Sooo cuuute! pat
Dafuq man ?
Question: If you don’t care about your own racism, why should anyone care when you call anyone or anything else racist?
Aaww. Look at the widdle cutie, pwaying pwetend. Who’s a great Pretend Oppressed Person? You are! Yes, you are!
Man, wypipo are the *best *at everything. Even being oppressed!
Again, my question stands. If you are so blasé about your own naked, unabashed, deliberate racism, why should anyone take your accusations of racism seriously? If you’re not self-aware enough to recognise racism in yourself, what on Earth makes you think you have the cognitive wherewithal to recognise it in others?
Stop dancing round the question.
P.S. - Being racist is bad enough. Being proud of it? Well, that’s just weird.
You should work on that.
Sure, bwana. I’ll get right on that.
Yes, it does. For instance, if someone said “lol those wypipo sure do love mayonnaise amirite” is would be different than saying “wypipo all think they are the ones being oppressed”, the actual content is the most important, much more important to me than the speakers supposed race.
Similarly, if someone hypothetically spoke in an exaggerated SAE accent and made a pejorative remark about n-words, it would be much worse no matter who that person is than if the same person said “n-word is impolite to say”. Actually, the first case isn’t hypothetical. That happened to me in a movie theatre, and considering I was the closest light-skinned person around, in mocking my accent he was putting words in my mouth, making a claim that I thought he was an n-word. That behavior would be much worse in a workplace than simply saying that the n-word was unacceptable, no matter who the speakers are.
Glad to hear it. Self-improvement is good for the soul.
To you.
To some people, the race of the person saying nigger will override any concern of what the context is. This isn’t a hypothetical - despite some people questioning their sincerity, it’s pretty clear that was the reaction at Netflix.
…and you’re so sure that’s what this person was doing because…?
Whatever you say, baas.
To some people, the race of the person saying wypipo will override any concern of what the context is.
Some people also think Trump is a good example for children.
Because my brother and I were in the row in front of them in the theatre and his friends were talking and after awhile the guy with his talking friends says “now, you black n****ers stop talking during the movie” which is a stereotype/observation many people have about African-Americans here in America. If the races were reversed and, for instance, a bunch of white people were behind a group of black people on a bus and the white people started dropping the n-bomb until one of them put on a thick African American accent and said “now youse why-pee-poh a-stop tawking about us like that!” the simplest deduction would be that they are putting words in the black people’s mouths (except in that instance the white people were being offensive off the bat rather than in their dramatic voice-over.)
Again, you don’t need to keep reassuring me. I have faith that you will, in time, acquire the introspective skills necessary to detect and conquer your own racism.
I look forward to corresponding with you in a future where you’re less racist.
I don’t think it should be hard to understand. This thread is largely white people telling black people what they should and shouldn’t find offensive. MrDibble, being black himself, is repeatedly being told that he has a thin skin and is wrong. It makes sense that he might choose to say the same thing back.
And I do think he has a point when people pretend to be oppressed because they can’t say a slur they shouldn’t say anyways. I had already been switching back to “n-word” in other places, to avoid problems, and so I have no problem doing it here, too.
That said I do think jumping to “wypipo” is a bad idea. Yes, it’s nowhere near as bad a peroblem as the n-word, but it doesn’t help the debate to use it. It is a term that exists to be derogatory towards a particular race, and thus muddles or undermines any arguments about not using terms that exist to be derogatory towards a particular race.
I get the desire. You’re making a point. They think you should be thicker skinned, but their skin is so thin. But, at best, I don’t think it is a helpful tactic to use that word.
Well, t**hat’d be nothing new, regardless of what that person was saying.
This is a warning for personal insults. It is a collective warning for the totality of calling another poster a racist, etc. across multiple posts. If you feel you must, the BBQ Pit is right around the corner.
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I’d prefer not to have to look up and determine in context if this is supposed to be an insult, along with the other terms being used. That, combined with the mocking condescension is too much. Dial it back. Engage the argument, not the poster, please.
I’ve closed this thread to let cooler heads prevail. I’ll revisit in a few hours to see if there is something worth salvaging.
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Upon second look, and especially given Tom’s note in post #177 that I didn’t take into account, this is also a warning for personal insults. Report posts that are questionable rather than respond to them.
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