Quote (ofthevoid @ Mar 24 2019 05:23pm)
Saying a country is a shithole isn't racist. I come from a shithole country and if I was being real and said it, that's not racist. Insensitive? Yes. Racist? No. Calling a country a shithole almost never has anything to do with the race of people living there. It has much more to do with the shitty infrastructure, a weak legal system, poverty, etc.
Saying grab her by the pussy or fucking a porn star isn't sexist. It's how some guys talk. It's how some guys talk and what some of us fantasize about. It's not sexist. Crude? Fuck yeah, no doubt. Sexist? Not really.
Too often people use derivatives of what words mean and run with some agenda. " He's objectifying women by using that type of language, therefore he thinks less of them" It's not what was said. It's something he said in private and you're using some bastardized subjective point of view and drawing conclusions from that. It makes him a shitty person, which he is for cheating on such a hot wife or using that language but too often people are giving their interpretation of something that was said and then using that as evidence.
Look, if a national politician got on TV and said "Alabama and Mississippi are shithole states" there would be a LOT of offended people. So sure, focus on some technical detail e.g. "racism" while ignoring the broader point; a politician shouldn't be speaking this way because it's divisive and enraging. Disputing the technicals of what is or isn't "sexist" is also worthless; the behavior and statements are divisive and unbefitting the dignity of a nationally elected official.
The problem I see is that Dems and Repubs don't necessarily disagree about the real point, they just have technical language disputes. Unfortunately our language is very flawed. Let's try to focus on broader concepts rather than fighting about words.