That was not racist then

[JJMUG]

Black holes are racist. i a not kidding.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc1zGRUPztc

See i am not kidding.

 

[370999]

Referring to a black person as black. =/

Used to be perfectly fine but now peoples hackles go up when I say 'black' rather than 'coloured'.

Friggen ridiculous.

I personnally, as a white, see nothing wrong with the use of the word black. However I would always go on waht that person in particualr prefers be it black, coloured, negro, etc. Best not to cause rows I think.

 

[Korolev]

Can you think of anything, probally when you were a kid that was fine, but if done now would be shunned, or bad mouthed as being none P.C.

For example when I was young and my mum was out later than expected my dad would say maybe she has been taken away by a large black man.

Uh...... um.....

That's a really...... odd thing to say. I'll leave it at that.

When I was younger my Mother (who grew up in Malaysia) would constantly tell us to not marry a Muslim girl. I was about 5 when this started, and I didn't know what a Muslim was, nor why I would want to marry a girl. She still repeats this "warning" even now. She doesn't hate Muslims (so she says) she's just terrified of any of her grandkid's being Muslim. I have suggested that this might be a tad bit judgemental and intolerant on her part. She insists that she's not racist (she's chinese, and she insists that because she's chinese, it is somehow "impossible" for her to be racist. I don't argue with her. Nothing good comes out of arguing with her).

So for a long time, I always had it in my head to never Marry a Muslim girl. Of course, I had no idea why (she would never tell me) or even what a Muslim was until I was much older.

So that was a bit racist - well, since Islam isn't a race but a religion (FACT: over 300 million Muslims aren't Arab, but Malay! Yes, it's true! There's plenty of white muslims in Russia and Persians are not Arabs!) it was more of an intolerance.

Of course, I don't hold such views now. I would be fine with marrying a muslim woman if I loved her, except that I suspect, no Muslim woman would ever want to marry me (I am a pretty strident atheist and a fanatical secularist).

 

[Disaster Button]

Gollywogs:

At the time they were considered just cute cuddly dolls for the kiddies but now we look at them and see the racism behind making dolls of stereotypical depictions of black people. But at the time, it wasn't a problem.

Same with some of the older Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck Looney Tunes cartoons, nothing hurts more really then to see beloved cartoon characters mocking ethnics by pretending to be in the Black and White minstrel show, but there you go.

OH DEAR GOD ITS MR POPO, DON'T LET HIM ASSIMILATE ME

 

[Vladimir Francois Tchaikovski]

As it happens i was in a shop the other week were they were selling gollywogs which i was surprised at.

 

[clipse15]

racism is overblown these days. there are whole organizations to dealing with racism. in my opinion the NAACP is far more racist than most people. if white people had an organization that gave out awards ONLY to white people they would get the s#$@ sued out of them in seconds, however, the NAACP is allowed to do this. they also blow alot of crap out of proportion.

Really you do know that there are groups like the Italian Defamation League right? and groups similar to this for Jewish people right? and surprise surprise there still allowed to operate but for some reason you just seem content on calling out the NAACP

 

[Elburzito]

Over here, an old phrase (which I say quite often) is now considered racist for some reason. The term was 'Haq it-Toroq' which literally translates into "Damn the Turks" or "Fuck the Turks". The actual phrase means bad luck, but insults Turks because of our history. It's now considered very racist, to the point where I was sent out of class for saying it.

 

[Cowabungaa]

I suppose you could still say Tiger and it could be technically racist.

How?

In Sweden we have these delicious things called negro-balls. They look like this:

Obviously, there has been debates about the name...

In Holland we had something similar about "negrokisses", which is the literal translation of this little darling:

There was a lot of bitching about that despite the name existing for decades, now they're just called "kisses" except by, well, everyone who talks about them. Just the labels have changed.

Also, what still isn't considered racism, despite some bitching about it 2 years ago or so, is the Sinterklaas fest which is going on right now. There's this dude called Sinterklaas, where Santa Claus got his name from, who roams the country with his helpers named Black Pete (all orchestrated in a lie for children so grand that Santa Claus pales in comparison), there's a ton of them but they're all named like that (like Gift-Wrapping Pete, Roof-Climbing Pete, etc etc). I won't say much else about it, a picture suffices:

Yeah. Imagine that being a national event in, say, the US. Welcome to Holland people!

 

[DuctTapeJedi]

Everyone in my primary school was quite racist. It was all white people, with a handful of black children, and the area I'm in is less than great so a lot of people would be racist because their parents were. One time when I was walking home my mum was telling another parent a story that ended in dissatisfaction, so I said "damn paki". The other children laughed because they found it funny, and I got a smack on the head. I had no idea what it meant.

I have no idea what it means...

My dad brought me up Christian, and we were really into the whole "God loves all people equally" thing, so I was never exposed to racism as a young kid.

Seriously, I have no idea what people are talking about, I only found out about the n-word in middle school.

One time at the store I was working at, some lady came in complaining about some of the other customers, (yeah, they were a little loud, but they were also children, they didn't know better) and it was only later that my boss explained to me that she wasn't talking about raccoons. (I don't want to post the word she really used, but it was a shortened version)
Had I realized what she meant, I would not have listened politely...
(Lady from the story, on the off chance you're reading this, I think you're a terrible person.)

Spoiler: EDIT: Adorable Story

I worked this past year at a Christian summer camp. Some one told me a story about two little girls who came to day-camp. One was African American(A), the other Caucasian(B):
B- "Wow, you're really tan."
A- "Thank you."
B- "My mom is tan, too, but not as much as you. She probably wishes she could be as tan as you."

Yeah, random story involving small children, why not...

 

[The Wykydtron]

Eeny meeny miney mo, catch a ****** by the toe.

You sir, winz teh interwebz

 

[IamQ]

Showing our country's flag wasn't racist when I was in 2nd grade. We would always rise it up and sing our national anthem during the end of each year of school.

Nowdays it's apparently racist to show your flag, so no schools have it anymore, and you never hear anyone sing our national anthem...

Patriotism and Nationalism are easily confused nowadays...

 

[IamQ]

Showing our country's flag wasn't racist when I was in 2nd grade. We would always rise it up and sing our national anthem during the end of each year of school.

Nowdays it's apparently racist to show your flag, so no schools have it anymore, and you never hear anyone sing our national anthem...

Patriotism and Nationalism are easily confused nowadays...

 

[KEM10]

Until college and the viewing of Clerks 2 I thought "porch monkeys" were people that just hung out on the porch, I didn't have the slightest idea that it is actually a racist term. But I did make a large "We're taking it back!" banner and put that on our house's porch whenever we sat on it drinking.

 

[rancher of monsters]

as a young child I saw my first black person. I reached up at him from my stroller and said, "basketball man." My mom was mortified but the guy the thought it was kinda funny.

I did something similar, but it was with my Dad's Group Captain in the RAF when I was about six. I went up to him and said "You're brown!" My Dad thought that he was going to get sacked but the Group Captain just laughed and said "Yes, I am".

I love it when kids do things like that. You really don't know how to do anything, but laugh beacuse you know their to young to try to offend you. As long as they don't drop the N bomb I take things like this with a smile.

 

[sylekage]

When me and my sister were kids, we would watch The Cosby Show, and refer to it as "The chocolate people show." I haven't said it since then, but I don't think it would be accepted these days.

 

[zidine100]

the nursery ryhme

"baa baa black sheep have you any wool"

it is now a happy sheep.

thats pritty much all i remember.

 

[Sindaine]

as a young child I saw my first black person. I reached up at him from my stroller and said, "basketball man." My mom was mortified but the guy the thought it was kinda funny.

I did something similar, but it was with my Dad's Group Captain in the RAF when I was about six. I went up to him and said "You're brown!" My Dad thought that he was going to get sacked but the Group Captain just laughed and said "Yes, I am".

Yeah, when I was like five I asked my mother why she called them black people, when clearly they were brown.

 

[TheLiham]

the nursery ryhme

"baa baa black sheep have you any wool"

it is now a happy sheep.

thats pritty much all i remember.

I was led to believe it was rainbow sheep

or my personal choice baa baa dermatologically challenged sheep

also weren't the Brownies scout thingy changed to something different?

also I wonder if people are aware that most black (or other races) people actually don't care that much

 

[zidine100]

the nursery ryhme

"baa baa black sheep have you any wool"

it is now a happy sheep.

thats pritty much all i remember.

I was led to believe it was rainbow sheep

must have been changed again, it does sound marginally better than happy sheep.

 

[DuctTapeJedi]

Mr. Popo apparently

You know, they've started playing DBZ again on some other network on Saturday mornings.
It's been edited to make Mr. Popo a bright, unnatural shade of blue.

Black holes are racist. i a not kidding.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc1zGRUPztc

See i am not kidding.

The guy asking for the apology seemed like he was having a really bad day...