Closet bigotry at it's finest.
So. Here are the highlights from the response my "friend" sent to me after i replied to her email.
Dawn - No need to get upset, and no need to so carefully worry about offending me (but thank you for your care). You have no need to feel like you have to defend a group of billions of people, and furthermore, I am referring to a specific sub group at my school, not as broad as you were probably thinking... Believe me, I have no beef with you - you speak the language, for God's sake; you have family here, you don't want to eat my cat or start an all-asian strip mall and give me a steely stare if I dare walk in the door. For Gods sake, you like to be very brash and crass about almost everything but you get all ultra-sensitive about something that refers to a culture that I don't think has really too much to do with half of yours, and then just a particular group at my school at that... since Pete's been living in Chinatown for the cheap rent and halfway point between me and his work we get dirty looks when we go to Uwajimaya for groceries, his neighbors won't aknowledge him if they see him on the street, etc. yes, now we are EDUCATED but now we also have good cause to dislike the GROUP, but not individuals. At least in upper MI we won't get dirty stares when we try to go to the store and people will speak the language... chalk it up to a my being a native being pushed out of the only home I've ever known (through crowding, being priced out, etc.). The people could be the nicest in the world, I'd still dislike the group for that...it's not like I LOVE all whites either (example - Springer trash, loggers who don't give a damn about the environment)... So there, I wouldn't like ANYBODY if I didn't let individuals determine whether I liked them or not,and I think that's the fair mehod, without having to like every GROUP first.
This is one of those things where if I didn't laugh I'd have to cry. What I really don't understand is how someone could honestly write all of this down and then some (it's been greatly condensed) and not look at their own words and say to themselves, "God, I'm a stupid, ignorant piece of shit."
Suffice to say, she is no longer my friend. Good riddance.
Dawn - No need to get upset, and no need to so carefully worry about offending me (but thank you for your care). You have no need to feel like you have to defend a group of billions of people, and furthermore, I am referring to a specific sub group at my school, not as broad as you were probably thinking... Believe me, I have no beef with you - you speak the language, for God's sake; you have family here, you don't want to eat my cat or start an all-asian strip mall and give me a steely stare if I dare walk in the door. For Gods sake, you like to be very brash and crass about almost everything but you get all ultra-sensitive about something that refers to a culture that I don't think has really too much to do with half of yours, and then just a particular group at my school at that... since Pete's been living in Chinatown for the cheap rent and halfway point between me and his work we get dirty looks when we go to Uwajimaya for groceries, his neighbors won't aknowledge him if they see him on the street, etc. yes, now we are EDUCATED but now we also have good cause to dislike the GROUP, but not individuals. At least in upper MI we won't get dirty stares when we try to go to the store and people will speak the language... chalk it up to a my being a native being pushed out of the only home I've ever known (through crowding, being priced out, etc.). The people could be the nicest in the world, I'd still dislike the group for that...it's not like I LOVE all whites either (example - Springer trash, loggers who don't give a damn about the environment)... So there, I wouldn't like ANYBODY if I didn't let individuals determine whether I liked them or not,and I think that's the fair mehod, without having to like every GROUP first.
This is one of those things where if I didn't laugh I'd have to cry. What I really don't understand is how someone could honestly write all of this down and then some (it's been greatly condensed) and not look at their own words and say to themselves, "God, I'm a stupid, ignorant piece of shit."
Suffice to say, she is no longer my friend. Good riddance.