That’s an awfully awful defense of bigotry. So unaware, so unempathic, so awful through and through.
I really hope that I will never think that way, no matter how old I am.
I really hope that I will never think that way, no matter how old I am.
Did you use his simple remark as an excuse to have an outlet for your own hatred?
There are far greater injusticies in the world to be so furius about than two old people laughing (and betweem themselves too) with a "culturally insensitive" or even racist joke.
The one's who can't stand such things, are the ancestors of the very countries that perpetuated the worst racist crimes. So a lot of this PC fervor can be ascribed to guilt, or as an outlet for the same puritan and prudish thinking that made those cultures consider blacks as inferior (immoral, lustful, etc) in the first place.
In the 7 billion-something world (and I've been to most of it), regular people enjoy what you'd call a "racist" joke, INCLUDING for themselves and their own cultures. It's a way to laughs at one's neighbors but at one's self too.
But don't worry, as you age, if you are as lucky as the OP has been and as many other aging folks have for years ... nothing should change!