# "Some of the best friends I got is coloured." Wow. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 14, 2019, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-of-the-best-friends-i-got-is-coloured-wow/837057 "2019-07-14T06:32:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2019, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-of-the-best-friends-i-got-is-coloured-wow/837057/81 "2019-07-15T12:17:26Z")
> [@WillFarnaby](#): > > Yes it takes “sack” to declare oneself an anarchist. Given the number of angsty teen emos who do it, I would say no. No, it does not. And I say that as a (real, not fake) anarchist. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2019, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-of-the-best-friends-i-got-is-coloured-wow/837057/82 "2019-07-15T12:18:28Z")
> [@Helmut\_Doork](#): > > …but you dont expect “change” from elderly people in general. But apparently anti-elderly ageism is alive and well. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2019, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-of-the-best-friends-i-got-is-coloured-wow/837057/83 "2019-07-15T12:30:59Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > Damn, I did, thanks for the assist! Let’s hear it for the Pedants’ Revolt! ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2019, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-of-the-best-friends-i-got-is-coloured-wow/837057/84 "2019-07-15T12:31:17Z")
I’ve been wearing a ratty t-shirt with the circled A on it on and off since I was 16 and NOFX was the shit (it still is, BTW, fuck y’all if you doubt me). Yeah, I got sack, you guys. Respeck me, peasants. Also invest moneys into my LLC which is anarch’ as FUCK. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2019, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-of-the-best-friends-i-got-is-coloured-wow/837057/85 "2019-07-15T13:54:58Z")
> [@Helmut\_Doork](#): > > did not interact with them as equals from birth. Did not grow up with minorities as friends, neighbors and equals. Knew them as property only, or lessers (govt approved). Friendships between young children were quite common. Societal pressure taught the white children to treat the black ones as lesser. Mere proximity certainly didn’t fix it. Where do you think societal pressure comes from? It comes from people who are racist being allowed to be so as a matter of course, and not being called out on it. Just like governmental approval comes from the government approving such things as a matter of course, and not being called out on it. So yes, people should call them out on it. Because accepting it as a matter of course is dangerous. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2019, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-of-the-best-friends-i-got-is-coloured-wow/837057/86 "2019-07-15T14:41:59Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Let’s hear it for the Pedants’ Revolt! _golfclap_ ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2019, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-of-the-best-friends-i-got-is-coloured-wow/837057/87 "2019-07-15T14:55:33Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Let’s hear it for the Pedants’ Revolt! The pedants are revolting? ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2019, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-of-the-best-friends-i-got-is-coloured-wow/837057/88 "2019-07-15T15:08:30Z")
> [@74westy](#): > > The pedants are revolting? I know I can’t stand 'em. ---
**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:** [July 16, 2019, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-of-the-best-friends-i-got-is-coloured-wow/837057/89 "2019-07-16T01:49:30Z")
> [@Helmut\_Doork](#): > > Absolutely, I said earlier if this guy has previously had black tenants and just changed to all white because of Trump, I would be 100% in the wrong. but nothing in the OP says anything about Trump, and is it more likely than not this is the way he has always run his flats? Yes, I dont know, which is why I dont assume this guy changed policy because of trump with no cite he did. He’s supposedly gone from having black tenants, to no longer allowing them to even be guests of his white tenants, all in three years under Trump? > > **Octopus** , I was thinking just that, and was wondering what an acceptable ratios is? Pit to total non pit, total yours in thread vs. others in thread, thread starts vs posts. etc.? Do you understand that there’s a difference between “empowering” and “creating?” ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2019, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-of-the-best-friends-i-got-is-coloured-wow/837057/90 "2019-07-16T04:31:10Z")
> [@WillFarnaby](#): > > I am in awe of your ability to stuff cliches into a paragraph. Why thank you, but really, you’re much too kind. Because you **are** a cliché – or more accurately, you’re a troll in the guise of a comical caricature, [even to the point of getting mod-noted for your obsessive trolling](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=878384) – so you make it so easy. All I have to do is summarize the delusional lunacy you’ve tried to impart to us over the years, and the comedy practically writes itself. So give yourself credit, pal, you’re doing all the heavy lifting here. I’m just a humble scribe. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2019, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-of-the-best-friends-i-got-is-coloured-wow/837057/91 "2019-07-16T05:34:12Z")
We have a completely unrepentant, unreformed, and uninformed bigot sitting in the office of the president of the United States. And what does that jerk deem worthy of his time? He offers absolutely racist commentary on sitting members of the Congress of the United States. He tells them “to go back where they came from”. First, that’s ignoring the simple fact that 75% of those he proffered such “advice” to happen to come from the United States. Second, it’s completely ignoring the simple fact that our system of government is set up such that one may agitate for change and have our elected representatives effect that change if we, in fact, do not like something about the country No, ignoring racist remarks from old racists is not the thing to do. Calling them out each and every time they utter racist nonsense, and prosecuting them each and every time they carry out an illegal act motivated on their racism is the right thing to do. It is the only right thing to do. There is no “in-between” here. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-of-the-best-friends-i-got-is-coloured-wow/837057.md?page=4)