Originally posted by Tzeentch
Nope, you're a white male and therefore the world is handed to you on a platter. Only Brown people and women can ever have bad circumstances. If you're a white guy and you're not a billionaire with no problems, it's because you just didn't try hard enough. 👆
If you're born not having superior white skin, it's no one's fault except your own. /fact
Re: Re: "Brown People"
Originally posted by jinXed by JaNx
I'm curious...,have you ever referred to someone as being, white? Just because I don't care enough about you to ask what country your great ancestors hailed from doesn't mean that i'm a racist *******. Describing the color of someones skin should usually be interpreted as just that, a desription
I agree. A simple observation is not racist imo. I'm of Mexican/Puerto Rican descent, and if somebody did not know my name, I would not be offended in the slightest if someone called me a brown person. In a room full of white people, it might be the defining charateristic that singles me out. lol.
With regards to the term "Brown People", I think a lot of it also has to do with the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Also, in person as well as some comments on Youtube (but not all) I've heard some liberal anti-war people use the term, as well as sometimes using it to describe the anti-illegal immigrant feeling here in the U.S. as they call it "the war on brown people."
I'm not sure if the liberal\anti-war crowd realize it, but for all of
their anti-racist claims, using the the term itself is somewhat counter-productive.
And as was said earlier by "socool8520", "a simple observation is not racism". Of course, by the time it gets back to the ACLU it will be.
A bit off topic, but one of the funniest "foot in mouth" moments I think I ever experienced with a race-based rabble rouser was a few years back:
Some women came up to me as I was talking with some people. They assumed that I was a supporter for the War On Terror and one of them began with this remark:
Her: "Sir, do you like war? Sounds like you do."
Me: "No, but at least Bin Laden won't be a problem anymore".
Her: "So I guess you approve of a government that likes killing people who are brown? That seems to be America's main target these days." She pointed out about illegals and Middle Easterners.
So after trying to defend my words several times, and being cut off and talked over, she finally says this:
"Hate brown people all you want, they have more opportunities in society today, especially since Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity lowered the test scores for the mostly dumb ones that can't pass a White test..."
At that point, her friends all turned and stared at her, and as I and the people I was speaking with began to smirk, she realized her mistake.
Blushed to the max, she says "OMG" and she rushes away with her friends in tow, leaving all of us laughing at her like hell. Priceless..