# How is this quote of Shapiro's not racist? I don't understand **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 27, 2018, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-this-quote-of-shapiros-not-racist-i-dont-understand/811241 "2018-03-27T02:49:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BloodStalk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee59a6/32.png) [@BloodStalk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BloodStalk)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2018, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-this-quote-of-shapiros-not-racist-i-dont-understand/811241/1 "2018-03-27T02:49:47Z")
This is related to a thread I already made, but I was debating with some clown on a racist comment said by Shapiro: > **['Israelis like to build, Arabs like to bomb' is racist BS, here's why](https://stepfeed.com/israelis-like-to-build-arabs-like-to-bomb-is-racist-bs-here-s-why-9565)** > > Ever heard of Dubai? And he defended it with this: THat first one was just him pointing out the cultural differences. In Saudi Arabia, that is one of the countries that has slavery and where women are treated terribly. He probably should have pointed out that there are some good things about Saudi Arabia, but if you are offended by that tweet, then you clearly didn’t know the context already and need to get educated on it. I don’t understand.That comment is blatant racism and yet this clown is trying to say it is not. Does he not understand that Arabs just don’t live in Saudi Arabia and are a diverse group? It’s derogatory? How is it not racism? ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2018, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-this-quote-of-shapiros-not-racist-i-dont-understand/811241/2 "2018-03-27T03:30:46Z")
Yesterday I felt something in my shoe, like a pebble, but when I checked, there was nothing there. What do you guys think? ---
**Author:** ![BloodStalk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee59a6/32.png) [@BloodStalk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BloodStalk)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2018, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-this-quote-of-shapiros-not-racist-i-dont-understand/811241/3 "2018-03-27T03:40:35Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Yesterday I felt something in my shoe, like a pebble, but when I checked, there was nothing there. What do you guys think? I see what you’re doing. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2018, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-this-quote-of-shapiros-not-racist-i-dont-understand/811241/4 "2018-03-27T03:42:43Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Yesterday I felt something in my shoe, like a pebble, but when I checked, there was nothing there. What do you guys think? My sister had a pebble in her shoe once. I told her to take the shoe off and shake it out but she said it’d be rude to do that in public. What’s your opinion? ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2018, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-this-quote-of-shapiros-not-racist-i-dont-understand/811241/5 "2018-03-27T04:01:47Z")
> [@BloodStalk](#): > > I see what you’re doing. I see what you did there. Absolutely nothing. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2018, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-this-quote-of-shapiros-not-racist-i-dont-understand/811241/6 "2018-03-27T04:14:15Z")
Some crazy guy I was talking to online told me that they had a pebble in their shoe, but I didn’t believe them. What do you guys think? ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2018, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-this-quote-of-shapiros-not-racist-i-dont-understand/811241/7 "2018-03-27T04:19:09Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > My sister had a pebble in her shoe once. I told her to take the shoe off and shake it out but she said it’d be rude to do that in public. What’s your opinion? Even odder considering she was walking in a gravel pit at the moment. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2018, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-this-quote-of-shapiros-not-racist-i-dont-understand/811241/8 "2018-03-27T04:34:30Z")
On The Flintstones, Pebbles never wore shoes. What’s the dope on this? ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2018, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-this-quote-of-shapiros-not-racist-i-dont-understand/811241/9 "2018-03-27T04:51:18Z")
I have heard it might be practical to develop a pebble-bed type thorium breeder that would have almost none of the disadvantages of contemporary uranium reactors, but we have not made much progress because it would piss off the Saudis, _et al_. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2018, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-this-quote-of-shapiros-not-racist-i-dont-understand/811241/10 "2018-03-27T05:47:02Z")
> [@TokyoBayer](#): > > Even odder considering she was walking in a gravel pit at the moment. I heard it was a quarry. Do you think maybe somebody threw something down there? ---
**Author:** ![Mars\_Horizon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mars_horizon/32/2804_2.png) [@Mars\_Horizon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mars_Horizon)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2018, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-this-quote-of-shapiros-not-racist-i-dont-understand/811241/11 "2018-03-27T06:40:58Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > I heard it was a quarry. Do you think maybe somebody threw something down there? Bo. Sorry…keyboard is sticking. “No.” ---
**Author:** ![nate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nate/32/13085_2.png) [@nate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nate)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2018, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-this-quote-of-shapiros-not-racist-i-dont-understand/811241/12 "2018-03-27T07:13:58Z")
I don’t get any of the replies in this thread. Maybe I’ve got a blindspot and I’m missing something obvious? ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2018, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-this-quote-of-shapiros-not-racist-i-dont-understand/811241/13 "2018-03-27T07:29:35Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > I heard it was a quarry. Do you think maybe somebody threw something down there? Her shoe. ---
**Author:** ![PlaceboTarget](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/placebotarget/32/1073_2.png) [@PlaceboTarget](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlaceboTarget)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2018, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-this-quote-of-shapiros-not-racist-i-dont-understand/811241/14 "2018-03-27T09:21:17Z")
I hope I’m not breaking any rules if I point out that this threat has been a little weird so far. ---
**Author:** ![BloodStalk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee59a6/32.png) [@BloodStalk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BloodStalk)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2018, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-this-quote-of-shapiros-not-racist-i-dont-understand/811241/15 "2018-03-27T09:47:55Z")
But for real, can I get serious replies? ---
**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:** [March 27, 2018, 9:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-this-quote-of-shapiros-not-racist-i-dont-understand/811241/16 "2018-03-27T09:59:18Z")
> [@nate](#): > > I don’t get any of the replies in this thread. Maybe I’ve got a blindspot and I’m missing something obvious? Read pretty much any OP posted by **BloodStalk** , and then ask us what we think. ---
**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:** [March 27, 2018, 10:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-this-quote-of-shapiros-not-racist-i-dont-understand/811241/17 "2018-03-27T10:02:44Z")
> [@BloodStalk](#): > > But for real, can I get serious replies? What do you think? About whether you can get serious replies, not about whether the racist quote was racist. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2018, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-this-quote-of-shapiros-not-racist-i-dont-understand/811241/18 "2018-03-27T10:34:21Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > My sister had a pebble in her shoe once. I told her to take the shoe off and shake it out but she said it’d be rude to do that in public. What’s your opinion? She should have called the pebble “Dare”. They could have walked, they could have talked together. They could have talked about walking. Dare would have been carried, and when they both had had enough she could have taken him from her shoe, singing “Meet your new road!”. That’s my opinion. I’m also of the opinion that they made some seriously weird musicals in the 1970s. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2018, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-this-quote-of-shapiros-not-racist-i-dont-understand/811241/19 "2018-03-27T10:38:25Z")
> [@nate](#): > > I don’t get any of the replies in this thread. Maybe I’ve got a blindspot and I’m missing something obvious? Our OP has a recurring habit of posting OPs about some conversation he had with someone somewhere else and wanting us to opine about it, in a “let’s you and him fight about this” sense. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2018, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-this-quote-of-shapiros-not-racist-i-dont-understand/811241/20 "2018-03-27T12:14:56Z")
OP, most people probably don’t know or care who Shapiro is or what random thing he says. Same with random people you happen to discuss things with. If you want to get a real discussion, I’d recommend starting with some topic that actually relates to and might affect real people – some sort of discriminatory policy or practice, a significant current event, etc. Not what some guy who no one knows said one time that you think was bad. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-this-quote-of-shapiros-not-racist-i-dont-understand/811241.md?page=2)