(August 31, 2017 at 7:14 pm)Little lunch Wrote: Yeah, Neo, a reasonably intelligent person would shrug off a banana peel in a tree as animal's work?
What sort of animal? A monkey?
Displaying something in a noose? Banana.
Random piece of garbage? Banana.
Not to mention that minorities have been - especially of late - harassed, and much worse. How much empathy does it take to understand the heightened sensitivy to racist dog whistles like bananas hanging from nooses - and that's what they are, they are effigies, intended to intimidate people of a broad range of brown.
We have jackasses running around with guns, Confederate flags, and swastikas.
How much empathy does that take to understand?
Two people were knifed to death and a third gravely wound when they got between a violent racist and two brown young women in my city several months ago. While that - so far - is an isolated incident in recent months, it doesn't take a lot of compassion and empathy to realize that brown people would feel a greatly increased level of racial tension recently.
How much empathy?
Apparently more than some can muster.
P.S. sorry about the bad sentence structure.
