WHITE GUY DEFENSE FORCE GO!

[PunkRex]

These comments fill me with hope for humanity, you all seem to be exhibiting a sense of calm maturity that is just nice to see.

I then lose said hope I gained when I remember that there are really people like the ones in the comic in the brony comunity... I know thats true for ALL fandoms but come on dawg, love and tolerance.

 

[Imperioratorex Caprae]

The Z formula was all wrong, he wasn't wearing a hoodie...

 

[Teoes]

A volkswagen is not NEARLY a "white" enough car to use in such an analogy!

Are you kidding - a German car? Show me whiter!

 

[Saviordd1]

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But seriously, liked this comic. I'm pretty much the only one who thought the Zimmerman case came out fair (Or at least as fair as state sanctioned murder can be) but otherwise funny.

 

[Tireseas_v1legacy]

A volkswagen is not NEARLY a "white" enough car to use in such an analogy!

How about a Volvo?

On topic: I might loose a chunk of my soul for reading this thread in a few days, but goddamn if I'm not going to enjoy it.

*Casually strolls into thread, holding Banhammer*

Hey guys, what's going on in this thread? Oh? Weatherman calls for a shitstorm?

I'll stick around and watch, you know, just in case.

This thread or the already-spoiled fight scene from Thor: the Dark World: Which hammer fight shall be more interesting?

Taking bets now...

 

[RJ 17]

WHITE GUY DEFENSE FORCE GO!

*Guitar Solo*

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You should have named them Gamma, Omega and Pi.
And together, they would be...

THE G-O-P!

The comic's already about as subtle as a brick to the face, no need to upgrade it to a volkswagen to the balls.

A volkswagen is not NEARLY a "white" enough car to use in such an analogy!

The problem is that a prius is more subtle than a volkswagen, so it'd both fit the analogy and break it at the same time. :3

 

[JarinArenos]

"If his race doesn't matter, why not make him black?"

Doesn't this question kinda answer itself.

Unless the answer is "the deep-seated white ethnocentrism in the gaming industry" I'm not sure what you're going for here.

*nudges the shitstorm in from the wings* C'mon, quit being boring...

 

[Mister Chippy]

*nudges the shitstorm in from the wings* C'mon, quit being boring...

Don't worry. I'm sure once everyone finishes laughing we'll see a real corker of a shitstorm. Just you wait!

 

[RJ 17]

A volkswagen is not NEARLY a "white" enough car to use in such an analogy!

Are you kidding - a German car? Show me whiter!

I'm glad at least someone saw where I was coming from with the analogy that DVS was talking about there.

 

[John Funk]

This comic was painful to read, like really painful

most strawmen at least try to be a bit more subtle. This is just saying that racism to whites and sexism to men can't ever ever happen and people who think are you diluted fools.

Diluted fools. You've been spread out too thin in water.

I...I kind of feel offended by this. I don't really understand, is the comic applying negative stereotypes to white heterosexual males? And if so, is it meant to mirror the racism felt by the man in his story at the beginning? Or is it just saying that all white people are racist? Or is there perhaps some other explanation? All I know is that my race/sexual preference/gender is being made fun of, and I'm not sure if I'm okay with that. Maybe that's the point?

The comic is making fun of the knee-jerk reactions people, usually straight white guys, tend to have when other people have the temerity to bring up "Hey, maybe we should have some characters who aren't white/male/heterosexual." With a side effect of seeing themselves as unfairly persecuted when the reality is they're just losing their prior 100% dominance over the world (see also: Christians in America).

 

[captainballsack]

White Guy Defense Force? You mean reddit, right?

 

[jluzar20]

Well that just about does it for me on Critical Miss.

Best of luck, Corey and Grey. I'll be avoiding your comics like the plague from here on out.

 

[Abomination]

Trying too hard, to be honest.

I get the joke, I just don't find it funny.

 

[Ishal]

Just have to say after perusing back through here, some of the avatars that don't find this funny seem to be the same ones that get into heated ahem* "discussions" in the gender threads.

You don't find it funny? Well that is because its making fun of you, and it couldn't be any more blatant about it. The rest of us seem to think its hilarious.

 

[JonB]

*Casually strolls into thread, holding Banhammer*

Hey guys, what's going on in this thread? Oh? Weatherman calls for a shitstorm?

I'll stick around and watch, you know, just in case.

This thread or the already-spoiled fight scene from Thor: the Dark World: Which hammer fight shall be more interesting?

Taking bets now...

I can't tell you which will be more interesting, but I can tell you that it won't take me two hours to hammer everyone who has wronged me, unlike some thunder gods I know...

 

[K12]

This is the most shameless piece of flamebait I've ever seen ever. You've basically become a full on troll at this point.

I think that is probably the reason for why I don't really find it funny. It should be, but it has the same level of subtlety as Family Guy. Maybe Grey finally got fed up with all of the people who always said "I don't get it." in the comments section?

Then again it's also possible that I am just really not in the mood for laughing right now, and would find it funny if I was feeling better.

An insult to Family Guy. I didn't find this funny either. They're trying to make a point by making fun of straw man versions of points nobody actually brings up in those discussions anyway.

Straw men? I have definitely had people tell me that "white men are the group that suffer the most discrimination today" with complete sincerity. I have also had so many "is this racist?" discussions derailed by people going on a "you're just being PC" rant.

Admittedly they weren't wearing spandex but you know... spandex is funnier.

 

[The Wooster]

I can't tell you which will be more interesting, but I can tell you that it won't take me two hours to hammer everyone who has wronged me, unlike some thunder gods I know...

If I'm getting hammered does that count?

 

[Phlakes]

This is just saying that racism to whites and sexism to men can't ever ever happen

...No it's not. But it says a lot that that's how you interpreted it, especially since there's literally nothing about sexism anywhere in there.

 

[RJ 17]

*nudges the shitstorm in from the wings* C'mon, quit being boring...

This is going to be a 90+ post thread with nothing but "abandon thread!" and "shitstorm inbound!" memes and posts without anything to actually show for it. The closest thing that I've seen was someone blandly saying "You should have read the evidence for the Zimmerman trial."

All in all, I think this sums up why there won't be any major shitstorm:

Trying too hard, to be honest.

I get the joke, I just don't find it funny.

Or as I said back on page 1:

I half expect this'll actually be another one of those threads that is several pages of "Woah, man, shitstorm INCOMING!".. and no actual shitstorm. Don't let us all down, folks.

Pretty much my thoughts exactly. I'm betting that this one is just "too easy". As in there's a difference between "flamebait" posts and coming right out and saying "Come on you rat bastards, I DARE you to get pissed off at this! PLEEEEEASE! I'm beggin' for your hate!"

Or, to put it another way:

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I'm pretty sure this comic is much less an example of flamebait and much more an example of that other thing I said.

Just have to say after perusing back through here, some of the avatars that don't find this funny seem to be the same ones that get into heated ahem* "discussions" in the gender threads.

You don't find it funny? Well that is because its making fun of you, and it couldn't be any more blatant about it. The rest of us seem to think its hilarious.

I'd imagine the people that frequent sexual orientation/gender/race baiting topics don't find very many things funny in those subjects. I'm with Abomination in that I got the joke, just didn't laugh that much because it was too in-your-face. I chuckled, but wouldn't call this "hilarious" because I do prefer at least a mild touch of subtlety to my humor. That's not to say I can't appreciate an in-your-face joke, but this one seemed to drag on just a touch too long and that made it stale to me.

Personally the funniest thing I found about this comic was how it generally parallels a LOT of threads in the Off-Topic Discussion forum.

 

[John Funk]

Is this a joke about how when people complain about people randomly making white characters black simply because you feel like there needs to be more black characters? Oh yeah, nice joke about Zimmerman. I'm sure he definitely pulled his gun for no reason whatsoever, it's not like Trayvon was beating the ever loving shit out of him. Also, isn't Zimmerman NOT EVEN FULLY WHITE (you know, that whole "hispanic" thing he has going on)? That pretty much invalidates the entire joke actually.

He has white skin. Police don't know someone's ethnicity when they pull someone over. If you're of hispanic descent but light-colored skin and you're walking through NYC, you probably won't get stopped and frisked. If you're of hispanic descent but with darker skin, your odds go up.

So no, the definition of "white Hispanic" actually fits him perfectly because he probably doesn't face any of the troubles a darker-skinned Hispanic man would. (And it's not like they could tell from his name, either. He's not Jorge Rodriguez; George Zimmerman is Anglo-German all the way.)

(Also, the only reason Trayvon was fighting him was because George Zimmerman was stalking him and in doing so provoked a confrontation, winning a fight isn't a capital crime.)

(Also x2, thanks for being a perfect representation of the people parodied in the comic)