Reaction to racism?
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If only there was a black man more awesome than Morgan Freeman
oh wait
Spoiler :
Who is that?
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... say what?
Oh, so he's a fashion director for ESPN. I still say Morgan Freeman is cooler.
Well when someone suffers from racial discrimination, that isn't funny. But when people on the internet go off on racist rants, I think it's pretty funny.
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... say what?
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Because people are racist? I don't like them either (racist people) but wishing for all of mankind to be exterminated just because of racist people seems silly, given that (I'm presuming) the majority of the people on earth are not racist.
Then you and I react to racist troll rants differently.
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Is this a racists baiting thread?
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If only there was a black man more awesome than Morgan Freeman
oh wait
I prefer this guy, and lets not forget, one of my former avatars
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I prefer this guy, and lets not forget, one of my former avatars
No offense, but you should have put a spoiler around the big picture someone else already posted.
Not exactly, but if it was it has failed in that regard.
I find racism hilarious until I realize it's serious. When it's serious I'm generally completely aghast.
When my wife had a rather nasty thing said to her in public, I was too shocked to get into a fight.
When my wife had a rather nasty thing said to her in public, I was too shocked to get into a fight.
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Nah, He's Stevie Wonder. God is love, love is blind, and Stevie Wonder is blind. Therefore, Stevie Wonder is God.
/better logic than racists have, anyway
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Racism on the internet can be funny I suppose, but it's mostly just annoying or frustrating. And in real life it's worse because I feel obligated to say something but I'm not exactly good at that sort of thing.
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I find racist jokes secretly funny. Usually they don't offend anyone, when someone is racist towards Americans I'm not offended.
Also, Morgan Freeman is God's brother.
Also, Morgan Freeman is God's brother.
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How would you separate "funny" racism, from "serious" racism? And if I may ask, what is the ethnicity of your wife?
True. But if Stevie Wonder was God then he would have got to play as God in two motion pictures.
Racism in real life and on the internet are completely different. And one major source of racism that you all may not know about: the comments section on Yahoo news articles.
I see what you did there...
I assume that racism expressed online isn't serious, unless there user has an iron cross avatar or if the context leads me to believe the writer is an idiot.
There's a quote that I can't remember the source of, but it went along the lines of, "a Jewish joke in the mouth of a Nazi is no longer a joke" and I think that holds pretty true.
My wife's half Arab. The incident in question, someone mistook her for Hispanic and called her a word that rhymes with wick. Probably part of my befuddlement was that the racist insult wasn't even correct, not by a continent
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I assume that racism expressed online isn't serious, unless there user has an iron cross avatar or if the context leads me to believe the writer is an idiot.
There's a quote that I can't remember the source of, but it went along the lines of, "a Jewish joke in the mouth of a Nazi is no longer a joke" and I think that holds pretty true.
My wife's half Arab. The incident in question, someone mistook her for Hispanic and called her a word that rhymes with wick. Probably part of my befuddlement was that the racist insult wasn't even correct, not by a continent
I must not know my racist derogatory terms. I have never heard of a word that rhymes with wick that means anything about Hispanics.
Anyway I see what you're saying about "if it's not sarcastic then it must be serious" but I guess what I'm saying is that when it's not sarcastic, I find it even funnier. I just think it's funny that people can be that stupid.
It's funny until you realize idiots have power and that power is used to disenfranchise voters, and in a related matter, continue to deny civil rights in law.
