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Racial Microagressions
- Thread starter Joe Nerve
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I just imagine that someday, when you are all grown up, you will look back with embarrassment at how much effort you are wasting just to be noticed.
You seem to know me very well. Which is strange, considering we've never actually met.
I think a discussion of microagressions is good. People who want to be sensitive will think twice before saying things. People who don't will just stay the way they are. From my experience, responding to microagressions is a pain because the offenders just think I am being too sensitive. I find it is best to simply ignore insensitive people unless they really get out of line.
At the end of the day, microagression awareness is just people working to create a more polite and thoughtful society. There will always be pushback because there will always be people with bad manners.
At the end of the day, microagression awareness is just people working to create a more polite and thoughtful society. There will always be pushback because there will always be people with bad manners.
To be fair, it does happen, and it's no more right than when it happens against minorities. That in mind, it should just be labeled as racism and not reverse racism.
It's HILLARIOUS, that if your not a minority it's a lesser form of racism. I'm white and I'm a minority.
I hear ya, but you can kinda see why folks might feel that way, can't you?
Sorry, I must have confused you with the guy bragging about how crass and confrontational he has to be in order to accomplish things.
Yea maybe 10 years ago this was acceptable, but you had your fun, you had your upper hand, you had your labeling everything one sided racist, I paid my for the sins my ancestors did against yours, NOW can we actually be treated equally? Or was that not the point all along?
Vintagefiend
I don't care for 410 cabinets at all.
yes.
Ok, that's fine. I don't care what people like that think of me anyway. If someone isn't capable of ascertaining the major fundamental differences between a reality-based perspective vs. a rhetorically-based perspective, then I don't care what they think of me.
Most people who spend time with me, really enjoy my company. But some people don't like me. People with egos don't like me, people who over-exaggerate their own intelligence or their own importance don't like me...and to be honest, I can do without all of these people, anyway.
So, I guess...it's mutual??
You really feel that everyone who has experienced racism is holding you personally responsible and they are doing it for fun?
Vintagefiend
I don't care for 410 cabinets at all.
It's a common phenomenon amongst those involved in 'racism'; because the afflicted's issues are very much their own, and each side actually identifies with the names being used and the accusations being accused.
Vintagefiend
I don't care for 410 cabinets at all.
To be honest, there are several interesting ones on there, and some out-and-out racist commentaries. That being said, I have a few interesting observations.
- I have red hair and am very fair complected and wear kilts. It's pretty obvious that I have celtic ancestry, and on occasion I have been asked if I like to drink Guinness (I do), and if I speak Gaelic (I do - a little). It's my heritage, so I learned about it, and take a great deal of pride in it. So someone asking someone who may be Japanese if they can read a Japanese character isn't out of the norm, IMO. It's expecting that other people know about the cultures from which they came. If you're too lazy to learn about your family's past, that's fine. Just don't get pissed if someone poorly articulates a question with regards to your ancestry.
- Then again, "So, what ARE you?" should be replaced by, "I'm curious? What's your ancestry?" Less of a challenge and more of an invitation to discuss.
- I was told by a black man that I played pretty good funk bass for a white boy. I told him I play pretty good funk bass for anyone, not just white boys.
- I've also heard people who'd never seen us before were worried that the dance band I played in had a white rhythm section, and were surprised that we grooved as well as we did.
- I think it's weird for ANYONE to listen to Carrie Underwood, not just a black girl.
Bás saor, roimh shaol daor.
And the name of your band is, Average White Band? (Scotland)
So basically it's not about being equal
In fact it's about retaliation, so minorities can get away with more racism because there the underdog,
In fact it's about retaliation, so minorities can get away with more racism because there the underdog,
A strange new world! So fanatically obsessed with being squeaky clean accurate and politically polite with race, religion and sexual orientation, while the whole world moves ever closer to complete chaos and anarchy.
I can't figure it out!
I can't figure it out!
It's actually quite simple. First, respect yourself. Next, show that same respect to others.
DONE.
Vintagefiend
I don't care for 410 cabinets at all.
YAY!! world's race problems solved for eternity!!! All we need to do is spread the good word!!
(this is what I meant when using reality in place of idealism)
OK, so now I was bragging too? Again; you don't know me. At all.
Anyway, I have no interest in going back and forth with this. I come across to you as an immature attention seeker. You come across to me as a self important blowhard who takes things way too seriously. So we'll just leave at that I guess.
But you know what? At least I'm able to see that this is the internet, and if you and I were to meet in the real world, we'd probably both see that we're wrong about each other. Hopefully.
To be honest, there are several interesting ones on there, and some out-and-out racist commentaries. That being said, I have a few interesting observations.
- I have red hair and am very fair complected and wear kilts. It's pretty obvious that I have celtic ancestry, and on occasion I have been asked if I like to drink Guinness (I do), and if I speak Gaelic (I do - a little). It's my heritage, so I learned about it, and take a great deal of pride in it. So someone asking someone who may be Japanese if they can read a Japanese character isn't out of the norm, IMO. It's expecting that other people know about the cultures from which they came. If you're too lazy to learn about your family's past, that's fine. Just don't get pissed if someone poorly articulates a question with regards to your ancestry.
- Then again, "So, what ARE you?" should be replaced by, "I'm curious? What's your ancestry?" Less of a challenge and more of an invitation to discuss.
- I was told by a black man that I played pretty good funk bass for a white boy. I told him I play pretty good funk bass for anyone, not just white boys.
- I've also heard people who'd never seen us before were worried that the dance band I played in had a white rhythm section, and were surprised that we grooved as well as we did.
- I think it's weird for ANYONE to listen to Carrie Underwood, not just a black girl.
Bás saor, roimh shaol daor.
+1
A couple do strike me as nothing more than racist. The vast majority, however, either strike me as being simply ignorant or could actually be a fair question to ask someone if it was just reworded differently.
Like you suggested, asking, "what are you" is a bit of a brow raiser. Asking, "what's your ancestry," on the other hand, seems very fair.
