Stereotypes
The present day solution to deal with Racism is to try to ignore the color of everyone's skin. This never works because when you look at someone, unless you're color blind you will see the color of their skin. The differences among the races create stereotypes caused by ignorance.
Most people don't talk about stereotypes and usually keep them to themselves. An occasional slip up will result in someone getting extremely angry. This anger I find unnecessary.
Instead of being offended by these stereotypes, we should be able to just make fun of them. Before you get your panties in a bundle, hear me out.
When you're among friends, do you feel as though you can crack a joke about one of them? I doubt if you did, you would be jumped, more than likely you would get a few laughs. However when you walk up to someone you don't know and start talking about their mother - you're more than likely subject to get hit. All the races are so uneasy around each other, so if we ever were to joke around one side would be angry. The solution would be to simply take all of these stereotypes we have all come to know so well, and use them for a comedy, without making anyone feel inferior.
If we could possibly make stereotypes useless, we would essentially eliminate the major part of racism. If you ever turned in Comedy Central and watched some stand up comedy, you will more than likely observe someone who is making fun of some stereotypes. Laughing at them doesn't make you one bit racist.
I'm not advocating walking up to someone of a different race and throwing a stereotype at them. More so when you're among friends of a different race. Whatever jokes you use amongst people of your own race shouldn't be shielded from the races they include.
Racism is when you hate someone for being a different color. The use stereotypes as a joke doesn't imply hatred, as long as they're in context. Taking away the power of 'The Stereotype' will make the arsenal of the KKK-type racist much smaller.
Being able to make fun of our differences is much better than defining our selves by those differences.
Most people don't talk about stereotypes and usually keep them to themselves. An occasional slip up will result in someone getting extremely angry. This anger I find unnecessary.
Instead of being offended by these stereotypes, we should be able to just make fun of them. Before you get your panties in a bundle, hear me out.
When you're among friends, do you feel as though you can crack a joke about one of them? I doubt if you did, you would be jumped, more than likely you would get a few laughs. However when you walk up to someone you don't know and start talking about their mother - you're more than likely subject to get hit. All the races are so uneasy around each other, so if we ever were to joke around one side would be angry. The solution would be to simply take all of these stereotypes we have all come to know so well, and use them for a comedy, without making anyone feel inferior.
If we could possibly make stereotypes useless, we would essentially eliminate the major part of racism. If you ever turned in Comedy Central and watched some stand up comedy, you will more than likely observe someone who is making fun of some stereotypes. Laughing at them doesn't make you one bit racist.
I'm not advocating walking up to someone of a different race and throwing a stereotype at them. More so when you're among friends of a different race. Whatever jokes you use amongst people of your own race shouldn't be shielded from the races they include.
Racism is when you hate someone for being a different color. The use stereotypes as a joke doesn't imply hatred, as long as they're in context. Taking away the power of 'The Stereotype' will make the arsenal of the KKK-type racist much smaller.
Being able to make fun of our differences is much better than defining our selves by those differences.
posted by D_Bokk at 12:28 PM
1 Comments:
Ah, I agree so much.
You have to watch how you say it though still. In an ideal world you could say whatever and nobody would get offended, but while you may have the mentality that the jokes do not matter, others do not. Until you can be assured everyone else is at ease with it, you can not just go around telling black people to stop hogging all the crack from everybody else.
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