Yeah, it takes a while to figure out how this place works. I would read all the stickies on any forum you choose to post in. There are some forums where you can get banned for calling someone a liar even though they are obviously lying.
Well, I’m Asian and I ate fried chicken once and it has turned me into a Scary Black Criminal. I recovered but I can roll my neck to this day.
What did you think the point of this thread was? I don’t want to pile on you, but I’m hoping you are realizing the oddity of jumping into a 200-post thread and
(1) quoting the entire OP (hint: you’ll do better here if you start trimming your quotes to only what is essential to understand your post)
(2) adding what is nothing more insightful than “no it isn’t” to every single point
(3) in a thread whose entire point was to indicate the fact that those statements were wrong in one way or another.
I suspect that poet is either a young child or… something else.
Starting around herehe totally loses his shit and decides that anybody who uses the word “nigger”, not as a slur but simply to state something like “Person X called Obama a Nigger, what a fucking asshole!”… is a racist. No, seriously, that’s all you need to do to be a bona fide racist.
Pointing out, for instance, that Dick Armey called Barney Frank a fag is also right out.
You’re a dude, right? So that means that the Scary Gay Negro genes were activated in you. Once they’re turned on, and it takes awhile for them to shut off. I’m betting your fingers tend to snap as well.
I remember the time I watched “Brokeback Mountain” in the theater. Towards the end, someone down in front checked their phone and the light was a bit of a distraction. Someone in the back shouted, “Shut your phone!” Well, the culprit stood up and he was this enormous black guy. And he did much neck-swiveling and finger-pointing as he told the other guy, whose identity was surely unknown to him, to mind his *%@ business.
It was all the more hilarious because he was standing in silohuette the whole time, so you couldn’t tell who he was looking at. So he looked even blacker and scarier. Still, I was all like, “You go, girl.” Even though he was in the wrong and shouldn’t have had his phone open like that.
Umm… This picture I just googled would seem to indicate that they are not doing a very good job of keeping themselves pure.
ETA: Where do I sign up to convert? I wanna rule the world. And bang Halle Berry.
What picture are we supposed to be looking at there?
Oh no you di’an!
Hear, hear. I grew up surrounded by racists. How can I not notice the color of a person’s skin? I feel like I’d be doing a greater disservice by pretending I don’t notice, by pretending I’m not aware that culture and those attitudes of prejudice don’t exist and that I’ve never been impacted by them. I have been conditioned to have prejudice in me, and so has most of society if they really wanted to be honest about it. I think it’s just an ugly part of the evolutionary or social or whatever you want to call it reality of being human.
But we have the advantage of using these advanced brains of ours to really question those attitudes and beliefs and fight them. So there is no excuse for racism. And I agree with NDD that racism is something you do - but he’s dead wrong if he thinks saying racist shit isn’t something you do.
I’m so glad somebody pitted this guy. He hijacked a thread about a perfectly relevant and interesting question - the actual social reality of multicultural societies - and turned it into a sounding board for racists. I was looking forward to the discussion in that thread before he ruined it, so I wholeheartedly endorse this pitting.
The one the link points to, :check forum. Pit. OK to say this: Dumbass. What, you didn’t see the joke? In that case, never mind. Pretend I didn’t post anything. Sheesh!! What a dumbass…
They’re remaking Yentl?
A link to the Best Week Ever blog with about a dozen links to celebrity stories? No, this dumbass has no idea what that has to do with race.
Younger and hotter than Babs!
Funny, every time I click on the link, I get the same picture. Little Nemo seems to have gotten the same, since he obviously got the joke.
Here it is in straight URL, just in case your browser is the problem:
…the link goes directly to a jpg for me.
Me too. And I laughed.
I’m trying to access on a mobile device. I think it’s automatically diverting me to a modified version of the page.
Since Poet got his thread locked with a Warning, I might as well point out the idiocy that he’s endorsing.
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Now change the word “white” to “black”.
This would have had Poet fucking raving, as even saying that the word “nigger” was an awful slur that shouldn’t be used, sent him into a fit. But it seems that Poet is just a racist and the real reason he’s upset at NDD isn’t because NDD is a racist, but because he’s a different sort or racist.
I loved the central concept of the article he linked to - that White America was somehow surprised on January 20, 2009 when a black man was inaugurated as President of the United States. Does the Village Voice think we didn’t know Barack Obama was black when we elected him on November 4, 2008? That he somehow just slipped into office like Cleavon Little?
Though I still think Obama should have started his inauguration speech by saying, “Scuse me while I whip this out.”