What is your fucking problem? Can’t you disapprove of Obama’s performance as POTUS without using a racist word? This is 2016. That kind of shit isn’t supposed to fly any more. You either like him or you don’t. His race shouldn’t enter into your opinion of him as president. You’re entitled to your opinion, but there’s no reason to be crude about it.
I think that as in the case of another recent poster/post, he failed to use quote marks and a:rolleyes: to indicate that he’s referring to how a certain segment of the population explains their economic woes.
(“White Trash” OTOH apparentlt is his own words and uncalled for, as well)
It’s nice of you to read a whole different meaning into his words, but there are neither quotes nor :rolleyes:, so we have to assume the words speak for themselves.
Naw, if you’re going to drop the N-bomb as satire it’s on you to set it up properly. That was a fail. I don’t know this poster from Adam, so I have no knowledge to assess if they are racist, but as written, that is hella close.
As **Sitnam **said, he’s still responsible from the start for making himself understood and if quoting, doing so clearly, 'cause you are supposed to be serious about the use of such language.
The words speak for themselves in the absence of any other context. And there was nothing accidental about it. For whatever reason, he deliberately wrote “that ni**er in the White House.” If he was mocking particular people who really are bigoted about an African-American POTUS, he failed to make that clear.
But clearly, you’re drunkposting again, so I don’t expect you to make that distinction. Come back when you’re sober.
My post still stands. And why would you deliberately want to take something out of context when you don’t have to? It sounds like willful ignorance on your part.
And please tell me how you know for a fact there was “nothing accidental about it”.
Are you a mind reader as well as willfully ignorant?
I know that’s meaningless to some of you, though. And the ignorance isn’t on my part. I’d say the ignorance belongs to usedtobe and anybody who is defending him.
IFF he failed to failed to make his mocking clear…well that is bad. But, again, failure to do so makes him a shitty poster (in this particular instance)…it does NOT make him a friggin racist just because he mocked racists in a way that does not meet some standard of “this is how you mock racist thinking with (insert some standards that don’t actually exist)”
There is no finger slip that results in “that nier in the White House." It’s not like I meant to type Bob and ended up with boob. Spell check didn’t change a word. So obviously, "that nier in the White House.” is what was intended. Since all we have here is words (I can’t see air quotes or a shrug or a raised eyebrow) then it really is up to us to take responsibility for what we type. If what I type is open to multiple interpretations, then I should be looking for a better way to say it.
That post deserves no benefit of the doubt. There’s no indication at all that it is ironic or sarcastic or characterizing someone else’s attitude. Maybe he made a mistake—it can happen on a text-only medium—but now that he has been called out, it’s up to him to explain himself.
If someone used this language in real life with no hint of irony would you give him the benefit of the doubt or would you require him to justify himself?