Don’t be sad about your irrelevance. Someone’s great aunt somewhere thinks you’re doing God’s work.
If you come into a thread about anti-black racism and make jokes about fried chicken to belittle the topic, you’re probably not making the point you intended.
I want to know what Roderick Femm did please. He’s not generally mentioned in the same space with SlackerInc and Shodan.
Never heard of it.
Are you critiquing yourself and your own weak racist joke? Is this the opposite of somebody having a sock?
You all are too egocentric to realize that the history of the world encompasses far more than US history. You know you can still buy slaves in some parts of the world? You know that members of every ethnic group probably look at some other ethnic group less than equitably?
Get out of the basement and educate yourself about more than just a sliver of US history. It’ll help with perspective.
That victim looks a bit pale for a black guy.
The thread title is Living while black in America, dumbass. Get out from under your bridge once in a while.
I plead guilty to hijacking part of the thread into a discussion about generalizations and stereotypes as they are applied to individuals. I guess it was too far off topic.
Ah. Thank you for explaining. Start a new thread maybe? Sounds interesting.
So what?
Addressing a blanket implication that racism is the fault of dastardly wypipo is far more relevant to a Pit thread than a plagiarized Betty Crocker brownie recipe.
Damn! Now I want fried chicken!
What part of “in America” do you not understand? If you want to discuss racism on the entire planet, go start your own damn thread.
Why bother with it. It never has anything worth reading to post. Ever. Best to pretend it doesn’t exist than to engage and give it the attention it craves.
Two reasons: for the benefit of any newbies who happen by and taking the hijack to its own thread would be easier to ignore.
I’ve always thought the first a shitty excuse for dealing with this. If something keeps pissing on a conversation and no one pays attention, it says as much, if not more, than attempting to engage. Obviously, YMMV.
“It?” What’s up with the misgendering?
Would it be appropriate to share a story where a man follows a black man in a road rage incident to shout racial slurs - only to find that the public at large don’t care for that sit?
I never thought of that. And it explains the coded language and the dog whistles. For example, it explains why when I insult Grand Dragon Shodan, she reflexively attack my intelligence; or how a a cursory search on your Great Debates forum has one, two, two point five (Hint: It’s called the ACA not Obamacare)three, and four threads using coded language talking about blacks or people of color. All but one of those threads reinforce negative stereotypes of people of color.
May I say a few more words and a suggestion (in bold)?
Kuchiyose no Jutsu
Take it from here, Robin.
(emphasis mine)
Thank you, Robin.
White folks history of violence, inhumane indifference, and dehumanization of people of color need no introduction and there’s no need to belabor the Trail of Tears, Tuskegee Experiments, Hurricane Katrina, or ascribing the word “thug” and “gangster” to NFL players who engaged in nonviolent, nonvocal protest. We would be here all day and I haven’t even gotten to the dude that specifically targeted, stalked, attacked, raped, and ate people of color. The violence whites have inflicted and continue to inflict on people of color is incalculable and their collective indifference that violence is inhumane. ** My suggestion and take on it is that you should allow white folks to say racial epithets in the Pit**. This has three benefits. First, white folks will have their outlet for their two minutes of hate against people of color. This two minutes of violence, scapegoating, and hate is essential for their happiness (as history has shown). Second, it serves to let you know who people are (and this knowledge is more important than you realize). Third, it’ll cut down on the coded language in your forums that makes your forum look like some cruel hybrid of NPR’s Fresh Air and Mississippi Burning.
Here’s an interesting follow-up thought piece on this incident, about how the white guy still doesn’t think he is racist, how he’s a victim of making a “mistake” and choosing the “wrong word.”
And there’s a link in there to another interesting discussion about unacknowledged white privilege.