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Originally Posted by browni3141
Those jokes aren't racist, they are racially insensitive at worst. If you won't respect that distinction you're just getting eye-rolls from people like me.
I won't be so arrogant as to tell you what you're allowed to find offensive but I find it difficult to understand why you're offended. Before you said anything I would have found those jokes completely innocuous. You can't expect people with completely different life experiences to understand your perspective without you talking about it.
I want to stress that I don't find your feelings invalid; I just want to give some reasons why I have a hard time relating to them, some of which are probably lol-obvious and some of which maybe not.
I've never experienced racism personally directed at me. (this is the lol-obvious one)
I don't grasp the feeling of having any connection or care regarding ancestors/heritage. I don't care about anything bad that happened to my ancestors or anything bad they did. They have as much relevance to my life as literal fictional characters. Best I can do is acknowledge that your ancestors being treated worse than **** still disadvantages you in some ways today.
I don't feel any type of group unity that a lot of minorities seem to have. I don't even have any national pride whatsoever or favorite sports teams. I think this is pretty uncommon though.
appreciate the post.
it sounds like you don't get what i'm saying, but you are open to learning?
yeah, i'm not really all *that* concerned with what happened to people 500 years ago. but some people are, and i respect that.
but i am very concerned with what happens to people right now. and your post kind of exemplifies a big part of the problem. people just aren't aware.
ok so having your ancestors forced off their land and onto reservations disempowers them as a group, and impoverishes them. then you have the govt literally taking the kids at gunpoint to genocidal schools where they are taught being indigenous is bad. this isn't ancient history. these schools closed in the usa in the 1970s.
so this is my parents generation. and their parents and on and on for generations. these kids are abused physically and sexually. that makes it very difficult for them to be good parents. so the trauma is generational.
and people don't even know these things go on.
so jokes about reservations are really quite hurtful.