RT and LittleZoZo, for the record I was one of the people playing the race card and I am a white guy. So don't try and play this off as a tribal member trying to take the easy out of an arguement. It wasn't that way at all.


I to agree that the race card gets played far too often. I think that there are hypersensative people who make way too much stink over small or non issues out there. I would agree that there are groups of people who think the system is baised against them who in reality don't want to take responsability for their actions. Those people should wake up and get a clue. We aren't talking about those people here. What we are talking about is a group of guys who didn't have a good arguement to make who resorted to stereo typing another group to make them look foolish. You ask if those comments were racist or insensative. I say they were racist in the context that they were used. You ask what is insensative and what is racist. I say that simply stereotyping a group is insensative. Stereotyping or degrading a group to for your own purpose or agenda is racist.

I believe that there is a fine line between insensativity and racism. This is a forum were you aren't able to hear or see who you are communicating with, so it is way too easy to misrepresent yourself or mistake the point that others are trying to make. Based on that fact alone I think that we should be a little more careful about how we try to get our points across.

[ 05-22-2001: Message edited by: Vic ]

[ 05-22-2001: Message edited by: Vic ]