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As Long as I'm Avenue Qing: Are You a Little Bit Racist?
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RE: As Long as I'm Avenue Qing: Are You a Little Bit Racist?
I suppose it's fair to say that I'm a little bit racist, but I think I'm a comparatively mild and enlightened one. I don't want people to be treated differently under the law based on their 'race', but I do have certain prejudgments about groups of people:

-An English shopkeeper will always try to short change me.

-There hasn't be a Finn born who couldn't do with a good arse-kicking.

-Parisians are all snots. French people generally are very nice.

-The concierge at a Swiss hotel with do everything possible to make you comfortable.

-The concierge at an Italian hotel will make you wish you were in Switzerland.

-Athenians all smell like piss.

-Egyptians make the best coffee in the fucking world.

-I wouldn't trust an albino Chinese nymphomaniac with mechanical thumbs as far as I could throw her.

Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
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#12
RE: As Long as I'm Avenue Qing: Are You a Little Bit Racist?
I got my head bitten off in another forum on a similar thread.

I honestly think that we're all racist to some degree.

I know I am, and I strive not to be.

I believe those of us who are honest and decent will generally admit it to ourselves and try not to be.

Those who are honest but not decent people will admit it and use it as a source of pride.

Feel free to rip me a new one.

Thinking

Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:

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#13
RE: As Long as I'm Avenue Qing: Are You a Little Bit Racist?
That's pretty much it Beccs. It's a problem because there's more than a grain of truth to many stereotypes and yet individuals will fool you every time often in a good way.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god.  If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
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#14
RE: As Long as I'm Avenue Qing: Are You a Little Bit Racist?
One of my two major artistic endeavors challenges our usual cultural norms purposefully to increase the open-mindedness of the reader, while also attributing some separation from this world into an equally valid alternate set. Such attempts include, but at not limited to:
*A North Korea style of governance of a semi-tropical nation peopled predominantly by an analogue to the English, which invaded and "settled" this land within the previous three generations (~65ish years).
*A people of Incan analogues (had they developed with their culture to a napoleonic level of development) largely interned within work camps by the above NK government.
*A progressive technologically-focused arabic-african world superpower.
*An utter absence of east asian peoples and american natives... sorry yall, but I just couldn't find much of a reason for you to abuse the ICE. You should be thanking me, really... as you do not want to be a part of this. Really, I'm doing you a favor by leaving you out of this... trust me. Heart (But worry not, there's... still none of you in my other manga either. Dammit... well, at least you're overdone, right? Right? Big Grin Actually, you also don't want to be a part of that manga. When not including a regional ethnicity is less racist than forcing them to participate with the rest of us... Dodgy )

Use of racism benefits entertainment that intends to put the reader in their place, as well as that intended to generate a world the reader will recognize.

Culture/palette swaps can lead to somewhat interesting results Smile

(October 7, 2014 at 8:02 pm)Jenny A Wrote: That's pretty much it Beccs. It's a problem because there's more than a grain of truth to many stereotypes and yet individuals will fool you every time often in a good way.

I dearly hope I don't get to inventing any new stereotypes. If this catches on... white people could come off as terrorists (they are), rapists (yup), and psychopathic mass murdering fuckheads (not to be mistaken with terrorists, which they also happen to be).

And black people gain a whole new layer of badass. Not that you can see it, or anything Wink
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Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
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#15
RE: As Long as I'm Avenue Qing: Are You a Little Bit Racist?
About a year ago, I had an experience that made me rethink my honesty with my racism. I like to believe I'm not an outward racist who hates a certain type of people based on sweeping, superficial, generalizations, and even after the experience, I still like to think that. But, my racism was put to question when the chips were down. Here's probably a long story:



I don't know. What do you say? Was that racist?
I can't remember where this verse is from, I think it got removed from canon:

"I don't hang around with mostly men because I'm gay. It's because men are better than women. Better trained, better equipped...better. Just better! I'm not gay."

For context, this is the previous verse:

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RE: As Long as I'm Avenue Qing: Are You a Little Bit Racist?
(October 8, 2014 at 5:10 am)Exian Wrote: About a year ago,
[...]
I don't know. What do you say? Was that racist?

I'd say it's generally an unpleasant situation, and some the usual ingrained racist prejudices have made it worse. No more, and no less. Could have happened to me.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition

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#17
RE: As Long as I'm Avenue Qing: Are You a Little Bit Racist?
(October 8, 2014 at 5:10 am)Exian Wrote: When I play it back in my head, I realize that I knew he was middle-eastern and hooded before I saw the "gun". I worry that those things played a part in my reaction. I try to change details in the story to see if I would react the same. Maybe if it was: a white guy, no hood, daytime, a girl, a black guy, and then I saw the "gun" would I have reacted differently?

I don't know. What do you say? Was that racist?

I'd say that you got yourself a bump in the night. Unless a hooded stranger fills you with any less fear in the dark with an apparent gun and an interest in you... then it's not remotely racist. Smile

Besides, even if it *is* even a touch racist: that's not on you... that's on the fear culture mongered by your media and government when regarding 'foreign nationals'.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
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RE: As Long as I'm Avenue Qing: Are You a Little Bit Racist?
Alice, I think you cut to the heart of my unsettled feelings after that experience. I can sort of relate it to the stories that popped up after 9/11 about people making a big deal when a middle-eastern guy boarded a flight they were on. In the comfort of my home, I would classify those people as ill-informed and quick to judgement; another part of me understood their point of view, but mainly I would distance myself from them. I'm well aware of the affect the media can have on me, and I liked to think I was able to temper any bias with either just acknowledging it or informing myself, but none of that ultimately mattered when faced with what I thought was a real threat. Maybe in the end, I was too quick to judge those people.
I can't remember where this verse is from, I think it got removed from canon:

"I don't hang around with mostly men because I'm gay. It's because men are better than women. Better trained, better equipped...better. Just better! I'm not gay."

For context, this is the previous verse:

"Hi Jesus" -robvalue
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#19
RE: As Long as I'm Avenue Qing: Are You a Little Bit Racist?
What's worse is the effect that our wartime policy of fear is having upon our "enemies"... they're afraid of us... and we have ensured that they have little left to lose.

The jaded strategist in me would have you never trust, as that is the avenue by which most of your attacks will be received... but I sent her to the kitchen to make me some curry, so I'll tell you this instead: holding yourself aloof in all cases, distrusting your own shadow, spreading your assets, being alert at all times... is no way to live a good life. Is it safer? Yes... should you avoid endangering yourself when possible? Usually..

But should you check every green banana you buy for mold? I say no. Safety and security are difficult to maintain, and the aggressor always has a major advantage in knowing when, where, and with what an attack is coming.

Civilians should only react to potential danger only when they feel threatened. You felt threatened, and you did what you had to... it was a harrowing experience, and your self-control to not drive over an apparent major threat to your life is admirable Smile
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
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#20
RE: As Long as I'm Avenue Qing: Are You a Little Bit Racist?
Not everyone is a little bit racist. I'm not. To be clear, that means I don't stereotype based on ethnicity, full stop. That doesn't mean I'm free from experiencing tensions caused by institutionalised forms of racism but it does mean that I'm better equipped to recognise them when they occur and take appropriate action (if required). Generally I oppose stereotypes (and 'archetypes' Angry) when I encounter them.

@Jacob re. Q on skin colour blindness: I'm not blind to it. It's a useful physical descriptor and I don't find myself stopping myself from using it out of a misplaced sense of 'anti-racism'. If I'm talking about a black person, I may or may not use skin colour as a descriptor, depending on its usefulness in context.
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