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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So in summary, the only people on this thread that think that race based jokes are ok are white parents who seem to think we live in a post racial society. Okay then. [/quote]

Do you think it’s relevant that these parents live in a racially diverse area?  I’m guessing most of the pearl clutching people on this thread don’t. [/quote]

This.  As the Dad that lives in MV, I bet that most of the people criticizing my kid and his friends probably wouldn't stop at a red light at night on Montgomery Village Ave, but are telling me that I don't understand how teenagers talk about race.  [/quote]

I'm the Asian PP who said that it's fine for kids to joke with each other if everyone likes it, but I disagreed with your statement that "this is the world that you fought for people." I merely said this is not the world I fought for, and it's not the world my teens live in, even though they have diverse friends. I don't wish to be called dog-eater by my diverse group of friends, and my teens don't wish to be called that by their diverse group of friends either. It's great for you and your kids, and not great for me and mine. Then I get attacked by someone saying that I'm not a victim and shouldn't claim victim status. When I explain that in fact I've been subject to hate speech and race-based sexual assault, I get labeled with an "inferiority complex." I don't know if those comments came from you, the Blair parents who agree with you, or someone else. But I have good reason to believe that this post-racial world your kid enjoys is the exception and not the rule among teens in the DMV. Kudos to you for achieving such enlightenment. The rest of us get abused when we voice our experiences with racism.[/quote]

If everyone likes it... is the point. But you keep going on about the dog eating, which wasn't said to you or yours. This is about the world teens live in, not about you, your experience or what you prefer to be called. Why you keep making this about you is bizarre.[/quote]

And your lack of reading comprehension is bizarre. MV dad gets it. You don't. [/quote]

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