Marsupialized wrote:Someone thinks that if she looked out and it was a bunch of white dudes she would have just given some sort of secret white person nod to them or something?

Nah, but I don't think she would've said "white pieces of shit." What if they were black? Oh, someone mentioned that about fifty-five pages ago, right? I should look that shit back up.

You wouldn't call me an "African-American piece of shit," would ya, 'Sup?

Anyone remember this?

http://media.www.dailypennsylvanian.com/media/storage/paper882/news/1997/09/08/Resources/Jacobowitz.Settles.water.Buffalo.Lawsuit-2172490.shtml

I thought they called her a "water buffalo" b/c she was fat. They tuned into a racial thing.

emmanuelle cunt wrote:Now, dear PRFer, listen to Nina Nastasia and do something productive instead of posting in this thread.

GAG ME WITH A FUCKING SPOON
what a bunch of somnambulistic crap

What is that, Polish rap music? Fuuuuck.

It's pretty much an accepted fact to me that people are often unconsciously racist in about 100 different ways. It's just a reality of the world we live in. Racism isn't a concrete thing that can be easily attributed to people and eradicated. Neither does sexism, or homophobia, or whatever else.

I've been to plenty of forums where otherwise well-meaning intelligent people have made slightly sexist or homophobic statements. Or seen semi-disparaging remarks about things like transgendered people made, which hits a little closer to home because I have a friend who is and they've dealt with lots of shit because of it. It's obviously sensitive, but people who are directly impacted with the "ism"s obviously have to see that kind of thing every day.

You can be complicit to something on the surface but still have lingering feelings about it. It doesn't make you a horrible person, as long as you acknowledge it and aren't an asshole about it. It's something that happens to a lot of people, and unfortunately something that can be pretty hard to change. I attribute it to ignorance and cultural indoctrination over anything else. Keeping an open dialogue about it is at least a start, as long as people aren't trying to turn things into a witch hunt.

Mandroid's comments seem pretty harmless to me, though. Everybody occasionally says that kind of shit when they're angry. Don't get too heavy on your white guilt trip to where you stop seeing all the shades of gray of an issue.

NerblyBear wrote:However, I do think it's legitimate to call someone out for having said something dumb. I don't think it's all that legitimate to start a new thread solely devoted to shaming someone ...

since she's not ashamed, i guess his mission failed -- now it's just a discussion where everyone calls everyone else dumb (dumb for misidentifying racism, dumb for identifying it, dumb for posting in this thread at all). manbot doesn't see the slightest problem in calling a loud worker who's not the greatest at his job a mexican piece of shit, and has no qualms about hating all chinese and japanese people. so really, i don't see the problem since nobody's feelings are getting hurt - or at least hers aren't.

All I know is, kenoki is the hottest chick in the PRF. Nuff said.

H-GM wrote:You wouldn't call me an "African-American piece of shit," would ya, 'Sup?

I wouldn't call anyone that.

Well, maybe if it were a friend and we were fucking around and it was a joke but not in anger, no I would never say that for a variety of reasons.

I don't understand why you'd ask me that. What are you getting at?


You don't think 'white trash pieces of shit' would come out of her mouth if it was a bunch of hillbillies out there roasting a possum and blowing on jugs or whatever they do? I use that one ALL the fucking time.

Lonesome Bulldog wrote:what a bunch of somnambulistic crap

You're smoking rock.

Lonesome Bulldog wrote:All I know is, kenoki is the hottest chick in the PRF.

Typing that felt good?

You know, got it out of your system?

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