I've noticed millennials, particularly ones that live in the city like to pretend racism just doesn't exist no matter how apparent it may be. For instance, they don't much care for gentrification on paper but that never stops them in practice. If you were to ask the college kids or what are known as young urban professional moving into Wicker Park or Logan Square if they're gentrifying the area they would probably stay no we are making it better!
Of course making it better just happened to involve driving out all the low-income people of color. In no way though is that related to racism, classism, or any other ism these hip post-racial folk would never dream of being a part of!
Another odd thing about this is they are even sensitive to white on white racism i.e. they don't much care for terms like pollock, mick, dago, etc. They also get upset over sweeping generalizations about nationalities. For the life of me.I can't understand why!
So I've decided to be casually racist more often in my day to day life. I'll say things like; "Nah I don't wanna eat there with all those loud eyetalians." Or "Isn't that place where the damn Romanians hang out?" Furthermore, I will take every opportunity possible to insult more nationalities based on old stereotypes. I will call the British incestuous organ eating ghouls. I will point out how strange it is the Scandinavians like to have pagan orgies in the woods.
Overly sensitive white people will get offended by this, and I'm ok with that. If someone gets genuinely offended by this sort of thing, I don't feel much in the way of sympathy just irritation. I forgot what the point to all this was...fuck being PC perhaps?
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