05-31-2018, 12:21 AM
(05-30-2018, 11:53 PM)bfine32 Wrote: I've already shared my view of how we will ****** growth as a society, if we keep focusing on these "historical" comparisons. We will never be equal if we insist on being separate.
I understand your point. I also agree with the idea that we cannot constantly relive past injustices in the present. That being said, we also cannot divorce ourselves from the past entirely. The plain fact is that comparing black people to monkeys and apes has been widely used, both to justify slavery and to justify treating blacks as lesser citizens, in this country. That doesn't mean comparing any other race to a monkey or ape is acceptable.
Quote:The only reason one comment is less inexcusable than the other is because of what happened in the past. To continue to bring it up will never allow us to progress.
Again, I get your general point, but, also again, you cannot divorce us from our past entirely. I am not responsible for the sins of my ancestors, but I can acknowledge past injustice and not perpetuate it. If part of that is knowing that comparing a black person to a monkey or ape is more reprehensible than comparing other ethnicities to these animals than so be it.
Quote:Is calling an Asian American a "slope" as atrocious as calling an African American an "ape"?
I'm not really interested in ranking ethnic slurs in an offensive hierarchy. I can say that calling a white person a "slope" is not nearly as offensive as calling an asian person one for the same reasons given above.
