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Nice one.
Two birds with one stone, really.

Edit: I do mean the ones with feathers.
(juliachildcia, Sun 10 Feb 2013, 21:56, Share, Reply)

Wait I'm confused.
So he says I'm being "ironic" implying that I'm pretending to be insincere while actually being a massive racist. Thus, for lightly castigating someone for being racist I'm now perceived to be the actual racist here.

Fuck you badger catapult, you just caused a rift between me and my new second black friend. Fortunately for me I only actually need the one.
(hieronymus bosch pcmechanic 4ver in ar harts, goodnite sweet angle, Sun 10 Feb 2013, 22:05, Share, Reply)

Give your (unspecified colour) friend a firm handshake and an awkward hug
all sorted.
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Varmint, Sun 10 Feb 2013, 22:08, Share, Reply)

I assumed he/she was black because all americans are black now.
how else could a Zimbabwean become prime minister of the Americas?
(hieronymus bosch pcmechanic 4ver in ar harts, goodnite sweet angle, Sun 10 Feb 2013, 22:10, Share, Reply)

racism is believing that cultural/racial differences imply inferiority. It is not merely acknowledging that such differences exist.
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feckler https://twitter.com/LeonardEctric1, Sun 10 Feb 2013, 22:11, Share, Reply)

Racism doesn't need to imply inferiority to be classified as such.
Racial stereotypes are damaging and are better left not reinforced. Also, you can say they're cultural but in practice they might as well be racist.
(hieronymus bosch pcmechanic 4ver in ar harts, goodnite sweet angle, Sun 10 Feb 2013, 22:20, Share, Reply)

This is bullshit.
You might as well say you "don't see color".
(juliachildcia, Sun 10 Feb 2013, 22:22, Share, Reply)

So it's better if I make judgements about people based on their skin colour?

(hieronymus bosch pcmechanic 4ver in ar harts, goodnite sweet angle, Sun 10 Feb 2013, 22:28, Share, Reply)

No, but to imply there are no cultural differences is just as ignorant.
I'm done with this game.
(juliachildcia, Sun 10 Feb 2013, 22:32, Share, Reply)

That's not what I was trying to suggest.
Of course there are cultural differences my point was simply that fetishising stereotypes does nobody any favours. Tbh I don't really have a problem with your sketch I was just messing with you a bit.

No need to have a flounce.
(hieronymus bosch pcmechanic 4ver in ar harts, goodnite sweet angle, Sun 10 Feb 2013, 22:37, Share, Reply)

Oh the irony.
edit: I'm going to assume you enjoyed the sketch as well.
(juliachildcia, Sun 10 Feb 2013, 22:41, Share, Reply)

I DID!
aside from all the racist bits.
(hieronymus bosch pcmechanic 4ver in ar harts, goodnite sweet angle, Sun 10 Feb 2013, 22:43, Share, Reply)

Careful lads
I nearly spilled my cuppa chortling at yers
(rosyatrandom has no regrets apart from all those regrets, Fri 15 Feb 2013, 15:38, Share, Reply)

Well of course!
How else are we white wimmin supposed to know we are in a safe neighbourhood?
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Herb Alpert's Taxi Driver I have very beautiful lips, Sun 10 Feb 2013, 22:36, Share, Reply)

This is why woman should never be allowed to go out alone
or drive.
(hieronymus bosch pcmechanic 4ver in ar harts, goodnite sweet angle, Sun 10 Feb 2013, 22:40, Share, Reply)

It's all too scary anyway out there
too many black people.
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Herb Alpert's Taxi Driver I have very beautiful lips, Sun 10 Feb 2013, 22:48, Share, Reply)

wow
I honestly didn't peg you for a racist like our new friend juliachildcia.

Maybe if you slept with loads of black people you'd get over your irrational fear. It worked for me with tigers.
(hieronymus bosch pcmechanic 4ver in ar harts, goodnite sweet angle, Sun 10 Feb 2013, 22:50, Share, Reply)

of course it does you bellend.
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feckler https://twitter.com/LeonardEctric1, Sun 10 Feb 2013, 22:37, Share, Reply)

no it doesn't
Is there something inherently negative about liking watermelon?

Is saying that black people have big dicks not racist?
(hieronymus bosch pcmechanic 4ver in ar harts, goodnite sweet angle, Sun 10 Feb 2013, 22:42, Share, Reply)

those stereotypes have a context.
black people's physicality was used to suggest that they were intellectually inferior, and the watermelon thing is because poor southern blacks had to eat what was easy to grow.
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feckler https://twitter.com/LeonardEctric1, Sun 10 Feb 2013, 22:56, Share, Reply)

That's a good point
What about Asian people being good at maths? even if it might be subverted was it always negative?

Does it only become racist if it takes on negative connotations?
(hieronymus bosch pcmechanic 4ver in ar harts, goodnite sweet angle, Sun 10 Feb 2013, 23:01, Share, Reply)

that's a generalisation based on Asian immigrants encouraging their kids to take advantage of the opportunities of a Western education.
but I accept your broader point with the caveat that this is cultural, rather than racial.
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feckler https://twitter.com/LeonardEctric1, Sun 10 Feb 2013, 23:13, Share, Reply)

I think there's been a little confusion on my part about what you were trying to say. It's pretty axiomatic that racism implies both inferiority and superiority. For some reason I thought you were suggesting one without the other but that's retarded and I don't know why I thought that.
(hieronymus bosch pcmechanic 4ver in ar harts, goodnite sweet angle, Sun 10 Feb 2013, 23:50, Share, Reply)

I love this thread
What starts out as tongue in cheek ends up getting a bit serious.

I'd have thought that any non-Brit who joins B3ta should at least understand the gist of British humour.

I am going to show this thread to my black mate who always finds these sorts of conversations amusing, in the most patronising way.

Yes! I have a black mate! Subtext, I most definitely cannot be a racist.
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Flowerpot No longer has the vapours thanks to DTH, Fri 15 Feb 2013, 14:45, Share, Reply)