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No Comments The Casual Use Of Racism, Is It Acceptable??-unfinished
These past few days Mr Waugh has had numerous conversations with my class, because he (on a number of occasions) has witnessed this racism, i.e. when Benn and Tyler have their jokes, Benn (who is white) will call Tyler ‘shadowman’, ‘darkboy’ etc. because he is black, whereas Tyler will call Benn ‘garlic sauce’ ‘ghost’ etc. because he is white. It’s good that they don’t fall out over these ‘jokes’, but isn’t it bad that these jokes are around anyway?
Over the past few years, racism has dissolved itself into the liquid that is society, meaning that you can insult someone’s background, and feel no guilt, because it’s only a ‘joke’!
I am sitting on the fence in this argument because i will use these terms to joke and mess about with my friends, but on the other hand i realise that without noticing, i am demoralising millions of people’s ethnicity.