I (like most other people) do not like to be told I am acting like an ass. I (like most other people) do not make racist comments. Telling someone they are acting like an ass will not make them realize it and suddenly stop for the rest of their lives. They will continue to act like 'tards but now will have an added dislike for you. Why not just forget it and move on.
For the record, I don't think you're an ass, but making blatantly racist remarks is a sign of one. Other times people make ignorant remarks. What's wrong with calling it out and making it known why it could be offensive? Then there are jokes just for the hell of it. Some Asians might be offended, but guess what, other Asians might join in on it and take it for what it is. And if the tards don't stop, I don't know why it's on the Asian to have kung fu-like discipline to always move on.
And we know it is a proven fact that all Asians have Kung-Fu like discipline and spend part of our formative years in a monastery..
Yeah, but I don't know why there has to be a right and blanket way to deal with it for different groups of people. I wouldn't ask you to deal with it if you were a victim of racism. At most, I'd want you to do what you thought was right at the time.
I am a victim of racism. I deal with it. What some idiot thinks of me or the people around me is their problem.
It's easy to bring race into it, because you can see race in the shooter's photos. It takes no effort to think about race, it takes some investigation to talk about other things. Besides, this country has centuries of race baggage and stereotypes to deal with. These same bloggers making racist comments about Koreans or Asians in general have had the same racist thoughts before the shooting. Personally, as a Chinese-American, I know these things are out there whether there's a shooting or not and have had to deal with it with our without Cho killing 32 people. It makes no difference to me in that respect.
So exactly how do you deal with racism? I think it's a problem for you when some racist idiots start causing inconvenience to you, not just their problem.
Good pointsand yes you are right that racial baggage and stereotypes exist without this event but when something like this happens it often brings those to out so it does make a difference. Its like someone may think to themselves that Asians are socially maladjusted but when something like this happens they are more likely to voice that. On the flipside people might accept that Asians focus on group identity more than individual identity compared to other races so when an event like this happens Asians might look at the fault of an individual as somehow being the fault of the group. While people hold all sorts of beliefs it often takes a major event to bring those out in the open for better or worse.
