https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=21896864&postcount=265
Hey, at least he’s “honest”! LOL.
Yah, I noticed that and hit report earlier. He’ll claim it wasn’t racist, and the mods will let him skate.
If you’re a “conservative”, you basically have to threaten someone, or directly insult others repeatedly outside of the Pit, to get so much as a suspension. Protected class.
True.
I reported it, too, hoping at least the incontrovertible “threadshitting” aspect would be one data point in a surely larger set of board transgressions.
Kind of a stretch to call that racism. I’d say for most anybody who is old enough to remember the 1980s, the first thing to go through their minds when they hear the word “Ethiopia” is extreme poverty.
I wouldn’t be surprised if there was racist intent behind it, but I would agree that it is not, in itself, overtly racist, and for the above reason.
Pretty much everything else from that poster has been frothing right-wing idiocy, however.
I’m not inclined to try to guess whose sock it is, but it’s a very obvious sock. I reported the threadshit, too.
Holy fuck you people are some super delicate little pussies.
Nowhere near as delicate as The Howling Yam himself.
Calm down. You get so upset over the slightest things. Why u so mad?
It’s our bone spurs. They really hurt.
He’s not mad, it’s performance art known as “trolling”. If I knew the troll was going to be around much longer I’d put it on ignore just for convenience. Still not convinced this one isn’t a sock, too.
The lack of anything even remotely resembling a spine within the rotten corpses you turds call a body should be aggravating to any human being with a pair of testicles.
They may be honest, but they’re also unaware of Ethiopian Airlines, which is one of the dominant carriers throughout Africa and is a member of the Star Alliance, along with United, Lufthansa and El Al. It’s a respectable airline.
On average, people only have one testicle.
To be honest, I was in Germany in the 90’s and saw a Croatian Airlines plane in the Frankfurt airport. Right during their war with Serbia, et al. That was more surprising that an Ethiopian Airline would have been during communist rule. Nations have airlines, people.
I’m 100% dead serious.
Reporting that post and crying racism is so far detached from reality it’s almost embarrassing.
Well, at least you got the “embarrassing” part right.
Why? His disdainful shock at the idea that an African nation has a national airline carries baggage (pun not intended) no matter how much you try to handwave it away.
You are wasting your life being like this. Why don’t you do something productive, it might make you happier. Try to be a positive contribution to humanity, if you can.
<Annoyed as Richard Gere in An Officer and a Gentleman>
I GOT NOWHERE ELSE TO GO! I got nowhere else to g… I got nothin’ else.
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