Of course, Chad -- it is only your interpretation of those symbols that is valid, I get it. Snowflake sensitivities being what they are, you're entitled to ignore any other view of the events that happened. Of course. Their responses, their interpretations, are "hysteria".
It's amazing how self-centered a person can be. Dismissive even after you've already been shown the evolution of this particular symbology -- even as someone educated as you seem to be surely would know the history of these particular racist tropes -- and yet you would argue that sometimes a banana is just a banana in this instance? When it is this obviously deliberate, what with the explanation this tissue-thin, what with other recent incidents?
How comfortable you must be, sitting inside the cocoon of your own perceptions, where you need not concern yourself with those pesky other views.
It isn't these students defining the banana as a symbol. It is the racists. As I told Paul, you need to blame the right folks. Right now, you're engaged in victim-blaming.
I'm left to assume that you don't understand how humans build associations.
I'm also left to assume that you don't see a weak excuse such as the one the young man proffered as indicative of intent.
Feel free to correct me, but bring something better than "I don't see how this could be offensive," because I already see that about you: you are unable to see past the surface of this story. I want to know why you think it is as shallow as you seem to think. I've already laid out why there's a lot more depth to it than the OP attempted to portray.
It's amazing how self-centered a person can be. Dismissive even after you've already been shown the evolution of this particular symbology -- even as someone educated as you seem to be surely would know the history of these particular racist tropes -- and yet you would argue that sometimes a banana is just a banana in this instance? When it is this obviously deliberate, what with the explanation this tissue-thin, what with other recent incidents?
How comfortable you must be, sitting inside the cocoon of your own perceptions, where you need not concern yourself with those pesky other views.
It isn't these students defining the banana as a symbol. It is the racists. As I told Paul, you need to blame the right folks. Right now, you're engaged in victim-blaming.
(September 1, 2017 at 11:10 am)paulpablo Wrote: In all the other instances you mentioned I see racism. I can see how racism could be brought into question if a peel is left on a tree but just if itself that's not proof of racism.
I'm left to assume that you don't understand how humans build associations.
I'm also left to assume that you don't see a weak excuse such as the one the young man proffered as indicative of intent.
Feel free to correct me, but bring something better than "I don't see how this could be offensive," because I already see that about you: you are unable to see past the surface of this story. I want to know why you think it is as shallow as you seem to think. I've already laid out why there's a lot more depth to it than the OP attempted to portray.
