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When I was growing up, being labeled "racist" was a despicable title. Nowadays, it seems everything is being labeled as racist. I wonder if we are devaluing the term by using it so broadly. I also wonder if we are sending a message to our younger generations that racism is so ubiquitous that it can't be overcome. Does that mean they should stop trying? What is the purpose of all this? I'm confused.
It meant something, just as differentiation between bias - bigotry - prejudice - discrimination did. Today even slight bias or prejudice is labeled racism, which also diminishes the meaning. Someone can be biased for or against something with being a bigot, much less a racist.
The same with prejudice, as many people prejudged others based on a variety of things, whether it be religion, ethnic background or heck even class, family stature, occupation (i.e. blue vs. white collar), etc.
The definition of racist use to be someone who not only actively hated people based on race, but were members of group trying to harm said race/religion, such as the KKK. They hated everyone except for whites and Protestants, thus if you were not a WASP, you were not on their Christmas card list.
So maybe younger folks today are ignorant of the differences and nuance, and/or just scream "racist" figuring it is the worst thing, even though the person is not a racist.
Heck I heard a woman call a person a racist because they were critical of pitbulls and felt they should be illegal to own.
If you’re white and have yet to be accused of being racist, you live in a cave or you haven’t been pulling your weight.
By not pulling you’re weight I’m referring to all the blatant media, academia, and government endorsed racism against whites and those whites that are afraid to speak up in defense of that injustice.
The media, academia, and government defines “racist” as White. Especially White, male, Republican or conservative, and heterosexual. But a straight white heterosexual democrat male comes close, as do all white females.
As long as speaking the truth is considered "racist" by the left, we are all irredeemable racists.
Since the left owns the media, tech, and education, this is the new normal. Todays kids/young adults have no clue what real racism looks like.
Maybe, I don't know. I suspect most young people in America have never experienced the kind of racism I witnessed in Mexico, Europe, Japan and other parts of the World. If you want to see actual racism, watch soccer sometime in Brazil, or Venezuela. Or ask a Japanese person why they won't let Muslims immigrate to Japan. Or ask an Indian about Pakistani's. Or ask a Vietnamese person about the Montagnard's. Or ask a Russian about the Evenks. Or do a little reading about what happens to albino children in Africa.
Honestly, I've traveled extensively and lived abroad on four continents and I really do think America is probably one of the least racist placed on Earth. It simply baffles me that Americans don't see that.
When I was growing up, being labeled "racist" was a despicable title. Nowadays, it seems everything is being labeled as racist. I wonder if we are devaluing the term by using it so broadly. I also wonder if we are sending a message to our younger generations that racism is so ubiquitous that it can't be overcome. Does that mean they should stop trying? What is the purpose of all this? I'm confused.
Honestly, I've traveled extensively and lived abroad on four continents and I really do think America is probably one of the least racist placed on Earth. It simply baffles me that Americans don't see that.
It's because most people in this country who are 30 and under have been brainwashed by the left to believe that the USA is evil and somehow the rest of the world is completely enlightened. Truth is, our children in the last quarter century have been so damaged by leftist indoctrination that we are in grave danger of becoming one of the most poorly educated countries in the First World. Just look at this "woke" crap going on all around you. It's like something out of the freaking Twilight Zone yet it is being embraced by some of the most powerful entities and businesses in the USA.
It’s a joke. Carries no weight anymore.
Pull the race card and you’re a laughing stock.
But that’s what you get for abusing it.
Good luck if you are an honest real victim of racism.
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