Cool story sis |
Go ahead and tell the 3 year old that she's doing it wrong. |
Not to mention in my house, the first princess was Moana. When we went to the store and picked out a Moana doll, my kid says no. She’s wants Elsa. Has she seen Frozen? Nope. Does my kid look like Elsa? Nope. Sorry Op. The princesses are from European fairy tales. Of course they are white. It’s great that they’ve expanded. I love seeing Mulan, Moana, and Tiana. There has been plenty of work in recent years. Still. The human eye has preferences. |
This reminds me of the story about a white girl who wanted to buy a black doll. The cashier questioned her decision.... https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article142549594.html |
Yeah except the total opposite. |
Nice story. Next, please. |
It could be that Elsa's dress is more sparkly than Moana's |
Sounds to me you are more bigoted now than you were as a kid. |
Minorities are often invisible to the members of the privileged majority, even if not openly vilified. I’ll give an example. I work in an extremely progressive nonprofit organization, where the majority of employees are white. The entire accounting team as well as HR and operations is black. Most of the people don’t even know the names of the people in accounting. It’s so apparent. One day a person was giving a tour to new employees. He named teams and pointed out.people naming them as they walked through the office. He walked right by this black team with no mention or hesitation. Our comptroller who is black had to say, excuse me! We exist! I’m so and so... it was so embarrassing. I’m not white or black. I’m a senior level staff. Even before this incident I made a point to chat with the people on this team, even inviting one over who lives near me because we’re both moms. It’s very clear that no one else on my side of the office would ever do this. People, just make an effort! |
+1 |
As a white person who had an outhouse in 1986, OP, your prejudice is against against poor and foreign people.
FWIW, when I went out of my Appalachian community, my friends were the other outcasts....like by best friend who was transgender before it was cool, and my Chinese friend who didn’t speak English well, and my black friend who struggled like me assimilating. All this is so much more socio-economic and cultural than race. Most white people’s “black friends” are kids of doctors. So cute how you think you get it. |
I wasn't racist until I learned that I'd be called a racist for being white no matter what I did, and then I was like, eff it, might as well be racist. |
not true. I have heard many former nationalists in interviews and they are like different people |
What you want a cookie? Yeah takes serious guts to be so forthcoming on an anonymous forum. |
Doesn't the fact that your 'outcast' friends were mostly non white negate your point? |