if not, whats the best argument against it???

my friend and i are on a heated debate.

ATRL -> The Lounge thread list:

1. Black people are oppressed.
2, Are the Oscars too white?
3. Are the Grammies not black enough?
4. Is xxxx racist?
5. Racism
6. Something something racism

Can y'all stop

ugh I thought you would post a link to an actual racist test so we could do it and share our score.

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I mean seriously

This video is so deeply stupid. It's not racist to have difficulty telling differences between ethnic looks from various countries -- especially if you yourself are not from that region; however, it becomes racist when you dismiss it as saying, well all people of x, y, z race look alike instead of just acknowledging the fact that it may seem that way to you because of lack of familiarity and time spent looking at people from certain places.

I personally think people from various regions of Africa have drastically different looks and I've still heard people of other races claim or imply that black people all look alike. It's just ignorance and people don't like admitting when they just don't know something and would rather externalize their ignorance as issues that other people have and not themselves, personally.

You're not obligated to discuss or even read threads if you don't want or care to discuss or acknowledge these topics. Why run to be one of the first people in the thread if you're so sick of the subject matter?

Take the oscars and Grammys out of the equation and this a valid argument. People will stop speaking out until the inequality stop. If you're not a POC you will never understand.

This is good.

me too

Really? I thought you would've enjoyed this seeing as you boldly called me a 'black supremacist'. If you don't like it -- leave

I'd actually like to have a normal discussion but all racial problems threads end with passive aggressiveness and throwing mud at each other and they're basically a pity circlejerk.

Is this the maximum of this site's mental capacity, honestly?

Agree.

Entering a thread just to be abrasive and dismissive certainly doesn't indicate any sort of desire to have any legitimate discussion on the subject matter at hand; just desire to derail and detract with snarky comments.

i agree with most parts

That's...

...actually, that's a good point

I love GradeAUnderA and this was the video that introduced me to him, but you've got a really compelling point against this video. My best defense is that I think it was targeted at the people who get all self-righteous and offended when they hear someone else claim that they can't tell the difference between different ethnic people, when they themselves probably couldn't tell the difference either.

I see who he was targeting and I get it; but just going into extremes to counter extremes is ineffective aside from getting a few cheap laughs and letting people stay comfortable with being dead ass wrong in whatever stance they've taken to not own up to their own ignorance.

Like, it's fine that you can't tell common Laotian features from Chinese or Malaysian or Kenyan from Sudanese or Ethiopian, but don't act like it's someone else's fault that you can't and on the flip side, extreme "SJWs" need to stop acting like it makes a person inherently racist if they have trouble identifying differences and any instance of confusion as immediate evidence of prejudice.

My thing is that in spite of how annoying a lot of people on the extreme PC side can be, it at least comes from the right place -- people just need to know where to analyze what's being said and filter out where it becomes ridiculous instead of just using the most extremes as an excuse to be comfortable with being intellectually and emotionally lazy and trying to shut out everything that may not be easy or convenient to acknowledge.

it's not that serious

Can i get a mobile link