People who use foul language, racist language or utter other insult do so because they wish to belittle their targets and make them feel awful. It gives them extra pleasure to know their victim is hurting. The only way to stop a bully, is to end the pleasure they derive from bullying you. You stand up to them.
The mindset needs to change. Why are insults that include reference to someone’s rac3 or ethnicity deemed to be more potent?? THEY ARE NOT! Calling someone a ‘fat idiot’ is an insult and it is horrible. Calling them a ‘fat brown idiot’ shouldn’t make the insult any more potent. It’s still just an insult and it’s horrible, but not extra horrible or at least it shouldn’t be.
I am not saying we should normalise racist insult, but in all honesty, all the recent noise about this topic is not really seeking to address it. And the bizarre attempts to curtail it, is clearly a waste of time (has been for decades). Hurling insult is what should be addressed; any kind of insult. Period. It’s all about decency. The person hurling racist abuse is not necessarily the folk who are enacting horrible policies and laws that impact minorities a lot more than them putting up with racist insult.
An insult is an insult and should be frowned upon, regardless of the inclusion of race..
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