Coming second in the human race

[j4]

Horrified to discover that on a newsgroup full of apparently-intelligent people, it's apparently deemed quite okay for people to casually say "All Americans are thick" and "the French are all arrogant" -- and not even in the context of a joke, but apparently just stating facts. And it can't be xenophobic, because everybody says it! It's a national tradition!

Next up: "It's racist to call a black person a racist". Argh.

I didn't expect to have to have these debates with adults. Am I just hopelessly naïve?

Comments

[hoiho.livejournal.com]

1) Buell is an immature idiot (who had a bad time when he lived in the US)
2) Huge likes being offensive
3) Firth is just trolling

[oldbloke.livejournal.com]

In partic, IRL Huge rather likes America and (many) Americans. iirc.

[j4.livejournal.com]

So? Huge was being rude about the French. "Oh, yeah, I think the Germans are all bastards, but that's okay, because I like the Welsh."

[oldbloke.livejournal.com]

Oh, was he? I wasn't paying much attention.