It's come to my attention that this site is currently infested with Feeling types that are here for social engagement over the rational thinking that leads to successful mafia play. Change my mind.
The things you take in each day matter profoundly to who you are, consider that at least half of your personality is dictated by environment, the other by genes. I will concede that genetics are important as I am pretty into genetics myself, especially for how heritable mental illness is.
But geneticists have already falsified the idea that genes are a primary determinant. They've done this with twin studies. The premise is simple enough, if two people with identical genes (twins) are separated and live in different environments, then it is a given that 'if' genetics determines all, they would become identical people. They don't.
Thus environment 'must' matter. And all these things you just take for granted all the time, all the things you do, they have an effect on you. Onto the whole 'policing' people thing.
Bullying people IS policing people. Standing up to bullying, if anything, is what sets them free. No, people shouldn't just 'man up' and accept that life is cruel to them, they should not live in fear of repercussions.
Haven't read any recent posts but I just think you've got better things to do than waste your time arguing with self-proclaimed BRAZILLIAN PUNK ANARCHY FTW
everything i said in this thread is right and true and you're a weak person if you try to look away from it and pretend that the world is squeaky clean and racism is only a thing that happens in alabama and on 4chan.
the idea that people should stop being so thin-skinned and let stuff slide is all well and good when you only look at these minor acts individually. but when you consider them all as part of a greater whole, you start to realize the problem. you can't remove racism rhetoric from the collective unconscious of a society without calling out each individual piece of crap that seems so minuscule on its own.
that image is a drop of water in a lake of bigotry, and lakes are made up of billions of drops of water.
im glad you live a life charmed enough that you dont have to deal with the ramifications of a culture that makes and circulates images like this.
individual "microaggressions" or whatever word we wanna invent all seem meaningless and it appears absolutely goofy to call them out. but if you don't stand up and say something, these thousands of tiny events start to shape the way people think. they start to wear on our collective unconscious. images like that are not only diagnostic of the way our culture views race, they perpetuate it.