Dude, you really are coming off as prickly as all hell in this thread. We make jokes because you’re one of us, and like all families, we like to tease each other, not because we hate you or fear you or want to exclude you or shut you up.
I just wanted to say, also, that I have a picture in my head now of a black man with a big red neck. Thanks, Duke of Rat.
And Liberal, what the hell are you talking about?
He is partly of Cherokee ancestry. Does that help?
I was using casual racism to mock the casually racist attitude that the term ‘redneck’ implies.
For the humor impaired, my use of the word chink was more of a stab at rednecks than it was chinks. 
I’m sorry if that slipped too effectively through the chinks in your armor.
To be honest, I don’t consider the Pit to be anything resembling ‘family’.
I’ll say it nicely then. Here.
Please do not make jokes about my race to me, especially when I am expressing how much I don’t like them.
Please do not call me a chink, I don’t know you and you don’t know me. We’re not friends.
Please do not presume you have any idea how grating passive and outright racism is.
Do I have your permission to be upset, now?
Can I please have a thread about racism without a bunch of white people trying to mock me?
Not if you want to be racist against white people in the process, then no.
Heh, re-read the thread. I didn’t bring up ‘redneck’.
I’m sure Dio will be in here any minute to clear that part of the thread up.
Fair enough. I apologize then.
But, like I said I was making fun of rednecks.
The OP is completely right. I think the reason most people don’t notice racism against Asians is that the stereotypes are not thought of as “negative.” However, a little thought reveals that some of the stereotypes are hurtful. Moreover, even “positive” stereotypes such as “all Asians are good at math” may be unwelcome. They also promote the “model minority” myth that makes struggling Asians invisible.
The best way to change the situation is to do exactly what the OP did; to speak out and say that you are not OK with it.
I take it back; you’re obviously not prickly at all.
See, this is where you lost me. “I ain’t taking shit” means you confront the guy who gives you shit, in a manner which leaves no doubt in his mind (taking into full account its altered state or total lack of a mind) that he’s said words that no man can allow be said to him.
But instead, I guess you must have been hoping he’s a subscriber to the SBMB, and would see the error of his ways here in print. Or, absent your oppressor, you can pick cyber-fights with any of us who don’t rub your poor little shoulders and make mewling sounds of commiseration.
Either take your props for not getting baited into a fight with some moron, or admit you feel like a pussy for not putting his face on the floor, but, while we’re all waiting for your nuts to re-descend, quit subliminating your wounded manhood into some moral crusade against us racist bastards. We ain’t buying.
hmmmm Google ad–Thousands of Asian Women
Now that is priceless.
Dude, that is frikking hilarious.
BTW, asking a Korean if they are from North Korea or South Korea is a lot like asking a German in America 20 years ago if they are from East Germany or West Germany.
Quite frankly I wasn’t that angry at that point. Like you said, he was drunk and even if he did attack me, I doubt he could’ve done much damage. But his words and actions embodied the attitude that I am too familiar with, and it was a blatant example.
You’re right. It was wrong of me to rant about someone that probably doesn’t subscribed to the SDMB. I should have realized we don’t do that here.
Look, I specifically said I don’t like race jokes. Why should I have to sit down and take one idiotic joke after another from a bunch of white people that probably don’t even have any idea what I’m talking about?
I’ll humbly accept your props for not getting in a fight with a drunk dumbass, but if they come with snide jokes that are more likely than not an attempt to get a rise out of me, then you can take your props and fuck off. There’s nothing to buy here for you man. If you’ve had similar experiences, then please feel free to share them. If not, take your psuedo-psychoanalysis elsewhere.
My Google ad is for “Asian Plastic Surgery.” Does that mean surgery to look like or unlike an Asian? I’m so confused.
Upon clicking the link, I was wrong on both counts. It was a site devoted to practicing plastic surgery on Asian people. Oops.
This thread isn’t very fun anymore. Disappointing, because normally I really enjoy Korean BBQ.
Even worse, my ad at the bottom of the page is for “spicy Asian banana.” :smack:
I don’t mean to make light of your anger, r4nd0m numb3rs. I am very close with a student who is a Korean immigrant, and some of the shit that is said to her regularly by other kids is horrifying. After the VT shooting, she said to me, “Oh no, now I’m really going to get it!”
Funny, I had to sit her down today and explain to her why she couldn’t call a black girl who was insulting her regularly “nigger.” She was like, “But they call me ching chang chong every day and tell me to go back to China! And they call each other that word all the time. I don’t get it.” It was a very challenging discussion all around. They don’t pay me enough to have conversations like that, man.
And now you use PUNS - low, sir, very low.
(okay, that made me laugh)
r4nd0mNumb3rs, please weigh in here. I personally find this BWAHaHaHaHAHAHA funny and not racist. (Sure, someone out there with his panties in a twist can always find something to get upset about.) I mean Ninja is so ludicrous from the get go, I certainly can’t find it offensive. Do you have a personal barometer for when something is amusing (or at least not insulting), kinda neutral and over the line?
for example, **athelas ** and “that’s plain wong” is one of those that are over the line for me. Tasteless and insensitive, but not horribly racist. Another example of the not so blatant racism. Abercombie and Fitch has a “two wongs don’t make a white” t-shirt not too long ago (there was a thread but I can’t find it). Again, r4nd0mNumb3rs, I am curious as to what your take is on this in general.
I say shit all the time like “I wouldn’t touch it with a 10 foot chopstick” “Mao on a pogo stick” etc. Heck, I do that with non asian phrases such as “I christianed down the luggage guy 20%” (thanks Kinkster)
The crack about “chink” is waaaaaaay over the line. mswas I know you apologized. Please use the appropriate derogatory racial term in the correct context. “Chink” does not mean all Asians. Christ on a pogostick, were you raised in a barn? At least get the correct racist word. I realize you thought you were being witty, but chink is deeply offensive. And it’s not a case of Chinese Americans calling each other “chink” like some blacks may do with “nigger” because they don’t. Chink is always derogatory and racist.
BTW, my father is a decorated WW2 pacific theater and Korean War combat vet. I heard all the words growing up, but he’s come around now that one daughter in law and their kids are decendants of Japanese internment camp veterans in the US, and another daughter in law is Chinese and our kids speak Chinese as their first language.
Since I was only replying to the OP when I posted, I obviously had not yet gotten to the posts where it was explained that he wasn’t a redneck.
:rolleyes:
But since you ask, "drunken idiot + racial slur generally = redneck. And not the cute Jeff Foxworthy type, the banjo playing “squeal like a pig” Jerry Springer type.