Well I for one certainly was not outraged at Lons' question much less faux outrage... I was simply curious as to why he was asking the question... I do think tho' that accusing people of faux Outrage is presumptuous and unfair !! I on the other hand am White I have absolutely nothing of colour in my Ancestry which is white Irish /Scottish for centuries.. however my father had such deep olive skin, as does one of my sisters everyone thought he was Spanish or Italian (which he wasn't).... whereas I inherited the strong Blue eyes fair skinned freckled skin of my ancestors.. We grew up without prejudice of any kind against any colour, it just never occurred to anyone in my very large family to think of anyone in black and white, it was never even mentioned that anyone was a different colour, it was just accepted that we were all just people, I do remember when I was very little my mum telling me something the Chinese tell their own small children when explaining the colour of their skin ..they say.. When God makes babies, he puts them in the oven to bake... The white ones are the underdone ones.. The black ones are the overdone,, ..and the Chinese are the most perfectly cooked of all
@Lon Tanner Surely there must be Asian, Black, Hispanic Seniors that could participate in this forum and add some different perspective to the discussions. Sounds like an invitation. Nothing to be criticized. Oh, no one was criticizing. Pffffffffffft.
Perhaps Lon has different nationalities living in the senior care home where he lives , who he could invite...
@Holly Saunders Sorry I was presumptuous about those saying they were offended as fake outrage, but I have dealt with it my entire life. A simple question is ask and people are totally offended and turn it into a racial thing. I apologize to any that were genuinely offended because of personal experience. Only Lon knows his reason for asking.
It amazes me how a simple question can kick off a firestorm. Let me be more specific - Do we have African-Americans or Asians in the forum? -- Merged with the other thread. I included the thread title here, in orange.
The opening post was a racial thing. Now, keep in mind that I am not saying that it was necessarily a racist thing, since they are not the same thing, but the thread is about the race of members of this form, which makes it a racial thing.
We are all just people here. Good grief. I don't know why anyone needs a label. (I'm just a doggie with sun glasses.)
Please do note that I do not care if someone is offended or not by the OP and I think I made that pretty apparent by my previous replies. I see in your later post that you acknowledge the fact that you indeed do not know who is or who would not be “faking” or not so I believe I made my point. Apology most humbly accepted. So far as the avatars, do also note that some people such as myself are not camera friendly. I posted one picture on this forum and that will probably be the last one until possibly February when I dry out. Now, what can be taken from all of this? I really hate assumptions even though nearly everyone does it at one time or another. It’s merely a large hole filled with ignorance and surrounded by personal logic which.....isn’t at all logical when one is searching for truth.
Wouldn't it be wonderful if the whole world were like these 2 toddlers... https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...video-best-friends.html#v-6389816575882408638
Anyone who can put a sentence together in English (or something resembling English) is welcome in this forum. We do not require DNA results.
Race and ethnicity are different things. I read the opening post to be more about ethnicity than race. One's "race" (we are all members of the human race) wouldn't add any different perspective to a forum, but their ethnic heritage and experiences might. Maybe Lon thinks that race determines our perspectives, if so he is wrong and I too would feel he was insensitive and has limited experience with people different than himself.. A good example is members of a group either religious or political and of different "races" will give you in general the same perspective on topics related to their groups beliefs. Ask them about unrelated things such as music,food, etc., and you might get a wide interesting variety of responses. And yes I was too easily annoyed by the responses shaming him and not saying why they thought he was wrong. I will try to be more tolerant.