“It’s a joke!”
A racist joke is still racist. Racism is bad.
“If you don’t like it move back to China!”
Emma and her parents were born in Wisconsin, also they’re Korean.
“Reverse racism!”
I defer to this response.
“Why does everything have to be PC!”
Because it would be really wonderful if people didn’t proudly hurt other people, every day.
“Get over it!”
Racism isn’t a cold, or a fear of clowns.
“I lived in Hawaii, I’m more Asian than you!”
1) Living in a certain place doesn’t remove you from society.
2) Ethnicity isn’t obtainable.
“My sister in law is Asian and she makes these jokes all the time!”
See “It’s a joke.”
“Freedom of speech!”
People reacting negatively to racism is not a violation of the 1st amendment.
“There are starving Africans!”
AKA “The Fallacy of Relavite Privation” There are bigger problems, agreed. But the solution to this problem is you not saying/doing racist things. Super easy fix.
“It’s not like Asian people aren’t racist too!”
So, if my cousin Jerry jumps off a bridge, does that mean…?
“I even dated a Japanese chick!”
Dating a certain person doesn’t remove you from society either.
no, durandal, the left says it is against racism and sexism; but does not seem to mind it when it is directed toward groups it presumes are all “privileged”. I also tend to notice the groups that are still allowed to be vilified tend to not be over all supporters of the left.
You mean the rich and the religious right? Perhaps if they’d spend less time trying to persecute other people and more time minding their own business they wouldn’t be on the receiving end of so much vitriol.
Remember everyone- these days striving to treat people equally regardless of their demographics means you are racist and sexist. Only if you are a white guy though. This whole discussion can be visualized as a flow chart that all comes back to 1 decision box- are you a white male? If so, you are racist.
Amen CW (which I can only assume stands for “Clearly White?”)
The oppression started as soon as I was born a white man. They trampled my rights by asking me to learn. They spit on my heritage by asking me to grow. OUR LIVES SUCK!!!
“If you don’t like it, go back to _____.’
Funny how white people so often forget their own immigrant history. A Native American could tell you, If you don’t like all this PC stuff about racism, then go back to ____.
The problem with racist jokes is usually not that they’re racist. The problem with racist jokes is that they’re usually unfunny and lacking in insight. The same goes for sexist, homophobic and whatever other jokes people might take offense to. The jokes are probably the best way that we have of dealing with these scourges where there’s at least some hope of something productive coming out of it. The whole eyes pulled apart thing is both racist and unfunny. But it would likely be hilarious if an Asian person did the opposite thing of opening his or her eyes especially… Read more »
I once heard a comedian, can’t remember who, say that the worst thing you can call a white person is “racist”. It’s like the n-word for crackers. Makes it very hard to tell someone they’re being racist if you don’t want to start a whole thing but thems the breaks. it’s getting hard out their for the racists.