Moral Pedistal and Racism part 2

Do people need to be more accepting of others?  Yes, of course they do.  Do we need to stop judging people?  Of course, just because your idea of what is right and wrong isn't the same as the next person's doesn't mean you can say if they are a good or bad person.  But the main issue is that we need to stop justifying placing judgment on others with our own misgivings and hurt feelings. 

        You can't justify a wrong with another wrong.  For example, Bill Maher ranted the other night that he was tired of Christians and other religious people bad mouthing him for being an atheist.  And then went on to justify calling Christians and people of any deistic faith morons and idiots.  Not to mention he has said in the past that all Christians are schizophrenic.  Okay let's look at this.  You don't want them talking bad about you but it's okay to talk bad about them. 


       Oooh, poor wittle Bill.  Yes, that may have been immature and hypocritical of me to say, but to make a point.  If you are going to act like an uneducated and ignorant child, then the people speaking to you and about you are going to treat you as such.  Something my husband is always saying, 'People will only be as smart as you let them be.' 

      Well, Bill, you are being hostile to this group of people, yet fighting for equal rights.  The problem with equal rights activists is that a lot of them (not all of them because that would be stereotyping) but a lot of them want equal rights, only in the way that they believe is morally or ethically correct.  For instance, Bill Maher is fighting for equality of people regardless of religious following, however if you practice any religion you are wrong.  Do you see how contradictory this is? 

      Many people following the gay rights activists, they are fighting for marital rights regardless of sexual orientation.  However, to many traditional heterosexual couples and individuals the union of marriage is a union between a man and a woman as it has been for many years.  Should homosexuals have the right to get married?  I'd rather not place my personal opinion on political subjects into my posts at this time, however to say that a couple who has been together as long as any heterosexual couple can not join in some sort of legal binding union to allow them to file taxes together, to leave their belongings to their partner if something should happen to them, to allow them to be beneficiaries, to do legal things that anyone should be able to do regardless of the situation, yes I absolutely believe that this is the legal right of any US citizen.  If a woman can leave $12 million to her dog, then a man should be able to leave his things to his male partner and vise versa a woman to a woman.

      But I'm getting off track.  The main thing is that people need to stop making comments in a derogatory manner, yes.  But the people who are taking every little thing offensively in the name of being prejudiced against are just as bad.  Especially if you are living a blessed life. 

       My closest friends growing up would ask me every now and then, 'What is it like to grow up being Asian?'  And I would always ask them, 'Well, what is it like growing up being white?'  How can you tell anyone the difference when you haven't ever been anything else?  I would often ask my friends, 'Well, do you look at me as being Asian?'  They would say, 'No, I look at you as being you.'  And I would say, 'Well, I figure that's the way I think of myself.'  Do white people/black people/asian people (I'm sorry for everyone that I've left out) look in the mirror each day and think 'I'm white/black/asian?'  No of course not. 



That's all for now.  I think my rant will become redundant and repetitive if I keep going.  Take Care everyone!

Moral Pedistal and Racism part 1

     If something is funny, but it doesn't agree with your personal views, it doesn't mean it's not funny.  As my husband would put it, funny IS funny.

     I am Asian.  I love when I make a humorous, but slightly racist joke about myself, in decent taste (I would never fool myself into thinking I have good taste) about Asians and their culture, ie: if someone asks why I can't see something properly saying that it's because my eyes are squinty or hadn't they noticed?  I love the people who say, 'you really shouldn't say that, it's racist and offensive.'  Offensive to who?  When did people who are Caucasian or otherwise, it doesn't matter what you are, climb onto their moral pedestal and determine what is and isn't offensive to a group of people that THEY don't even belong to?!?  I grew up always being a minority.
   
     I mean in the last Census there were only 2.4% of Asians in the entire country.  Plus I'm female.  Plus I'm tall, so I don't even fall into the Asian stereotype.  Looking from a stereotyping point of view I am a loner on all aspects.  I'm not white, I'm not male, I'm not a short, tiny, petite little China doll.  I don't fit into any majority any which way.  The only Asian stereotype I truly fall under is that I am good at math and I like videogames.  But since when do other people get off telling me that I should be personally offended by the statement I made about myself? 

       I have spent my entire life as a minority, but I just let comments roll off my back.  My motto: If someone didn't mean a comment in a derogatory manner then don't take it offensively.  For instance a family friend recently posted a picture of the White House Photoshopped black because Obama is President.  It was funny.  I laughed very hard at that.  There was also some racist comment attached to it which was very funny as well.  However, if every white person in the world were to take it offensively it would be outrageous.  Not to mention if a white person reposted that same picture, there would be thousands of black folk outraged at it.

I sang my husband a song once that I learned in Sunday School as a kid that goes, ' Jesus loves the little children, all the children of the world.  Red and Yellow, Black and White they are precious in his site, Jesus loves the little children of the world.'  My husband's reaction was 'that is the most racist thing I have ever heard in my life.'  And it's true if you look at it that way.  Is there still racism in the world?  Of course there is.  No one on this entire planet is going to say to themselves, 'gee, white/asian/black/indian/native american/australian/middle eastern(I think you get my point) people are so much better than us.  I sure did get born with the wrong gene pool here.'  No!  That's kind of ridiculous isn't it? 

More of this rant later