And plenty of non americans don't know it's bad and not only have no conception that it's bad, but would not think to even look it up. I'm not from the US and I can guarantee that a minority of the people where I'm from either know about it or would think to check.
What I'm proposing is that it's not on the hurt communities to educate you on why it's bad. You've been told, you can do your own research just like I did (I'm not american btw). I'm proposing that institutions at every level need to do more in protecting people but when the first reaction is "it's tradition" or "it's not offensive to ME, white person whom this doesn't affect" it becomes really difficult to achieve (not your quotes, but general sentiment). In the current political climate, which extends worldwide, it is even harder and people defensiveness over even acknowledging it is a problem is counterproductive.
I'm sure that childen from our times don't give a fuck about Los Reyes Magos, but it has been this way for a lot time and never was associated to racism. It's easy to understant why it should change (in fact some towns changed it recently), but the idea that all of them are guilty of X or Y because of that is really silly.
The problem is that lots of people go "but, but..." when they learn about it or get called out. If you do blackface and your first reaction is "blackface doesn't exist in my country" instead of apologizing then you are an idiot
Precisely. In Russian there's still no other word for black people than негр (negr). It's totally official. Even in the police documents any black man would be called like that.
I don't understand how people can be so ignorant, stop painting your skin colour to exaggerated tone of another race, its so simple.
Who's apologizing? I seem to recall my very first post saying that I'm glad she got banned and hope she learns. I'm saying that people expecting everyone else to not only know every point of contention from other countries - large countries or not - but to somehow pick up on stuff to research at seemingly random, is a weird perspective to take.
feel free to go to Lithuania and do a survey to the average person there then. You'd have to be actually insane to think a significant portion of them know what it is.
Oh, no, I suppose not, and that sucks. I thought you meant me.
Hey, no problem. Seriously, I understand you are genuine and eager to learn and for other people to do so as well. I understand you recognize the harm and even see the dialogue in your local setting. I'm happy you are not dismissive either. I'm sorry too for being rude or blunt.
You clearly didn't understand that ANYONE got attacked in Russia. Even Russians.
Sorry, I mean things like "why didn't she Google it?". You can't Google something you're not even aware it exists
Just don't paint your skin in some exact colors you wanted to say? Cause if it's purple or green that's ok, yeah?
Tbh if there's no context then there is no reason to research. Growing up in India we used the world Paki to describe people from Pakistan..but in the UK the word is a derogatory slur for people from the subcontinent. When I heard/read that it's considered offensive in UK (sometime in mid 2000s) I couldn't understand why it was, even after doing a quick internet search as the word meant something else to me my whole life. Until I was explained by some of my friends who knew more. Then I immigrated to the UK and finally realised why it was offensive when I got called one.
Show me a statistic that supports this, if it's roughly similar than you would be correct but also,
