SHOULD NOT HAVE TO SAY
(a rant or whatever)
· “I’m not rac¹st, I have a ton of _____ friends!”
· And, “They don’t mind!”
· And, “I’m not rac¹st, I love _____ people!”
· Also, “I’m not rac¹st, I’m _____.”
· Also, “It was just a joke!”
First off… okay? So what if you’re friends with multiple people of that certain ethnicity? That doesn’t change the fact that what you said was rac¹st (making you, in fact, rac¹st). Just because you have many friends of a certain race doesn’t make it okay for you to say anything about that race. You have no right, no matter how close you may be to them [your friends]. It’s not okay.
Secondly, just because they don’t mind does not mean everyone else doesn’t mind either. They might be okay with it, but not everyone is, and you need to respect that.
If you ‘love’ said people, then why would you make a slur/remark/comment like that?
And if your excuse is the last one (“It was just a joke!”), then I can’t accept that. That is not a joke, and if you think anything racial is funny or something to joke about, then that is just further evidence that proves to me that you’re rac¹st.