So you’re basically saying “I didn’t see your comment as racist, but since it could be construed as racial in nature some hypothetical people might conclude you’re a racist”? I’m trying to word that as neutrally as possible, but if that’s the sentiment expressed then I stand by my statement that that’s a silly cause for worry. This whole thread seems to me to be a tempest in a teapot.
Is there a non-retarded reason some people sign their posts? Do they think they’re writing letters to the rest of us? I don’t get it.
Not hypothetical people – this thread wasn’t started by a hypothetical person.
In the context of this thread, I felt that **Shodan’s **response was more or less saying that he didn’t give a shit if the OP thought it was a racist comment or not. And I say fair enough. I’m just curious of that’s his standpoint in all of this or not.
<Rev. Johnson>
Gentlemen, gentlemen, allow not hatred to rule the day.
Son, you’re on your own.
</Rev. Johnson>
God, I saw it as marginally funny. Is every G.D. thing in sight being run through the racial spectrometer now? I suppose one should never buy a black car if one is black nor a white one if one happens to be white. Hell, both those purchases are clearly racist in origin. I’m sick of it; I wish the entire damn human population would go to sleep tonight and wake up color blind tomorrow.
I think they prefer “Negro.”
It’s not his responsibility to disabuse people of their trollish idiocy. Stop grasping at straws to find ways to criticize the man.
Upon a reread of your posts, Jack Batty, I retract my last post directed at you. Your responses since your first have been eminently reasonable. The wording of your first post (“So then you’re content with people assuming you’re a racist?”) rankled and I let that color my perception of your subsequent posts. I still think that his remark is clearly innocuous enough that it doesn’t deserve all this to-do, especially since if the show-tunes line was the intended reference then it was explained before Shodan even got here.
Incidentally, I would describe my own skin color as “beige” before I would the average black person’s :).
Darn you! Darn you to heck!
Regards,
Shodan
A) No it’s not his responsibility to address people criticizing him, but I would think he would want to. I personally don’t give a shit if he does or not.
B) I’m not grasping at anything, I’m just addressing the concerns of this OP.
I think I’ve been pretty reasonable here. I haven’t insulted anyone – and believe me, I can insult people pretty well when I get a head of steam.
And sufffer millions of traffic accidents? I think not!
:eek:
Gee willikers, I forgot this was the Pit.
Just speculation here. Much of Shodan’s comment to political threads seems to be little more than an exercise in finding new and inventive ways to say ‘fuck you’ without using those actual words. I’m pretty sure he originally had some reason for adding the ‘Regards, Shodan’ bit to every post, but since some people have commented negatively about it, it may have become just another way to express the sentiments mentioned above.
Fuck you,
El_Kabong
Am I the only one here who’s a teensy-weensy bit antagonized by the way Shodan has to include a “Regards” at the end of each and every post? There’s no reason I should be, but it comes across as a little pretentious since no one else here does it by and large.
Just come up with a clever sig line instead. And vary it occasionally.
(on edit, great minds snark alike, El Kabong. BTW, long ago I lobbied to name my band “EL Kabong”.)
You just had to bring race back into it, dincha?
Let’s begin with Shodan’s OP in the referenced thread. He’s clearly pitting that phenomenon of Obama support that borders on worship. Not exactly bespeakling of intelligence. Nowhere have we seen anything like it in the history of American federal politics. But its not like he’s all steamed up about it. He just wants to rub SDMB liberal noses in it.
A messiah not only invokes the image of holiness, but also image of the grand leader who will rescue and destroy the enemies of the people, in this case those who are making over $250,000 per year. (okay, I’m inserting a little humour here)
So, Shodan , getting vilified once again, -Knowing nothing he says will stop the stoning , amuses himself with clever references such as Monty Python or the musical “Merrily We Roll Along”. There’s the double entendre in there if you stretch it a little on the colour, and the notion of Obama change in the white house. Its humour, but some of you will deny yourself the pleasure of it because you won’t allow yourselves.
How often has he had to explain himself? He’s in the category of “Methinks thou doth protest too much”. He can’t win so merrily he rolls along.
While we have you here, would you please stop signing your posts? We do have the option of a sig, which we can also block. You are doing a end-run around this with an unblockable sig. There’s a reason why they allow us to use and block sigs. Please.
In other words, I agree with sqweels.
Can we block other poster’s sigs?
First, I thought there was already a pit thread (or two) about “Regards.” Or am I thinking of the one about not putting in a proper location?
Second, can someone help me out here? It it me or is someone being pitted over a whooshing? This assumes Shodan knew he was posting lyrics from a musical (or from some other innocuous source), of course, but that seems likely. Or were you not whooshed, yet still find the comment ugly and racist – to the point of directly painting Shodan with a scarlet R. Are there any other examples of such racism in his other posts? Is it because you don’t find the “joke” funny? Would it have helped if he’d said “it never helps to explain a non-serious comment”?
I guess I just don’t understand what’s going on here.
I suppose adding a few boilerplate lines pads out your post a bit, making it look longer. Kind of like cramming rolled-up socks down one’s pants.
Sincerely,
Duke