We seem able to contemplate the full range of seven deadly sins with hardly a murmur, but at the merest hint of racial vilification we teter on the brink of nervous breakdown. Will we get over this, too?
I’m sorry, but I have no idea what that even means.
Racist language violates a strong taboo in the U.S. That’s sad, because it hints that racist beliefs and feelings are also strong.
(Societies never have taboos against things they don’t want to do. They have taboos against things they’re tempted to do.)
Perhaps, in time, we’ll gain wisdom, until the vilest racist language will be no more disturbing than petty nationalist language is today. (Nationalist slang is still offensive, but much less offensive than racist slang. “Frenchy,” for instance, has very little power to hurt, in contrast to…examples I’ll forbear to cite.)
Huh? There are lots of things that are taboo that I think / hope / believe most members of our society have no desire to do: cannibalism, pedophilia, bestiality, murder, slavery, etc.
People “accepted” racial vilification for centuries - largely because they had no choice in the matter. It is only in recent years that people have *stopped *accepting it.
Is the OP interested in going back to a time when people knew their place?
Is the OP asking if we will ever return to a time when overt racism can be overlooked as a mere personality quirk, and cause no further reaction?
I sure hope not!
Do you know what the seven deadly sins actually are? Comparing them to “racial vilification” seems like apples and oranges.
Mmmmm, apples and oranges!!
This glutton asks that you spoiler such triggers.
People are too slothful these days to deal properly with racism.
Really :dubious:
Does that make you wrathful?
Yes, and I’m envious of those cultures which are different.
How would a non-slothful person properly deal with racism?
I’m too proud to admit I can’t make heads nor tales of what the OP is on about.
Lustily?
(More seriously: racism/supremacism would fall under “Pride” [because of the implication of superiority] and if acted upon under “wrath” [because of the physical or mental violence, however mild])
Just curious, what’s “mental violence”? Is that like a micro-aggression or something? I thought violence was pretty much physical by nature.
Matthew 5:21-22:
It’s quite clear that Christian doctrine lumps together both angry actions and angry words/thoughts under the sin of wrath. So I presume that “mental violence” would be wishing to hurt somebody and/or expressing that wish without physically hurting them.
The difference is, with the seven deadly sins you have a choice, you can always stop being a glutton or whatever. Racial vilification goes to something you can’t change.
Am I the only one still a bit confused on the definition or “racial vilification”? Is it something that one (presumably a minority race) receives / perceives from others? Or does “racial vilification” describe the actions of racists towards members of other races, which, presumably they could change?
I think the OP is basically just complaining that he still gets chided for using the N-word even though it’s no longer taboo to show penises or same-sex relationships on the TV.