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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I went to see a musical in NYC called Avenue Q (very fucking funny, by the way!) and its all tongue in cheek and very close to the bone but one of the songs is called 'Everyones a little bit racist' and it basically deals with this subject, that the world has gone PC mental (oops, theres a slur on the mentally incapable) and everyone, whether they admit it in public or not, whether they ever voice their opinion or not, is racist is some way, however large or small and I agree.
I can't abide direct racist names like p**i, n****r etc. and I very nearly started a fight one night in town when I heard some little chav (oops, there I go again, catagorising a section of society) calling a guy a 'cafo' (don't know if I'm close to spelling that right). Basically its a derogatory Afrikkans terms for anyone that isn't of Dutch/african decent and I couldn't believe I'd just heard someone from Scotland, in Scotland, using it!!!
Heres a thought though, I listen to a fair amount of rap music and you frequently hear the artists calling each other by terms we are debating as being derogatory 'n****r' etc. why is that not racist and therefor censured? Why is it that when they use it, its not derogatory but if i used it, i'd get my head stoved in by him!
I used to work abroad for a while with a lot of guys from that country and my nickname was Jock (can't think why!) and I laughed along with them and was quite proud of it. If I had reffered to one of them in an equally 'collonial' term, I probably would have been arrested and tortured!!
We have to accept that, hateful names and terms not withstanding, we are all a tiny bit racist. We're made that way and unless something radical changes in the world, it will always be that way! It doesn't make most of us bad people at all. |