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To: Alter Kaker

“Maybe the Wayans brothers would be offensive if there were 400 years of history of whites being made to look like sub-human buffoons in American popular culture.”

So, racism is ok if someone in your linage has been a victim? By the way, not a single African-American alive today has been a slave.

So, since blacks have spent years being racist towards Asians, Asians are free to mock blacks anyway they see fit?

Your thinking is flawed.


30 posted on 10/08/2009 12:14:02 PM PDT by brownsfan (The screen name is a misnomer. Cleveland is STILL without a PRO team.)
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To: brownsfan
So, racism is ok if someone in your linage has been a victim?

No, however, I think it is less ok if it plays into a pattern of bigotry and discrimination. A cartoon of a scheming Japanese banker with a big nose isn't necessarily racist -- but a cartoon of a scheming Jewish banker with a big nose clearly is.

I've not seen White Chicks, but I don't see America having a long and sordid history of black comedians dressing up a white people as a means of demeaning them.

34 posted on 10/08/2009 12:35:22 PM PDT by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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