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(CW/TW: Abuse) WCDT strips 3731-3735 (30th April to 4th May 2018)
awgiedawgie:
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--- Quote from: awgiedawgie on 04 May 2018, 13:45 ---It was 2930, and Marten did object to it.
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Its not quite "please don't threaten my girlfriend" is it
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He's visibly unhappy. And he may not have used those exact words, but actually, yes, that's pretty much what he did say.
BenRG:
I'm really getting the impression that this is personal for you. Very personal. But we won't go there as it is mostly irrelevant.
It's pretty clear to me that you and I see totally different things in the same strips and it is pointless debating when the other person isn't even in the same reality as you.
chris73:
--- Quote from: awgiedawgie on 04 May 2018, 13:45 ---It was 2930, and Marten did object to it.
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Then I'd suggest he tries a little bit harder because it doesn't seem to be working:
http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3604
Fayes reaction reaction here, once again played for yucks, seems a tad disproportionate to what happened
chris73:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 04 May 2018, 14:21 ---I'm really getting the impression that this is personal for you. Very personal. But we won't go there as it is mostly irrelevant.
It's pretty clear to me that you and I see totally different things in the same strips and it is pointless debating when the other person isn't even in the same reality as you.
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I agree with you
Thrillho:
--- Quote from: awgiedawgie on 04 May 2018, 14:11 ---
--- Quote from: Thrillho on 04 May 2018, 04:50 ---
--- Quote from: awgiedawgie on 04 May 2018, 01:23 ---Interestingly enough, that's really close to how I see my friends. Sure, intellectually, I know some of them are black, some are Asian, etc., but for all intents and purposes, when I'm talking to them, I don't see their color. I see them as my friends, and as people. It's not a question of noticing their ethnicity, but rather of focusing on it. Most of the time, a person's race is almost entirely irrelevant. When you're hanging out with someone, or going to a concert, or the monster truck rally, or whatever, what difference does it really make what color skin your friends have? And in the few situations where one of my friends' race is a relevant detail, I have enough respect for them to treat it that way. I feel like many AIs would love it if humans would occasionally forget that they are different, and simply treat them as ordinary people.
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This, unfortunately, is white privilege in action. It's great to have a colourblind attitude towards life in principle, but the world is simply not yet a good enough place for that to be something we can all rely on, because that same colourblind attitude is also part of what props up the establishment.
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Interesting response. I didn’t say what color my skin is, and yet you seem to assume that I’m white. So, do I understand you correctly? You think that it’s a bad thing that I don’t make an issue out of the color of my friends’ skin? Even though they appreciate that from me, when so many other people do make an issue of it? It seems to me that if more people would adopt a colorblind attitude, the world would be a better place.
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Happy to admit I have no idea what race you are, but part of the issue of writing on this forum is that I often don't write down everything I am thinking, and so I missed out - your personal race was not actually relevant to my point, and I definitely shouldn't have said white privilege specifically.
The world would be a better place if everyone was colourblind. But if simply more were, then you run a risk of people being overlooked.
Being from a racial minority in a lot of areas in countries with a higher GDP makes it more likely you will have a poorer background, a less effective education, and receive less opportunity. If the world becomes partly colour blind without being completely so, then on paper I think many things in life would take a step back, because on paper, you're going to find a lot of white people with further advantage.
I'm obviously not saying that the world is a worse place because you treat your friends as people regardless of race - I'm more accurately saying I don't trust a lot of world as much as I trust you to be able to genuinely be colour blind. Because I absolutely believe you can, but I also know that I definitely can't, and as a matter of fact as a white person don't yet feel that I should, because in my immediate friendship group there is a lot of discussion about difficult topics and a bit of activism, and so not considering the backgrounds of each individual is a mistake. But then as I write this, that could be argued as treating them in a colourblind fashion.
TL;DR: I do not trust colourblindness as a tool in many hands.
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