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Originally Posted by {aspiring_to_clarity}  IF you go over there and say "because this is the way black people are, your kid is a hooligan" then yeah it would be like this thread and I'm sure you'd meet resistance. In this thread you made the connection between his race and his behavior. You just had to throw in that he was black rather than say there's a boy in the neighborhood harassing my daughter, you say there's a black boy in the neighborhood harassing my daughter. I'm sorry, but there's a huge difference in those two statements.
People like you make me really uncomfortable because you are perfectly happy being racist and think anyone who disagrees with you is the PC police. I'm not actually terribly PC, I just call out racism when I see it. Your statements have been racist in my opinion.
I guess the mods don't agree with me and that is okay of course. Maybe I am in the wrong. You have the right to free speech, but to me it's hate speech and I won't just act like I didn't see it. |
It wasn't just the kid bothering my daughter I mentioned, there were several more things, that's just the one I found most intolerable. Is it racist to say 85% of the prison population is black, when it's a fact? Or is that the result of racism as some claim? It could actually be because they are committing 85% of the crime, but it would be PI to say that, we wouldn't want to hurt anyone's feelings of course. The problem with PCness as it applies to racism is that it perpetuates the problem by covering it up. If we try and say those 85% don't belong in prison we miss the opportunity to a find out why they are there.
I'm a big believer in IM and "thought creates reality" and the problems minorities face I think are directly related to self image, which in many cases is created and perpetuated by the majority in an effort to maintain control. What I'm getting at is that it's impossible for me or anyone else to "keep someone down", we can, however dis-empower people to the point that they "keep themselves down", and they do this through their own actions. I have a lot of thoughts about how "group think" and IM operates in the racial arena but that's not what this thread was about. To fail to point out problems that a group of people have is doing them a disservice because it gives a false sense that "all is well". The best way to perpetuate a problem is to pretend there is no problem and if I were a real racists or Nazi type I would be all for just ignoring the problem so It would continue. There is a big difference between naming and blaming and all I've done is point out a situation that has unfolded on my street since I moved there.
Since this is such a touchy subject and I suppose if I were misinterpreted I could get banned, I think I'll just stop on this one.