You might be familiar with the classic game, Drunk or Kid. If you aren’t, the rules are very simple. Players take turns telling amusing and usually embarrassing stories, and the other players have to guess if these stories occurred when the first player was drunk, or back when they were a kid.
Here on the Dope, we can play a variant of this game. Here’s a quote; was it made due to ignorance? Or racism?
Personally, I think it’s ignorance on the part of LAZombie, and racism on the part of the book’s author. But what about you? Agree? Disagree? Got any other examples we can discuss?
While I initially agreed with the assessment of “Stupid”, LAZombie has doubled down on both the racism AND the stupidity.
First, the racism. Since we are all being critical of the research paper he linked, LAZombie decided to find a source we would be forced to accept – clearly, since we are all racist against whites, he will need to produce a black citation.
Note that last line. Racist readings are climbing again!
But he ups the ante by doubling down on stupidity, too – because the very article he links disparages his original source, saying it has no basis in fact.
I have had him on ignore for quite a while, so I don’t have to see his stupid garbage. But I was still in the mood to fling shit at him anyway. He deserves it.
I have one from him that is not racist, but is magnificently stupid…
Once, in a Kavanaugh thread, he was arguing that Dr. Ford lied about adding an extra door to her house. To support this argument he linked to a article that said the exact opposite of what he was claiming (Palo Alto building permit backs up Ford’s testimony) and implored us to read the comments.
I guess it’s fair to say that racism and stupidity likely correlate quite a bit, while we can only hope that extreme youth and drunkenness don’t nearly as much.
Alright, fair enough. There is a certain amount of stupidity inherent to most if not all racists. The question should read, “Racist AND Stupid, or Just Stupid?”. I think under these criteria, LAZombie’s first post was mostly just stupid, but the second post brings out the racism beneath to the forefront – while also being EVEN STUPIDER.