I don't hate it...
Mainly because the only reason racism is considered such a major issue is due to the whole 'equality' thing our society tries to use.
Now, I'm all for equality, just not in the way most people see it. A white person is NOT equal to a black person. Generally, they have different cultures, different social groups, are part of different demographics, hell, black people have a heavier bone structure than the equivalent sized white person which is why you never see a black jockey in horse racing.
Terms that are considered 'racist' are simply because it's a comment about a person's race. But you don't see ginger people waging war against non-gingers for the comments people make of them (Outside of South Park anyway). You don't get religious advocates calling out people like me to make an example of us bashing their religions so much. Hell, there's worse stuff than racism that goes on in largely white, middle class high schools with bullying, but if it's between two similar white guys, it's fine. Racism just takes the issue of hurting others to a whole new level, labelling things as 'hate crimes' even when this is unlikely to be the case.
It's not like racism is only done by white people, and it's done in much less subtle forms. Black people who agree with them getting repairations for their ancestors getting enslaved are racist, because they probably will NOT agree that egyptian, white, asian and even people in mainly black communities in areas of Africa should also get repairations, despite the fact they all had histories of slavery, usually to a larger degree than what happened a couple hundred years ago.
Fair treatment of races should not devolve into giving them as much as possible. It just turns into a form of reverse racism. If we didn't worry about equality (taking the sense the majority see it in) so much in the first place, the term 'racist' would be useless.
Mainly because the only reason racism is considered such a major issue is due to the whole 'equality' thing our society tries to use.
Now, I'm all for equality, just not in the way most people see it. A white person is NOT equal to a black person. Generally, they have different cultures, different social groups, are part of different demographics, hell, black people have a heavier bone structure than the equivalent sized white person which is why you never see a black jockey in horse racing.
Terms that are considered 'racist' are simply because it's a comment about a person's race. But you don't see ginger people waging war against non-gingers for the comments people make of them (Outside of South Park anyway). You don't get religious advocates calling out people like me to make an example of us bashing their religions so much. Hell, there's worse stuff than racism that goes on in largely white, middle class high schools with bullying, but if it's between two similar white guys, it's fine. Racism just takes the issue of hurting others to a whole new level, labelling things as 'hate crimes' even when this is unlikely to be the case.
It's not like racism is only done by white people, and it's done in much less subtle forms. Black people who agree with them getting repairations for their ancestors getting enslaved are racist, because they probably will NOT agree that egyptian, white, asian and even people in mainly black communities in areas of Africa should also get repairations, despite the fact they all had histories of slavery, usually to a larger degree than what happened a couple hundred years ago.
Fair treatment of races should not devolve into giving them as much as possible. It just turns into a form of reverse racism. If we didn't worry about equality (taking the sense the majority see it in) so much in the first place, the term 'racist' would be useless.
