My great, great,…..great, grand father was a slave on a southern plantation DURING the Civil War. I am technically “passing” (if you know what that means).
That being said, I think MOST people claiming “racism” are themselves racists and are just saying/claiming that the others are racist to get more support for themselves in whatever they are fighting against, almost regardless of what they are fighting against.
NOTE: I did say MOST, not ALL. As there ARE some legitimate racism cases out there, especially when it concerns people who are affiliated with the KKK and other organizations like that.
BTW, do note that sometimes Nationalism can be mistaken for racism when all the people are from a country that shares the name of the race. IE: Japan/Japanese, China/Chinese, etc.
Personally, I think that if you want to segregate yourselves and call yourselves things like “Chinese-Americans, African-Americans, Japanese-Americans, etc.”, you should go back to the countries that you or your ancestors came from. I am an AMERICAN and proud of it. Regardless of what color my skin is and how my ancestors came to this country, I will NEVER call myself anything other than an AMERICAN.
BTW, the comment in the third panel should have been: “That’s species-ist”. Unless Nythrians are a race of humans instead of a different species. IE: Most of the jokes on the first season of Enterprise weren’t racist since they were making them about different species, they were just in poor taste.
Of course, he could have known that the girl was half-Nythrian and just said that to irritate her.
I don’t think he should’ve gone there. She could certainly hand him an ass whooping if she chose to! 😀
My great, great,…..great, grand father was a slave on a southern plantation DURING the Civil War. I am technically “passing” (if you know what that means).
That being said, I think MOST people claiming “racism” are themselves racists and are just saying/claiming that the others are racist to get more support for themselves in whatever they are fighting against, almost regardless of what they are fighting against.
NOTE: I did say MOST, not ALL. As there ARE some legitimate racism cases out there, especially when it concerns people who are affiliated with the KKK and other organizations like that.
BTW, do note that sometimes Nationalism can be mistaken for racism when all the people are from a country that shares the name of the race. IE: Japan/Japanese, China/Chinese, etc.
Personally, I think that if you want to segregate yourselves and call yourselves things like “Chinese-Americans, African-Americans, Japanese-Americans, etc.”, you should go back to the countries that you or your ancestors came from. I am an AMERICAN and proud of it. Regardless of what color my skin is and how my ancestors came to this country, I will NEVER call myself anything other than an AMERICAN.
You win the internets for today, Paladin.
CR
I think she only is upset about the warmongering nythrians, the peaceloving nythrians are just fine
Fair point
BTW, the comment in the third panel should have been: “That’s species-ist”. Unless Nythrians are a race of humans instead of a different species. IE: Most of the jokes on the first season of Enterprise weren’t racist since they were making them about different species, they were just in poor taste.
Of course, he could have known that the girl was half-Nythrian and just said that to irritate her.