Author Topic: Unnecessary Racist Slur  (Read 42835 times)

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Re: Unnecessary Racist Slur
« Reply #75: May 28, 2013, 05:09:41 AM »
No. You very obviously didn't. The point was - and that has been confirmed by several others here - is that we shouldn't have to legislate against everything. A certain amount of common sense is expected. And yes, as far as I'm concerned, walking into a crowd of strangers - of any nation or culture on the planet - and not mouthing off racial epithets is just common sense.

Australia, for example, is a melting pot of different cultures - many of them non-Western. But I've yet to see many individuals of a non-Western background - whether they be African, eastern Asian, Russian, middle Eastern or any other - march into a crowd of strangers and start yelling out racism. Those that do - Western or non-Western - are roundly condemned. We certainly don't sit back and say, "Oh, they're from Country X, it's cool, they just don't share our morals."

Do people say racist stuff with their friends? Sure, maybe. But they don't do it with a bunch of people they don't know. And you don't know most of the people here.