D’oh! :smack:
Lord have mercy, child. You, chief among us all, need to lighten the fuck up.
Trolls make a habit of repeating the same nonsense over and over again without addressing any of the points raised.
There’s no point arguing with this troll. it’ll just bleat the same lines or fly off into a rage.
liberty3701 if you want my advice just ignore this troll. It’s too stupid to actually debate points as it’s posting in this thread shows.
Does this mean when a guy tells a joke about black guys having big cocks, he’s just reducing black men to cocks that he can fuck or suck? Does that mean that a joke about a leprechaun ass fucking a guy in a bathroom stall is reducing leprechauns to things people get fucked in the ass by? Does that mean that a joke about Santa Claus knowing where all the naughty girls are is reducing Santa to a pimp?
These are all serious questions.
Well if that guy is gay maybe, regardless it does objectify black men as large walking penises. And can make black people feel alienated. Taken the other way is it okay to joke that X-race has tiny penises? Would members of X-race find that dehumanizing?
:dubious: Last time I checked leprechauns weren’t in fact real. You can’t reduce what doesn’t exist.
Uh I hate to be the one to ruin christmas but…
So, because someone thinks you are over-reacting to a tasteless joke you feel it necessary and okay to dehumanize them by calling them a ‘troll’ or referring to him as an ‘it’. Interesting… Isn’t that pretty much what you are accusing him of doing, though?
Yeah, but they can only cunt and peck.
Dear God, what is wrong with me?
I’m SO not ready for the big girl threads.
::ducks out and practices her utensil wpm::
Just a word of advice to liberty3701- seriously, when you work yourself into a perpetual outrage over a stupid joke, even if most Dopers might agree it’s kinda offensive, the more outraged you get, the more mercilessly most Dopers, including ones who agree that it could be offensive, will tease you with it.
One day a woman came in castigating anyone who might appreciate Nabokov’s LOLITA, book or movie, as approving of pedophilia. In a reasoned discussion, someone suggested her reaction might be a bit ‘hysterical’.
.OH.
.MY.
.GOD!!!.
She DID go into hysterics over the use of that word, and the deluge began until she left in a self-righteous snit.
Nothing is wrong with you, but you are now officially driving the bus. <tosses her the keys>
“Shotgun!”
Trolls aren’t in a thread for actual discussion. They’re just here to enrage and get responses. Therefore it’s best to call them on it then ignore them. If further posts are necessary it’s best not to acknowledge the troll as a poster lest it encourage further trolling.
It was trolling someone else so figured it best to give them a heads up.
I’ll start calling it “he” again when it answers my questions instead of bleating it’s mentally defective troll lines. It’s posts where deliberately offensive and enraging for no good reason.
I’ll make it easy. ogre have you ever been made to feel alienated for your race?
inb4 ogre doesn’t answer the question and says lighten up, or goes off foaming in rage about ice blood.
Are you kidding? Hey, remember that scene in the British Office where Andy’s telling that joke about the queen and the riddle with the punch line ‘a black man’s cock’ and a he stops when a black coworker joins in? Why do you think he hesitated? Because he figured the guy was overly sensitive? (As it turns out, the guy can ‘handle’ it and someone else registers a complaint, but even Andy Millman wasn’t enough of an asshole to ignore the fact that it may offend some people more than others).
Rather than Godwin’s Law, there should be some sort of Hear No Evil, See No Evil rule where, if someone has never been the target of racism or sexism, it must not exist for him or her or anyone else. And if people don’t actual believe in the literal truth of any of their sexist or racist slurs, they cannot possibly offend anyone.
Yes. Frequently, when I was growing up. Not so much now, but you know kids.
And you’re still way, WAY too uptight over a joke. Bet you’re a riot at parties.
And it’s Ogre, sugar. Not “troll”. Although technically related, ogres have much less patience with precious, delicate little flowers like, well, you.
Yes, because our discourse on the Dope is the same as at parties.:rolleyes:
Hey, y’know, it strikes me that no-one’s yet said that the answer to the question in the thread title is “No, not seriously”. Does that mean we can agree that there’s nothing to see here?
Please, for the love of God, yes. There is seriously nothing to see here.
Well, I’ve been the target of racism - been beaten up because of it, in fact - and I still think you’re wildly overreacting here. Just because somebody doesn’t respond to every stupid joke with “OMG I’m being oppressed and diminished as a human being!!” doesn’t mean they have no empathy. Just perspective.
I’ve been beaten up with the taunts of Dutchie myself several times during my elementary school years. Still it was nothing compared to the nickname I was saddled with all through high school because of my bucked teeth.
I was called a “wog” in one especially warm summer over here - true that I do go a little Mediterranean in strong sunlight, but I have four English grandparents (and no ancestors of any other colour AFAIK).
Now, why we’re all getting up in the air over Eskimo pussy, and no-one (least of all Cat Fight) is shedding any tears over
a cruel taunt at the expense of “expendable” young males, I really couldn’t say. Any takers?
The Major: Strange creatures, women. I knew one once… striking-looking girl… tall, you know… father was a banker.
Basil: Really?
The Major: Don’t remember the name of the bank.
Basil: Nevermind.
The Major: I must have been rather keen on her because I took her to see… India!
Basil: India?
The Major: At the Oval… fine match, marvellous finish… now, Surrey had to get thirty-three in about half an hour… she went off to powder her… powder her hands or something… women… er… never came back.
Basil: What a shame.
The Major: And the strange thing was… throughout the morning she kept referring to the Indians as niggers. “No no no,” I said, “the niggers are the West Indians. These people are wogs.” “No, no,” she said. “All cricketers are niggers.”
Basil: They do get awfully confused, don’t they? They’re not thinkers. I see it with Sybil everyday.
The Major: I do wish I could remember her name. She’s still got my wallet.
Basil: As I was saying, no capacity for logical thought.
The Major: Who?
Basil: Women.
The Major: Oh yes, yes… I thought you meant Indians.
– From Fawlty Towers. Offensive yes, but don’t tell me it isn’t funny.