If you’re just going to go ahead and think it’s empathy v. not having empathy because you found one black person who was offended, I don’t know what to say. If you’re trying to tell me I have to fall in line with what black people tell me to do, which one do I follow? Ben Carson or Obama? Who? All of them? That’s a lot of conflicting opinions and perspectives there. What do I do? Once again I’m going to refer to the fact that a group is comprised of individuals, you simplifying it to just black people can do no wrong is patronizing.
I said black people can do no wrong?
You have repeatedly said over the years that if a black person is offended about anything, I should change my behaviors and ideology to suit this stranger. It gives that impression.
No. If a black person says you shouldn’t eat toast because there’s a burned part that symbolizes the black man and you’re eating the black man, that’s ridiculous and you should ignore it. If a black man says a phrase is racist, and you look it up and it turns out that yeah that was the origin, then yeah maybe you shouldn’t use it anymore. It’s really not that complicated.
What if you don’t find it racist?
How about this - if some people (not all) are offended by something, don’t do it.
What sort of life is that? That would mean I wouldn’t be able to do literally anything but breathe. This is impossible. The things I personally get offended over would spoil a lot of people’s fun, like alcohol etc. . Do I do anything about it? No, because I realize I can’t police people from doing things I don’t like.
If you really think being offended over alcohol and over race are equivalent…I don’t even know what to do with that.
What about cultural appropriation? Some black people think that it’s racist for whites to do things that are typically “black”, like make rap music.