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Just My Feelings
Posted On: 02/22/2008 15:40:33
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I put a comment on a blog posted yesterday that was a joke about Mexicans. I've held back for some time through the year and a half I've been on Boomer when I am offended by ethnic jokes, but finally couldn't stay silent any longer.
Some seem to find it funny to post derogatory jokes or blogs about those of the Mexican nationality. I just finally got fed-up enough to say something. The joke inferred, from what I understood, that seeing the Mexicans with a motorcycle immediately was interpreted as, not that it was owned by them, but that they must have stolen it. That's stereotyping.
I wish people would not find it necessary here on Boomer to post such things that disparage a particular group of people. I happen to have two children who are 1/2 Mexican from their father's side and two of my grandsons are 3/4 Mexican as their father is 100% Mexican. So you may understand why all this anti-Mexican stuff irritates me.
Since my feelings on this are not so much about that one joke as about jokes in general that poke fun at any particular group of people or blogs that put them down, I thought maybe I should just put my feelings out here publicly in a blog of my own.
Anyway, I expect I'm not going to change anyone's way of thinking. I just felt SOMEONE should speak up so that all those who find these sort of things appropriate can know that not ALL of us feel the way they do, and maybe they might take that into consideration, especially when some of us just might BE Mexican or closely related to one (or any ethnic group of people about whom someone is writing in a derogatory manner).
There's loads of funny stuff out there we can all enjoy, and many subjects one can blog about without stooping to this level. How about we think twice about what we are posting and try to make sure we will not offend?
Thanks for listening to my rant.
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