Xbox live racism

Originally Posted by Pangalin

Maybe 5% of these kids are actually racist (or homophobic, or whatever). The rest of them are just jerking off their egos.

Racism is racism, doesn't matter if they're actually racist (whatever that means). Anyone uttering racial slurs in any context is a contemptible bag of shit. You think the mentalities present on Live or anywhere else just magically appear out of nowhere and then evaporate when they sign off?

How ya doing, buddy?

To say they're 'just words' is to shrug off the issue and ignore it, thinking that it vanishes. This is why racism is not* so overt and implicit now, because it doesn't disappear; it's just repressed. Yeah, kids do like to say crap to offend people, but when there's no visible consequence, why is there reason to assume they all know better?

*Edit:
Forgot to put 'not'

There's nowhere I can't reach.