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Old 11-23-2006, 05:08 PM
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Default Re: If someone calls you a racial slur, is it acceptable to throw one back?

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Originally Posted by Drederick Tatum
I think cultural, historical and socio-economic context need to be taken into account. I wouldn't really care being called a cracker or whiteboy. my race has caused immeasureable suffering to most other races across the globe, so I think tolerating some pretty tame words is the least I could do.

I agree that people should be aware of what their people have done or they'll never learn, but it's not healthy for the person who is firing the abuse at your ancestors via you.
They won't feel any better for it, nor their day to day problems or inequalities be solved. It doesn't move things forwards.

Plus, often the people who have suffered first hand, are often the ones to be the most tolerant, rather than those who have just grown up immersed in someone elses bitter opinions. I'm thinking about Holocaust victims who later went back to Germany, Jewish nurses who cared for German patients, etc.
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