# Are you a racist? Warning signs **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 7, 2014, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-racist-warning-signs/692519 "2014-07-07T08:12:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 520
**Author:** ![Fotheringay-Phipps](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d9b06d/32.png) [@Fotheringay-Phipps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fotheringay-Phipps)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2014, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-racist-warning-signs/692519/520 "2014-07-21T17:11:10Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > I do believe that such inadvertent comparisons are relieving, though. It’s much easier to “slip up” in this way in this kind of discussion if one believes that black people are indeed inherently less intelligent. Which is also why I think it hit a nerve. It’s true that slip-ups like this can be revealing. But people do use cockroaches as examples of very primitive creatures. Racists also like comparing ethnic groups that they don’t like to cockroaches (especially when complaining about their proliferation). So CP was very exposed to the sort of attack you did, which is why it hit a nerve, I would guess. (Had he used monkees or apes for the analogy he would have been in the same situation.) --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-racist-warning-signs/692519)._