drone
Active Member
I agree. If you're pissed off at someone and racial slurs/comments about their race are the first things that come to mind, this probably means you are a racist at some level. Think about it - whatever they did to piss you off, you immediately jump on their race of all the things you could possibly say to them when race probably played absolutely no part in what they did to you.
There are absolutely no situations where using a racial slur is justified or not racist. When you use them, you are inserting both yourself and the person you're insulting into some idiotic and discredited hierarchy of races in order to assert your superiority over them. By buying into this racial hierarchy, you're buying into racism. It's the same with sexist language, homophobic language, etc. It has absolutely no place in our society.
Does racism exist in Toronto? Of course it does, and it will continue to exist as long as we buy into race. Everyone's racist to some degree - as long as we recognize this as a flaw both in society and in ourselves, we can try and work against it and someday maybe, hopefully, it won't exist any more.
lol, what if it was the third or 4th thing you said about the person? Does that make someone a 4th rate racist. If I'm going to be racist..I want to be first rate