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originally posted by: Willtell
a reply to: Winstonian
The double exists because Italians weren’t slaves for over 3 hundred years
Nor Asians
Context matters
It's sad that SJWs waste so much of their energy being offended. Imagine if they used that energy more productively?
originally posted by: Spider879
Note the dismissive attitude by Dark Ghost.. being more productive?? really?? it ain't got a damn thing about being productive or non productive.
originally posted by: Dark Ghost
originally posted by: Spider879
Note the dismissive attitude by Dark Ghost.. being more productive?? really?? it ain't got a damn thing about being productive or non productive.
Dismissive? Who do you think my reply was directed to? Maybe you should read over it again before jumping to conclusions...
originally posted by: Spider879
Ok in all seriousness there is a reason why especially Black folk will have a negative reaction to some form of "racial" humor and why Willtell may have a point, such negative images and caricatures were introduced into Asia by Euro folks during and after slavery right down to the 60ts, Asians simply took it up and continued it where it took on a life all on it's own ,they may have not know the malicious intent back then but enough info is certainly known today so it is a calculated risk they are taking trying to be funny selling a product.
It started with black face which have a very dark origin no pun intended , I know it's easy for white folks and others to tee hee hee about it , but for black folks who know of it's history and intent it ain't no laughing matter, I am sure there are ways to polk fun at black folks where you don't get a WTF?? reaction and any push back resulting from that.
originally posted by: Spider879
Were you not directing the above at so-called SJW for being offended?? and the need to use their time being more productive??..If I Er I retract my response if not then It stands.
originally posted by: Dark Ghost
originally posted by: Spider879
Ok in all seriousness there is a reason why especially Black folk will have a negative reaction to some form of "racial" humor and why Willtell may have a point, such negative images and caricatures were introduced into Asia by Euro folks during and after slavery right down to the 60ts, Asians simply took it up and continued it where it took on a life all on it's own ,they may have not know the malicious intent back then but enough info is certainly known today so it is a calculated risk they are taking trying to be funny selling a product.
Did you really just blame Europeans (which I suspect you conveniently chose to avoid saying "whites") for the behaviour of Asians? It's interesting, and rather convenient, how all negative behaviour done by non-whites can be attributed in some way to whites.
It started with black face which have a very dark origin no pun intended , I know it's easy for white folks and others to tee hee hee about it , but for black folks who know of it's history and intent it ain't no laughing matter, I am sure there are ways to polk fun at black folks where you don't get a WTF?? reaction and any push back resulting from that.
I doubt most black people would even be offended by the advert. SJWs (which are made up in great numbers by white people) on the other hand...
Another factor which weighed on the minds of the black soldiers was the white American racism towards the Filipino people. They were widely and openly called “'n-word's” and belittled as “savages”; the use of the word “gugu” was not a term of endearment, and seems to be the antecedent for the term of contempt used in Vietnam: gook. As one astute black American noted, the whites had brought Jim Crow to the Philippines; he and many other blacks who did not desert, nevertheless had some understanding of those who did. Indeed, the same soldier, Sgt. Major John W Calloway, was later prosecuted by the Americans after they raided the Manila house of a suspected insurrecto, Tomas Consumji, and found a letter from Calloway in which he expressed sympathy for the Filipinos and stated his opinion that it was an immoral war. The American military hierarchy were becoming increasingly worried that the black troops were too close to the Filipinos. Bonsal commented “While the white soldiers, unfortunately, got on badly with the natives, the black soldiers got on much too well…they became united with the tenderest of ties…many observant officers expressed the view…that the negro soldiers were in closer sympathy with the aims of the native population than they were with those of their white leaders and the policy of the United States.”
www.blackagendareport.com...
originally posted by: Spider879
Ok in all seriousness there is a reason why especially Black folk will have a negative reaction to some form of "racial" humor and why Willtell may have a point, such negative images and caricatures were introduced into Asia by Euro folks during and after slavery right down to the 60ts, Asians simply took it up and continued it where it took on a life all on it's own ,they may have not know the malicious intent back then but enough info is certainly known today so it is a calculated risk they are taking trying to be funny selling a product.
It started with black face which have a very dark origin no pun intended , I know it's easy for white folks and others to tee hee hee about it , but for black folks who know of it's history and intent it ain't no laughing matter, I am sure there are ways to polk fun at black folks where you don't get a WTF?? reaction and any push back resulting from that.
If needed I can post the history as to why.