If you had kids in school, and in the course of explaining different facets of Japanese culture the teacher says "If you go to Japan or any Asian country, they can turn a television into a watch", you think most parents would be fine with that? Or covering Hispanic cultures and stating to the kids "You can see a Hispanic person and they can put 20 or 30 people in one home"?
Do you also agree with White's statement regarding homosexuality being as bad as lying?
No one here is saying Tom Crabtree or Reggie White can't say what their beliefs are.
But if you use stereotypes like that, and knock **** and ********, you are going to offend huge numbers of people, and you better expect some scrutiny.
Like I said, my wife is Chinese, and we both are well aware that Chinese are smarter (see SAT scores this year, last year, the year before, next year.... see the students studying to be doctors, etc.... note all those from India... those are stereotypes?).... Japanese are known for being electronic wizards. No shame in that.
Nobody told them they can't play baseball (see Ichiro, Yu Darvish), or golf (Ryo Ishikawa), or do other things.
My wife and her friends who are also Chinese, Thai, Japanese often joke about different things about themselves.
I know anything negative about black is not discussable though. That's off-limits no matter what, as parodied on SNL a few weeks ago.
Hispanic people are well-known, at least down here in Texas, for having multiple family units in the same house. No shame in that. It takes patience, and is smart to do in many cases.
Other cultures around the world are forced to pack many people into small dwellings.... no shame. I love the typical family values of Mexicans. They have strong family values in my opinion. Are there many Mexicans in the NBA or NFL? Nope. So what? There aren't many white guys playing CB in the NFL either. What does that mean? What does it mean that it's true? Does it mean something if I admit it is the case?
As far as the gay & ******* thing goes, I don't have enough time tonight to cover that.
I believe Reggie White had a faster path thru the Pearly Gates than anyone with the NAACP or GLADD has or ever will. Same with Kirk Cameron. Kirk believes that it's natural for a man and a woman... imagine that, it does in fact take a man and a woman to create life. What a natural thing to say. You put 100 women on one island stranded. You put 100 men on a different island, stranded. Now you put 100 men and 100 women together on a 3rd island stranded.
Come back in 40 years and see what naturally took place........ it's no fluke. It's natural.
I'll tie myself to Reggie and Kirk's path before I would with Ricky Martin, Adam Lambert, Elton John, Mitchell from Modern Family, etc.
But I do not blame them because I agree with your genetic report above that they were born that way. Nobody would choose to be that way. I can't imagine anyone choosing to be that way.
BTW, I do think Ellen Degeneres is one of the greatest humans, most kind, smart, funny, wonderful people in the USA and perhaps the nicest of anyone in Hollywood. And I know she's a *******. I think Martina Navratilova is a very good person, and I know she's a *******. I don't hate them. Don't dislike them for being gay. I genuinely like both of them as I would if they were not gay.
Same with Reggie and Kirk. They don't hate. They receive hate though, for their opinions. Funny how that works out (work
ed, in Reggie's case, RIP).
Obviously hot-button topics in America. But I agree it's usually better to discuss them than to hide them and pretend.
Everyone's different. No need to pretend that we're all identical.