Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2021 6:36:22 GMT
Apr 13, 2021 3:00:55 GMT @opus said:
I understand your point and I am not diminishing the travesty of slavery and segregation and oppression for which our nation is responsible.
I still believe that no one has a right not to be offended. Not gays. Not Asians. Not blacks.
It's almost as if we don't respect them if we think they can't handle a caricature.
A good example is that of older white women and "Karens". Women have certainly suffered their share of oppression and discrimination. Now we mock strong women as "Karens"?
If you're gay you can hide that. What I mean is that you can be gay under the radar and hide that. I'm not trying to diminish
what the LGBTQ community deals with but I'm sure you get my point. Like many do/did. If you're black or Asian you don't
always have that luxury.
I can't agree that we all mock strong women as "Karens". From what I've seen the women we label as "Karen" is a very specific type.
The women I've seen labeled as "Karen" are not strong at all but I think I get what you're saying.
There's a difference between a caricature and being demeaning. I look it as white people have been in control since the beginning.
Women have had a say for roughly 100 years and still don't have equal rights. Black people have only had a legitimate say for about
50 years. I mean an actual fair right to vote and even that's open to debate these days.
If we look at the country's history as whole and the actual amount of time minorities have had a say it's in it's infancy.
We can't erase several hundred years of oppression with 50 years of social change.