# white men are obsolete **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 16, 2007, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-men-are-obsolete/426694 "2007-11-16T15:35:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![ianzin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ed655f/32.png) [@ianzin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ianzin)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2007, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-men-are-obsolete/426694/161 "2007-11-19T00:45:56Z")
[QUOTE=fetus] The jokes are almost all racial, ethnic, linguistic or sexual in nature–the latter category generally playing on the stereotypes of one or more genders–and the audience laughs not because the jokes are new or creative–they aren’t–but because it’s a great, relaxing way to release the tension we feel inside as a result of the battle between our natural psychological impulse to separate people and things into well-defined but essentially meaningless categories\* and our social obligation to keep that category-thought from influencing how we treat our fellow citizens. [/QUOTE] What a **BRILLIANT** sentence! ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2007, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-men-are-obsolete/426694/162 "2007-11-19T00:52:23Z")
BTW, **eleanorigby** , this occurred to me earlier today. Don’t your kids play soccer? > [@ianzin](#): > > What a BRILLIANT sentence! If you’re being sarcastic: yes, thanks, but I already covered that. ---
**Author:** ![Wolfian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2007, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-men-are-obsolete/426694/163 "2007-11-19T03:22:48Z")
[QUOTE=Resistance is Character-Formin] If there were no white men, then there would (eventually) be no white women, which would probably depress a lot of non-whites. [/QUOTE] Nah. That’s our ultimate goal–a race of callipygian, carmel skinned, women with nice hips. Give it another five generations. Now some of us wanted to just get rid of white people completely, but my faction lobbied for perky boobs and green eyes and won. We had to concede red hair though, which in the end is probably for the best. I shouldn’t have told you all that… Why don’t you look at this bright red light for a second… there we are. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2007, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-men-are-obsolete/426694/164 "2007-11-19T03:56:18Z")
[QUOTE=What Exit?] - As Og is my witness, I thought we were still aloud to make French jokes. [/QUOTE] Actually, you need to whisper the French jokes as you are not permitted to repeat them aloud. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2007, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-men-are-obsolete/426694/165 "2007-11-19T03:59:28Z")
[QUOTE=tomndebb] Actually, you need to whisper the French jokes as you are not permitted to repeat them aloud. [/QUOTE] Typos, damn typos, I spell check and they still sneak though, damn it all and damn those cheese eating surrender monkeys while I am at it. ---
**Author:** ![Polerius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d78d45/32.png) [@Polerius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polerius)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2007, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-men-are-obsolete/426694/166 "2007-11-19T05:04:12Z")
[QUOTE=Anaamika] -Pretty much put a stop to the practice of _suttee_ in India (If you don’t know what that is, you should be ashamed, and go look it up [/QUOTE] WTF? We should be ashamed of not knowing about every single abhorrent primitive practice performed around the globe? ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2007, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-men-are-obsolete/426694/167 "2007-11-19T05:08:05Z")
[QUOTE=Polerius] WTF? We should be ashamed of not knowing about every single abhorrent primitive practice performed around the globe? [/QUOTE] That struck me as odd, too. Like someone from Turkey expecting us to know about The Great Turkish Pogrom of 1522\* or something. \*I just made that up. Actually, the Ottoman Empire welcomed Sephardic Jews with open arms after the Spanish Inquisition. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2007, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-men-are-obsolete/426694/168 "2007-11-19T11:47:19Z")
Oh, god! Serdar Argic’s coming! The Armenian Massacres were big news recently, actually. > **[Serdar Argic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serdar_Argic)** > > Serdar Argic (Turkish: Serdar Argıç) was the alias used in one of the first automated newsgroup spam incidents on Usenet, with the objective of denying the Armenian genocide. > For a period of several months in the first half of 1994, the Internet user under the pseudonym of "Serdar Argic" (with the address sera@zuma.uucp) posted messages in any Usenet newsgroup thread involving the country of Turkey, arguing that the Armenian genocide had not occurred or that Armenians had committed genocide agai... ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2007, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-men-are-obsolete/426694/169 "2007-11-19T13:14:51Z")
I’ve got nothing against white men,why some of my best friends are Whiteys… Oh shit I forgot I’m white as well. I’ll get my coat… ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2007, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-men-are-obsolete/426694/170 "2007-11-19T13:54:46Z")
[QUOTE=What Exit?] Typos, damn typos, I spell check and they still sneak though, damn it all and \*\*damn those cheese eating surrender monkeys while I am at it. \*\* [/QUOTE] This post has been graped by the **fermented grape-growing deodorant lacker!** ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2007, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-men-are-obsolete/426694/171 "2007-11-19T16:07:50Z")
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