# Discussion of Ali being racist \[mod title\] **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 4, 2016, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-of-ali-being-racist-mod-title/756549 "2016-06-04T19:45:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2016, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-of-ali-being-racist-mod-title/756549/201 "2016-06-13T14:26:28Z")
And if this world is all we have, and this life is all we have… How foolish is it to reject the pleasures of this world and suffer willful privation in the vain belief that this will bring us pleasures after death? Well, besides the fact that this is very specifically NOT how that works according to most religions? It is not our rejection of the world, our refusal to engage in worldly pleasures, or our voluntary suffering that brings us salvation. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2016, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-of-ali-being-racist-mod-title/756549/202 "2016-06-13T14:26:47Z")
If anyone cares, I’m assuming the OP’s username is a reference to [this children’s book](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Giraffes-Cant-Dance-Giles-Andreae/dp/1841215651). We now return you to your regularly scheduled abuse and inanity. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2016, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-of-ali-being-racist-mod-title/756549/203 "2016-06-13T15:06:57Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > If anyone cares, I’m assuming the OP’s username is a reference to [this children’s book](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Giraffes-Cant-Dance-Giles-Andreae/dp/1841215651). Seems on par with the level of intelligence on display. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2016, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-of-ali-being-racist-mod-title/756549/204 "2016-06-13T15:24:07Z")
It’s a lovely book, FWIW. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2016, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-of-ali-being-racist-mod-title/756549/205 "2016-06-13T22:03:30Z")
> [@Giraffes\_Can\_t\_Dance](#): > > Giving him a pass, while inexcusable, is one thing. Completely manipulating his image–from racist to hero–is another. > > Are you one of those people who sympathizes with old nazis? Nope, because nazi’s were wrong and still are. Black racists growing up in that time had good reason to hate some white people ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2016, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-of-ali-being-racist-mod-title/756549/206 "2016-06-13T22:29:44Z")
This is one of those extremely rare occasions where I agree with **YogSothoth**. One could hardly blame blacks growing up in the south in the 40s and 50s for harboring racial resentment toward whites. In fact I’d think it damn near impossible for them not to. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-of-ali-being-racist-mod-title/756549.md?page=10)