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Tell me a single time a conservative, didn't use the word "dindu" to refer to black people in a negative light, and I'll give you $100 (figuratively of course). It is a racial epithet
It's their dialect. Why shouldn't we all respect that? Are you implying we should all "whitewash" (so to speak) their cultural dialect?
It's their dialect. Why shouldn't we all respect that? Are you implying we should all "whitewash" (so to speak) their cultural dialect?
Don't play dumb. It would be no different, and you would probably criticize it, if one of the black posters started a thread about white people and another black poster linked a youtube video of some goober and then wrote, "Well this is the reason! Ah ain't gonna hahd the prahd I have in mah suthuhn roots bah takin' down mah Cuhnfedarut flaaayaaggg."
Or talking about inbreeding among southern white people.
Or posting that you met a guy from (insert backwoods town here) and saying, 'I'm a dental expert and I knew where he was from as soon as I saw his tooth.'
I hadn't considered the psychological aspect. I know better, too. I'm from the South and we learned in that same Sociology class that a lot of poor blacks in the South live with a condition called 'Learned Helplessness' that has been passed down to them over the generations from when their ancestors were slaves.
The issues must be related.
Anyone who has met people from Nigeria know that they are brilliant people, without the soft bigotry of low expectations imposed on many poor people here. That's why I hate these exercises in white privilege I see where it shows how hard they have to struggle. What's the point of that but to reinforce it? I saw a black guy in college saying he works hard, but he knows because he's black he will probably only make it to middle management if that. And he will because he believes it to be true. It's sad.
One can theorize that perhaps the rhetoric fueled in these political echo chambers feeds upon itself, leading to more and more extremism and zealotry for one's own party's platform and resentment for the other party's.
The other party, would then counter with its own inflated demands and the tug-of-war would continue to build.
I don't think posters have any bad intentions, but let's face it, race is always a sensitive subject. We are all in this mess together.
So... Everyone should "whitewash" (so to speak) their speech, and that wouldn't make anyone racist for disrespecting their culture/dialect?
No. Everyone should at least have some modicum of respect for those who are less fortunate.
That I grew up in a household with two college-educated parents (with advanced degrees), doesn't mean I can look down my nose at, or ridicule and mock, those who were born to uneducated parents in an impoverished area.
I was waiting for one of these to show up. Instead of acknowledging that there is a problem, you try your hardest find other people doing bad things, as if that somehow erases all of the facts.
Its no different than any person denying there is a problem in their larger group. Groups always protect their own, could be race, ethnic group, country, or even the block you live in.
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