metal_romantic
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I'd never heard it before either. That's awful. Don't people realize that when they say these kinds of words, they are putting themselves down too? They are telling you something about themselves rather than the person they are trying to insult or make fun of. They are telling you that they are ignorant, rude, disrespectful and hateful. When you put someone down because they are different to you, you are showing that you are not secure in yourself and your own humanness. If you truly valued yourself as a person, a member of the human race, you would not feel the need to focus on racial differences because you would value the humanity of others and the differences would seem insignificant in a sense. If you place value on yourself by seeing yourself as superior to another race, you are only placing value on a skin colour or race instead of who you are inside and that's sad. It's also NOT the way to get people to seriously listen to what you want to say and respect your intelligence and yourself.
People from different races do have their differences in looks, in culture etc. but this is something we should embrace and celebrate. We can always learn more about ourselves and grow as people by learning about other people and their way of life, their beliefs, their way of looking at the world, etc. We should be proud of who we are- our background, culture, race etc. but if that's what you place your value on, rather than who you really are then who are you when you turn out the light? Where is your real identity?
And if you have big lips, then anyone who picks on you for it, is probably jealous because their collagen injection gave them a trout-pout.
Wow, that was a long post. Sorry if I lost anyone!
Originally Posted by Lauren1981
it's a word referring to black people but in a negative way. like when ppl do the whole "blackface" thing it's like feeding into and joking about the negative stereotypes of how a "typical" black person looks physically (i.e. black skin, wide nose, huge lips) it's kind of along the lines of using the "N" word as far as it being derogatory and a racial slur but it's referring more to the stereotype of how black people "look" |
I'd never heard it before either. That's awful. Don't people realize that when they say these kinds of words, they are putting themselves down too? They are telling you something about themselves rather than the person they are trying to insult or make fun of. They are telling you that they are ignorant, rude, disrespectful and hateful. When you put someone down because they are different to you, you are showing that you are not secure in yourself and your own humanness. If you truly valued yourself as a person, a member of the human race, you would not feel the need to focus on racial differences because you would value the humanity of others and the differences would seem insignificant in a sense. If you place value on yourself by seeing yourself as superior to another race, you are only placing value on a skin colour or race instead of who you are inside and that's sad. It's also NOT the way to get people to seriously listen to what you want to say and respect your intelligence and yourself.
People from different races do have their differences in looks, in culture etc. but this is something we should embrace and celebrate. We can always learn more about ourselves and grow as people by learning about other people and their way of life, their beliefs, their way of looking at the world, etc. We should be proud of who we are- our background, culture, race etc. but if that's what you place your value on, rather than who you really are then who are you when you turn out the light? Where is your real identity?
And if you have big lips, then anyone who picks on you for it, is probably jealous because their collagen injection gave them a trout-pout.
Wow, that was a long post. Sorry if I lost anyone!
