Biggirl, do you have a link to your thread? I’d like to read it.
One other thing. I’m in sales, and I have clients of all nationalities. Occasionally, if I’m bringing in a sale from a middle eastern client, one of the other salesmen will say to me “I don’t know how you can sell to all those Dots”. My response is always the same “Well, in the first place, I DON’T THINK OF THEM AS “DOTS”.”
Moron.
I get shit from both all races of people. You see I live in Idaho. Along with a lot of other nice people.
And thanks to CNN and a small group of fucknuggets in the Northern part of the state (most of whom came from other states) it is believed that all poeple from Idaho are bigots.
Everytime I leave the state to attend Conferences white people on finding out I’m from Idaho just assume that I want to hear every bigoted joke or slur they can think of. Minorities and white people that aren’t bigots on hearing I’m from Idaho just give me a strange look and move away.
Attention world be advised :
Not every black person belongs to a gang
not every Jew is a Banker
Not every Mexican eats only tacos
And
Not everyone from Idaho is a neo-nazi, stockpiling explosives, plotting to over throw the government and eliminate all minorities.
note to self
must preview
I just spent the last 20 minutes searching the Pit for that thread. One things for sure, I make a lot of Pit posts. Second thing, I bitch about my Dad in the Pit a lot too. Third, I can’t find that particular thread in which I bitch about my father and the things he was telling my then very young children about white people.
The message wasn’t so much that white people are terrible but that they were untrustworthy and that white people should be feared.
This even happens in the gay community. I used to frequent Showtime’s Queer as Folk message boards until someone started posting there and basically saying the most horrible things about straight folks. “They’re all just waiting for a chance to stab you in the back, don’t trust any of them, they may seem friendly but they just want to lull you into a false sense of security then destroy you.” I was appalled and started refuting these posts. I left because I was all but called a gay Uncle Tom and told that I was self-hating because I didn’t hate straights.
Whatever…all generalizations are false. 
jayjay
Kinsey posted:
*I don’t dare mention my friends Kate and Brian around him, because he just has to clarify, “They’re the ones with them adopted Chink kids, right?”
Uh, no, they’re Korean, so that should be “them adopted Gook kids.”
Geez, at least get your ethnic slurs right, you moronic bigot! *
Not to get completely off track - but I thought ‘gook’ was in reference to Vietnamese people only. No? Is there a derogatory slang term specific to Korean people?
Tibs.
AFAIK, all East Asians are “gooks,” but only Chinese people are called “Chinks.” So , yeah, Koreans, Japanese, Chinese, Tibetans, and Mongolians are all “gooks.”
There is no American racist slur that applies specifically to Koreans. “Kimchi-crunchers,” perhaps? “Seoul brothers”?
In general it’s best not to use words like “all” and “every” when referring to members of a given group because inevitably you’ll find exceptions.
Of course, at the SDMB, many people will assume you mean “all and every” unless you are careful to spell it out very clearly.
Huh. I never knew that. I thought ‘gook’ came from the Vietnam war. I don’t really know where I got that idea but there it is. Learn something every day.
Sorry about the hijack, Dave!
Tibs.
I’m a English-speaker living in Quebec, and it is by far the most insular and disturbing minority I’ve ever belonged to.
Some of my fellow anglophones believe that if Quebec ever separates, they will be shipped off to death camps. I have heard quite a few of these people compare Quebec to apartheid-era South Africa because we once had a law, now defunct, that stated that French must be twice the size of any other language on public signs. The bureaucrats assigned to enforce this law are refered to as “tongue troopers,” as if they were an invading army.
I’ve never met an anglophone who’d suffered discrimination at the hands of francophone majority. When I point this out, people sometimes look at me like I’m a traitor. There are more than a few here, especially of the older generation living in the wealthy mostly-English neighbourhood of Westmount, who are convinced that any and all anglophones share their hate and disgust of “the French” and will agree with any gross and slanderous generalization they can think up.
Dang, if those people hate the French so much, why don’t they move to Saskatchewan?
I studied the Korean language while part of the US Army. I suppose “gook” could be used as an insult to Koreans specifically because it is a root word meaning, basically, “nation”, “group”, or “people”. It is modified by other terms that indicate which group in particular is being referred to. If you will forgive my romanization of these words “HAHN gook” is Korean, “MEE-gook” is American, and so forth. For a far better explanation you would need Astroboy 14. BTW, just in case you read this Astroboy 14, I used the cookbook for the bulgogi and it tasted good. Hope Astrogirl would approve. Here endeth the hijack.
FWIW, I’m pretty sure I recall Biggirl’s pit thread IRT racism in her family. Pretty well-writen, nicely bitter, and astringent too. That’s why it stuck in my head. I’m pretty sure it fell under ‘The Winter Of Our Lost Content’.
::horribly embarrassed::
Okay, maybe I’m the one who has it wrong. :eek:
I am truly sorry for any offense.
Anyway, the kids are Korean. My friends are blonde and blue-eyed and look like they belong on a travel poster for Scandanavia. When you see them all together, it’s rather obvious the kids are adopted. My FIL doesn’t need to mention it everytime. What purpose does that serve?
Plus, calling them “Chinks,” no matter what their Asian heritage is, just grates on my nerves.
(Imagine Archie Bunker, but cranked up a couple notches in the ignorance and bigotry departments :rolleyes: )
Totally hijacking (sorry), gobear, we don’t hate the French. Nor do most of us make racial (racial? Don’t think so) slurs. I mean, come on. Almost all of us have some French-Canadian in us or in our closest friends. We live in Quebec.
Fear of discrimination? Yeah, and I don’t think it’s totally unjustified.
Laurange, I don’t understand your post.
Hamish wrote
If you’re not a member of that group of Anglophones that shares hat and disgust of the Franch, then you don’t need to move out West.
Ok, how’s this for being “fair”. How do you know which posts are “black” or “mexican”? Shit, in real life some people can’t tell I’m Mexican by looking at me. Its not like we all wear sombreros and play mariachi music all the time. Do the “black” posts here all end in “word up” so the rest of us know a Afroposting has just taken place you glob of bung-jizz.
Idiot, I thought Barking Spider was back for a moment, but at least he capitalized proper nouns, and took offense at the casual use of “whitey”. You make him seem slightly decent in retrospect. And that is pretty low.
gobear, he seemed to be referring to Anglo Westmounters, which happens to include me, and my family. If he didn’t mean all (or most) Anglo Westmounters, then I’m sorry I quibbled, but there tends to be many negative stereotypes given to Westmounters.
Yes, Weirddave, I get it, too, especially from my in-laws, even though my husband made it abundantly clear when I first met them that I didn’t like that sort of crap. I haven’t heard much from complete strangers, though. I did have an uncle on the verge of using the word wetback in front of my sister’s husband, who is very clearly of Mexican descent.
My in-laws:
My brother-in-law hates all of his black employees. He thinks they’re all lazy and incompetent. I want to tell him so bad that when your boss thinks that of you, it shows, and you resent it. He can’t expect any loyalty when he doesn’t offer any in return. Plus, he hates black people so bad that I think he’d hold a lazy white person in higher esteem no matter what.
I think my mother-in-law is unable to refer to one of my husband’s cousins without saying, “She had that black baby you know,” as if she’d be otherwise okay despite being a waste of oxygen if only that hadn’t happened.
I actually heard her boyfriend say (apologies in advance to anyone who rages at this remark), “A black man’s only good for one thing: washing a white man’s car.” I saw red at that, and it was a good thing we were leaving just shortly after that or we would’ve been going home early. I could go on about his racist and sexist remarks, but I want to enjoy the rest of my day.
God, I hate visiting Arkansas every year. Totally ruins the holidays.
Why are you visiting my family?
I didn’t realize Homebrew, throatshot and I were kin…