Wednesday, 15 April 2009
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White People Are Beautiful Too
While watching an episode of my favourite show, ‘The Big Bang Theory’, I noticed yet another racist attack towards lighter skinned people in the land of television. The Indian character goes on to say to the Jewish:
“You fail to take into account that even mute, I am foreign and exotic, while you on the other hand are frail and pasty.”
In another episode, there was a conversation between a White woman and man.
Penny: “So um, Dave, how do you know Leonard?”
Dave: “I’m a physicist.”
Penny: “(Laughs) No you’re not!”
Dave: “Why is that so surprising?”
Penny: “Uh, well, it’s just that the physicists I know are indoors(y) and pale.”
Pale. Pasty. I hate those words. It bothers me how the Caucasian race is associated with weakness and a lack of charisma, but then it’s not only on television.
Racism in the media can only exist when it occurs in real life. I’ve witnessed it on several occasions, including the time I heard someone say:
“Black women are more beautiful than White.”
More?
Another woman even had the audacity to blast the entire Caucasian race for hating Blacks. She went so far as to say that I was also White.
Excuse me? Do I look White? Are you blind?
I’m Chinese!
Apparently, she is blind because according to her, all Asians look the same. Yet if anyone made such a statement towards the Black community, can we say outrage?
As an international majority, these offences fail to leave me amused. They’re tasteless and ignorant, but such attempts at humour continue to be swept under the rug because the media has rendered racism against Caucasians to be socially acceptable…
Unacceptable!Reader, are you disturbed by the fact that Caucasians are constantly victimized as the defaulted racist offenders, even while they’re the most oppressed race?
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You know, to agree would probably put me in a lot of trouble, haha. It's a very taboo thing to mention these days... so I'll just say that racism does go both ways, and that caucasians aren't always the offenders. I just think that ignorance as a general rule is unacceptable, no matter what creed you are.
Um, not really . . . What really disturbs me is the way those guys are holding those huge pieces of chalk while looking at the girl . . .
Wow. I never thought of it this way before. *goes away to think*
I think that although caucasians have done some really bad things in the past, it's really messed up that other races justify them bashing white people with mistakes white people have done nefore
I dont think racism is right towards any race...no matter what the media sweeps under the rug =/, its amazing what ugly things people say and get away with these days. >.<
I'll come back later with my opinion.
I've posted some angry entries about this topic.. Nice to see people talking about it.
Hmm, sometimes I feel like just a pale and pasty white person.
I'm pale (or as my Mama would say, "fair skinned") and I like it.
I avoid the sun and moisturize, so one day the haters will be wrinkled and bitter, but I will still be pale and beautiful. And that will be the best revenge. ;)
But seriously, I don't worry when people say those sorts of derogatory things. People who love me don't care if I'm pasty or purple. The rest are irrelevant. Judging anyone over their skin color (or lack thereof) is ludicrous.
You forget that all whites are racist; bigoted; and Republican.
I'm proud to say I am none of the above.
Huzzahs for paying for some other jackasses' mistakes some odd centuries ago; or someone else's current mistakes that have nothing to do with ourselves.
Don't you just love racism? I know I do.
I try to tan a lot to avoid all these racial attacks.
oh hush. white ppl are pink! & they're gorgeous <3
i'm marrying a white guy :D
@nattata - Doing all those Mexicans helps too.
It depends on who is saying it and how it's being said. It annoys the hell out of me when it's in the media, but one-on-one it just depends.
Well they aren't attacked the most.
I think racism fails either way.
@Schristian - lol
uh...nope!
FINALLY someone has put into words the way I feel about racism! I hate it when black people just assume that white people are racist, like say my dad didn't vote for Obama that automatically makes him "hate black people" or something. Or I don't like illegal immigration so that must mean I don't like Mexican people or something when my best friends are all MEXICAN! Sorry for the mini rant but it really ticks me off! Of course, a nice joke has stemmed out of it me and my sister's situation... "It's because I'm white isn't it?" lol
well, i'm an albino and i love it.
I'm not sure I would say... disturbed, nor that they are attacked the most. I was all ready to spout off with something, but then I read what @MakinzyKrysteenhad to say, and it escaped me.
"People who love me don't care if I'm pasty
or purple. The rest are irrelevant. Judging anyone over their skin
color (or lack thereof) is ludicrous."--Truth.
Hm... I've never noticed that white people were targets in the media.
Yep.
@jacksoncroons - true THAT.
I don't think they are the most attacked, although I do think that they are the safest group to attack in the media because they are still perceived as being the group with the most power. Perhaps it's a matter of picking on the big guy doesn't seem as bad as picking on the litle guy.
I think Caucasians have given as well as they have gotten, and frankly, the people who invented the modern system of race as we now use it happened to be Caucasian and they happened to put themselves at the top.
The whole system of race is bullshit anyway. it is bull from the inside and out. I do think we should drop it not just from official usage but from our minds. And I don't mean calling an end to racism and then simply reverting back to the usual system of darker = worse and racist comments = OK. I mean truly putting that crap out of our minds and quit giving benefits and detriments, whether consciously or unconsciously, on the basis of skin color.
"Reader, are you disturbed by the fact that Caucasians are constantly victimized as the defaulted racist offenders, even while they are attacked the most?"
Well, I don't think Caucasians should always be blamed for racism and such, but I don't know if I can agree that they're "attacked the most."
Your comment about the woman calling you white reminded me of this time that a white guy in one of my classes said to me, "You're pale enough to pass as a white person!" It wasn't meant as either an insult or a compliment, but I found it to be a really strange remark...
Racism of any kind hacks me off.Â