Do older generations have more leeway for racism/sexism?

[OddBeMe]

Grew up in a different time…

[Stoner710]

Kinda especially when it comes to jokes. Like I doubt Dave Chappelle‘s N-word, family skit where they N-word family were all white people. And the black white supremacist skit where white and black people where both using the n-word wouldn’t fly today even and that’s not even counting jokes by Sammy Davis, Junior Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin. Remember the rat pack back in the 60s. Jokes are one thing we should be able to tell offensive jokes without repercussions because they’re JOKES. Between telling a joke, and actually being discriminatory against people of other races. Hell when I was in high school I use to Hang out with a black guy and Arab we use to tell race jokes all the time.

as far as actually discrimination goes, I would say yeah, the older generation is probably more excepting of discrimination than the newer generations this is why people like Joe Biden can say the N-word, or the more polite equivalent of it that is the Spanish word for black and not get in trouble. Hell Joe Biden can literally go on to Charlemagne the gods podcast and literally say that if you don’t vote for me, you’re not black. Which is racist because it’s assuming black people don’t have agency in their own lives. Of course racism is highly prevalent in the Democrat party even to this day.

[goaded]

Some. My godfather couldn't understand why his cricket club had to state that they wouldn't discriminate in order to get government financial support. I'll never know if that was because he didn't care, or if he didn't expect to be told about player's sexuality.

[OddBeMe]

Now I wanna know about the players sexuality. Any rubdowns after sets?

[goaded]

That linseed oil has to get rubbed into something...

[OddBeMe]

“Arthur, dear, you’re rubbing it in too hard.” “You liked it hard last time, Georgie.”

[Potteplante]

Absolutely not.

I am guilty of giving them more leeway when I was younger but I do not anymore and I do not shy from speaking up when I hear it.

[OddBeMe]

I don’t think I’m as courageous. I’d just roll my eyes like usual.

[Potteplante]

I don't think there's anything courageous about standing up for others - the worst they can do is to spew out more nonsense, which I can handle.

[Sevenpointfive]

i have noticed a pack of white children calling each other the N word and nothing happened to them. a war did not break out

[OddBeMe]

Why were they saying it? Because they heard it from their parents constantly. Why it will never go away.

[Sevenpointfive]

apparently white people can be N words too!

[OddBeMe]

No actually. Definitionally not. I hope this was a simple misunderstanding instead of years of family racism. Like my regrettable experience singing a Jay Z song.

[Sevenpointfive]

what do you mean? if a black man can turn white certainly a white man can turn black? michael jackson as my reference

[OddBeMe]

Don’t think MJack ever was considered white. Not that I care about labels. I care about horrible words that recall past histories of slavery.

[Sevenpointfive]

mjack was in the end considered a white woman. but he's just one example. take the jews for instance.

[OddBeMe]

Take the Jews where? Careful, I have Jew friends.

[Sevenpointfive]

i wasn't going anywhere with that. but you can take the jews for example in any instance. they complain about everything! especially that holocausm thing

[OddBeMe]

Where are they complaining? I will say I dislike the right wing govt in Israel. It does fund the ADL and other orgs to go after anything “anti-Israel” as antisemitism.

[Alex-Snow]

There is no place for racism no matter what ones age is

[msc545]

I think not. You don't get a pass on decency based on your age. People can learn and change their minds if they want to.

[OddBeMe]

You had me til the last line. Then I thought if they can’t change…why shouldn’t they get a pass? But ultimately you’re correct

[msc545]

A lot of people now kind of do get a pass. Even people who are able to change.

[OddBeMe]

True, and as we’ve seen with @sevenpointfive, I like to give people second, or thirty, chances to correct their mistakes.

[QuietRunner]

Yes

Especially the Mongols, Ottomans, and Ming generations

[OddBeMe]

Ivan the Terrible just didn’t know any better!