Not really defeatist... I believe if you can get away with something in one area why can't you with something else that is similar. This is rationalistic.... i believe in equality!
Here in america you can say a fat joke, fag joke, iraqi joke, french joke, all of these just as offensive as asian jokes. Everyone turns a blind eye to this though. Just because SE Asia has a tragedy we have to stop? Ummm, fat people commit suicide daily due to there weight. Is this not a tragedy? But the humor persists.
Its unruly and offensive to pick on someone in a tragedy, jews, african americans, now asians? Ummm, well first off the jew and black one is old. Oh my the Holocaust or slavery, get the hell over it. Yeah they were tragedy's... and I have to walk on egg shells around these SOB's while they call me cracker and nazi because I am german and shaved head? Bullshit, get over it, I deal with it, piss off, and fat people suck!
Seriousily I believe if we try this treat everyone nice BS it becomes defeatist. PEOPLE HATE OTHER PEOPLE! It is natural, we are afraid of the unknown. Some may be programmed, but others are just inherintly there. Hiding it is just bottling up this hate... we aren't going to get over it. Take for instance how much we have given back to the african american community still 130 years later.... Im still called cracker, they still pull the race card, bullshit. We are going to continue hating despite the smile, and they are going to continue being offended despite our politeness.
Just to let you know, this isn't some closeminded nihilistic retort... prejudice is prejudice, and when people take one look at me and consider me a annorexic nazi faggot drug addict whore, thats prejudice. A prejudgement of my character by looking at my natural demeanor. Just because I am skinny, have sunken in eyes, german, stand a little weird and know how to sew doesn't make me that. But then again I don't think these people should have to stop saying and assuming what they do. Even if it times it hurts, I say, eh, its LIFE, it sucks, the world shits on you daily. But you know I got my family at home, my vid games in my room, my education at school and so much more great things in my life that it just balances out. YEY! and sometimes the jokes are just funny!... everyone at my work thinks im gay, they pick fun at me for it, and some of the shit that spews out there mouth makes my jaw drop and frozen incapable of even laughing it's so hilarious, yet still an attack at my character. MEH!
I get em' back in there own right, and its fun!
and one final note.... i have been turned down from jobs for the fact that the people thought I was gay or a drug addict. Ok, will eliminate the outward projection of this feeling that they have, id then receive the job. But now I work with someone who hates me and will lie about hating me just so I don't get upset. HOW FAKE! I wouldn't wanna work there.
