Hypersyllogistic Forums: The dark side of PC. - Hypersyllogistic Forums

As a student, I live along certain cultural stereotypes. I drink far too much, far too often, I hold strong liberal social views (though rather unstereotypically, I'm not a pseudo-communist; I also believe in economic liberalism), I play guitar in a rock band, do not maintain the best standards of domestic hygene, am often in need of grooming, and work for something not much higher than minimum wage.

As a minimum wage worker, I will of course end up working alongside members of several other tiers of society; convicts, the not-too-bright ("Her Majesty's Armed forces material", if you will), and, of course, immigrants.

Now, immigrants come in all shapes, sizes, colours, sexes and religions, but a pretty common variety over here are what we Brits refer to as "Asians", though Americans would probably refer to them as "Middle Eastern", and Republicans would, of course, refer to them as "Terrorists", and any resident Coulterites may also know them as "Sand Niggers".

Now, immigrants in general, for all their differences, have one thing in common; a rather poor command of the English language, and of course, a funny accent.

So when my current employer decided to hire an immigrant, of the Asian variety, with the aforementioned characteristic, into a position that by it's very nature requires constant verbal communication, there is going to be some giggling, and some jokes, when the pronounciation is especially comical, or unintelligable.

And because said employee is of a different skin colour, and because the people in this society have been ultra trained to be super sensitive to issues of race, someone just has to blow the fucking racism whistle, and a certain yours truly gets the bollocking, the "first verbal warning", I have to tone down my "racist jokes". "Racist jokes" of course meaning the impersonation of another employees accent, to a chorus of laughter from most of my fellow employees.

Well, I'm not a fucking racist, I'd in fact describe myself as colour blind, and this has pissed me off.

You see, when people talk unusually, it often provokes laughter, for instance when South Park's Eric Cartman pronounces "Authority" as "Authoritah", it's often provokes the audience to laugh. As low brow as this humour may be, it's still funny. People who talk funny, talk funny.

So this is why I'm espeically pissed off about this. The PC gestapo, has come to a point where any joke that would normally be acceptable if directed at a white person, becomes "racist" when directed at someone of a minority race. In this case, the whistleblower has no problem making fun of people with thick regional accents from this country, or the continent, or Australia, or North America, and often does so himself (for instance another employee with a "posh" accent from the South East of England).

Well, I'd like to propose that since people mocking eachother isn't going to go away (it's even depicted in the utopian society of Star Trek), can't we be a tad less racist about it? Racism isn't going to go away, until people stop being sensitive to such trivial things as jokes, and become colour blind. There is no difference between races, so lets act like it for god's sake, and more importantly, if we're going to fight racism, let us stop focusing on trivial things like jokes and insults, and focus on the serious issues; racially motivated violence, and discrimination by employers, police and the judicial system; y'know, the stuff that matters .