One gets the chance to study their behavior, as it were. Know The Enemy. Besides, they’re invariably good for a laugh.
People do not get angry when beliefs they are confident of are questioned. People get angry when opinions they want to believe in, but privately doubt are exposed as prejudices with nothing behind them but hot air.
Because this is the Pit. Look it up.
Not in my experience, here and elsewhere. Not in yours either, asshole.
I’ve heard the etymology of the term given as referring to "the Latin word oriens meaning “east”, and as a reference to the archaic custom of hanging maps east side up, so that east was where the map was “oriented”. Neither strikes me as especially “yucky”. Personally I regard it as somewhat archaic but not racist (unless used in a racist context). It makes it sound like you are talking about something set in the 18th or 19th century; “And this is something Lord Higgensbotham brought back from his Oriental expedition”.
BrainGlutton, I had a little friend like you when I was a child. He found a nasty, stinky, and ugly little bug in the bushes, and he took it out to where the other children could look at it and see what it would do. I felt sorry for the little bug then, but not so much in this case.
So, that’s why you’re angry?
NDD, you’ve got to get away from the computer, and get out in the world. Start checking out black guys’ packages the way you long so desperately to do.
Bring a tape measure and some Astroglide and get to work! Take some pictures. Post them on the appropriate websites. It’s okay. John Travolta shares your fascination.
I reached this same point a year ago. I’ve been on this board for over a decade and I’ve only pitted a couple of other posters. But I pitted New Deal Democrat and his views on race.
The word negro similarly comes from the Latin, via Spanish. Nigger is itself derived from negro. It just means “black”. Etymology has little to do with why a word is offensive or not. In this case, oriental is not a comfortable word to use, because by now and due to past usages and associations it reeks of old fashioned colonialism, the Yellow Peril and so forth.
So, y’know. Pretty much what NDD stands for 
Exactly what I was thinking, cock length is such a juvenile subject for statistical citing. Either the NDD believes that is a solid fact and slam dunks his case or he’s really interested in penis size…or both.
Yeah, unless 1946 was a good year for you. Drop your jack in the old jukebox at the 2:54 mark.
So, you’re a troll, too? I hadn’t thought that before, but now I’m not so sure.
Trolling With The Truth is a completely different kind of activity than what you are thinking of.
This eugenics thread, BTW, is not trolling by any definition, I am genuinely interested in the discussion. For that matter, I’m genuinely interested in discussion of correlations between “race,” however defined, and psychological characteristics – if there’s anything at all there, it is important to know that; and if there is nothing at all there, it is important to know that too. (Going by those GD threads now running, nothing-there is far and away the most plausible conclusion.)
But, John is right, this 2004 thread could arguably be classified as trolling. (Putting “I dare you!” in the thread title is something of a tell . . .)
Personally, I’m just tickled pink to get shut down by a mod when I say that I don’t like black pastors draining money from black churchgoers, but this dude can literally post “black people are genetically dumber than white people” a hundred times, including in threads about wildly distant topics, and that apparently doesn’t run afoul of the standard for racism.
Racism isn’t banned on this forum as long as you don’t troll by using racial slurs for example.
It is handy to be a little more specific than “Asian” sometimes. One can tell whether someone is from East Asia rather than India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh or Pakistan at a glance. Slightly more difficult to tell with Malaysian and Indonesian people, but that’s because race isn’t an immutable characteristic. I think it’s slightly more offensive to say “oh, that guy over there looks Chinese/Indian” when one can’t tell which specific country they’re from.
Not that I’m advocating for using the term “oriental”, but “West Asian” isn’t really an adequate descriptor.
Really? When?
And? One can also tell a North Indian very easily from a south Indian, the differences are even more marked. Why does “East Asian” not cut it, then?
No, it’s a continuum. There are aboriginal people on Taiwan who would more fit in in a Dayak village than in Mainland China. Never mind the most easterly Japanese...
Well, if you feel the need to run around making that sort of observation, you may have bigger problems.
Unless you’re always having to describe absent people to others (I know the old saw about the person going to great lengths to avoid saying “The Black one” at a party) one or two extra words on top of “Asian” should do - “South Asian” for people from the subcontinent or “South East Asian” for Thai, Burmese, Malays, Indonesia, etc.
“Middle Eastern” is perhaps a more common descriptor there. But then some people can’t seem to tell a Sikh from an Arab, so I may be wrong.
It’s true - just ask a perfectly honest and open question like “Which makes black people so stupid: their huge penises or their tiny brains?” and liberals will start right in with how racist you are. Clearly their minds aren’t open to scientific debate.