Ignorant Ignorance

[Arbitrary Cidin]

Have you ever said or done something, close-minded/ racist/ etc. withouth realising it? Discuss.

I for one worked at a restaurant when I was 16, and when a black guy asked me what's good there, recomended the fried chicken, not knowing that was a stereotype. Then he yelled at me and ordered grape soda, catfish and a side watermellon. Then, when I was 17, I found out how ironic that was.

I'm not being racist, this actually happened; my guess is it was a joke to lighten me up, since I was freaking out, but I didn't get it.

 

[LongAndShort]

I called a black mate Boy without realising it was associated with slavery and such a few years back. He explained the issue and we've joked about it since.

 

[darthzew]

I'm really tired right now, so I can't remember the whole story...

There's some expression of goodbye that uses letters phonetically... like C-U... something. I can't remember it.

But anyway, I used to think it was funny when saying goodbye to someone to say "See You In Tea", I thought it funny and a twist on what other person said to me. But the I realized what those letters spelled. I was lucky enough that I don't think anyone thought anything of it.

 

[TaborMallory]

My welcome party to the internet was from /b/. It wasn't pretty.

 

[HT_Black]

I call a cuban Microsoft employee (family friend) 'The Cuban' over Xbox Live. I also call my white-as-tip-x dad 'Que tip'.

 

[Wildrow12]

My welcome party to the internet was from /b/. It wasn't pretty.

HOLY SHI--

Geez, that's like taking an introduction to Sociology course taught by Charles Manson.

 

[Akai Shizuku]

Once I was talking with a Chinese person, and really bad music was playing on the radio. What for some reason happened to come out of my mouth, was...

"Why do they torture those cats?"

 

[Kilaknux]

I'm really tired right now, so I can't remember the whole story...

There's some expression of goodbye that uses letters phonetically... like C-U... something. I can't remember it.

But anyway, I used to think it was funny when saying goodbye to someone to say "See You In Tea", I thought it funny and a twist on what other person said to me. But the I realized what those letters spelled. I was lucky enough that I don't think anyone thought anything of it.

See you next tuesday, I believe.

Given most of my friends are loads of different races altogether (Seriously, it's like some kind of politically correct T.V show), this sort of thing comes up all the time, and becomes an internal meme. For instance, I once called to my black mate for "Black-up" in an L4D VS match by pure accident. Guess what we now call it whenever he and any other black guy we know help out in anything.

 

[FalloutJack]

I'm not sure if I have, specifically, but I'll have to see the greatest unknowing faux pas in history has gotta be Rimmer from Red Dwarf and the bit about Gazpacho Soup.

 

[geldonyetich]

Ever since I've studied a bit about the precepts of Zen Buddhism, I've learned that the vast majority of humankind is ignorant beyond its wildest dreams.

 

[CrafterMan]

My welcome party to the internet was from /b/. It wasn't pretty.

HOLY SHI--

Geez, that's like taking an introduction to Sociology course taught by Charles Manson.

Bahahahahaha!

Brilliant.

 

[GamerPhate]

I for one worked at a restaurant when I was 16, and when a black guy asked me what's good there, recomended the fried chicken, not knowing that was a stereotype. Then he yelled at me and ordered grape soda, catfish and a side watermellon. Then, when I was 17, I found out how ironic that was.

Hahah, yeah truth is stranger than fiction.

And stereotypes are pretty accurate, unless you're one of those motherf#$#$#N JBL or SONY's! Those guys I don't trust! And their hairstyle is too puffy!

 

[Arbitrary Cidin]

My welcome party to the internet was from /b/. It wasn't pretty.

HOLY SHI--

Geez, that's like taking an introduction to Sociology course taught by Charles Manson.

There's nothing wrong with /b/ OR Charles Manson.

I for one worked at a restaurant when I was 16, and when a black guy asked me what's good there, recomended the fried chicken, not knowing that was a stereotype. Then he yelled at me and ordered grape soda, catfish and a side watermellon. Then, when I was 17, I found out how ironic that was.

Hahah, yeah truth is stranger than fiction.

And stereotypes are pretty accurate, unless you're one of those motherf#$#$#N JBL or SONY's! Those guys I don't trust! And their hairstyle is too puffy!

WTF is a SONY? You dont trust Playstations???

 

[captainwillies]

I'm really tired right now, so I can't remember the whole story...

There's some expression of goodbye that uses letters phonetically... like C-U... something. I can't remember it.

But anyway, I used to think it was funny when saying goodbye to someone to say "See You In Tea", I thought it funny and a twist on what other person said to me. But the I realized what those letters spelled. I was lucky enough that I don't think anyone thought anything of it.

I don't get it.

 

[darthzew]

I'm really tired right now, so I can't remember the whole story...

There's some expression of goodbye that uses letters phonetically... like C-U... something. I can't remember it.

But anyway, I used to think it was funny when saying goodbye to someone to say "See You In Tea", I thought it funny and a twist on what other person said to me. But the I realized what those letters spelled. I was lucky enough that I don't think anyone thought anything of it.

I don't get it.

See = C, You = U, In = N, and Tea = T. Put them together in it spells...?

 

[Eskay]

My primary school class had a girl in it whose surname was Burke.

The teacher would deride her mistakes with the quip "Berk by name, Berk by nature".

If you've unsure as to how nasty this was to the poor girl (not that we really knew at the time) look up the phrase "Berkshire Hunt", which berk is the shortened version of.

 

[DazZ.]

My primary school class had a girl in it whose surname was Burke.

The teacher would deride her mistakes with the quip "Berk by name, Berk by nature".

If you've unsure as to how nasty this was to the poor girl (not that we really knew at the time) look up the phrase "Berkshire Hunt", which berk is the shortened version of.

It didn't mean that first though, it was an English term for idiot before.

When growing up I had lots of problems remember which was the PC term and which one wasn't, with alot of different ethnics. I was young enough for people to believe me when I asked "Isn't that the right one?" though, so nothing too major came about.

 

[Pandalisk]

Did you know that a common thing for an irish man to call another irish man is "boy"? as in "hi there boy" or "how you doing boy"

Now imagine Going to America with a large black community, and going around normally, thinking your not saying anything out of the ordinary or offensive, ou even think its polite?, yup it sucks.

Even happened to the local priest when he went to America too.

 

[captainwillies]

I'm really tired right now, so I can't remember the whole story...

There's some expression of goodbye that uses letters phonetically... like C-U... something. I can't remember it.

But anyway, I used to think it was funny when saying goodbye to someone to say "See You In Tea", I thought it funny and a twist on what other person said to me. But the I realized what those letters spelled. I was lucky enough that I don't think anyone thought anything of it.

I don't get it.

See = C, You = U, In = N, and Tea = T. Put them together in it spells...?

I get it, I get it

 

[Nargleblarg]

I once told a jew to burn in hell....took me a while to realize it.