See, I did this a bit earlier, and a bit less racist. East Asians are not, in fact, yellow.
Despite repeating this, it doesn’t really sink in, because it feels like a personal attack, even if it isn’t. And people don’t react well to those.
The line of thinking (as illogical as it is) goes as follows:
- Being racist is bad.
- I’m not a bad person, therefore
- My beliefs and actions cannot possibly be racist, and YOU are being too sensitive.
That’s the fundamental line of thinking behind all the people in this thread defending racist acts and racist people.
It’s an obviously faulty bit of syllogism, but they are either too caught up in the loaded emotional context of the words involved (the regular posters for the most part) or just too plain stupid (certain Sox fans come to mind here) to catch on.
You told me to stay in my podunk town, doofus.
You make a lot of assumptions about people. That’s one of the reasons you’ve turned out racist.
The assumptions you make are really stupid and based on no evidence. That’s another of the reasons you’ve turned out racist.
Ny bad. Especially if you’re Asian.
ETA: The Simpsons
Simpsons marrying Smurfs? That just isn’t natural!
S’ok.
Any actually yellow Asians should, of course, seek appropriate medical attention for the rather extreme jaundice they’re exhibiting.
::Furiously types fanfiction::
Man, you lack reading comprehension too.
My family is from the Bronx. My parents are of Irish, German, and Swiss descent. My extended family, including my siblings’ spouses and my nieces and nephews, includes Italians, Guyanese, South Africans, and a Trinidadian.
I like to say my family includes both white African-Americans* and black Irish-Americans.
*Yeah, I know white South Africans who’ve moved to the US don’t qualify as African Americans. It’s a joke (although it also makes a point about expectations based on skin color).
Yeah, the kids would be green!
I wasn’t whining and this wasn’t the last thing I said either.
But he makes up for it in volume!
In defense of chicagowhitesox1173, he has done a lot of subsequent whining. Gotta give him credit for his stamina.
Right, you’re not a racist and you’re not whining. You’re just somebody who has negative racial opinions which he discusses in an annoying high-pitched voice.
No, but it’s the point where they give up on trying to persuade people. First they say racist stuff, then they get all surprised when people object and say it’s offensive, then they say it wasn’t racist, and at the end they play the “you all feel that way and I’m the only one with the guts to admit it” card. Whatever self-congratulation gets you through the night, bro.
Eh, thing is you don’t really know how racist we think you are. Yeah, you’re racist, but everyone here knows you’re only middlin racist. Your level of racism is extremely common–you called it “normal”, and while I wouldn’t say that I would say that lots of people are as racist as you are, and plenty of people are a whole lot more racist than you.
Racism isn’t a boolean value, you’re either a klansman or you’re Steven Colbert who doesn’t see color. Lots of people are a little bit racist, lots of people are medium racist, plenty of people are really racist, and some people are Cuckoo for CocoPuffs racist.
Yeah, lots of fathers would raise an eyebrow if their daughter brought home someone of the wrong race. Lots of those fathers might get over it, others might never get over it. Lots of fathers raise all sorts of eyebrows over what their daughters get up to, some of which is reasonable, some of which starts out as reasonable but gets twisted up into something unreasonable, and some of which is pretty screwed up from start to finish.
You’re racist in the same way that shoplifting a candy bar and robbing a bank are both theft. You say silly things on message boards and raise your eyebrow when your daughter brings home a black guy. Other people lynch black guys who register to vote, burn down the garages of white girls that date black guys, and so on.
So please don’t make the mistaking of believe that just because everyone thinks you’re racist that means we think you’re a subhuman animal or a klansman. You’re just an average racist, just like lots of people are.
I’m not trying to persuade anyone to hate another race. I do think people nowdays are way to sensitive when it comes to race though. You people are very sensitive about it. I try to make a few points and then I’m David Duke. I’m gonna tell you again, I don’t hate any race and I don’t think any race is smarter than another either. Every race is racist too, not just white people. I do think it’s getting to the point where other races feel it’s ok to pick on every white person though. I can get on the train or any bus and I’ll hear “whiteboy” way more than i’ll hear racial terms for blacks or Mexicans. I don’t like being called whiteboy and I don’t call anyone anyone racist names because I do know it’s wrong. But if I did, it would be a million times worse than if somebody of another race called me a racial slur.
I can agree with this. I do think there are people who have posted ridiculing me who feel the same way as I do too.
Why do you think that? I simply don’t see why anybody would go to the trouble of publicly ridiculing opinions that they themselves secretly agree with. This ain’t 1984.
The only way this makes sense is if you think lots of racists are cowards who are so afraid of being considered racist that they are willing to loudly denounce racist sentiments even though they don’t actually disagree with them.
I somehow doubt that’s true, but if it is, that’s a good thing. I would prefer in general that racists not be racists in the first place, but if that’s not possible, I’m happy that they should be completely craven lily-livered cowards about openly expressing or condoning the racist views that they secretly support.
I realize that. You’re owning up to your own prejudices and not actually saying any other group of people is bad, but you’re wrong to say everybody thinks the way you do. I’m hoping that will sink in at some point.
Yeah, I’m not surprised you feel that way.
WHO ARE YOU CALLING “YOU PEOPLE?”
No, this is stupid. Not just because it’s wrong, but because it’s obvious you’re about to go off on a tangent and say something else that makes you look bad.
And I don’t. Now what?
Yeah, he’s making some pretty out-there assumptions… but the alternative is to admit that you’re not as good a person as you like to think you are, and it’s just easier and less disconcerting to assume that other people are lying.