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Originally Posted by kane
Ask yourself this question. If you could say racist stuff and there would be no repercussions for your words would you do it? If the answer is no, then ask yourself why you give a shit what others can or cannot say because even if you could do that you wouldn't. It's like wanting to be given a crate full of cottage cheese even if you hate cottage cheese.
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Do I say racist stuff? Sure. 99% of the time it's in jest. My reasoning there is I don't want to treat those from a different race any different than I treat someone from my race.
Stereotypes are funny. Sometimes because they're so ridiculous, other times because they're eerily accurate. We've lost our sense of humor today because we're so afraid of offending everyone.
If people focused more on celebrating themselves and, dare I say it, their cultural DIFFERENCES, the world would be a much better place. But we want to pretend that whites, black, asians, etc etc are EXACTLY the same. We should all be TREATED the same, but culturally we're different. I'm not saying any culture is better or worse than the other, but they ARE different. Instead of trying to deny it, we should all celebrate it, acknowledge the differences and learn from each other. Until we do, we're never going to achieve any semblance of unity.
When we can do that, the fear of the unknown will go away. And that's pretty much the basis for all racism...fear of the unknown. It won't happen in my lifetime, or my kids. Hopefully one day it will, but at this point, I'm not very optimistic.