I don't think denigrating the appearance of any race is appropriate, even if that race is the one in power.
Calling white skin boring is denigrating? It just got so old for me living in a white world. The town was white, the school was white, the stores were white, the churches were white. Half my relatives are Scandinavian. When they made children, every single one of them chose a white partner and had a white baby. I DO find the lack of variety boring.
Your boyfriend was murdered?!?!?
It was more the eye-rolling than the boring part that caught my attention.
I don't think denigrating the appearance of any race is appropriate, even if that race is the one in power.
Calling white skin boring is denigrating? It just got so old for me living in a white world. The town was white, the school was white, the stores were white, the churches were white. Half my relatives are Scandinavian. When they made children, every single one of them chose a white partner and had a white baby. I DO find the lack of variety boring.
Your boyfriend was murdered?!?!?
Thinking that any group of people are all the same due to something as unimportant as skin is denigrating and ignorant.
I don't think denigrating the appearance of any race is appropriate, even if that race is the one in power.
Calling white skin boring is denigrating? It just got so old for me living in a white world. The town was white, the school was white, the stores were white, the churches were white. Half my relatives are Scandinavian. When they made children, every single one of them chose a white partner and had a white baby. I DO find the lack of variety boring.
Your boyfriend was murdered?!?!?
Thinking that any group of people are all the same due to something as unimportant as skin is denigrating and ignorant.
You got that right!
“We the people are the rightful masters of bothCongress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.” Abraham Lincoln
Thinking that any group of people are all the same due to something as unimportant as skin is denigrating and ignorant.
You got that right!
The people in my town were all the same because they really were all the same: The same socioeconomic status, the same accent, the same religion, AND the same colour. It's not ignorant for me to point that out, it's true. I can type about it because I was one of them. I'm including myself- I lived there for 18 years. If everyone in Chepachet in the 1970s/80s had been 5 foot 6, I could type, "Ugh! How droll! Everyone was the same height." I could then explain how that sameness eventually bored me to tears and attracted me to people of shorter and taller statures. Such an opinion would be no denigration of the 5' 6" folks, would it?
I was 17 and getting ready to graduate high school when I realised that none of my teachers had ever taught me to pronounce the letter R at the end of a word. I decided to start using Rs. I was not denigrating my teachers by doing so.
If I'm racist I must be sexist too: The huge majority of my relatives were female. All of the children on my street who were close to my age happened to be girls. When I was 9 and in fifth grade, I lamented to my sister that I wished I could someday have a male teacher. Every single one of my preschool, kindergarten, and 1-5 grade teachers were women. I wasn't denigrating women by wanting to finally have a male teacher. I was just fed up with the monotony. It's bog-standard psychology 101 to understand why, since my teenage years, I have preferred having male friends, teammates, classmates, castmates, co-workers, etc. My childhood was a world of females.
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It was more the eye-rolling than the boring part that caught my attention.
Yes, though he was my ex-boyfriend by then.
Thinking that any group of people are all the same due to something as unimportant as skin is denigrating and ignorant.
The people in my town were all the same because they really were all the same: The same socioeconomic status, the same accent, the same religion, AND the same colour. It's not ignorant for me to point that out, it's true. I can type about it because I was one of them. I'm including myself- I lived there for 18 years. If everyone in Chepachet in the 1970s/80s had been 5 foot 6, I could type, "Ugh! How droll! Everyone was the same height." I could then explain how that sameness eventually bored me to tears and attracted me to people of shorter and taller statures. Such an opinion would be no denigration of the 5' 6" folks, would it?
I was 17 and getting ready to graduate high school when I realised that none of my teachers had ever taught me to pronounce the letter R at the end of a word. I decided to start using Rs. I was not denigrating my teachers by doing so.
If I'm racist I must be sexist too: The huge majority of my relatives were female. All of the children on my street who were close to my age happened to be girls. When I was 9 and in fifth grade, I lamented to my sister that I wished I could someday have a male teacher. Every single one of my preschool, kindergarten, and 1-5 grade teachers were women. I wasn't denigrating women by wanting to finally have a male teacher. I was just fed up with the monotony. It's bog-standard psychology 101 to understand why, since my teenage years, I have preferred having male friends, teammates, classmates, castmates, co-workers, etc. My childhood was a world of females.