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Originally Posted by Rich Iwaszko
So these 2 polish guys go deer hunting. They walk for about an hour and then spot a very very large buck with a large rack of horns. They both fire and put him down. They start dragging him by the feet back to their pick-up truck. After about 1/2 hour, one stops and says, the rack of horns keeps catching on the bushes and trees. It would be a lot easier to drag the deer by the antlers so it wouldn't get stuck along the way. The other hunter agrees. After 2 more hours of dragging the buck, they stop to rest. One hunter says, you know, I think we are getting farther away from the truck.
One man asks another, why are so many Italians named Tony? The man answers, the boats of immigrants went past the Statue of Liberty, docked and let all the passengers off. They were seperated into groups going to different locations. For New York locations, the heads of the men were stamped in an abbreviated form, TO NY once they arrived they were all registered that way.
We have all been raised in a racist world. If you get to adulthood and don't realize that and still talk ill of people, it's because your are ignorant. And we will talk ill of you, smarten up.
QUOTE=BrianL99;2210567]OK, so admittedly this is somewhat of a troll.
I know better than to think the conversation will remain civil, but I'm curious.
In today's world, we'd be pummeled for characterizing a person of color, as a ... (insert your own adjective).
We surely don't call people with physical disabilities, "cripples" or even "handicapped".
In some circles of government, words like "terrorist" are even verboten.
Hardly a comedian in the world, would risk mouthing a "Polish Joke".
We're not supposed to identify folks, based on their sexual preference or even their "birth gender/sex". Essentially, it's no longer deemed proper to identify people based on their lifestyle choices.
The acceptable stereotyping of our youth, has gone by the boards.
Aren't words like: "yankee", "northerner", "snowbirds", etc., used in the same sort of derogatory way, unacceptable stereotyping?
I read and hear those words every day in The Villages, used almost exclusively as a pejorative.
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Jokes aside. You are correct. We have been raised with many biases. We will likely all insert those biases at some point, BUT we don’t have to be complacent and stay stagnant when the world around us provides us new information about our behavior.
"The tragedy of life is not found in failure but complacency. Not in you doing too much, but doing too little. Not in you living above your means, but below your capacity. It's not failure but aiming too low, that is life's greatest tragedy." ~ Benjamin E. Mays
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Complacency is the forerunner of mediocrity. You can never work too hard on attitudes, effort and technique." ~ Don Meyer