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xarball | 5 years ago
It really depends where you go. Contrary to popular belief, America is not the center of the universe...
Your argument associates Black = Bad = Black people. But as an example, they don't do this in Russia. Yes, they do associate Black = Bad to an extent, but black people do not come into the picture at all!
I'm fairly sure that when I say they're not racist towards black people, I say it for every Slavic country out there.
So it really does matter where you go when making that kind of claim about ethnically motivated interpretations behind words. We might need to go as far as to appreciate if/when the complete opposite of Black = Bad may be true.
This action on the whole though needs to be careful about whether it is doing anybody any favors, by trying to force the speaker's /intent/ about what was said, where none was necessarily had to begin with.
On the whole, you can't just change people by changing words. You have to show them a reason to WANT to change. The bigger the change, the more powerful reason you have to give them. Telling people what they /meant/ though, is not quite the same as trying to fix a racism problem.
lucideer|5 years ago
Contrary to popular assumption, not everyone commenting on this website is American. I'm not; I'm European and have never lived in the States.
> I'm fairly sure that when I say they're not racist towards black people, I say it for every Slavic country out there.
Not Slavic, but my SO is. This sentence is mindnumbingly naïve. There is no country on this planet where racism does not exist.