Comments on: The Blurred Line Between Old-Fashioned and Modern Racism

By: real liberal

real liberal — Fri, 24 Feb 2017 13:01:39 +0000

hey, I have to disagree with most things you’ve said here. To me, prejudice is something that somewhat real but definitely not this large boogie man that’s haunting all minorities. of course white people have it better because America is a white country but i don’t think this necessarily means that any other minority has it ‘bad’ in America. if you compare it to many other third world nations, like Saudi Arabia, the ‘prejudice’ that is shadowing America is quite tame. Because you know, gays don’t get stoned here, and neither do women get treated like second class citizens.
It’s also very hard for me to understand why you think that people have the same mentality as they did in the 1960’s. your idea of ‘most (presumably white) people thinking other races are inferior’ is ludicrous to me. and this is coming from a person who is brown and has come from a third world country. I also don’t like how you used white people as an example of racist jokes. Racism isn’t owned by one skin colour. I would categories the KKK’s beliefs as racist and bigoted as the beliefs of the black supremacists today.
‘I’m talking about the people who’ve decided that what’s happening now isn’t a real issue.’ I’m sorry, did you mean that as an example of modern day racism?
i think PC culture is the greatest way to stop dialogue and prohibit free speech. its terrible to see how people saying anything slightly out of line are bombarded with millions of offended people but nobody says a peep when a women gets the same time in prison as the man who raped her in saudi arabia, or maybe how only men are allowed to pray in certain hindu temples in india. Now, in a PC utopia, this type of opinion will be deemed as racist and vulgar and the whole incident will will be filled under ‘their different cultures, its ok for them to do it’ which i find very hypocritical.
Also, PC culture is undemocratic by definition. Like the great late George Carlin said, PC culture is fascism pretending to be manners.
would recommend reading this article http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bj-gallagher/the-problem-political-correctness_b_2746663.html
and looking at sites and sources outside your bubble, maybe bill maher, or this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QANf-K2qM5k

By: Ashley Kemper

Ashley Kemper — Sun, 18 Dec 2016 01:56:00 +0000

I think this post was a great cap to end the blog for the semester. I think it’s really interesting to think about how we do live in a PC society, yet it seems like many people are opposed to it. Is being opposed to Political Correctness a modern form of racism?

By: Amanda Fogelman

Amanda Fogelman — Fri, 16 Dec 2016 17:47:24 +0000

Jenna,

This was a very intriguing post. I do agree that the line between old- fashioned and modern racism is blurred. Many modern day racists choose to remain silent until their beliefs are warranted by society. I thought the metaphor of a soda can was a very interesting visual to describe this concept. It was also interesting to note that there were hate crimes after a Black president was elected and after a racist and sexist man was elected. I would say aversive racism could come into play depending on the population. Outward racists were definitely aware of who they were voting for to be our president. I don’t believe there was any implicit bias present. People who do have implicit bias were probably willing to look over all of his racist, sexist remarks and justified his presidency based on other qualifications.