# Hello.  I am a racist.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590>\
**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\
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**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/501 "2010-08-19T18:05:13Z")

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> [@Ariovistus](#):
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> Yes, blacks will be ‘dealt with’ if they come on my property. Same as any other intruder, but especially blacks.

Comedy Scale reading: 11.

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**Author:** ![Oldeb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ea666f/32.png) [@Oldeb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oldeb)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/502 "2010-08-19T18:11:26Z")

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Huh. I was looking at **Guinastasia** ’s links up there and it’s weird how many people on that site have a picture of a black person for an avatar or in their signature. Granted several of them are in unflattering poses or with really bad photoshopping, but many of them just seem to be a random picture they lifted from somewhere.

It’s like finding out that the Westboro Baptist Church has an online forum where every third person has an avatar of oiled bodybuilder in a thong.

And I loved that story about him rewarding his kid for harrasing a black kid. It’s great where he goes into detail about how the Chinese invented trebuchets at the start and after wandering off into an obviously made up story about him trying and failing to get a poor black kid to grasp the concept of gravity ends with describing them as “white man’s magic.” Apparently that prior 1,200 year period of Asian use doesn’t count.

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**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/503 "2010-08-19T18:17:35Z")

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> [@MeanOldLady](#):
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> > [@Ariovistus](#):
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> > Yes, blacks will be ‘dealt with’ if they come on my property. Same as any other intruder, but especially blacks.
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> Comedy Scale reading: 11.

It was better the way Orwell said it.

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**Author:** ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/504 "2010-08-19T18:21:59Z")

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> [@Ariovistus](#):
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> You can’t embarass me or get me to back up or deny anything… that shit won’t work. Dig all the so-called ‘dirt’ you want on me… it does not invalidate any of the points I have made. In fact, I have presented my views here openly and honestly and politely… all I have received in rebuttle is "you suck, you’re evil, you’re a liar, Nuh-UHH!!, etc, etc.. not one SHRED of evidence to the contrary… just a bunch of smug, self-congratulatory, hostile people running their pie-holes to each other just so they can say how smart they are and how they done kicked that hayseed’s ass… meh.

The fact that you’re a lying shitsack invalidates _all_ the points you have made, since your points are **completely dependent** on you being an unbiased observer. And also being a mindreader.

In reality, of course, you cannot read minds, and so when you make up insane bullshit about black people being more behaviorally predisposed to do harm than white people, we can be quite confident it’s your racist assumptions talking, not any kind of sanely observed facts. And similarly your racist upbringing makes you literally unqualified to report on the cause of crimes in your own town, much less the world in general. You see blacks, you think criminal, but not because blacks were criminals first. It’s because you were taught to think that blacks are criminals based on no intelligent reality whatsoever, the same way you’re teaching your son.

Which is not to say that there weren’t black people in your town that committed crimes. _Poor_ people tend to commit crimes, regardless of color. It’s a matter of education, upbringing, and culture. Like when you talk gleefully talk about you and your son assaulting people, and if you get lucky maybe you’ll get to shoot a black? Yeah. That’s education, upbringing, and culture speaking. Or rather the lack thereof, so to speak.

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**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/505 "2010-08-19T18:26:43Z")

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> [@Ariovistus](#):
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> In fact, I have presented my views here openly and honestly and politely…

Little known fact: It’s not actually possible to hate people politely.

Also little known fact: It’s not actually possible to lie honestly.

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**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/506 "2010-08-19T18:29:06Z")

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> [@Ariovistus](#):
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> Aaaand the typical remarks about KFC, inbreeding, living in a shack, hillbilly jokes, being shoeless, squaredancing, etc, etc, with variations on each one, ad nauseum…
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> These were Northerners who made all these comments to me, not the Southerners. Apparently, the differences between North and South are still very relevent and I’m constantly reminded of those differences.

First of all. Is someone badmouthing KFC? Why would anyone do that?

Second of all, after all that poor treatment from Northerners based on you state of origin (and I might add that at least some of it is based on the same type of experience you have had with blacks), it never dawned on you that you might be doing the same thing when you paint all blacks with the same brush based on your experience with some blacks?

There are more than a handful of kneejerk liberals on this board and very few kneejerk conservatives. The only reason I have come up with is that most of the kneejerk reactions from kneejerk liberals have their foundation in well reasoned arguments so they can usually finagle themselves into some sort of defensible position after their knee jerks; while the kneejerk reactions from conservatives are often bred from ignorance and ultimately have indefensible positions.

We’re not blind. We see the same things you do, we just interpret it differently.

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**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, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/507 "2010-08-19T18:31:37Z")

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Reasons black people suck: When you hit them with chicken bones, they don’t realize that, duh, it’s funny and it’s not as bad as lynching.

Also, they have no sense of irony. Obama’s been living in the white house for years now and they don’t see the irony!

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**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/508 "2010-08-19T18:38:46Z")

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> [@Ariovistus](#):
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> > [@Walmarticus](#):
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> > This is a classic trolling thread. The op spews a bunch of boocrap about how he’s a kinda sorta racist, and also his beardstyle/Teutonicness/Kentucky to get us to prejudge him as the former based upon the later, at which point he links back to his racist board with a, ‘let’s all look at the prejudice libs and revel in the sweet irony.’
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> I’m not a ‘kinda, sorta’ racist… I already stated that I AM what you all call a racist.
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> And, if you would have read what I originally wrote, I offered some background on myself KNOWING IT WOULD OPEN ME UP AS A TARGET as an olive branch. I did NOT, at any time, think: “Hey, I’ll just make up a bunch of garbage about myself, get them to make nasty comments about it, then go back home and show them what a bunch of prejudiced pinheads they all are”…
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> You give me too much credit. I might be a sneaky SOB on the battlefield, but I’m a crappy liar, and I don’t set people up.
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> I offered the info about myself as up front and honestly as I could so that you guys would SOMEHOW think I was legit.
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> So far, all’s I’ve seen are people telling me I’m a troll (despite me saying I’m NOT a troll), that I should be banned, that I should crawl back under my rock, that I’m a sad little man of no consequence to anyone, blah, blah, blee, blabbity blah…
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> I’ve only seen 2 (TWO!) posters out of all of you who are willing to give me the time of day without being catty or insulting or dismissive… if you all were really serious about what you say, you would give me a fair shake.

Why would you post in the pit if you wanted honest discourse?

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**Author:** ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/509 "2010-08-19T18:40:18Z")

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> [@Damuri\_Ajashi](#):
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> Why would you post in the pit if you wanted honest discourse?

To be fair, he would have ended up here anyway. Quickly.

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**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, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/510 "2010-08-19T18:40:47Z")

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[QUOTE=Ariovistus]  
By the way, I found it hilarious, and still do, all these years later. It was a CHICKEN BONE, not a bullet, or explosives, or a paper bag full of dog crap, or a note saying “Don’t let the sun set on you around here”…

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It’s only a matter of degree. You throw a chicken bone at someone, think it’s funny, and then next time it’s a beer can. Then, when someone takes offense to your playfulness, you and your buttfuck buddies start throwing rocks, then bullets, then the note saying 'Don’t let the sun set on you around here". You see, that’s exactly what numbfucks like you did in this country in the past. Once you dehumanize someone to the point where throwing something at them becomes ‘funny’, then it’s a slippery slope to the other actions. For fucks sake, your demented Chimp Out web site is chocked full of comments about hateful actions.

I have to wonder…would you think it was funny if me and my 'manos tossed a burrito at you? I mean, WE’D think that was pretty fucking funny…gringo pendejo pinche chorra puta like you getting hit with a burrito and all…

-XT

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**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/511 "2010-08-19T18:44:17Z")

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> [@Zeriel](#):
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> I’m somehow completely unsurprised that the one thing our little blanco nino has failed to address has been the experiences that many of us have had with HIS ilk, and how he can’t seem to address that many of us should judge whites or Southerners or Kentuckians inferior for the EXACT same reasons he judges blacks inferior–long experience with representatives of the type, all of them iffy-neutral to bad.

I’m not mad. He’s made me realize how much I fucking hate white people. Next time a white guy walks up to me in a bar and tries to chat me up, I’m going to throw a. . . what the fuck do white people like? Oh, an LL Bean sweater right at his head. That’ll show him!

[Obligatory Link.](http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/)

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**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/512 "2010-08-19T18:45:14Z")

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Before I can have a conversation with you, I just need to know one thing-Are you pretending to be a classless and brainless shitheel thug with no morals elsewhere on the internet, or are you pretending to be reasonable here?

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**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/513 "2010-08-19T18:48:38Z")

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> [@Ariovistus](#):
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> But if one looks at the FBI’s UCR (online for anyone to read), if one goes by conviction and incarceration rates, blacks are much more probable to act on those impulses.

Gee, one group of people being overrepresented in the lower class and historically subject to large amounts of prejudice couldn’t \*possibly \*influence their conviction and incarceration rates. Nope. Must just be that darkies are retarded children.

> [@DiosaBellissima](#):
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> Next time a white guy walks up to me in a bar and tries to chat me up, I’m going to throw a. . . what the fuck do white people like? Oh, an LL Bean sweater right at his head. That’ll show him!

I’d have suggested a yacht, but YMMV.

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**Author:** ![GHO57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/df788c/32.png) [@GHO57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GHO57)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/514 "2010-08-19T18:51:39Z")

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> [@DiosaBellissima](#):
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> I’m not mad. He’s made me realize how much I fucking hate white people. Next time a white guy walks up to me in a bar and tries to chat me up, I’m going to throw a. . . what the fuck do white people like? Oh, an LL Bean sweater right at his head. That’ll show him!
> 
> [Obligatory Link.](http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/)

So, how \*you \*doing? 😉

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**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/515 "2010-08-19T18:58:36Z")

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> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#):
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> > [@DiosaBellissima](#):
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> > Next time a white guy walks up to me in a bar and tries to chat me up, I’m going to throw a. . . what the fuck do white people like? Oh, an LL Bean sweater right at his head. That’ll show him!
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> I’d have suggested a yacht, but YMMV.

Um, what kind of superhuman Viking strength do you think I have where I can throw a goddamned yacht? I am nothing but a lowly wop- we aren’t known for our strength or general fitness, ok?

> [@GHO57](#):
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> So, how \*you \*doing? 😉

BRB, I’m going to find a [moleskin notebook](http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2009/02/24/122-moleskine-notebooks/) to huck at your head.

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**Author:** ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/516 "2010-08-19T19:00:12Z")

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> [@DiosaBellissima](#):
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> > [@Zeriel](#):
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> > I’m somehow completely unsurprised that the one thing our little blanco nino has failed to address has been the experiences that many of us have had with HIS ilk, and how he can’t seem to address that many of us should judge whites or Southerners or Kentuckians inferior for the EXACT same reasons he judges blacks inferior–long experience with representatives of the type, all of them iffy-neutral to bad.
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> I’m not mad. He’s made me realize how much I fucking hate white people. Next time a white guy walks up to me in a bar and tries to chat me up, I’m going to throw a. . . what the fuck do white people like? Oh, an LL Bean sweater right at his head. That’ll show him!
> 
> [Obligatory Link.](http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/)

Ooh, free sweater!

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**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/517 "2010-08-19T19:01:19Z")

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So just how many pages does a one-trick pony get before it’s Happy Trails time, anyway?

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**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/518 "2010-08-19T19:02:04Z")

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> [@begbert2](#):
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> > [@DiosaBellissima](#):
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> > I’m not mad. He’s made me realize how much I fucking hate white people. Next time a white guy walks up to me in a bar and tries to chat me up, I’m going to throw a. . . what the fuck do white people like? Oh, an LL Bean sweater right at his head. That’ll show him!
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> > [Obligatory Link.](http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/)
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> Ooh, free sweater!

Typical. White people love [free](http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/04/04/94-free-healthcare/)[stuff.](http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/03/30/93-music-piracy/)

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**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/519 "2010-08-19T19:03:04Z")

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> [@DiosaBellissima](#):
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> > [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#):
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> > I’d have suggested a yacht, but YMMV.
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> Um, what kind of superhuman Viking strength do you think I have where I can throw a goddamned yacht? I am nothing but a lowly wop- we aren’t known for our strength or general fitness, ok?

_sigh_ You need more goosestepping and yodeling, fool.

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**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/520 "2010-08-19T19:05:14Z")

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> [@jsgoddess](#):
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> > [@DiosaBellissima](#):
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> > Um, what kind of superhuman Viking strength do you think I have where I can throw a goddamned yacht? I am nothing but a lowly wop- we aren’t known for our strength or general fitness, ok?
> 
> _sigh_ You need more goosestepping and yodeling, fool.

But it’ll get my black shirt all dirty ☹

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