of evidence to suspect so. notice i said "mailman" and not "mail-person". i also think that politically correct terminology is seriously detrimental to making any real change. you can say "african-american" instead of "black", OR you can actually deal with breaking down racism in society. i used to get really pissed off when people said "that's so gay", but lately i've realized that most of the time, people don't actually mean it. it's when they DO that you have to call them on it. and it's more important to deal with what causes these underlying prejudices than to point fingers and yell at people for not watching their language. if someone really hates gay people i'd rather they admitted it and attempted to justify it than be forced into silence so that their bigotry could never be exposed. i don't give a shit
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There's definetely a lot of over-PC-stupid going on. Especially at Brown. A lot of the stuff those people say is downright hypocritical, and appears to be argued on the basis of "if you disagree, it proves that I'm right and you're evil!" As a human being, it offends me when this stuff is said about people of ANY race, of ANY gender; racism isn't defined as "...except against whites", nor sexism as "...except against men." (And let's not talk about how much that kind of "logic" offends me as someone going to college here
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I must say that by saying "there probably wasn't a dog" you put yourself in the same shoes as the father who is paranoid of the post office. The problem with racism is that people are so goddamn paranoid of offending someone else. We all look for someone to give us or owe us something in life. I've heard it called "The United States of the Offended" because we seem to think that we have the right to go through life without any conflict whether it be socially, racially, econimically, etc. The truth of it all is that shit happens and it shouldn't be blamed on "-ism". It should be blamed on the broken nature of our humanity.
Adam, I often find myself agreeing with you. Especially at brown where people seem to get offeneded by the wind blowing ("did you notice how it blows harder at people of color??"). And I also find that when you're so worried about either being the target of or being accused of some "-ism" that its much harder to form bonds with people different from yourself, which to me is a terribly sad loss
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From what my silly white ass can tell, it's usually real fast.
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As for Vagenna's comment, i agree.
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