# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2018, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-this-quote-of-shapiros-not-racist-i-dont-understand/811241/21 "2018-03-27T12:19:44Z")
Stop talking with morons online. And especially stop talking with said morons, hearing something moronic that they say, and then coming here and posting “Hey, a moron online just said this. What do you think?” The answer is always the same: morons say and do moronic things. Stop talking with them. ---
**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, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-this-quote-of-shapiros-not-racist-i-dont-understand/811241/22 "2018-03-27T12:24:47Z")
When this fellow who’s a pal of my friend’s chum buys coffee at Starbucks, he only puts cream in it when the barista is black. I told him that this was racist but he insists that it’s not. Do you agree that it’s racist? I think it is but I’m not sure if I should confront him again. What do you all think? ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2018, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-this-quote-of-shapiros-not-racist-i-dont-understand/811241/23 "2018-03-27T12:29:08Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Yesterday I felt something in my shoe, like a pebble, but when I checked, there was nothing there. What do you guys think? When you can snatch the pebble from your shoe, it will be time for you to leave. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2018, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-this-quote-of-shapiros-not-racist-i-dont-understand/811241/24 "2018-03-27T13:29:40Z")
Someone I know recently posted a comment on a message board asking if he could get any replies. I’m not sure if he will get any replies! What do you guys think? ---
**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, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-this-quote-of-shapiros-not-racist-i-dont-understand/811241/25 "2018-03-27T13:40:53Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > When you can snatch the pebble from your shoe, it will be time for you to leave. Then you end up with a pebble in your snatch, which cannot be a good thing. ---
**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, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-this-quote-of-shapiros-not-racist-i-dont-understand/811241/26 "2018-03-27T13:42:44Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > Someone I know recently posted a comment on a message board asking if he could get any replies. I’m not sure if he will get any replies! What do you guys think? This other guy whose comment I read on a different message board seems like he thinks he might reply to the person who posted the requested for replies you posted about but it seems to me that the guy I posted about might not know about the guy you posted about and even if he did he might not post something that the guy you posted about would like and so I’m not sure if I should reply to the guy I posted about to tell him to reply to the guy you posted about but as I am forced by instinct, uncontrollable psychological compulsion and/or the armed madman who keeps me chained up in his basement and threatens to shoot me unless I open yet another thread asking people what they think about something that someone else said either to me or to someone else but which I either overheard or read somewhere to respond because if I didn’t respond to every such comment I encounter then I would be confused about how I ought to respond to those comments to respond to every such comment I thought I would post here about what I read and/or was told and ask what you people think I should do. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2018, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-this-quote-of-shapiros-not-racist-i-dont-understand/811241/27 "2018-03-27T13:48:55Z")
> [@TokyoBayer](#): > > Her shoe. Gesundheit! ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2018, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-this-quote-of-shapiros-not-racist-i-dont-understand/811241/28 "2018-03-27T14:23:20Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Then you end up with a pebble in your snatch, which cannot be a good thing. [Camel IUD article.](https://www.huffingtonpost.com/valerie-tarico/iuds_b_4132402.html) ---
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2018, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-this-quote-of-shapiros-not-racist-i-dont-understand/811241/29 "2018-03-27T14:37:51Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > This other guy whose comment I read on a different message board seems like he thinks he might reply to the person who posted the requested for replies you posted about but it seems to me that the guy I posted about might not know about the guy you posted about and even if he did he might not post something that the guy you posted about would like and so I’m not sure if I should reply to the guy I posted about to tell him to reply to the guy you posted about but as I am forced by instinct, uncontrollable psychological compulsion and/or the armed madman who keeps me chained up in his basement and threatens to shoot me unless I open yet another thread asking people what they think about something that someone else said either to me or to someone else but which I either overheard or read somewhere to respond because if I didn’t respond to every such comment I encounter then I would be confused about how I ought to respond to those comments to respond to every such comment I thought I would post here about what I read and/or was told and ask what you people think I should do. Why didn’t you just _say_ that? ---
**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, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-this-quote-of-shapiros-not-racist-i-dont-understand/811241/30 "2018-03-27T14:59:17Z")
> [@Uncommon\_Sense](#): > > Why didn’t you just _say_ that? If I end up in Hell after I die, I will likely be condemned to diagram that sentence. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2018, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-this-quote-of-shapiros-not-racist-i-dont-understand/811241/31 "2018-03-27T15:19:01Z")
I once had Bam-Bam in my shoe–and Poppop in the attic. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2018, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-this-quote-of-shapiros-not-racist-i-dont-understand/811241/32 "2018-03-27T15:22:24Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > If I end up in Hell after I die, I will likely be condemned to diagram that sentence. If?.. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2018, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-this-quote-of-shapiros-not-racist-i-dont-understand/811241/33 "2018-03-27T15:40:09Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > If I end up in Hell after I die, I will likely be condemned to diagram that sentence. Hell is nothing but diagramming sentences, balancing chemical equations, and being stuck in a meeting that’s already gone on for hours where some middle-manager (who isn’t even in our department so why do we even have to care about this) is halfway through the PowerPoint that he’s SO proud of because he just learned to animate each bullet point so they make a “cute” noise as they rocket or wave or curl into the frame. Which they do a lot, due to the twenty or so bullets on each of his slides and it’s got to be eighty degrees in here and oh, did I mention his slow, adenoidal voice which he uses to read every single word of every single paragraph that he’s crammed onto each overloaded slide and it’s now almost 5 pm and no, he’s not even halfway done… ---
**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, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-this-quote-of-shapiros-not-racist-i-dont-understand/811241/34 "2018-03-27T15:47:38Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Yesterday I felt something in my shoe, like a pebble, but when I checked, there was nothing there. What do you guys think? Shoes? Luxury. When we were growing up we would have to wear newspapers on our feet. And we thought we were lucky! ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2018, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-this-quote-of-shapiros-not-racist-i-dont-understand/811241/35 "2018-03-27T15:50:03Z")
> [@BloodStalk](#): > > But for real, can I get serious replies? Here’s my serious reply: You should stop talking to those people. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2018, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-this-quote-of-shapiros-not-racist-i-dont-understand/811241/36 "2018-03-27T16:00:06Z")
> [@Lemur866](#): > > Shoes? Luxury. When we were growing up we would have to wear newspapers on our feet. And we thought we were lucky! I complained that I had no shoes until I met a man that had nose hues. ---
**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, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-this-quote-of-shapiros-not-racist-i-dont-understand/811241/37 "2018-03-27T16:05:23Z")
_I was sad, for I had no shoe, until I met a man with no feet, so I said to him,_ “Can I have your shoes?” — Steven Wright ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2018, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-this-quote-of-shapiros-not-racist-i-dont-understand/811241/38 "2018-03-27T16:17:26Z")
> [@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? > [@TokyoBayer](#): > > Even odder considering she was walking in a gravel pit at the moment. > [@needscoffee](#): > > I heard it was a quarry. Do you think maybe somebody threw something down there? > [@Mars\_Horizon](#): > > Bo. > > Sorry…keyboard is sticking. > > “No.” > [@nate](#): > > I don’t get any of the replies in this thread. Maybe I’ve got a blindspot and I’m missing something obvious? Let’s go to the quarry and throw stuff down there! 😛 That totally fucking rocked! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2018, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-this-quote-of-shapiros-not-racist-i-dont-understand/811241/39 "2018-03-27T16:19:34Z")
> [@Lemur866](#): > > Shoes? Luxury. When we were growing up we would have to wear newspapers on our feet. And we thought we were lucky! We \*dreamed \*of having newspapers! All we had were rusty razors and lemon juice. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2018, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-this-quote-of-shapiros-not-racist-i-dont-understand/811241/40 "2018-03-27T16:23:08Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > We \*dreamed \*of having newspapers! All we had were rusty razors and lemon juice. You had lemon juice? We put rock salt in our cuts and chewed pine needles for the scurvy. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-this-quote-of-shapiros-not-racist-i-dont-understand/811241.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-this-quote-of-shapiros-not-racist-i-dont-understand/811241.md?page=3)