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In reply to the discussion: So I finally got around to looking at the offending Charlie Hebdo cartoons . . . [View all]bravenak
(34,648 posts)White Atheists and Christians spending their time devoted to 'making fun' of Muslim Arabs, who are a minority population, is racist. There are over a billion muslims in the world and plenty are NOT Arab.
And that picture of those girls with their hands out for welfare checks was racist to me. Period. Full fucking stop. When your nation has a history of Slavery and colonization, it's not actually cool to be spending your time making them feel even more despised. France owned slaves until Haiti kicked them out. Then we have the colonizing of portions of Africa and the abuses there... Now we praise the white majority for spending their time making fun of 'religion'. Bull. They are fucking with the despised Arab minority population and we're giving them a pass because 'french humor'.
Russia has jokes. They joke about gays. That's bigoted. You would never say, it's not homophobia cause we don't get Russian humor. Maybe, just maybe, people find it easy as hell to beat up on minorities and get plenty of support. They do it here all the time. They pretend that their jokes are not racist too, we just don't get it, they say. Bull.
I'm an atheist who has no time for constantly fucking with the same group of people over and over and expect them to laugh. I have been followed around called names over and over by laughing white christians until I snapped. They told me that wasn't racist too. The took a vote. They won. They had the numbers to decide how much crap I had to take from them on a daily. I wanted to strangle the entire crew. I heard ever nigger joke in the world starting at 8 years old. Every day for two years. Same shit right there. They even did mexican jokes when they ran out of black jokes sometimes. My name, you know, I get called wetbacks too. Fun. Free speech.
People have the right to free speech. And free speech ain't free. Not for me. I get the speech directed at me all the time. For 33 years. I always think , maybe I'll snap on somebody again.