It strikes me as a wanton desire to get offended as a pretext to deliver a lecture about cultural sensitivity, thereby elevating the lecturer and diminishing the person receiving the lecture. It is immensely tedious and almost everybody is sick of it.
The person you are responding to obviously did not speak with any ill intent. He or she would probably have been more amenable to your viewpoint if you hadn't assumed malice and gone on the attack.
First you accuse him of racism then say something derogatory about white people. Do you not see the contradiction, or are you one of those who subscribe to the ideological position that anti-white racism is impossible by definition?
And if you suggested to the average Spanish person that they are not "white" they'd laugh at you.
Tell someone who said they felt "gypped" that they are disparaging Gypsies and they might have no clue that they were doing so. Are they nonetheless racist?
I give them a pass. But I'm white so maybe I am not sensitive enough to these issues.
> the modern American so-called left engages in constantly
I associate with the "left", am "left", not aware of anyone in my circles engaging in that sort of language policing.
My linguistic humor is based off the internet - English is not my first language.
Im Indian and most definitely not white. However will still apologise for it.
Maybe I've been conditioned wrong.
Also "humbling" is not the word I would have used to describe the speaker — I don't think that is the same as "self-deprecating".
Wish I had the confidence of a white person to never think about my affect on others... or what language can do. Let alone to get paid like one since I get to put up with ignorant shit like this on the daily.