They’re all bought and sold: American democracy belongs to the billionaires now

[Joods]

You fail to see my point. My point was there should be no reason why any person, regardless of color, should be insulted in the prior example.

Shit, we aren't a bunch of third graders. We are adults. Perhaps if we set the example of being tolerant, our kids wouldn't grow up to be judge mental assholes. My parents weren't racist. But my grandmother was and I watched her ibe day refuse to order lunch while we were out simply because our server was black. I told my grandmother she was a racist and that she disgusted me. She got all butt hurt when I said that and I said, well imagine how our server felt when you made your remarks to her. That shut her up. This isn't the old days where there was little to no acceptance. This is 2016. We need to stop feeding into the idea of being entitled to things simply because of who we are or where we come from. We are all of one race: human.

You're not really saying anything to counter my point. I say that, historically speaking, racist people have compared blacks to apes as a way of dehumanizing them. And it still happens today. That's why it's offensive. I don't disagree with the idea that it shouldn't be racist and it shouldn't offend anyone in that way, but just saying that ignores 200 years of dehumanization through jokes like that. Saying "this is 2016" doesn't just make it all go away.

So I guess the Jewish people who suffered in concentration camps don't matter?

What?

I wasn't implying that by saying "this is 2016" that it should all just go away. You need to go back and read my post and not read more into it than what you're trying to.

As far as my response to Godcherry, you also need to go back and read why I made that comment in response to her post.