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Originally posted by Carrie-is-no-1
Girl, so you're basically saying racism is contextual, and if i didn't mean for it to be racist doesn't mean the joke is not racist. In that case, someone need to tell him that it's wrong to make such comment
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These days the racist card gets picked up in seconds, every joke, whether harsh or not is made HUGE. If people continue this way and go arguing and analyzing everything that has been said by others in the context whether it is racist or not, then this world will end in a global world war sooner than later. People feel infected, hurt and bullied with every word or sentence that can be directed back at a culture, race or other little thing.
Was it harsh? maybe. Did it cause any drama in the Netherlands under the chinese community on a national scale or did the man went to an organisation to report racism? NO! There it should stay.
Racism is partly about contextuality and about own "taste". Ofcourse there is a line, but this is also on how fast you get offended and what you find offended or how sensitive you are.
I bet there are jokes about other countries, cultures and maybe even races in every country, even on a quiet harsh way. But it is abotu the way you deal with it. Yo can pick up the racism card, cause drama, create hate or people could just pretend they don'care, laugh along with it a bit and the next time such jokes won't be any "fun" anymore, since it's old and people moved on.
I have german blood, and if I had to get mad everytime someone makes a same kind of joke about germans here in Holland, I already would have moved out of the country. But I just don't care, live my life and people forget their jokes about it and also move on.
there are already so many things to worry about in life and in this world