Hector St Clare - racist much?

[Little_Nemo]

@Bill_Door

That sounds like someone who’s never been to the Adirondacks. Check out Essex county. There’s rednecks there that make North Carolina look like Oxford, and not the one in Mississippi. Them Yankee rednecks is the worst.

No kidding. Anyone who thinks you can’t be a Yankee and a redneck should check out the Westport Demolition Derby.

[MrDibble]

@Hector_St_Clare

I’d guess most civilized people would be fine living in a benevolent police state.

Naah. just cowards such as yourself.

There’s nothing uncivilized about wanting freedom from oppression. Or was Gandhi ‘uncivilized’ as well?

Perhaps not troublemakers like yourself with a seeming lack of humility and obedience

i.e. not bootlicking toadies such as yourself.

You might ask the Russians whether they preferred living in the Soviet Union under Brezhnev or under Yeltsin’s liberal democracy.

You have no actual fucking clue what a liberal democracy is, do you?

Of course, I don’t actually mean ask individual people, as you seem to think personal anecdotes equal data.

I have no idea what gives you that idea. I mean, I’m not the one who thinks his personal bias is indicative of the altruistic state of an entire ethnicity…

I mean, go look at some statistics.

You mean, like the HDI numbers for Cuba vs liberal democracies? Stats like that?

If you think that wouldn’t hurt your tender little feelings.

Sweetie pie, it would take a lot more than finding lots of people prefer the known oppressor to the chaotic new, to hurt my feelings.

[MrDibble]

@Fotheringay-Phipps

But since people are speculating here that he dislikes his loan officer or the like, it’s worth keeping his background in mind.

Wait, you think him being self-hating is going to reflect better on him, somehow? The racist pity card, is that the play?

[Emiliana]

Ah, the benevolent police state. The perpetual wet dream of the small minded, easily frightened, intellectually stunted, and ahistorical among us.

[octopus]

@MrDibble

IME, bigots assume everyone is bigoted. It’s like Republican politicians and butt stuff…

The best way to wage a war against stereotyping is to engage in stereotyping!

[octopus]

@Hector_St_Clare

I’d guess most civilized people would be fine living in a benevolent police state. Perhaps not troublemakers like yourself with a seeming lack of humility and obedience, but I can’t say I’m too concerned about folks like that. You might ask the Russians whether they preferred living in the Soviet Union under Brezhnev or under Yeltsin’s liberal democracy. Of course, I don’t actually mean ask individual people, as you seem to think personal anecdotes equal data. I mean, go look at some statistics. If you think that wouldn’t hurt your tender little feelings.

There might be a bit of survivor bias in that poll.

[Typo_Negative]

Benevolent police state? Benevolent police state? Seriously?

[jayjay]

@Typo_Negative

Benevolent police state? Benevolent police state? Seriously?

They don’t necessarily post much, but the Straight Dope Fascist Grovelers Caucus is still around.

[Emiliana]

@Typo_Negative

Benevolent police state? Benevolent police state? Seriously?

Well, sure, like Pinochet but with more puppies.

[raventhief]

@Emiliana

Well, sure, like Pinochet but with more puppies.

Oooh puppies? Oppress away, as long as there’s puppies!

[dropzone]

@MrDibble

There’s a link in the OP. Cunningly disguised as a blue arrow which takes you to the quoted post. This is secret knowledge, only the elite of the elite know it. Don’t abuse the power.

@Superdude

Link to the thread in question…?

Dibs, give the kid a break. He hasn’t been here as long as you.

@MrDibble

Maybe he’s really into Sapir–Whorf

Sweet Zombie Jesus, I had to read that shit, for a grade, in high school, and I STILL majored in Anthro in college. Didn’t the times I fell asleep in class warn me?

@Hector_St_Clare

Anyway, Tamils have a higher rate of consanguinity than any other major ethnic group…

So you’re saying the women are a bunch of sluts? Which works for me, with their long, raven tresses…

[BigT]

@octopus

The best way to wage a war against stereotyping is to engage in stereotyping!

It’s not a war against stereotypes. It’s a war against racism. It was also a joke, as there is no stereotype that Republicans in general like butt stuff.

Please don’t join this. Even if you aren’t racist, your bad arguments will give the racists something to argue against.

[BigT]

@ddsun

IOh look who’s here to defend his peeps. All in favor of expanding the Pit to include FP?

To be honest, I say we wait until he actually says something racist in the thread. Doing it now would feed into a persecution complex. He may be defending his friends, but he’s not yet defended their racism.

Not that I haven’t strongly suspected he defends them because he supports their views to some extent. I don’t really see him mounting his defense except for bigots and conservatives.

[Monty]

@DrFidelius

The bigoted assholes truly believe that they are the ones with the courage to speak what we all are thinking but are too afraid to say.

Just a week ago, someone said this very thing to me to justify/rationalize/excuse his racist comments.

@John_Mace

Yankee Indians are fine, but all ya’ll southerners are just a bunch of rednecks!

Well, at least we Southerners do know how to spell y’all.

@Bill_Door

That sounds like someone who’s never been to the Adirondacks. Check out Essex county. There’s rednecks there that make North Carolina look like Oxford, and not the one in Mississippi. Them Yankee rednecks is the worst.

There are more than a few Californians vying for that title. I’m guessing they’re idolizing the “good old days” their not-so-distant ancestors fled back East.

@Hector_St_Clare

I mean, I’m Tamil? So I know more about southern Indian culture than about northern indian?

Which is it?

[ol][li]You were actually questioning the pathetic basis of your so-called arguments.[/li][li]You have a pathetic command of written English.[/ol][/li]

@Hector_St_Clare

Anyway, Tamils have a higher rate of consanguinity than any other major ethnic group, which is why I’d guess they’d have genetic tendencies towards less altruism towards people outside their group.

[list=a][li]Guess =/= Science.[/li][li]Since when has altruism been a genetic trait?[/li][li]“Higher rate of consanguinity” doesn’t really mean much without first defining what degree of relationship is considered as such.[/list][/li]

@MrDibble

There’s nothing uncivilized about wanting freedom from oppression.

Absolutely correct.

@MrDibble

i.e. not bootlicking toadies such as yourself.

You misspelled jack-booted.

@MrDibble

You have no actual fucking clue what a liberal democracy is, do you?

I was wondering how Yeltsin was an example of liberal democracy.

@MrDibble

Wait, you think him being self-hating is going to reflect better on him, somehow? The racist pity card, is that the play?

It’s not the play; it’s the cop-out.

[MrDibble]

@octopus

The best way to wage a war against stereotyping is to engage in stereotyping!

Racism is not just stereotyping. Stereotyping can be useful shorthand. But thanks for playing “defend the racist”, anyway.

[Mr.Duality]

“racist much?”

I find this disregard for proper grammar to be extremely annoying. Fuck the OP and his tiny-brained complaining.

[MrDibble]

(grammar) Nazi much?

[Paranoid_Randroid]

@MrDibble

Racism is not just stereotyping. Stereotyping can be useful shorthand. But thanks for playing “defend the racist”, anyway.

Oh, come on, then. Whether or not you agree with the spirit of octopus’s comment, clearly that poster was not playing “defend the racist”. Am I allowed to say anything I want as long as it’s done in the context of arguing against racism (and if you disagree you’re a defender of racists)?

[Stringbean]

Can we just go ahead and anoint MrDibble the Grand Inquisitor Of Racist Or Too-Subtle-So-Let’s-Assume-It’s-Racist Speech?

Jesus Christ, it must be so tiring to be so self-righteous. Such is the gift of genius–it bears a heavy burden.

[MrDibble]

@Paranoid_Randroid

Oh, come on, then. Whether or not you agree with the spirit of octopus’s comment, clearly that poster was not playing “defend the racist”.

He posted in the pitting of Hentor for racism to (wrongly) accuse the OP of hypocrisy and nothing else contributive. If that’s not an attempt to reverse the pitting in defence of the pit-ee, what is it?

Am I allowed to say anything I want as long as it’s done in the context of arguing against racism (and if you disagree you’re a defender of racists)?

Nope, that would be absurd. however, if you’re just posting snarky shit which serves to attack the anti-racists in the thread without actually addressing the point of the pitting, yeah, you’re a defender of racists. case in point:
[QUOTE=Stringbean]
Can we just go ahead and anoint MrDibble the Grand Inquisitor Of Racist Or Too-Subtle-So-Let’s-Assume-It’s-Racist Speech?

Jesus Christ, it must be so tiring to be so self-righteous. Such is the gift of genius–it bears a heavy burden.
[/QUOTE]

I rest my case.