Especially if they are Mexican cats.
Regards,
Shodan
And if he had decided to sell it rather than make it freeware, people would have pirated the heck out of it.
I’m reminded of an article I read recently that started with an analogy to slavery, then continued by saying:
Shit, man, I saw people claiming that there was nothing racist about what JonTron said in that debate with Destiny - a debate where he spouted fake statistics about black crime, claimed that there were enclaves of hispanics in the US who are trying to convert pieces of America in Mexico, and said that there was no more discrimination in the west.
Speciesist.
The neighbors across the street have all manner of miscellaneous stuff on their porch, including - and I SWEAR I’m not making this up- what appears to be a plastic food tray and a calico cat is laying on top of it. If I knew how to zoom with my phone (and post photos for that matter) I would post it right this minute. This is the biggest giggle I’ve gotten all day.
More likely, he would’ve been sued into oblivion by Milton-Bradley. Who I heard eat parakeets.
Some people can only see race, some people view us as all part of one human culture.
The expression is general for Spanish, and it refers to every instance of what’s called “bait and switch” in English.
Oh, I didn’t mean the cat for hare thing, but the running joke in Mexico that the taqueria is using stray animals for meat.
I think in the U.S. the go to animal for this joke is horse. At the moment the only specific example I can think of is the I Love Lucy episode where the Ricardos and the Mertzes opened a diner and a crack about the quality of the meat was something like “you can eat it at night and bet on it during the day”.
Hasn’t insulting the quality of a restaurant, regardless of what type of food they serve, by implying that the meat is cat / dog / horse/ road kill, whatever, been a thing in the U.S. for a long, long time?
I’m perplexed if you think this means it can’t ever be racist? Do you think racism was invented yesterday?
I don’t think it’s unique to the US. Every country has a similar urban legend.
I don’t think it can’t ever be racist. I just don’t think it always is.
Now I’m wondering: If a white person opens a Mexican restaurant and someone makes a crack that it serves strays is it racist? If a Mexican American opens an burger place and someone says it serves strays, is it racist? How about a white person opening a burger place?
Is it the person who owns the restaurant, the people who work at the restaurant or the type of food they make that defines the racism?
Because it’s been around for a long time and racism can’t be long standing?
No, because it’s been aimed at different kinds of restaurants. I would expect that most times it just means the restaurant is shitty, irrespective of the ethnicity of the proprietor.
We never established the “ethnicity of the proprietor” it was assumed the proprietor was Mexican because LHOD assumes only Mexicans can own shitty Mexican restaurants.
:rolleyes: You sure got me there.
Is there like a secret contest on another board to see who can come up with the stupidest defense of watchwolf’s comment? Because if there is, I am fucking elated not to be the judge.
I’m sticking with the “Burger King” defense as the dumbest.
Just what level of racism is it? Hanged slaves? Fire hoses spraying black demonstrators? Segregating black from white audiences in movie theaters? The N word? Blacks calling each other the N word? Canadians mocked for saying “eh”?
If you look for potential racism in every corner, you’ll find it in varying degrees, because humans are by nature clannish and wary of foreign clans. You’re applying a broad brush of equating questionable quality of a greasy spoon’s food to KKK grand dragons. You’re saying “this person says absolutely nothing of worth, because he told a joke that was potentially racist.” Don’t you hate it when the conservatives use that logic on you? “Your ideas and values are worthless because you advocated non-Christian and unAmerican ideology.”
Nobody’s perfect. Allow for some kind of latitude, and maybe Trump won’t get re-elected.