# Why do these racist comments warrant a warning while others don't? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [November 8, 2012, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-these-racist-comments-warrant-a-warning-while-others-dont/640325 "2012-11-08T03:32:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 55
**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:** [November 10, 2012, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-these-racist-comments-warrant-a-warning-while-others-dont/640325/55 "2012-11-10T07:32:53Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > That’s the problem. You are assuming that any disparaging remark about the masses in South Africa is racist. I’m assuming no such thing. I’m reading this one actual statement exactly as it’s bloody well written. > [@](#): > > “Part of the problem in South Africa is due to the fact that most of its populace is not experienced in living in a modern democracy”. That’s a politically correct way of saying the same thing. Don’t you get it? It is _precisely_ what was said that made it racist. And they are **not** saying the same thing: what’s the link between “no experience with democracy” and “living in the bush”? None. Your gloss on it is just disingenuous excuse-making for racism. The person you’re defending was painting the vast majority of South Africans as one step removed from literal uncivilized hunter-gatherers, a characterisation that has absolutely zero connection with any reality now, or even in the pre-colonial past. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-these-racist-comments-warrant-a-warning-while-others-dont/640325)._