Line cutters of Public Transportations.

[Neko]

If you're part of the majority middleclass group in society, Public transit is something that you experience every single day. During rush hour, the desparation and the ugliness of human nature spills out unto the crowded stage. The dry, frozen, white lands of winter littered by dozens of shivering people; all of whom lining up angrily, but patiently, for the bus. And then it happens, a line cutter appears.

People line up because it is an unspoken rule of society and of morals that we enter any premises in an orderly fashion so that we remain civilized and fair. The line cutters so naturally blend him/herself into the front of the line that no one dares speak up to shoo the linecutter since no one else would've noticed it. I have witnessed quite a few times where 4 women, in around their mid 40s, who ended up in the beginning of a very very busy line of a McCowan 129... and they weren't even IN the line before... How did they get there?

From my memory of the events, they just walked RIIGHT up to the front of the line when they got here. When someone tried to speak up about it, one of the ladies gave the man a look, and started talking about how people are discriminating their race (the ladies were one of the middle-eastern or indian) and everything... At that point i just started thinking something like "ya, if that man was indeed discriminating you, he had all the right reasons. and you were the one who gave the man a reason to discriminate."

Seriously, the case i just described above, i've witnessed that quite a few times... It really leads to another societal question... while we're combating against racism, are we also giving some minority groups a right to just yell out "DISCRIMINATION!" as a threat and excuse to do wrong?

[Krow]

How often do you think this really happens? is it safe for us generalize from those incidents at the bus station as being fairly common occurrences between ethnic minorities and society? Maybe a little more research is in order...

However, In this case, from how I see it those women are sooo obviously full of shit. They skip an entire line, and they're accusing someone else who noticed their crap of discriminating against them? What the hell does RACE have to do with anything? "OH crap, that man is wise to our act so lets make shit up to justify that we're lazy ass inconsiderate wastes of space." How goddamn pathetic.

[Hopeless Loser]

Dude, discrimination happens all the time and no matter what we do it's here to stay. The more we worry about discrimination the more power we give it. Think back to when you were a kid like maybe grade 2 or 3 you were in class with a bunch of kids of brown, black, white, yellow kids and how often were race an issue. It wasn’t until that idea of “discrimination” was taught to us by schools and parents that we started to use it as a weapon and excuse.
It wasn’t until grade 9 have I heard the dreaded N word, Nigger. If it wasn’t for TV with this episode about a person being offend with the word Kike I’d never know it was a Jewish racial slur.
I’m just saying people fear the different and the more we worry about discrimination the more difference we seem to notice about each other. In a sense pushing the ideas of racism deeper into the culture of our youths by trying so hard to stop it

[Neko]

i think hopeless is catching on to the idea im trying to get across (since i was being so vague i guess *_*) It's because of the things we do to try to make racism apparent, in hopes to deal with it, that we further widens the gap between people. It is that blaming, and excuse-making that further give power to racism. D: well and as i mentioned earlier krow, its just my observation and i was just trying to make a point about the "racism excuse" that is given for alot ofthings. Heck, there are times when a black man gets arrested for firing a gun and he would say thats racial profiling.

[Neko]

Stop the hate and excuses! D: