May 2012
234 posts
Anonymous asked: So it is legally and socially acceptable for explicitly black and hispanic institutions to exclude people based on race, because of the assumption that other institutions are implicitly white? Even despite the fact that these supposedly "white" institutions are open to anyone, and there are even laws and regulations that insure this is the case? Majority white nations are relatively the...
Anonymous asked: Anyone who uses the term "European-Americans" seriously?
Anonymous asked: If systemic racism is holding back blacks in America, why are blacks in majority-black countries so much poorer than blacks in America?
Anonymous asked: Are black people more racist than white people? Before you answer no, remember that 95% of blacks voted for Obama and over 40% of whites voted for him as well. It seems telling that only 5% of blacks voted against their own race.
Anonymous asked: Why isn't it a double standard when minorities have their own associations based on their interests but not European-Americans. For example: Black Student Unions inn Colleges, The Congressional Black Caucus, The Black Miss America Pageant, etc. Of course you can find the same with very minority. I would guess that if we had European-American student Unions, European-American Miss America...
brooklynjuggler asked: Can racism ever be funny? For example, someone told me the following joke: "A chinese man asked his wife for some 69. The wife replied, 'you want beef and broccoli now?!'" When I heard that joke, I laughed. Does that make me racist?
skullmandible asked: yo firemen and arsonists both do shit with fire, how can you support one and not the other?!!
Anonymous asked: Affirmative action and racial profiling in law enforcement are both imperfect solutions, but they address statistical realities at the cost of idealized colorblindess. Why be in favor of one but not the other?
Anonymous asked: Is it spelled "psych" or "sike"?
Anonymous asked: Yo, don't you think it's more important to appeal to the reason of racists than to just call them racist and cut off contact with them? Hell, that's how skinhead collectives get started, isn't it?
Anonymous asked: Yo, say I was forced for social reasons to invite some racist assholes to my wedding. What type of shit could we do/say in the ceremony to fuck with them?
Anonymous asked: Do you ever worry that someone out there might be taking your advice too seriously?
Anonymous asked: Do you think there are ways to improve affirmative action?
Anonymous asked: My parents call taxi drivers "dot heads." I am marrying an Indian man next year. Do I have to invite these racists to my wedding?
Anonymous asked: A friend visiting from Europe was asking me how I can stand living in the USA with all the racism here. I told her things are better than they were before the Civil Rights Movement, but, sure, there's still plenty of discrimination, just like the Roma people experience in her country. She said "That's different. They're animals."
Anonymous asked: unrelated to racism but is Nas or Jay-Z the true king of New York?
Anonymous asked: When someone claims that they're not racist, it's just the way they were brought up.
Anonymous asked: I applied to 10 different jobs using my original and obviously Muslim name and got no response. After three weeks, I applied to the same 10 jobs with the same resume except I Anglicized my name. I got 8 initial responses from my second round of job applications. Seriously, what the hell???
Anonymous asked: My girlfriend (white) and I (white) recently had a conversation where we realized that if we got married and hyphenated our last name, it would either be 'Power White' or 'White Power'. This is obviously racist as hell and we are not going to do it, but I thought it you could maybe use a laugh.
tedbelmont asked: A white person who thinks American business accepting pesos is "just wrong"?
Anonymous asked: I'm Asian, and I was dating a guy who is white, and he told me that he "wouldn't want to have sons with me, only daughters, because I think Asian guys are ugly." He also repeatedly told me "Asian guys are gay" and once told me eating tofu is gay. My Asian friends said it was definitely racist but some of my white friends said that the first statement was merely...
Anonymous asked: I turned down a guy I really liked in high school because he was black and my dad would have embarrassed me by acting like a racist asshole, and I didn't want to drag him into that. Should I have handled it differently?
Anonymous asked: I HATE MATH!
Anonymous asked: Yo, is it racist for a white man to respond to a black woman's comment about the weather by rambling on and on about how much he respects "coloured people"? I overheard it on the bus today.
Anonymous asked: What it do?!
Anonymous asked: At work there is another person with the same name in our group of friends, I am white he is asian. They have started calling me 'Asian-Eric' and him 'White-Eric', to 'avoid being racist'. Besides being a shitty nickname for both of us. I am pretty sure this is actually more racist than just referring to him as asian Eric. I am not complaining about my own nickname...
Anonymous asked: People who disagree with Cornel West about anything.
holkhogan asked: Somebody I know (but definitely do not like) who once said 'I just don't like black people' when watching a Will Smith film, in all seriousness, is now training to be a police constable. What the fuck, how fucked up is this. Fuck the police.
Anonymous asked: My grandfather talks racist sometimes but I think he's just trolling because he knows I'll go off and he likes to see me get bent out of shape. Would it be better not to reward his racism with any attention or acknowledgment in this case? Because I do enjoy telling him he's a racist old shit but I think he enjoys it too.
Anonymous asked: Yo, I just used the phrase "shuck and jive" at work when talking about giving a presentation. Then I realized - oh shit, I'm from Alabama, did I absorb some racist phrase accidentally? So what's the verdict on shuck and jive?
Anonymous asked: People always go on about how old people are from a different time and don't mean to be racist but that is bullshit for 2 reasons: 1. My grandmother is a 71 year old white lady who was AT Dr Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech and dated a black guy in Virginia in the 60s and 2. I was in a grocery store in rural East Tennessee last week and saw an elderly (mid-80s)...
Anonymous asked: Yo, you wanna watch Space Jam with me?
shitbeansman asked: I had a long-ass question written up, and I didn't ask it, because I had my answer by the time I was done. I really hope that happens a lot.
Anonymous asked: Yo, why should I respect my elders when my elders don't respect the basic dignity of all hum- AH FUCK IT THIS IS BORING
Anonymous asked: Yo, I'm from a mixed faith family and my Christian part of the family is a fucking homophobic, anti-Semitic, racist, sexist shit excuse for a family. I CANNOT tell all of them to fuck off, but I do avoid talking to them and politely question their sexist/racist arguments. How do you deal with respected elders in your family who are fucking racist/sexist assholes without getting your parents...
Anonymous asked: Yo, I love you.
Anonymous asked: i just realised that i spoke to a black guy FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MY LIFE the other day. I'M NINETEEN. this is how homogeneous my society is :(
Anonymous asked: Yo, all the reporting on black churches who told their flock or whatever not to vote for Obama after he announced his support for gay marriage. I mean, I'm pretty sure a bunch of white churches did that too, even though I didn't see it on the news. It seems to me that the main contributing factor to homophobia is CHRISTIANITY.
Anonymous asked: YO IM TRAPPED IN AN ELEVATOR WITH A RACIST. SEND WHISKEY.
Anonymous asked: what if you're playing a tree during a theatre production and have to blend in the background and your clothes, is it racist to put brown face paint on
Anonymous asked: 4 year-old brother describes black people as "chocolate" people. Example: "I sat next to the chocolate girl on the bus" I'm Mexican and our grandmother is very dark, and he would call her "chocolate" too. We told him not to say that to people because they might not like being called "chocolate", but he said that they were not the color...
Anonymous asked: That episode of Monk guest starring Snoop Dogg as a rapper named "Murderuss"?
ismarcusbacmanngay asked: Do you think the soft bigotry of low expectations is legitimate?
Anonymous asked: how did i get this drunkk????????
Anonymous asked: Tell your haters that yelling at racist people is like having sex...you never know how good it feels until you DO IT!
Anonymous asked: Opposing affirmative action is not racist. Race/religion/etc. should not be a factor in employment or educational applications.
garbagetrain asked: A piece from Wagner's Ring Cycle starting playing on the local classical station and my cat looked like he was super into it. Is my cat racist? Oh God, I really really hope my cat isn't racist. He's usually super chill...
Anonymous asked: Yo, I know this blog is about fighting intolerant views, but do I get a pass for being WACKTOSE INTOLERANT?!
Anonymous asked: How come nobody uses the song "Under My Thumb" by The Rolling Stones to argue that rock music is misogynistic? OH WAIT, it's because it's ridiculous to use one example from a genre of music to condemn that entire genre. And The Rolling Stones are white.