It’s been around for many centuries. It’s hurt many people. Yep, if you can guess by the title, it’s racism.
Only now, people are starting to say “L0L RACISM IS BAD AND WE KNOW THAT. BUT TO KEEP OURSELVES FROM LOOKING THE SLIGHTEST BIT RACIST, WE MUST ADVERTISE THE FACT THAT WE ARE AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY COMPANY. MISSION STATEMENT: MAKE EQUAL OPPORTUNITY ADVERTS EVEN MORE BLATANT AND OBVIOUS THAN THE ADVERTISEMENTS IN GUITAR HERO 3.”
I was watching a commercial for some kind of criminal justice college program thing, and the political correctness was amazing. It shows women and the occasional man (because, you know, they can’t have too many men or people will think they are sexist or something) doing criminal justice type stuff, like working in crime labs. Most were minorities (because even if there is only one Latino woman in the whole entire college she HAS TO BE SHOWN IN THE COMMERCIAL TO PROVE THAT LATINO WOMEN ARE NOT BEING DISCRIMINATED AGAINST), which brings me to another story.
On the news while I was on vacation in Minnesota, I saw a story filmed on a college campus in North Dakota about new student grants. I’m not being racist, I’m telling the truth: I literally see about 1 or 2 Asian people a month. South Dakota (and most of North Dakota for that matter) does not have much in the way of cultural diversity. A very strong majority is Native American or Caucasian around here, not much else. Of course, however, the TV station has to show probably the one Chinese student on campus. He was most likely an exchange student, as his English was pretty shaky. Next, they showed a student with a thick accent I couldn’t place. Do we have to be so politically correct and racially sensitive that we have to show exchange students and nobody else on the news story because we might be offending someone by showing an American student?
There is even some of this going on in the current political race. It’s calmed down a little bit, but comments against Barack Obama (or Hilary Clinton, when she was still in the race) can still be blown out of proportion and deemed racist or sexist.
I’m not saying we should all start using the n-word and reinstate Jim Crow laws. But come on, people. Calm down about the political correctness.
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August 4, 2008 at 10:51 pm
Anubis
It’s very comon nowadays for people to mis-interperet an event because more than one race of person is involved. For example, a white burglar attempts to steal a rich black man’s car; in the event the owner wakes up and tries to subdue the burglar and ends up shot. It wouldn’t be uncommon for this event to be portrayed as a hate crime. Why? Because of the difference of colour. Most reasonable people would know this situation could happen to anyone, but the oversensitive politically correct government and media we’re under control of nowadays would kneel down and toss off the nearest foreigner while screaming “RACISM” and “INTOLERANCE”.
Now it’s rare that a white man would become victim of racism because whilst the dictionary definition will state “prejudice against race or skin tone”, the majority of people who feel obliged to comment on it will state that it’s prejudice against those of a foriegn nationality, aka “The Media’s Racism”. Because of this, it’s rather hard to differentiate the sensible from the eccentrics. The media likes to report all sorts of racial triumphs, rubbing our noses in dirt like how a “muslim schoolgirl” won a court case over wearing jewelry in class. This jewelry, very convieniently, happened to be religious and of substantial importance to the deeply religous muslim girl and we all know how much people like that kind of thing.
On the other hand, if I went into college brandishing a 7ft wooden cross I’d have it confiscated and be disciplined for racist satire.