Jimmini jillickers, here we go again.
BRIZE said:
Skin colour is a mark of difference.
Black and white and yellow and every other colour are different. Period. Whether skin colour or car colour. A
mark of difference? As opposed to a non-mark of difference? This has no meaning.
BRIZE said:
Not an innate difference,
So...the Colour Fairy paints babies' skins while they're asleep?
BRIZE said:
but a difference nonetheless, socially constructed by White people.
All the laws of physics governing wave frequencies, colour perception, what-have-you, are rubbish. It's the White Man who does it all.
BRIZE said:
The discourse of 'colour-blindness' is an attempt to obscure these differences because they continue to benefit White people.
I think people of all nationalities are individuals and not to be despised purely because of some genetic difference. This includes the notion of considering whites and blacks as equal = the colour difference is not important to me = I don't see the colour difference. But you're saying I mustn't think that way because I'm a whitey (sorry, Whitey) and thinking that way benefits me? So I shouldn't be colour-blind. What should I think then? "You're a different colour to me...but I like you anyway"? But at the beginning I thought you said colour differences are 'not innate' and were invented by the White man.
BRIZE said:
Some of the posters here are clearly speaking from a position of white privilege
For example? You know these people personally? Or are you saying they're privileged purely because they're white?
BRIZE said:
you find 'reverse discrimination bloody annoying'
And you, presumably, find it perfectly acceptable without any sense of hypocrisy at all.
BRIZE said:
while MrSmith can't relate black face to racial suffering himself, so concludes that people are just 'too willing to be offended'
I was born white. I can't help it. Whether I'm privileged compared to others is a matter of opinion. Personally I can't think of any reason why I should be so considered.
The black faces in question were, firstly, one the OP wanted to wear to a fancy dress party - which, no, I can't relate to black suffering. I know there was black suffering, but I don't see the connection. Or maybe the OP is a reincarnation of Hitler, eh? The second is the picture at the top, which is intrinsically funny but which I said somewhere above I could understand being offensive after reading the linked article (the contents of which I was largely ignorant).
My comments about 'being too willing to be offended' were a direct, knee-jerk reaction to another poster for what I perceived to be an unfair, unwarranted attack towards me. However, the same may be extended in your direction. You accuse some of the people here of offending your sensibilities but offer no concrete examples. You've clearly jumped on some bandwagon of discontentment, seemingly without any rational thought whatsoever, and quite prepared to make sweeping statements about people you don't even know.
BRIZE said:
Frankly, I'm appalled by some of the comments in this thread, especially those from British members.
"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn"
Oh, funnily enough, my wife is Asian, so it's unlikely I'm a closet Adolf. And I'm sure as hell not overly sensitive about the colour of her skin either. Sorry, but after all these years I got the dreaded colour-blindness.
