I don't think the initial question was meant to disrupt or offend. People, especially Americans of which I am one, put way too much emphasis on race.
No, I think some people are just too ridiculously itchy-squirmy about the strangest things (and I'm thinking its the very same ones who freaked out and wildly overreacted and made wild leaping assumptions and claimed that even the very question or that the very mention itself of Black people itself was somehow 'too much emphasis')
How is somebody just
asking who's out there somehow 'putting way too much emphasis on race' -- or anything
else for that matter?
and where did any of this magically translate into somebody thinking they're better than somebody else? I guess somehow I manage to miss that magic bounding leap too.
There's another
thread on this forum where somebody put a poll up and asked after who's got tattoos... is that 'putting way too much emphasis' on tattoos? Is that question making anybody itchy squirmy and making wild assumptons of .. tatooism" (I don't even think there's a word for 'freaking out about acknowledging tattooed people are around' or if there is I don't know it) and if not (and I don't think it is either btw) again,
whats the difference? Really.
Why aren't all these magical wild assumptions stuck to any other groups of people who have something in common (or different) from one another or just simply expressing any sort of curiosity and asking after one another for any reason whatsoever?
Until/unless you can give me a better explanation than the one you just offered as how its any different of a question than the tattoo query, or if I went ahead to ask if there's any other short people, etc., I just don't get it.
Are short people okay to acknowledge? is that gonna bring the itchy squirmies?
What about disabled people?
What if I'm Jewish and I want to know if there's any other Jews out here? (that one would probably be certain to bring a few so-called 'overly allergic American' alarm responses I suppose.)
We also have geographical
threads and social subsets here based on region... I'm sure glad I can find other Michiganders without creeping out upsetting and alarming all the
non-Michiganders or causing anybody to leap to conclusions and think by finding each other that means maybe somehow Michigan's just about to leave the union or something just for our looking and finding one another
(There's even Black people in Michigan too!)
oh and I'm an American too in addition to being a Michigander, (that's kinda handy how that works out
), and if anything (as demonstrated here) I suppose this discussion demonstrates that 'as an American of which I am one' I'm 'guilty' of 'making an issue out of the fact that somebody else has has already gone out of their way to make huge bizarre selective undue issue out of' something'... or maybe that's a "Michigander thing" lol (either way, I can live with that.)
