# Hello. I am a racist. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 18, 2010, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590 "2010-08-18T00:25:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 22
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/421 "2010-08-19T02:08:16Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > > [@GIGObuster](#): > > > > Well, at least it’s not [Tentacle Grape.](http://kotaku.com/5120568/ah-the-delicious-taste-of-tentacle-rape) > > There are Tentacle Grape condoms. > > Someone explain why the fuck there are Tentacle Grape condoms before I go INSANE. Tentacle Cherry just isn’t for everyone. ---
**Author:** ![Maeglin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Maeglin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeglin)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/422 "2010-08-19T02:17:19Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > > [@jsgoddess](#): > > > > There are Tentacle Grape condoms. > > > > Someone explain why the fuck there are Tentacle Grape condoms before I go INSANE. > > Tentacle Cherry just isn’t for everyone. Not more than once, at least. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/423 "2010-08-19T02:19:02Z")
I swear to God, reading this thread made me remember that I had a sweet little watermelon sitting in the back of my fridge in danger of going bad. That son of a bitch was good but now my keyboard is getting all fucked up. I am getting pissed off now too. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/424 "2010-08-19T02:21:34Z")
> [@thirdname](#): > > I want answers! You want _answers_? ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/425 "2010-08-19T02:27:51Z")
Is it just me, or does anyone else have the lyrics from Le Freak every time they read Chimpout? Chorus: Aaahh Chimp Out! Le Freak, C’est merde! Chimp Out! Aaahh Chimp Out! Le Freak, C’est Cul (grand!) Chimp Out! Aaahh Chimp Out! Le Freak, C’est merde (cheval)! Chimp Out! Aaahh Chimp Out! Le Freak, C’est merde (whatever the French word for Bull is…sorry)! Chimp Out! Ce gars-là est un bigot! (To paraphrase from Monty Python, forgive my French, which is very bad) -XT ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/426 "2010-08-19T02:28:49Z")
> [@acsenray](#): > > > [@thirdname](#): > > > > I want answers! > > You want _answers_? I want the truth! ---
**Author:** ![Maeglin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Maeglin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeglin)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/427 "2010-08-19T02:33:46Z")
> [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > > [@acsenray](#): > > > > You want _answers_? > > I want the truth! You can’t handle…oh, nevermind. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/428 "2010-08-19T02:38:13Z")
> [@xtisme](#): > > Is it just me, or does anyone else have the lyrics from Le Freak every time they read Chimpout? No, but I will now! ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/429 "2010-08-19T02:57:37Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > But the thread is barely 24 hours old and it sports over 400 replies and more than 9000 views. Yet many of the posts state (or imply) that the OP is not worthy of their attention. Well, _he’s_ not, but the thread subject matter is certainly unusual for this board, which I figure is what’s really getting all the attention. ---
**Author:** ![Zeriel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/58956e/32.png) [@Zeriel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeriel)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/430 "2010-08-19T03:08:10Z")
> [@Ariovistus](#): > > Let me tell you about something that happened to me not long ago: Yeah, the same thing happened in my hometown. Except it was poor-ass white people who moved in and perpetrated drive-bys and raped and assaulted and and trashed the place and stole shit from my dad’s store and crashed their shitty cars into the tree at the base of our driveway. On the other hand, the few black kids in town were polite and well-behaved (we had three, all adopted, in a 99.6% white town. All three consistently topped their classes honor rolls and kept their noses clean, because that’s all that was saving them from being discriminated against more than the usual idiocy.) You’ve been given enough examples that it’s poverty and ignorance that drive bad behavior, not race. If you can’t see that, well, congrats on your apparently successful attempt to make people more prejudiced about redneck southerners. ---
**Author:** ![Ariovistus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Ariovistus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ariovistus)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/431 "2010-08-19T03:37:07Z")
> [@The\_Second\_Stone](#): > > Okay, a couple of follow-ups: > > 1. Do you vote? If so, are you registered voter? What party? What presidential candidates have you voted for? (Against?) > > 2. I suppose what I mean is that do you feel any shame from your hatred? A warm feeling inside? Do you wish you did not have it? Do you treasure your hatred? Do you think it is anger that has been built up? \*\*Hi again. Thanks for being polite and patient. It means a lot. (You’ll have to forgive me… I have a great, thundering headache right now.) \*3) Do you vote? If so, are you registered voter? What party? What presidential candidates have you voted for? (Against?) \* Yes, I vote. Everytime there is an election. Voting is the last hardcore political right we have. All the rest have been regulated to the ash heap. Yes, I’m registered. Republican. But it’s been a long time since I voted along party lines… I feel the GOP has abandoned it’s basic tenants, and therefore is no longer worthy of my loyalty. I have voted Republican most of the time, except for when I voted for R. Paul. Bush Part II, meh, I felt betrayed. PATRIOT ACT I & II are offensive to me. Using fear from a horrible event to ramrod crappy legislation through Congress… meh. _4) I suppose what I mean is that do you feel any shame from your hatred?_ I told you, I do not HATE. I have an intense dislike. There is a measurable difference between the two, at least for me. The guy who raped my former fiancee, that guy I hate… THAT is a burning hatred that will never, ever die. I will take it to my grave. Hatred like that, that strong, is very dangerous… if let free, would lead to many bad things happening, which is why I keep it screwed down deep, where it can’t get to me or affect my actions. _A warm feeling inside?_ No. Not liking people does not give me a warm feeling. 90% of the time, I don’t think about them whatsoever… they simply have no impact on my life anymore. However, when I am around blacks, I feel irritated, and sometimes repelled if their behavior is especially egregious. I usually leave the area, or avoid them. _Do you wish you did not have it?_ I wish the \*cause \*for my dislike wasn’t there… If most black people stopped their poor behavior (slinging crack, gangbanging, rampant crime, thug culture, destruction of neighborhoods/cities, unbelieveable incarceration rates, 75% out of wedlock birth rate, 50% dropout rate, eternal victimhood, insisting on AA, pushing for slave reparations, etc, etc, etc… ) I would have no problem with them, most of the time. _Do you treasure your hatred?_ One more time, it is N-O-T hatred… there IS a difference. And no, I do not ‘treasure’ my feelings… to be honest, there is a conflict. Being raised Catholic, and being a Christian, I sometimes do wish that I didn’t feel the way I do… however, I think my feelings, for me anyways, are justified. I am as human as the next guy. But, how many times must one be burned before “Fire = Hot” becomes ingrained into a person’s mind? _Do you think it is anger that has been built up?_ Yes. Along with frustration. And a great deal of sadness for what I see as the death of the Republic… \*\* ---
**Author:** ![rogerbox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/76d3ee/32.png) [@rogerbox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rogerbox)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/432 "2010-08-19T03:39:03Z")
I’m bored, I’ll bite: You are apparently proud of your Viking/warrior heritage, and also accuse black people of being racially predisposed to violence. Viking raiders snuck up on unassuming villages hundreds of miles away from scandanavia, killing and raping innocents. (Also, race mixing!) Yet, in your posts you bring up blacks who rape, rob people, and make a once peaceful neighborhood turn to shit. Do you not see a disconnect there? I’m picturing a thousand years from now some black person saying we need to return to our heroes of olde, and worship 50 cent. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/433 "2010-08-19T03:53:46Z")
> [@Hamlet](#): > > > [@pravnik](#): > > > > We don’t learn anything regardless, because there’s nothing to learn. We had a self-professed honest-to-God unrepentant and untreated pedophile here perfectly willing to answer questions about pedophilia, and I didn’t ask him a single question or engage him in any way because I didn’t care what he thought. I deal with pedophiles on a regular basis in my job, and they’re not rare snowflakes with a lot of insight to offer. Pedophiles are pedophiles because they have a mental illness that makes them attracted to children, and the ones that don’t see anything wrong with it are that way are that way because they engage in cognitive distortions that give them mental justifications for it that are completely airtight in their own minds and are utterly transparent to everyone else. After a while that became apparent to all, and he was banned. > > > > Similarly, I don’t need a racist to tell me why he thinks the way he does, I already know why racists think the way they do. They lack critical thinking skills, they don’t understand confirmation bias, and they generally aren’t very truthful or even insightful about their motivations. Here in a few more pages it will be apparent that this racist is pretty much like every other racist on the planet, that there’s absolutely nothing to be gained by attempting to engage him, and then this will get locked and he’ll be banned. Then we can get back to something more constructive than debating a racist, like playing handball against the drapes. > > Outstanding post. Thanks. I really, really hope that this doesn’t go on as long as the pedophile situation. By the way, to nobody in particular, it’s “tenets.” Not “tenants.” “Tenets.” ---
**Author:** ![Ariovistus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Ariovistus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ariovistus)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/434 "2010-08-19T03:53:55Z")
> [@julius blaze](#): > > I’m bored, I’ll bite: > > You are apparently proud of your Viking/warrior heritage, and also accuse black people of being racially predisposed to violence. Viking raiders snuck up on unassuming villages hundreds of miles away from scandanavia, killing and raping innocents. (Also, race mixing!) > > Yet, in your posts you bring up blacks who rape, rob people, and make a once peaceful neighborhood turn to shit. Do you not see a disconnect there? > > I’m picturing a thousand years from now some black person saying we need to return to our heroes of olde, and worship 50 cent. Hello Julius.. I’m going to have to beg off on this one for tonight… I promise I’ll answer it tomorrow. I’m kind of hurting here and I’d just as soon turn in for the night, if it’s okay with you… Promise.. ---
**Author:** ![Ariovistus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Ariovistus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ariovistus)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/435 "2010-08-19T03:57:43Z")
> [@pravnik](#): > > By the way, to nobody in particular, it’s “tenets.” Not “tenants.” “Tenets.” Thanks for the correction.. noted for later.. Hard to think straight when you got a monster headache.. Goodnight. ---
**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/436 "2010-08-19T04:00:46Z")
I fucking love grape soda, and I’m like the whitest white person ever. And I even have some Viking heritage probably! And I’m also Jewish…ish, depending on who you ask (enough to piss off Hitler, anyway), which I suppose either increase my whiteness. Or decreases it, I’m never quite sure which. Anyway. Grape soda. It’s delicious! ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/437 "2010-08-19T04:03:17Z")
Mmmmm…grape soda… (BTW, Schweppes used to make grape ginger ale – it was delish! They still make raspberry ginger ale, and I love it, but the grape was absolutely devine!) [Oh wait – they still make it!](http://www.schweppesus.com/) Go to product info! Woohoo!!! (If only I could find it again. I loved that stuff) ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/438 "2010-08-19T04:04:52Z")
I’m genuinely sorry you’re in pain and hope you feel better, buit racism is not worthy of any civil discourse and should be met with scorn and disapprobation wherever it rears its ugly head. Accordingly, I hope you are banned soon. Goodnight. ---
**Author:** ![rogerbox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/76d3ee/32.png) [@rogerbox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rogerbox)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/439 "2010-08-19T04:42:29Z")
> [@Ariovistus](#): > > > [@julius blaze](#): > > > > I’m bored, I’ll bite: > > > > You are apparently proud of your Viking/warrior heritage, and also accuse black people of being racially predisposed to violence. Viking raiders snuck up on unassuming villages hundreds of miles away from scandanavia, killing and raping innocents. (Also, race mixing!) > > > > Yet, in your posts you bring up blacks who rape, rob people, and make a once peaceful neighborhood turn to shit. Do you not see a disconnect there? > > > > I’m picturing a thousand years from now some black person saying we need to return to our heroes of olde, and worship 50 cent. > > Hello Julius.. > > I’m going to have to beg off on this one for tonight… I promise I’ll answer it tomorrow. I’m kind of hurting here and I’d just as soon turn in for the night, if it’s okay with you… > > Promise.. I hope you’re okay (this couldn’t come from my black half, assume i got compassion for fellow man from my white half!) It makes me glad to hear that you are sometimes bothered about your racist feelings. I think that you know, and i know, that you are downplaying your racism on THIS forum. Also I beleive that you know and i know that your racialist feelings are in direct conflict with christianty and almost every religion that isnt ancestor worship. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/440 "2010-08-19T04:59:15Z")
Hey, you know that song _Baby Snakes_ by **Frank Zappa**? That’s about clitorises, right? Or is it clitori?? It’s clitorides in Latin, what? What are the clitorides of this march? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590.md?page=21) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590.md?page=23)