# I Pit The Racial Hoaxers **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 11, 2017, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-racial-hoaxers/801383 "2017-11-11T23:52:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mijin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mijin/32/9369_2.png) [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2017, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-racial-hoaxers/801383/21 "2017-11-14T14:38:23Z")
I’m sure as well as this thread, **Stringbean** must have started one condemning the massacre (once again) in a black church, the car plowing into a crowd at a white supremicist rally, the videos of unarmed black men being shot dead by police and so on. I’m sure he’s acknowledged these far more significant issues and is working his way down the list. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2017, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-racial-hoaxers/801383/22 "2017-11-14T14:43:33Z")
> [@Mijin](#): > > I’m sure as well as this thread, **Stringbean** must have started one condemning the massacre (once again) in a black church, the car plowing into a crowd at a white supremicist rally, the videos of unarmed black men being shot dead by police and so on. I’m sure he’s acknowledged these far more significant issues and is working his way down the list. Has it been conclusively proven yet that those were not hoaxes? ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2017, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-racial-hoaxers/801383/23 "2017-11-14T14:49:45Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > I, for one, hoax the racial pitters. Calm Down! Bubbadog Commissioner for Racing Pitted Hoaxes ---
**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:** [November 14, 2017, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-racial-hoaxers/801383/24 "2017-11-14T14:53:56Z")
> [@Mijin](#): > > I’m sure as well as this thread, **Stringbean** must have started one condemning the massacre (once again) in a black church, the car plowing into a crowd at a white supremicist rally, the videos of unarmed black men being shot dead by police and so on. I’m sure he’s acknowledged these far more significant issues and is working his way down the list. You’re missing the point. Stringbean is a SJW defending the suffering silent white majority. A group that doesn’t even have it’s own history month or pride parade. #WhiteFeelingsMatter. ---
**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:** [November 14, 2017, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-racial-hoaxers/801383/25 "2017-11-14T16:34:00Z")
> [@Stringbean](#): > > It’s a joint effort that we all must engage in - to weed out the stems. You need to find a new dealer. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2017, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-racial-hoaxers/801383/26 "2017-11-14T16:50:01Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > You need to find a new dealer. First, stop buying weed from white people. Everyone knows that you get the good stuff from the Negroes. ---
**Author:** ![Stringbean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Stringbean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stringbean)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2017, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-racial-hoaxers/801383/27 "2017-11-14T20:54:35Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Does that mean you want reparations? Perhaps we should seek what the Black Student Union at Kansas State wants. [Charges](http://nypost.com/2017/11/08/student-group-wants-black-man-charged-for-racist-graffiti-hoax/) to be filed. Is it worth consideration then, because they aren’t white? > [@John\_Mace](#): > > “Did the old Jew sleep with the 16-year-old girl, after all?” (that’s an old movie quote, btw) We who knew the words were lies and worse than lies? Why did we sit silent? Why did we take part? ---
**Author:** ![Mijin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mijin/32/9369_2.png) [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2017, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-racial-hoaxers/801383/28 "2017-11-15T03:58:08Z")
First of all, I need to make a correction. I said massacre at a black church once again, but in fact I’d misheard something about the San Antonio shooting and it wasn’t a black church. Mea culpa. But in terms of the OP the response is still the same: we don’t need to guess about whether overt racism is a problem right now, it is. You have white supremicists rallies happening all over right now, protesting the removal of jim crow-era statues, and the president himself equivocates on condemning them even when someone was killed (and many injured) by one of the people from that rally. Plus of course problems like the police shootings, where we have video evidence of wrongdoing, but still a reluctance by many to even acknowledge the problem, despite widescale protests intended merely to raise awareness. Meanwhile the events alluded in the OP caused no actual harm to anyone. Yes of course they are wrong, but there are degrees of scale here. The most harm they caused is supposedly in making us unsure of to what extent racism exists but we _already know_ the answer to that question: a large extent. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-racial-hoaxers/801383.md?page=1)