# I Pit Babale

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [April 7, 2025, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-babale/1016738 "2025-04-07T14:59:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2025, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-babale/1016738/580 "2025-08-03T14:35:11Z")

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> [@MrDibble](#):
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> I think I’d been clear in my previous post that not _all_ Israelis are the racist shitbags who keep Israel the Apartheid hellhole for Arabs that it currently is. I did say “_partly_ populated by racist chucklefucks” after all, those are the broken ones I meant.

> [@Voicing limited and qualified agreement with a bigoted stereotype](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/voicing-limited-and-qualified-agreement-with-a-bigoted-stereotype/1021561/118):
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> As has been pointed out, repatedly - this one is NOT true. It only can _seem_ true if it passes without comment, if “everyone knows what I really meant”.
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> Well, no, I don’t know you from Adolf, why am I supposed to know you mean some “innocuous” form of the extremely racist stereotype you’re repeating?

Interesting juxtaposition there. It’s _really important_ that we are _super careful_ with our language when we say things like “black people are good at basketball” (the comment by @Dr.Strangelove that prompted the quoted comment). Because not everyone _knows what you mean_ when you say that black people are good at basketball - they might mistake you for a racist.

On the other hand, statements like “Israelis are fundamentally broken” are totally reasonable and if we aren’t being super charitable towards you in our interpretation of the phrase we are being ridiculous.

I find that dichotomy fascinating.

And frankly, I don’t buy it. I don’t know you from Khomenei.

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