(March 19, 2018 at 9:03 am)RoadRunner79 Wrote:(March 19, 2018 at 8:48 am)shadow Wrote: Why would this matter, though? If there were problem white people or asian people or middle-eastern people in my area, doesn't mean there's any justification to prejudge the whole group... especially not to start speaking in hushed voices about them. That only worsens the problem!
If you're a great person who's a member of a often-negatively-prejudge group, I think the best thing you can do is sing loud and clear that you're part of that group. Wreck the prejudice. If you pretend you're not who you are because people expect you to be worse than you are, you're reinforcing their discriminatory and incorrect negative view of you. Who gives a crap if people around you think you're Mexican when you are?
I suppose, that I see a difference, between a general prejudice, and if there is an immediate issue with a particular group. Just because it is right, doesn't always mean that it is the wisest choice.
But 'Mexican' is a pretty big group, and probably not the accurate correlating feature of the people you take issue with. Every racial group has many crappy people and many great people. That's textbook racial discrimination to lump a huge amount of good people into a negative classification... and in this case, why exactly? So you don't offend the ears of those around you by mentioning 'Mexicans'? I'm sorry, but anyone who would freak out upon hearing the word 'mexican' is so steeped in racism that censoring myself to pander to their harmful and inaccurate worldview is the last thing I would do.
