04-08-2015, 09:48 AM
punafish - always appreciate your thoughtful posts, although you may be overextending your experiences with how the Japanese resolve conflicts within their group to all Asians (or Polynesians)? No doubt you know your history and understand the long racial/racist legacy that Japan has. Would be interested in how you see the language currently being used as trying to promote harmony or allows for maintaining dignity.
snorkle - thanks for the extra readings, gave me something to do whilst checking my knickers. Another possibility (other than white fragility) is that some are aware of the repeated negative results of racist language and reasoning. Again, everyone is welcome to their opinions but history does not offer many examples of positive outcomes from such beliefs.
southernmost - sorry, no can join you, the lines have been drawn and I'm one of them. Not that my haole opinion matters, but am always supportive of people taking a stand for what they believe in. Only downside would be if actions are conducted in a manner that is highly objectionable and divisive...
Since Gandhi & civil disobedience was brought up - Gandhi changed history and the world because he recognized the common humanity on all sides of the conflicts, even as people were beating, imprisoning, and killing one another. There is a reason why he is called The Great Soul and his teachings formed the basis for the non-violent US Civil Rights movement.
"An eye for and eye only makes the whole world blind." M.K. Gandhi
snorkle - thanks for the extra readings, gave me something to do whilst checking my knickers. Another possibility (other than white fragility) is that some are aware of the repeated negative results of racist language and reasoning. Again, everyone is welcome to their opinions but history does not offer many examples of positive outcomes from such beliefs.
southernmost - sorry, no can join you, the lines have been drawn and I'm one of them. Not that my haole opinion matters, but am always supportive of people taking a stand for what they believe in. Only downside would be if actions are conducted in a manner that is highly objectionable and divisive...
Since Gandhi & civil disobedience was brought up - Gandhi changed history and the world because he recognized the common humanity on all sides of the conflicts, even as people were beating, imprisoning, and killing one another. There is a reason why he is called The Great Soul and his teachings formed the basis for the non-violent US Civil Rights movement.
"An eye for and eye only makes the whole world blind." M.K. Gandhi