I agree with pete especially when it comes to historically accurate depictions.
How offended would people from the Congo be if they saw that there were white natives?
Is that something the white people are then taking away from them as well?
This is coming from a white female who isn't even american so I have so little to do with the issue, however, it's becoming ridiculous how offended people become and how sheltered also.
Not the same but in terms of political correctness and wrapping society in cotton wool, Pete mentioned on the show a couple of weeks ago about how Id posted on the community board asking for help, and long story short, one DISer got to the point that she found it necessary to "warn" everyone to investigate what I was asking of them because I may be in collusion with an employee from MAC cosmetics to plan a terrorist plot... Really?! Have we become so jaded and suspicious that police officers are targeting unarmed black men, the Congo scene should be "less offensive to black people" and someone asking for help to get items posted internationally is plotting to off some innocent person with a fake package of makeup?!
People need to calm down.
I'm 29 years old (in a month) so I'm a Gen Y, who has grown up in this acceptance era. I think our generation are potentially less religious en mass, (at least in australia my generation are far less religious than our parents generation) and therefore things like same sex marriage/marriage equality is a no brainer for many of us, love is love etc. Pete is right, we don't see colour as much as our parents did, again, they were born in the late 40's, 50's and early 60's presumably, when racism was still quite prevalent.
We have grown up in a time where females are allowed to vote and have the same rights as men, something some countries still don't have today.
We are an equal generation, so my hope is that will continue and sad as it is, as the older generations thin out, that hate will too. There will always be people who are racist, sexist, and homophobic, but I hope that my generation can control that, and not let it swing the other way as these so called 3rd graders have demonstrated.
My generation are those having kids now, let's not teach them this idiocy, but also, let's not teach them the hate either.
