# Shodan is a racist? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 21, 2009, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-is-a-racist/511019 "2009-09-21T23:30:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2009, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-is-a-racist/511019/1 "2009-09-21T23:30:17Z")
Well, I didn’t know that. I thought I knew all the other racists, and I never see him at any of the meetings. **Hentor** tells me I hate blacks. There used to be that whole crowd that would remind me how much I hated the handicapped. That was BIG. Fat people. Oh yeah, I’m a mysoginist, a pedophile, a Nazi sympathizer, Oh! and a murderer (almost forgot.) I’m sure no one here even remembers my crimes against the Amish. Homophobe! Forgot that. Been a while since I was into that whole gay hating thing. * * * Good times. All those accusations. * * * I’ve been posting here for ten years. This place is my main experience of liberal thought. In that time, I’ve learned one truly important thing, and I suppose I owe the liberals of the SDMB some thanks for that. That thing is this: Liberals are the most racist prejudiced people on the planet. They are obsessed with all this shit to an astounding degree. They hate white people (even and especially if they are themselves white people,) wealthy people (especially when they themselves are wealthy.) They view and think about **everything** in the context of race or sexual preference , or gender issues. Everything. Ask Kanye West what Katrina meant. And… Since they think about **everything** in terms of race, or sexual preference, or gender issues… if you cross them, or disagree with them, they will react with you on those terms. Then you are a “racist, a homophobe, racially insensitive, yadda yadda.” Disagree with Obama in an outburst and Jimmy Carter will call you a racist. It’s all liberals think about. ---
**Author:** ![wierdaaron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/eada6e/32.png) [@wierdaaron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wierdaaron)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2009, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-is-a-racist/511019/2 "2009-09-21T23:32:17Z")
Well there’s racist and there’s dumb. They usually travel in pairs, so one is often mistaken for the other. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2009, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-is-a-racist/511019/3 "2009-09-21T23:32:58Z")
Martyrdom isn’t nearly as cool when it’s due to self-immolation. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2009, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-is-a-racist/511019/4 "2009-09-21T23:34:33Z")
Plus, we speak in crazy generalities and paint with broad brushes. That’s the best part. ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2009, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-is-a-racist/511019/5 "2009-09-21T23:35:17Z")
Huh. I’m a liberal, and I don’t think **Shodan** ’s a racist. Just a moron. I don’t find you especially witty, either. It’s probably 'cause you’re white, though. ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2009, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-is-a-racist/511019/6 "2009-09-21T23:37:43Z")
The ad on this page shows a giant angry beaver biting a lumber jack on the cock. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2009, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-is-a-racist/511019/7 "2009-09-21T23:38:21Z")
Yeah, it really sucks when people call others on their bullshit, doesn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![leander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bcef8e/32.png) [@leander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leander)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2009, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-is-a-racist/511019/8 "2009-09-21T23:42:34Z")
I’ll ask it again and hopefully a few people will actually respond: Shodan some years back adopted 2 Korean children. When he brought them home did the house turn yellow? So, is that racist? ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2009, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-is-a-racist/511019/9 "2009-09-21T23:43:49Z")
Who accused Shodan of racism? Is there an actual cite here? Or a logical misrepresentation that A: Shodan disagrees with Obama; B: Liberals think disagreeing with Obama makes you racist; C: ergo, Shodan is racist. Unfortunately , part B is basically where the whole thing falls apart…and it looks like the linchpin. So, which is it? ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2009, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-is-a-racist/511019/10 "2009-09-21T23:47:56Z")
> [@leander](#): > > I’ll ask it again and hopefully a few people will actually respond: > > Shodan some years back adopted 2 Korean children. When he brought them home did the house turn yellow? > > So, is that racist? Ummmmm. No. It’s simply an attempt to shock or offend. The color and nationality is besides the point. They could have been Amerindian and the house red. ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2009, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-is-a-racist/511019/11 "2009-09-21T23:51:56Z")
> [@Gangster\_Octopus](#): > > Who accused Shodan of racism? Is there an actual cite here? Top of page four of the other Shodan thread. Leander calls him racist. > [@](#): > > Or a logical misrepresentation that A: Shodan disagrees with Obama; B: Liberals think disagreeing with Obama makes you racist; C: ergo, Shodan is racist. Unfortunately , part B is basically where the whole thing falls apart…and it looks like the linchpin. > > So, which is it? Both. I’m taking this one example and drawing with a broad brush against liberals who are fast and easy with accusations of prejudice as a response to simple dissent. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2009, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-is-a-racist/511019/12 "2009-09-21T23:53:05Z")
> [@Scylla](#): > > I’ve been posting here for ten years. This place is my main experience of liberal thought. > > In that time, I’ve learned one truly important thing, and I suppose I owe the liberals of the SDMB some thanks for that. That thing is this: > > Liberals are the most racist prejudiced people on the planet. They are obsessed with all this shit to an astounding degree. They hate white people (even and especially if they are themselves white people,) wealthy people (especially when they themselves are wealthy.) They view and think about **everything** in the context of race or sexual preference , or gender issues. Everything. > > Ask Kanye West what Katrina meant. > > And… Since they think about **everything** in terms of race, or sexual preference, or gender issues… if you cross them, or disagree with them, they will react with you on those terms. > > Then you are a “racist, a homophobe, racially insensitive, yadda yadda.” > > Disagree with Obama in an outburst and Jimmy Carter will call you a racist. > > It’s all liberals think about. I’m a liberal. I’ve been posting here for about ten years, too. In that time, I’ve never once called you (or **Shodan** ) a racist, a homophobe, sexist, or generally bigoted/prejudiced. Thanks for being a dick to me anyway, though. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2009, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-is-a-racist/511019/13 "2009-09-21T23:53:11Z")
> [@Scylla](#): > > The ad on this page shows a giant angry beaver biting a lumber jack on the cock. Don’t look at it! It’ll turn you into a homosexual! ---
**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2009, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-is-a-racist/511019/14 "2009-09-21T23:54:28Z")
I admit that when you wrote that you came to find out that there really are monster niggers, it gave me a certain impression. That, and the 30 other times you wrote nigger in your sweet little memoir of your grandfather. It’s okay though because your grandfather saved one from drowining. In my defense, I have been brainwashed by happy crap. ---
**Author:** ![leander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bcef8e/32.png) [@leander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leander)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2009, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-is-a-racist/511019/15 "2009-09-21T23:54:43Z")
> [@Scylla](#): > > Ummmmm. No. It’s simply an attempt to shock or offend. The color and nationality is besides the point. They could have been Amerindian and the house red. I guess we’ll have to disagree and you can go back to making clever witticisms. IMO making a joke based on the color of a person’s skin is racist. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2009, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-is-a-racist/511019/16 "2009-09-21T23:55:06Z")
> [@Scylla](#): > > Top of page four of the other Shodan thread. Leander calls him racist. > > Both. I’m taking this one example and drawing with a broad brush against liberals who are fast and easy with accusations of prejudice as a response to simple dissent. So you are calling out these specific Liberals or are you accusing liberals in general of being like this. Why didn’t you just call out **Leander**? ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2009, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-is-a-racist/511019/17 "2009-09-21T23:55:21Z")
Shodan, Leander and Scylla? Time to move on to the next thread. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2009, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-is-a-racist/511019/18 "2009-09-21T23:56:15Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > Shodan, Leander and Scylla? Time to move on to the next thread. Quick! Before **Frank** shows up! ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2009, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-is-a-racist/511019/19 "2009-09-22T00:01:34Z")
> [@Squink](#): > > Don’t look at it! > It’ll turn you into a homosexual! Only if he jerks off to it. ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2009, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-is-a-racist/511019/20 "2009-09-22T00:07:24Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > I’m a liberal. I’ve been posting here for about ten years, too. In that time, I’ve never once called you (or **Shodan** ) a racist, a homophobe, sexist, or generally bigoted/prejudiced. > > Thanks for being a dick to me anyway, though. I’m sorry. I meant all Liberals except for you. Oh, and Wring, she’s pretty cool. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-is-a-racist/511019.md?page=2)