I'm British myself yet still dont get it.Broady Brio said:
Sort of on the subject I have a small collection of golliwog badges which are lolworthy, although whether or not these are racist seems to be entirely down to opinion.
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Sort of on the subject I have a small collection of golliwog badges which are lolworthy, although whether or not these are racist seems to be entirely down to opinion.
people is way to picky about this. I mean, playing on XBL (keep in mind that my english has a very strong spanish accent) I got racist comments every two minutes or so, I don't take them seriously. It is funny how many people thinks that if you speak spanish you are mexican...
About racist jokes... also I dont take them seriously, I mean, they are jokes, if they are not meant to hurt then, who cares.
About racist jokes... also I dont take them seriously, I mean, they are jokes, if they are not meant to hurt then, who cares.
The thing with XBL is that EVERYONE gets racist comments every few seconds, whether you have a strong accent or not due to the vast number of "lol i r anonymous online" 12 year old Americans.Eliam_Dar said:
lol, yeah this happened to me with a friend that has an Aborigin Mother, I made a joke about aborigins in our country he went crazy... so I just said hi "I am 1/4 spanish, 1/4 arabic, 1/4 germanic and 1/4 nordic (each of my 4 grandparents) take your pick and return the joke"Kortney said:
Woah! Glad I read your post today, I totally did not know that. Thanks dude, you probably saved me from being beaten into a pulp.coxafloppin said:
OT: I always try to never say anything racist. Especially about the taliban, even when there are only white people present, you never know, they might be sympathizers.
true, once I said to them that I was not Mexican, and I was from Argentina.... they actually believed that Argentina was in Europe...so, yeah, they need a map XDflaming_squirrel said:
Normally when they start with the racist comments, I just concentrate on wining... revenge is a dish better served cold
I'm not so sure; given, a 'racist' joke may not necessarily be racism, and I'll be damned if I argue that it is, but there are other cases. When, for example, the British in the slave-trading Empire described the black people they were kidnapping and using for forced labour, they described them as animals, with no intention whatsoever to offend. They weren't, in their minds, being derogatory; they were describing what, to them, was a fact of nature, and I would imagine that if you suggested that what they were saying is offensive, they would reply that animals don't get offended. I think that a comment that is not thought through, or thought about in a different way such as the example above, can be a racist one even if there is no intention to "offend" as such.coxafloppin said:
I was trying to get my Italian friend's attention, and well...
"Rick... Rick... Rick Sullivan... HEY YOU FROM THAT COUNTRY WITH THE PASTA."
"Rick... Rick... Rick Sullivan... HEY YOU FROM THAT COUNTRY WITH THE PASTA."
My American, French and Itallian friends all take my jokes about their nations (usually referencing WW2) as jokes, and I don't make any other comments that could be taken as racist by anyone remotly sane. I ave got good at annoying vegitarians and clendliness-freaks however.
My comments are usually very racist. Mind you, I'm not racist and I never judged anyone by their color or religion. Still I'm sick of those overzealous crusaders of political correctness. I'll keep making my racist remarks untill people won't give a shit or will just interpret them as what they are: jokes. I believe we need to laugh at everything and screw the consequences. Still, my country is very racist so noone really cares ;p
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-eitsutpOc - on thw topic. Aw lord!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-eitsutpOc - on thw topic. Aw lord!
My German class occasionally shares a room with the Spanish class at my school the Spanish kids are terrible they tear apart the place, last year at Chrismas the German club built a Gingerbread House of a train station and the Spanish kids decided that they would eat it without asking they've also stolen shit from the room, I mean who supervises these people?
Well. anyway I once said "Stupid Spanish kids they should just cross the border and join the drug lords in Mexico" OOOh! Man that was one of the worst things I've ever said not only did a nearby Hispanic think I was talking about Hispanic people but also was offended that I had insulted his country, I think things through now.
Well. anyway I once said "Stupid Spanish kids they should just cross the border and join the drug lords in Mexico" OOOh! Man that was one of the worst things I've ever said not only did a nearby Hispanic think I was talking about Hispanic people but also was offended that I had insulted his country, I think things through now.
That's not racist. You joked about how discriminatory the justice system is. That's not racist. Your friend should not be offended by that.troth said:
Anyway. My black friend calls me "white boy," and "honky" all the time. And I say "yo ma nigga" to him all the time too. I once got sent out because my Biology teacher actually thought I was being racist. She never did care when he called me the names though.
I make stereotypical jokes about the English. Only the English don't find them funny.
It seems it's just a joke when an Englishman says it but it's a hateful comment when a Welshman talks back.
It seems it's just a joke when an Englishman says it but it's a hateful comment when a Welshman talks back.
My friend was living in Germany for a couple of years and he said that you are extreamly oversennsitive about racism. It's like your government is so afraid of you turning spontainously into natzis that they brainwash you in schools teaching you that you cannot even criticize any ethnic groups as even constructive criticism is "racist". And you have quite a problem with immigrants now. Or punks as there are parts of Berlin where police cannot even enter and folks regularly destroy shit.ejb626 said: