# Barbra Streisand's racist ass **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 22, 2004, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barbra-streisands-racist-ass/235777 "2004-03-22T22:38:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barbra-streisands-racist-ass/235777/21 "2004-03-23T01:35:13Z")
> [@SPOOFE](#): > > Maybe we can shunt her over to the Greens. They seem like they’d accept almost anybody. I hear theyre thinking of running Mumia… ---
**Author:** ![Fyodor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/958977/32.png) [@Fyodor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fyodor)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barbra-streisands-racist-ass/235777/22 "2004-03-23T01:44:01Z")
I picked up a 1965 LIFE magazine at a yard sale and there was young Barbra, posing in a suit “she designed herself”, hat, jacket and skirt all made from real leopard fur. My how times change. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barbra-streisands-racist-ass/235777/23 "2004-03-23T01:55:34Z")
You know, I think **Lib** ’s onto something, here. You all remember that time she beat the shit out of Sidney Poitier, don’t you? If Robert Smith hadn’t intervened, she might have killed him and everyone else in that small Colorado town. ---
**Author:** ![DadWagonDriver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/edb3f5/32.png) [@DadWagonDriver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DadWagonDriver)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barbra-streisands-racist-ass/235777/24 "2004-03-23T02:38:50Z")
> [@monstro](#): > > \*says the black woman who has a backside so flat it’s practically concave. Wait… you’re a woman??? All this time, I’ve been picturing Gossamer from the old Bugs Bunny cartoons… ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barbra-streisands-racist-ass/235777/25 "2004-03-23T02:54:13Z")
> [@monstro](#): > > says the black woman who has a backside so flat it’s practically concave. I demand proof! (Of both your claims!) ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barbra-streisands-racist-ass/235777/26 "2004-03-23T02:58:06Z")
Oh c’mon. Babs is hardly a racist. Someone could have done the same thing “proving” that they’re not Jewish by pointing to their small nose. If I’m going to pissed off at Babs it’s because my step-mother used to play the god damned Yentl soundtrack all the fucking time. Haj ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barbra-streisands-racist-ass/235777/27 "2004-03-23T03:27:29Z")
Ask **Edlyn** , [and you shall receive.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=240875) ---
**Author:** ![Ilsa\_Lund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a6a055/32.png) [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barbra-streisands-racist-ass/235777/28 "2004-03-23T04:01:33Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > You know, I think **Lib** ’s onto something, here. You all remember that time she beat the shit out of Sidney Poitier, don’t you? If Robert Smith hadn’t intervened, she might have killed him and everyone else in that small Colorado town. I thought it was Leonard Maltin? ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barbra-streisands-racist-ass/235777/29 "2004-03-23T06:26:46Z")
I saw the interview, and I didn’t take it as LIB did. The exchange went something like . . . “He didn’t know if I was black or white.” “The way you look or the way you sound?” – which Babs looked astonished at, as well she might, because it was a hugely stupid thing to say in light of the fact that she’s as white as white can be. So she sort of laughs and says “the way I _sound_.” Then, as if she’s reconsidering – “well . . .” And she gets up and sort of turns around and shakes her booty. The inference being, as far as I could tell, that maybe from the back she might look black. Not “ooh, my ass is so small I couldnt’ possibly be other than white,” but “maybe from the back I might look like a black girl, because I’ve got a round ass.” I guess in this case racism is in the eye of the beholder. ---
**Author:** ![Tentacle\_Monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba9def/32.png) [@Tentacle\_Monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tentacle_Monster)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barbra-streisands-racist-ass/235777/30 "2004-03-23T07:03:05Z")
Ann Coulter would never, ever show her ass on TV. It’d reveal her barbed tail. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barbra-streisands-racist-ass/235777/31 "2004-03-23T07:06:14Z")
Seems like a consensus has been reached: **Libertarian’s** a whackjob. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barbra-streisands-racist-ass/235777/32 "2004-03-23T09:01:54Z")
Lib- I love ya, dude- but **WHOOOSH!!!** 😕 :wally ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barbra-streisands-racist-ass/235777/33 "2004-03-23T10:53:58Z")
Well, I guess I can discount Jodi, much as the extreme judges are discounted in a diving competition. Disagreement with me seems to be her default position. I think I’m safe to assume that whatever I might have said, including the exact opposite of what I did say, her position would have opposed mine. I’m disappointed, though, that liberals who are consistent in their worldview would not seize the opportunity to denounce such a racist demonstration for what it is. I suppose that for hate crimes legislation ever to be effective, it will be necessary to know whether the criminal was a liberal or conservative since the former cannot possibly have entertained a bigotted thought and the latter cannot possibly have escaped it. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barbra-streisands-racist-ass/235777/34 "2004-03-23T11:21:06Z")
> [@askeptic](#): > > “Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatum” — “Do not multiply entities beyond necessity”, or in other words, “When in doubt, do without.” In the theory of knowledge, it means that among theories that equally explain the facts, always choose the simplest. > OK, I guess I wasn’t whooshed. That leaves only one other alternative… What an utterly stupid post. ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Badger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/848f3c/32.png) [@Dead\_Badger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Badger)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barbra-streisands-racist-ass/235777/35 "2004-03-23T11:30:14Z")
> [@Libertarian](#): > > I’m disappointed, though, that liberals who are consistent in their worldview would not seize the opportunity to denounce such a racist demonstration for what it is. I suppose that for hate crimes legislation ever to be effective, it will be necessary to know whether the criminal was a liberal or conservative since the former cannot possibly have entertained a bigotted thought and the latter cannot possibly have escaped it. I can’t stand Barbra Streisand, and I don’t think this was particularly racist. If anything she’s playing on the fairly common joke used by black comedians (Chris Rock, say) that white people have no butts. Heck, this meme is so common it’s been lampooned on King of the Hill. We can argue all we like about whether it’s any better to poke fun at ones own race, but I think there’s better things to whinge about with Barb. Remember, this is a person who’s been in _every single Barbra Streisand movie_. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barbra-streisands-racist-ass/235777/36 "2004-03-23T11:33:03Z")
True enough. I suppose there’s no point in heaping tragedy upon misery. ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barbra-streisands-racist-ass/235777/37 "2004-03-23T14:14:52Z")
How very **decemberesque** of you, **Libertarian**. Point out the hypocrisy of liberals by wondering why they aren’t offended at every little slight. And then when they _are_ offended, laugh at their hypersensitivity. Did you have fun? Like I said, if the controversial **pizzabrat** or I had posted how offended we were at this, you and every “anti-PC” type would have been bitching at us to shut up. And you know what? You would have been right. > [@](#): > > True enough. I suppose there’s no point in heaping tragedy upon misery. Obtuse much? ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barbra-streisands-racist-ass/235777/38 "2004-03-23T14:33:22Z")
Actually, I agree with Lib, to an extent. I wouldn’t exactly award her Racist of the Year, but it seems like a rather stupid thing for her to do. As for Sir Mix-A-Lot, black or white, he doesn’t discriminate, as long as “Baby’s got back”. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barbra-streisands-racist-ass/235777/39 "2004-03-23T15:02:30Z")
> [@](#): > > How very decemberesque of you, Libertarian. Point out the hypocrisy of liberals by wondering why they aren’t offended at every little slight. And then when they are offended, laugh at their hypersensitivity. I don’t think Barbra’s antics constituted a “little slight”. I think she should have told Lipton what a stupid question that was. The same thing she would have told a Fox News reporter if he had asked, “Was it the look of you or the sound of you [that made him think you might be black]?”. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barbra-streisands-racist-ass/235777/40 "2004-03-23T15:30:23Z")
Again with the pretending that context is irrelevant, Lib. Doesn’t win your argument. As for your squeaky whine about hypocritical liberals, if I DID have a kneejerk reaction to your OP that colored my response, it was not to Barbra and her liberalness (I am SO not a fan), but to YOU and YOUR hypocrisy. Your OP seemed like such a transparent case of Bash the Liberal, such a twisty reach to find something to be outraged about, that it says a GREAT deal more about you and your politics than about Babs and hers. The most prominent ass in this thread is not Barbra Streisand’s. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barbra-streisands-racist-ass/235777.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barbra-streisands-racist-ass/235777.md?page=3)