Racism at the airport?


The last bit in this stand-up routine is about how - by his own admission - he let his 3-year old run wild at the airport. She finds a toy store and starts messing with some Mickey Mouse balloons, and is stopped and told off by the staff. Bell calls this "racism", because apparently you aren't supposed to yell at black people??? The fuck? Being black grants you some sort of immunity? Now, THAT's racism.

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Asians are guilty of this too. I remember a few years ago there was a Chinese woman who brought a baby on an airplane and allowed him to poop either in the seat or the aisle right there out in front of everybody. On the IMDb politicis board, many liberals tried to explain that this is just Chinese culture and that it was racist to oppose letting them do it. I think we need to keep in mind that there are two very different types of racism. One is statistical observations like noticing that different groups have different crimes rates for example. This is honest not hateful, and an assessment of reality. The other kind of racism is emotional. It is the belief that we ought to expect less from blacks in particular because they are judged to be inferior. It comes from an inability to appreciate differences and so requires measuring by arbitrary standards like how many blacks work in computer programming, and scapegoating when they fail to live up to it, because racist whites refuse to hire them or the education system doesn't have enough money but not that there are biological differences. That is a very hateful attitude and yet it is the acceptable type of racism. I think whites are the only race that is not racially aware and that this attitude will change with demographics and identity politics success. White liberals will not be prepared for it even though they have been preaching the anti-racism line from every Fortune 500 Human Resources manual for a half century or more.

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And another thing: When he tells the story of when he told his daughters "we're all black people here..." Ok? Imagine a white father of a white family saying to his kids, "we're all white people here..." How fucked up wouldn't that be? Hell, this guy's daughters have a white mother, imagine if the ethnicities were reversed. Black mother, white father, mixed kids. And the father says to his daughters, "we're all white people here..."

It is understandable that people who grow up with racism start seeing racism in every nook and cranny, like a rape victim who recoils from touch no matter what the nature of the touch. But understandable though it is, it doesn't make him any less of an idiot, nor any less of a racist.

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