I just have a short rant. Ok, well, I can’t promise that, but I feel like crap tonight so…
Fil was over tonight and repeated something that I’ve actually forgotten to mention previously. He was telling me of when he took Baby and his other grand-daughter to Wally World. When they got excited at seeing Dora, the Explorer dolls he said “Look at all the illegal aliens! They’re everywhere! Now they’re making them dolls.” Well, this, of course, pissed me the fuck off. What did I say the first time (and was forced to repeat)?
“How do you know Dora’s illegal? Because she speaks Spanish? How do you know she’s not Puerto Rican or was born in a nice hospital in Tulsa?”
No one likes their stereotypes fucked with and Fil is no different. He began to insist that the majority of Spanish speakers are illegal and so he’s right by default. “Wrong,” I say”You cannot be right by default because you don’t know enough about her to make that assumption.”
I was angry because he was trying to instill his own narrow-minded stereotypes in my daughter and I won’t have that shit. I don’t want her looking at people and assuming she knows everything about them. And I especially don’t want her looking at someone of a different ethnic background and assuming that they’re bad. I have never allowed that kind of shit around my kids and I’m not about to start now.
Dora, Dora, Dora
I just have a short rant. Ok, well, I can’t promise that, but I feel like crap tonight so…
Fil was over tonight and repeated something that I’ve actually forgotten to mention previously. He was telling me of when he took Baby and his other grand-daughter to Wally World. When they got excited at seeing Dora, the Explorer dolls he said “Look at all the illegal aliens! They’re everywhere! Now they’re making them dolls.” Well, this, of course, pissed me the fuck off. What did I say the first time (and was forced to repeat)?
“How do you know Dora’s illegal? Because she speaks Spanish? How do you know she’s not Puerto Rican or was born in a nice hospital in Tulsa?”
No one likes their stereotypes fucked with and Fil is no different. He began to insist that the majority of Spanish speakers are illegal and so he’s right by default. “Wrong,” I say”You cannot be right by default because you don’t know enough about her to make that assumption.”
I was angry because he was trying to instill his own narrow-minded stereotypes in my daughter and I won’t have that shit. I don’t want her looking at people and assuming she knows everything about them. And I especially don’t want her looking at someone of a different ethnic background and assuming that they’re bad. I have never allowed that kind of shit around my kids and I’m not about to start now.
What the fuck is wrong with people?
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