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(06-14-2023, 07:46 PM)Leon Wrote: you dont think the media feeds the racism? they call everything racist anymore. if you dare have an opinion that aint theres, your a racist.

I've been called lots of stuff by people I've disagreed with.  Amazingly, I survived it all.

(06-14-2023, 07:47 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: I may lack perspective here, as I've lived most of my life around a sizable Asian population.  I understand that's absolutely not the case for most of the country.  My friend group is predominantly White and Asian, with numerous close friends who are Vietnamese, Korean, Japanese and Chinese so it's hard for me to put myself in the position of a person who knows few, if any, people of Asian descent.  Also, when I speak of accusations of racism I'm not just referring to Caucasians being accused.  The term is bandied about freely against all manner of people.  

Well, I'm from a place where an Iranian man (and former wrestler...he was practically the Iron Shiek!) who moved to this country to be a teacher had his pet goat shot and killed during the Iran hostage situation.  On a more humorous note, more than 0 times my buddies and I were sitting in "the Chinese place" downtown when someone would come in and yell "Pearl Harbor!" or go into some form of "I chink I know woo but I may be wong" or the classic "ching chong I think I broke my ding dong."

I was friends with one of the few black guys in town and when he came to our high school in 9th grade everyone asked him if he was in a gang and if he played basketball.  He just wanted to play soccer and go fishing, mostly.  A lot of racism is more laziness than malice, I think.