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Originally Posted by JollyBB

Let's not start acting like american people have been oppressed.

Why do people keep saying this? Every time someone likens something to racism, people bring up the history of slavery and oppression to act like no other kinds of discrimination can possibly be bad.

Nobody has said that "american people have been oppressed", why are you plucking words from thin air? The OP just said that if somebody in the house was derogatory towards someone of a different race, they'd be pulled up on it. The principle still applies, regardless of whether a group of people have faced widespread oppression or not. Referring to Americans in a derogatory way because they're American is xenophobic.