Thursday, July 16, 2009

Since one article about race wasn't enough. . .

I thought I'd at least link to this as an example of more Godwin's Law-action regarding race for the purpose of blatant sensationalism. I think articles like this take away from the serious problems that do exist today with institutionalized prejudice in all forms, whether race, alienage, descent, culture, gender, or sexual orientation (I think I got most of the suspect classes here, so my bar preparation seems to going pretty well). This isn't a damn race (pun unintended) for people to out discrimination, and there isn't some sort of scoreboard that's chalking up points for how sensitive you appear to be by crying wolf. This does a disservice to all those people who spend hours of their day experiencing real discrimination first-hand.

Take some time to place things in context and learn how to use your brain. That's really what I want to just shout at these people.

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