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lightwarrior78 posted...

The more they go on, the more they just expose themselves at not wanting to be responsible for anything.

ie meetings: If I'm to have a meeting with you, I have to make time for it in my day, rearrange things I need or want to do, and now I can't do them because you didn't show up. I just had to sit and wait for you to grace me with your presence. Now the meeting went longer than I thought it would, I miss my bus to get home and if I had kids they'd be worried I was in an accident because they expect me at a certain time of unfed till I get home, or I didn't have the time to finish payroll and people don't get their money. Conversely, just because you want a meeting now doesn't mean I"m not busy with other tasks and I can't drop them just because this is when you want it.

Punctuality (and several other things on that whiteness list) is not about whiteness, but about respecting that other people are people, not objects there at your convenience.

This is a great example. This is all moralizing, there is nothing objective about this, none of this addresses the cultural dimension. All this talk about respect, morals, and money based obligations is a learned response taught by specific elements of American culture for specific purposes.

People are getting offended when asked to realize that something they thought was universal, and "normal" and good and "natural", is actually just just one specific option out of many.

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