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Sep. 14th, 2006 07:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sebastiennewho is the prejudiced one in this situation: it's so confusing!
my nan is afraid about having to be looked after by a social worker (far, far in the future for her yet, but it's happening to some of her friends, so it's on her mind). she's talking about the terrible things the council is doing to a friend of hers, when she drops the line, "i'm not a racist, but..".
this immediately sets me off, mentally. people who use that line are always prejudiced in the way they claim not to be, right?
she continues: "i'm not a racist, but i'd want to move away before i get to that stage, because i wouldn't want to have a social worker in this area, because they're all coloured like the one my friend has"
i nod, silent, frozen-faced. she's just proved me right. "it's just difficult, if your hearing's going, to understand anybody, let alone somebody with a heavy accent - and that's the problem my friend has had with all her social workers"
am i ageist by assuming that old people are racist? is my gran racist? am i prejudiced against people who say "i'm not prejudiced, but..." ? argh!!
all i'm really saying is, isn't it funny how quick i am to label somebody else as prejudiced? too quick, in fact...
my nan is afraid about having to be looked after by a social worker (far, far in the future for her yet, but it's happening to some of her friends, so it's on her mind). she's talking about the terrible things the council is doing to a friend of hers, when she drops the line, "i'm not a racist, but..".
this immediately sets me off, mentally. people who use that line are always prejudiced in the way they claim not to be, right?
she continues: "i'm not a racist, but i'd want to move away before i get to that stage, because i wouldn't want to have a social worker in this area, because they're all coloured like the one my friend has"
i nod, silent, frozen-faced. she's just proved me right. "it's just difficult, if your hearing's going, to understand anybody, let alone somebody with a heavy accent - and that's the problem my friend has had with all her social workers"
am i ageist by assuming that old people are racist? is my gran racist? am i prejudiced against people who say "i'm not prejudiced, but..." ? argh!!
all i'm really saying is, isn't it funny how quick i am to label somebody else as prejudiced? too quick, in fact...
