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Water Cooler / Re: The ultimate troll?
« on: January 14, 2016, 08:47:18 AM »
flipping heck Jason, I never reallised you were so exotic
I think a lot of people who say horribly racist (and other ist) things are not in reality racist, but they believe what they read and speak without thinking - my dad for example is open and friendly and does have both black and muslim friends so on a personal level he has no issues at all with race or religion, but he still lapses into daily mail propeganda occasionally. Its hard to deal wiith that - a gentle rebuke along the lines of "dad you can't say things liike that" "you know thats not riight" or "you donn't really believe that do you" is what I tend to do - some of you might thing I should be harsher but I was raised o respect my elders and I really do have trouble with bollocking him!
I did have a massive row with my sister in law about refugees at Christmas though. Zenophhobic b###h is definately not old enough to get away with that sh##!
I also say things I shouldn't sometimes, to be honest. Not about groups of people, because I don't think like that, but I am the type of person who would use a word which used to be ok and no longer is because I haven't realised. Truth is I was never really exposed to anyone other than white, christian (of one type or another) people growing up. There were two black kids in my secondary school of 1200. On the flip side of that I socialised a lot in Brighton where the gender/sexuality mix was pretty out there for the 80's. Outcome of that is I really, genuinely, don't think about a persons colour, religion, nationality or personal preferences, nor do I bother to read about it much as it's a non issue to me - you are what you are and unless you're a d*ck thats fine by me.
But that does mean I have no idea at *all* what politically correct words are for anything, I had no idea until a friend (who is black British and also didn't know until she did it accidentally when she was asked to cater for somethinng at work) that to (some?) black Americans serving watermelon is considered horribly racist ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watermelon_stereotype ). I didn't understand the difference between Presbytarian and Church of England unil I innocently asked if someone would like to attend church while staying with me. I'm totally idiotic about this stuff. It doesn't mean I don't believe in equality or care about everyones rights.
I think a lot of people who say horribly racist (and other ist) things are not in reality racist, but they believe what they read and speak without thinking - my dad for example is open and friendly and does have both black and muslim friends so on a personal level he has no issues at all with race or religion, but he still lapses into daily mail propeganda occasionally. Its hard to deal wiith that - a gentle rebuke along the lines of "dad you can't say things liike that" "you know thats not riight" or "you donn't really believe that do you" is what I tend to do - some of you might thing I should be harsher but I was raised o respect my elders and I really do have trouble with bollocking him!
I did have a massive row with my sister in law about refugees at Christmas though. Zenophhobic b###h is definately not old enough to get away with that sh##!
I also say things I shouldn't sometimes, to be honest. Not about groups of people, because I don't think like that, but I am the type of person who would use a word which used to be ok and no longer is because I haven't realised. Truth is I was never really exposed to anyone other than white, christian (of one type or another) people growing up. There were two black kids in my secondary school of 1200. On the flip side of that I socialised a lot in Brighton where the gender/sexuality mix was pretty out there for the 80's. Outcome of that is I really, genuinely, don't think about a persons colour, religion, nationality or personal preferences, nor do I bother to read about it much as it's a non issue to me - you are what you are and unless you're a d*ck thats fine by me.
But that does mean I have no idea at *all* what politically correct words are for anything, I had no idea until a friend (who is black British and also didn't know until she did it accidentally when she was asked to cater for somethinng at work) that to (some?) black Americans serving watermelon is considered horribly racist ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watermelon_stereotype ). I didn't understand the difference between Presbytarian and Church of England unil I innocently asked if someone would like to attend church while staying with me. I'm totally idiotic about this stuff. It doesn't mean I don't believe in equality or care about everyones rights.