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[Pochacco]

I hate racists too.
I bet that guy was white. Damn whiteys!

 

[open_mouth_]

There are different degrees of racism... some people are openly racist and preach it to their offspring and friends while others are only indirectly racist by pretending not to be, while still showing that they are if you spend enough time with them. Then there's the ingrained racism that comes from societal stereotypes that most people have and this is the hardest type to combat because you always have to be on guard.

Racism sucks, yes, but it's out there in a big way. I just try to pretend it doesn't exist at all and sometimes that works (and the same goes for lots of other unpleasant things in this world).

 

[Spike Spiegel]

Every time I see a thread on racism, I'm immediately reminded of my older sister, and of remarking on what a dumbass she was for that "David Duke for US Senate" placard she hung in the back window of her car.

 

[miyuru]

That's considered being racist when someone says to you "where do you come from?"

In this case, no shit. How can you be so blind?

Had I said anything like Sri Lanka, or probably any country of non-white people, he would've blamed the rye on his sleeve on that.

 

[miyuru]

A lot of people make what could be classified as racist jokes, though they're not racist at all. Hell, I do it all the time.

But would I say it to someone of that colour/nation/etc.? Hell no, because, I don't mean it.

I'm not stupid, and neither are many if not all the people who have replied relating their confrontations with racism. I'm not so stupid to believe when people are making Paki jokes or whatever, that they're truly racist. Seriously, I don't care about that stuff, I'll even laugh with them.

But this guy was straight up racist, and when it does happen, it does hit home.

 

[Suranga3]

Yeah, I could see that happening here in alberta without a doubt.

 

[Justin Bailey]

One time in High School I was sitting on a bench waiting for my mom to come pick me up after school and I noticed a large rock fly past me and shatter on the sidewalk. I turned around and saw a group of black guys hanging out about 50 yards back. Needless to say I was like "Holy Shit" and walked across the street. Some things I'll never understand.

 

[ShadowRed]

I love racist.

 

[Draff]

When I was in the UK with my sister, we walked by this guy that out of nowhere uttered something like, "Look it's China".

And another time, I walked by a homeless guy that said "Look it's the Asian invasion" :\

Also the kids were pretty nasty when I was a kid.

 

[soulja224466]

OMG are you gonna live?

 

[AniHawk]

One time in High School I was sitting on a bench waiting for my mom to come pick me up after school and I noticed a large rock fly past me and shatter on the sidewalk. I turned around and saw a group of black guys hanging out about 50 yards back. Needless to say I was like "Holy Shit" and walked across the street. Some things I'll never understand.

That reminds me... Some guys threw a soda bottle at me one day for no reason at all. This one guy stole a friend of mine's calculator (which was issued by the school for *every* Algebra II student- but it was $100 if you lost it), and later my calculator and jacket (which I got waiting until midnight for the GC). I filed a police report while I was at the school since it was about $120 worth of missing stuff. My dad picked me up from school that day because he was on vacation and damn near brought the car to a halt when he learned what had been stolen.

The next day, a PE teacher found my jacket in a trash can, without any stains or anything. Never found the calculator, but since I reported it was stolen, I never had to pay for it either. The principal was very understanding as well since now I look back on it, I could have sued them blind for their screwups when I broke my arm (which is another story entirely).

One time, this short kid (who I'm sure is the guy who was stealing calculators) was trying to act all tough and kicked a soda bottle towards us. Well, it didn't go very far because he mostly missed it. My friends and I laughed at him (don't feel bad for him- he's had much more than that coming to him for a longass time), so he got real pissed, stood up straight, pulled his leg back, and kicked as hard as he could. His foot slipped on the soda bottle and he fell backwards on his ass. Then me and my friends and his friend were cracking up. He got up again and just let it go.

 

[FightyF]

Maybe he meant "where in Edmonton are you from"?

We all know them Millwoods folks have shoddy hand/eye coordination.

 

[AlphaSnake]

You should've replied, "I wouldn't do that, sir... I know some people... POWERFUL people..."

:lol :lol
*dies*

 

[AlphaSnake]

And Miyuru: You're overreacting. He probably thought you couldn't serve a drink if your life depended on it and wondered if you came from a place that did things differently. I thought hard about this and I see absolutely no way how it links to racism.

 

[Celicar]

So he hates canadians?

That's just wrong

 

[J2 Cool]

The collective cry of the PC whities drowns us all out, "Racism sucks...I once ate lunch with a black guy and he was neat."

I hope that wasn't a finger pointed at me. I never made note of it but for this thread. The school was so messed up that they literally left a whole table to one black kid. I think he had to be only one of maybe a few black kids in a lunchroom of 200 students. But yeah, out of the semester and a half, him and this other chinese kid, Matt, who moved from Hong Kong to Australia, to Illinois were my best friends. That kid was so damn cool too. Those kids just seemed to be the coolest kids there. There was something i couldn't place that I hated about the average student at that school. They're so damn fake.

Oh, and Matt also could draw amazingly well. He had a different style I was fascinated by and learned a lot from. Similar to anime I suppose but a mix of that and realism. He made me this kick ass sketch before he finished his last semester and went back to Hong Kong. Plus he was amazing at basketball which I didnt expect. It was so cool though cause I asked him about his favorite teams and he said he doesnt watch much but the Bulls and Michael Jordan used to be awesome. Also gave me the whole Last Samurai plot before it came out

 

[Miburou]

This reminds me of when I went to Japan earlier this year. I was waiting for a friend at the train station, and suddenly these bums come at me. One of them asks me where I'm from. Now I'm from the Middle East, but I live in Canada, and since they probably won't understand where I'm from even if I told them, I just said Canada.

Well, one of them starts shouting "no, no Bangladesh, Bangladesh, hahah". Now, that didn't really bother me (especially since they're just bums), but if I did have Canadian citizenship, it would start annoying me if people wouldn't believe me because they think all Canadians are white.

But Japanese are ignorant. I have a swiss friend whose English sucks big time teaching English there. He's white, so he must speak good English, right?

 

[Diablos]

All racists suck, EXCEPT Clayton Bigsby.

Colin Powell... Cunnilingus Rice!!! "Cunnilingus Rice," sounds like a mexican dish. Maybe we should put her on a boat and send her to Mexico, so the Mexicans have a leader! WHITE POWER!

:lol ahahaha

miyuru: As for the "Where Did You Come From" comment just realize he's a piece of crap and move on.

 

[J2 Cool]

I smell an ABC special in the making. In the end did you can do a hip break dance at the prom and everyone will form a circle around you chanting your name and then you jumped into your black friends arms.....Just freeze it right there, that is the ending him spinning and smiling with you in his arms, confetti raining down and big smiles. We will call it, "Black Like Me"

Ohh and on a side note I love puppies and hate bullets.

I'm not racist, Im down.

 

[KingV]

A lot of people make what could be classified as racist jokes, though they're not racist at all. Hell, I do it all the time.

Actually, my friends and I make fun of each other's race all the time, to people that don't know us, they probably think we're severely f'ed up. I'm forever telling my friends to go back to whatever country they came from, to which they normally reply that Freedom is keeping the Jewish hand out of their pocket. Obviously, I wouldn't say something like that to a complete stranger, as it would undoubtedly be taken the wrong way, but I think it's important to be able to make fun of yourself and your friends and laugh about it. I think that PC'ism is actually a great disservice to everybody, racially, as so many people are scared of coming accross as racist, or are so easily offended by a comment that is not necessarily meant in a racist way that all conversation is stifled to that end. Sometimes people make insensitive comments because they don't know any better, not because they truly have a strong dislike for a certain culture, and stifling the comments does little to change misperceptions. The best way to change popular perceptions is dialogue not censorship. I'm not in favor of racism, by any means, but I absolutely despise Political correctness, as to me it's like rewriting words and expressions out of the english language, rather than changing ideas at their core. Shades of 1984.