*sigh* we've got a long way to go...

I want to comment on something I overheard today, but I'm having a hard time coming up with a way to paraphrase it that removes the extreme racism of the original. And let me add, this isn't the more talked about "[They] are..." racism, but rather the equally pernicious "[We] are..." kind. I suppose the best way to put it is "How dare [person] think he is different from the rest of us! He knows deep down that he really wants to [racial stereotype],[racial stereotype], and [racial stereotype], he just doesn't want to admit it!" I really wish I thought the person saying this was joking or quoting someone else, but tone of voice and body language say otherwise.

*sigh* I'm one of those people who tries to see the other persons point of view, and I simply can't wrap my brain around the idea of people who expect others to be near clones of them. I can kind of understand the people who think that everyone should be just like them and that anyone too different simply isn't a person, but assuming that deep down everyone is really just like *you*? No. Just no.

And that's not even getting into the fact that two of the {racist stereotypes] were things that I've never heard of being used in any sort of positive sense. It was kind of like listening to a blond say of a fellow blond "How dare she not act like the butt of a dumb blond joke!" I mean, I can understand taking pride in some stereotypes, "Orientals are good at math" for example, but others like "girls are bad at science" I can't understand someone considering positive. Maybe the anger was really directed inward, at the speaker not being able to do the same as [person], because other than that I just don't get it...