... I would like to give you the benefit of the doubt here, I really would, but I'm reading this and just staring in shock. How can you honestly see nothing wrong with comparing a non-white male to a ravening non-human monster?
Alien does not mean bad, and never has as far as I know.
Humans have been killing, abusing and discriminating against other human beings and denying their humanity for being "other" (alien, foreign, exotic) for all of human history. Pulling out the dictionary definition of these words says NOTHING about their connotations or the historical baggage associated with them.
I kinda feel like I'm done here. I just don't know what else to say and I don't think you're listening to me at all. Maybe it's because I'm expressing myself badly. I really do hope that when you calm down and back off and get a little distance from this, you'll start doing some reading and begin to understand why people are getting upset at the things you're saying.
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Date: 2008-06-18 12:24 am (UTC)Alien does not mean bad, and never has as far as I know.
Humans have been killing, abusing and discriminating against other human beings and denying their humanity for being "other" (alien, foreign, exotic) for all of human history. Pulling out the dictionary definition of these words says NOTHING about their connotations or the historical baggage associated with them.
I kinda feel like I'm done here. I just don't know what else to say and I don't think you're listening to me at all. Maybe it's because I'm expressing myself badly. I really do hope that when you calm down and back off and get a little distance from this, you'll start doing some reading and begin to understand why people are getting upset at the things you're saying.