# 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:** 38
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2010, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/741 "2010-10-06T01:51:24Z")
Pass the popcorn. ---
**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:** [October 6, 2010, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/742 "2010-10-06T01:53:01Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > Pass the popcorn. … racist … ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2010, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/743 "2010-10-06T01:55:03Z")
Don’t be h8tin’ ---
**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:** [October 6, 2010, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/744 "2010-10-06T02:25:43Z")
Um, this guy has been gone for over a month – why are we dragging this up again? ---
**Author:** ![adhay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@adhay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adhay)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2010, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/745 "2010-10-06T14:22:27Z")
> [@LeeshaJoy](#): > > I have a question for **Ariovistus** , asked in good faith. That question is this: > > **Why do you choose to define yourself as a racist?** > > Note that I did not ask “Why are you a racist?”. I asked why you _choose to define yourself_ as a racist. I’ll be fucked if I’m going thru 13? pages of this nonsense to find out if the OP ever addressed your question. Did he? If so, a linky or post # would be appreciated. If not, why not, OP? ---
**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:** [October 6, 2010, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/746 "2010-10-06T14:32:25Z")
If you think the OP was posting here to generate a legitimate conversation about race in America, you deserve having to read through 15 pages of this ridiculous thread. ---
**Author:** ![adhay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@adhay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adhay)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2010, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/747 "2010-10-09T01:28:19Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > If you think the OP was posting here to generate a legitimate conversation about race in America, you deserve having to read through 15 pages of this ridiculous thread. Same to you. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2010, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/748 "2010-10-09T02:29:42Z")
> [@adhay](#): > > I’ll be fucked if I’m going thru 13? pages of this nonsense to find out if the OP ever addressed your question. But seeing as you are the expert on nonsense posts, we thought you’d feel right at home. ---
**Author:** ![pikey\_pete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pikey\_pete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pikey_pete)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2010, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/749 "2010-10-09T06:42:41Z")
> [@chacoguy](#): > > Hello **Ariovistus** , > > Welcome to the boards. Can you define your views a little more sharply? Are your prejudices constrained to just black folks? How do you feel about Jews? Arabs? Greeks? The French etc.? ok, a bias against the french isn’t racism or nationalism…its just good form. ---
**Author:** ![pikey\_pete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pikey\_pete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pikey_pete)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2010, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/750 "2010-10-09T07:08:51Z")
> [@xtisme](#): > > [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”… 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 [/QUOTE] as a pinche gringo who doesn’t really care about race, religion or sexual identity…please toss a burrito at me. Just make sure its lengua, tripas, carnitas or cesos and toss it to me so I can eat it. No chorizo or carne asada though. I got burned out on those. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2010, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/751 "2010-10-09T07:22:59Z")
I was in a meeting the other day and one of the guys said “…and then we’ll hand the project over to you people in Marketing” and I replied sternly “that’s a bit racist, isn’t it?” What made me laugh is that he took me completely seriously and apologised (we’re all white Europeans). ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2010, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/752 "2010-10-09T11:15:55Z")
> [@Rand\_Rover](#): > > Oh boy. Why did I go check out [chimpout.com](http://chimpout.com)? Why? Ugh, I did too. Lots o’ fun. At least most of the grammar is incorrect from these particular racist fucks. Probably learned to spell in a church. 😃 And a whole section for “Michael Jackscoon”?? He’s dead, he ain’t coming back. stop worrying Kentucky Bible Thumpers. ---
**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:** [October 9, 2010, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/753 "2010-10-09T12:07:12Z")
> [@adhay](#): > > > [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > > > If you think the OP was posting here to generate a legitimate conversation about race in America, you deserve having to read through 15 pages of this ridiculous thread. > > Same to you. And here’s looking up your old address .. ( … WTF? … ) ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2011, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/754 "2011-02-05T02:26:28Z")
**Poltroon**! Heh!🙂 Let’s bring it back and substitute it for the word “Maroon” (moron, of course) or “Nimrod” On second thought, let’s don’t! 😉 Loves me some archaic expressions! Q ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2011, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/755 "2011-02-05T03:24:53Z")
Why’d you bump this, **Quasi**? ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2011, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/756 "2011-02-05T03:28:24Z")
It wasn’t closed, **Lord** and I saw the word “poltroon”. Sorry, but sometimes I stumble into stuff I find amusing. You’re saying I _bumped_ it, though, aren’t you? That implies some deviousness on my part, doesn’t it? I can assure you none was intended. Quasimodem ---
**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:** [February 5, 2011, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/757 "2011-02-05T03:43:08Z")
Just for the record (from page 2): [QUOTE=XT] Again, I’m not saying there is anything wrong with trolling threads. This is the place for them. I was merely pointing out that this is pretty clearly a trolling thread. And, equally clearly, it’s poised to catch it’s limit. As for interesting…meh. I don’t find the OP to be very interesting, but I concede that MMV. Hell, it obviously does, since this thread will probably go for 10 more pages if the OP just ducks in once in a while to keep things spun up and keep the 'doper community primed for more. [/QUOTE] (I love referring to myself in the 3rd person) I was off by 6 pages on what the limit would be. 😛 I’d say that this thread more than fulfilled it’s promised catch of 'dopers… -XT ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2011, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/758 "2011-02-05T03:48:28Z")
I, for one, don’t suspect you of deviousness, and I frankly doubt if **Lord Ashtar** did either. It’s possible to be annoyed by the inadvertent resurrection of justly-dormant bit of trollery without seeing hidden agendas under every bed. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2011, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/759 "2011-02-05T03:51:53Z")
> [@Quasimodem](#): > > It wasn’t closed, **Lord** and I saw the word “poltroon”. > > Sorry, but sometimes I stumble into stuff I find amusing. > > You’re saying I _bumped_ it, though, aren’t you? > > That implies some deviousness on my part, doesn’t it? > > I can assure you none was intended. > > Quasimodem Nah, I was just curious. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2011, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/760 "2011-02-05T03:53:27Z")
> [@Quasimodem](#): > > You’re saying I _bumped_ it, though, aren’t you? > > That implies some deviousness on my part, doesn’t it? No, it doesn’t. “Bumping a thread,” simply means posting to a thread, which moves it to the top of the forum. The term does not imply any sort of a motive. That said, while there’s no rule against bumping dormant threads, we do prefer that people not bump threads that have been dormant for some time if they don’t have anything substantive to add to the conversation. From where I’m sitting, I’m not sure it’s even possible to add anything substantive to this thread, so I’m going to go ahead and shut it down now. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590.md?page=37)