Mexican restaurants don't serve stray cats.

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In an otherwise fine thread, watchwolf dropped this turd:

I pointed out that it’s an old, unoriginal, stupid, racist joke. Thought we were done here.

Now, watchwolf is annoying, both with the dumb things he writes, and with his diarrhetic use of ellipses. But to his credit, he didn’t come back and throw a stampy-foot tantrum over “THAT WASN’T RACIST!” like I half-expected him to.

No, for that we needed octopus and Shagnasty.

First, octopus straight-up denies there’s anything racist about it. Why?

Then Shagnasty comes in thinking his racist grandpa act is gonna be educational. Just watch!

I’ll cut the paragraph he cribbed from Wikipedia there at the end–enough to know he thought quoting Wikipedia’s bit about how dogs are eaten in Southern China would be enough to make watchwolf’s shitty joke about Mexicans eating stray cats not racist.

I tried to help them understand:

Octopus, at least, gets the picture. Oh wait no he doesn’t:

And Shagnasty, man. Shagnasty:

Got that? I’m the real racist for thinking it’s racist. Burn! What I don’t understand is that the joke wasn’t racist, it was just a joke based on cultural stereotypes that portray Asians and Latinos as violating cultural taboos (and being underhanded about it). How could I possibly confuse that with racism?

Bone stops it there, so I’m continuing it here. Shagnasty ends with something that’s a little poignant and a little eye-rolly:

So, uh, yeah, Shagnasty. If your own kids are getting sick of your sexist and racist bullshit, you absolutely have the option of condescending to them and continuing on in your asshole ways. Lots of parents have made that same choice as you, deciding not to listen to what their kids are saying.

It doesn’t go well for them, and while I’m just fine with things not going well for you in this regard, I feel bad for your kids.

In case anyone has any doubt: yes, you fools, it’s racist to make jokes about how Mexican or Chinese restaurants are rounding up stray cats and dogs to put in their food.

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I’m confused – isn’t it Vietnamese who eat cats?

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No, doofus: since black people like watermelon (I left that Shagnasty bit out, too many to choose from), Mexicans serve stray cats at their restaurants to white people.

Or something.

If you’re not following their logic, don’t feel bad, for the same reason you shouldn’t feel bad for not understanding your pet hamster’s sonnet.

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I have no dog in this fight.

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Lots of restaurants here serve stray cats. They have food and water bowls out front and everything.

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Jose made a burrito out of him? A currito!

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I’m confused – isn’t it Vietnamese who eat cats?
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First thing I thought of. I’ve never heard any jokes about Mexican restaurants putting anything er, *unconventional *in the food. Actually, I wouldn’t have even understood that’s what watchwolf49 was getting at. For that matter, even if he’d been talking about an Asian restaurant it still would have been too nonsensical to be funny or offensive.

Did anyone else thing this thread was going to be related to the one about people bringing their dogs to the bank?

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The cat population in Paris reportedly dropped dramatically during the Nazi occupation.

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So mixing your racist stereotypes cancels out the racism? If you make a joke about an Asian restaurant serving cat meat, it’s racist. But if you make a joke about a Mexican restaurant serving cat meat, it’s not racist because eating cats is not a Mexican stereotype. Got it.

Damn, being a bigot is complicated.

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Excellent post/username combo!

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Are you saying my opinion doesn’t count!?!?!? :slight_smile:

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In my opinion, yes. Isn’t the basis of racism stereotypes? The old joke (in America) is that Asian restaurants serve dogs and cats. I personally don’t know anyone who actually believes it, that’s just the stereotype. As far as I know there is no old joke about Mexicans putting dogs and cats in their food so the reference has no connection to . . . well, anything. It may be disparaging to imply a restaurant serves domestic animals but that doesn’t make it racist.

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Ja, ja, ja, ja,
In Prussia they never eat pussy!
There ain’t hardly cats enough,
There’s garbage and that’s enough,
So waltz me around again Russky!

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In fairness to watchwolf, he actually wrote:

So he’s not talking about his favourite Mexican restaurant. The “other place across town” could be another Mexican restaurant, or it could be a Burger King. He never specifies.

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So does the thread title imply that we can’t have that *Lady and the Tramp-like scene where the Mexican restauranteurs set out a table for the romantic cat couple, and when they eat the Mouse Taco they both unknowingly both suck up the tail from opposite ends until their cat-lips meet?

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I would love to see that (as long as the mouse is still alive and gets to pop out of the cat’s mouth and scamper away)!

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Arabs are so lazy!

No, no, it’s not racist, because it’s black people and Mexicans who are lazy, see?

It doesn’t really matter what the details are, when your comments can be distilled down to: “Those people of a different cohort do [something seen as backwards/culturally inappropriate/scorn-worthy]” you are absolutely insulting that group. You can argue whether it’s racist, culture-ist, or whatever if that floats your boat, but bottom line is that you’ve stuck your middle finger up at that group of people.

octopus and Shagnasty’s lame attempts to argue that “well, if some Mexican restaurant somewhere serves stray cats, then it’s just a matter of honest concern to wonder about a random Mexican restaurant’s cat-serving policy,” are dishonest at best.

Let’s take octopus’s assertion that Missionaries are a regular menu item in Kenya. Even if that were true, going into the home of a Kenyan and saying, “har har, you’re not going to eat me, are you?” would be an asshole-ish thing to do in the extreme. As would doing so out of earshot (aka being an asshole without getting caught).

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In case anyone has any doubt: yes, you fools, it’s racist to make jokes about how Mexican or Chinese restaurants are rounding up stray cats and dogs to put in their food.
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Umm, having lived in Mexico nearly five years, Mexicans make jokes about restaurants using dog meat instead of beef/pork/chicken. And, let’s see, “dar gato por liebre” kind of implies they have the same worries about cat meat.

My ex-sister-in-law works for Salubridad in the state of Guanajuato as an inspector. Although she’s never reported the use of cats, she regularly reported the bad habits of Chinese restaurant owners (who are usually Chinese, incidentally). Culturally among low-class, uneducated Chinese there’s not much of a sense of food hygiene.

Oh, I’ve also lived five years in China. Chinese make jokes about restaurants using cat meat, and they readily acknowledge that there’s also the attitude of “I’m smarter than you and you’re stupid so I’ll give you cat and not spend money on pork.”

Chinese don’t usually joke about dog meat, though, because it’s too expensive (it’s a delicacy outside of dog-eating regions).

It seems a little SJW-ish to attribute things to racism that intend no harm, that cause no harm, and is repeated frequently by the alleged victims themselves in any case. Except the word nigger. You can never use that word unless demonstrably, or unless you’re black.

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I don’t bother chasing mice around…

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Roof-hare jokes are as old as Methusalem. Maybe even dating back to Bastet.

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Cat got your tongue?
pres on.