Disturbing Office Converstaions
May. 8th, 2006 04:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gizaMe: I read an article in the Philly Metro today about a Chinese girl who was smuggled into the states and forced to work as a waitress for four--
Co-worker J: Cool!
Me: Um, why is that cool?
Co-worker J: Where else are you gonna get prostitutes from?
Me: o.O
Now, co-worker J is Chinese, so I know he's not being racist. I can only assume he was being serious. :-O
Co-worker J: Cool!
Me: Um, why is that cool?
Co-worker J: Where else are you gonna get prostitutes from?
Me: o.O
Now, co-worker J is Chinese, so I know he's not being racist. I can only assume he was being serious. :-O
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Date: 2006-05-08 09:29 pm (UTC)Human trafficking is (and most always will be) an extremely lucrative business, voluntary or not.
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Date: 2006-05-09 03:24 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-05-09 03:26 am (UTC)According to co-worker M, no.
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Date: 2006-05-09 04:01 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-05-09 05:39 pm (UTC)!parse, IMHO.
The belief that members of a group have a special right to make judgements (especially negative) on that group... that's been bothering me more and more lately. Sure, a Chinese person's *likely* to have a more in-depth perspective on Chinese people than a non-Chinese person will, but that's not an absolute. Plus, knowledge != intelligence or fairness.
Don't take it personally... yours is the majority opinion in America, I think.