Stuff Black People Like

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[quote]gatesoftanhauser wrote:
esk221 wrote:
Does Gatesoftanhauser strike anybody else as a closet racist? Some of his comments in this thread have me scratching my head.

Uh huh. Yep.

So not agreeing with the Politically Incorrect defining racial label of “African American” makes me a racist, huh?

Whatever dude. Cast your “guilty” judgment all you want.[/quote]

And whose fault is it that we have these “racial” labels?? I really don’t like being called black either…considering my complexion…yet no one is calling me “American” in my everyday life.

Don’t know why this is such an issue…considering the FACT that we are descendants of Africans. Does the term Native American receive the same dull criticism?? Why do people bother trying to complicate things that are easy to understand?? Hidden agendas?? Maybe.

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[quote]Should I Strip wrote:
Hi, I read the post as well. I’m new and I sort of think stereo typing people like this isn’t very nice. I like your posts because I’ve read some of them. But this one is a lil mean. :([/quote]

That was the idea behind the thread, it wa meant to be offensive.

There was a recent article in the mainstream media ‘what white people like’

I really detest the way how political correctness has turned everything so on its head it is deemed Ok to make fun of white stereotypes or white people in general.

I believe in equality and this means blacks and whites all being treated the same and fairly, but because whites are in the majority it is for some reason OK to stereotyoe them.

I think Chris Rock is one of the funniest stand up comedians ever, but if he can make fun of white people on mainstream media and it be OK why can a white comedian not do the same with black people? I am not saying it is good to make fun of other peoples races I just find it interesting how you can say things about the white race and nobody bats an eyelid, but the second a white person even says the word ‘black’ everyone�??s attention is fully focused and ready to pounce and call racist.

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I’m not sensitive in the least, but I can some of those comments struck me as suspect.

Racial humor is funny. Racism is not.

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I’m with Dave Chapelle on the fried chicken thing. I like fried chicken because it’s delicious. I didn’t know I was genetically predisposed to liking it. Everyone loves fried food. Sure it’s high in calories, raises your cholesteral and full of trans fat but damn if deep frying doesn’t make anything taste better. Frying even makes the balls of an animal palatable to some people.

I’m half white so I guess that’s where my very “unbrotha” like love of mayonaise comes from. Give me a cold fried chicken and mayonaise sandwich and I’m a happy man.

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[quote]esk221 wrote:
I’m not sensitive in the least, but I can some of those comments struck me as suspect.

Racial humor is funny. Racism is not.[/quote]

your distinction between the two is personal to you and many people will have very different opinions, this thread was not meant to be funny or racist.

In hindsight it was a rather bad idea though

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[quote]Tallguyy76 wrote:
I’m with Dave Chapelle on the fried chicken thing. I like fried chicken because it’s delicious. I didn’t know I was genetically predisposed to liking it. Everyone loves fried food. Sure it’s high in calories, raises your cholesteral and full of trans fat but damn if deep frying doesn’t make anything taste better. Frying even makes the balls of an animal palatable to some people.

I’m half white so I guess that’s where my very “unbrotha” like love of mayonaise comes from. Give me a cold fried chicken and mayonaise sandwich and I’m a happy man. [/quote]

Cold chicken and mayo?? I can’t imagine that to be good at all…

Awesome avatar by the way. Awesome.

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[quote]Electric_E wrote:
In hindsight it was a rather bad idea though
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Glad you realize that.

You opened the door for some nasty racist talk.

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[quote]lixy wrote:
Electric_E wrote:
In hindsight it was a rather bad idea though

Glad you realize that.

You opened the door for some nasty racist talk.[/quote]

I did not expect people to do that, I thought people would post their objections to the thread and say how we should not stereotype, then leading to a discussion about why nobody had the same complaints about the ‘stuff white people like’ article

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[quote]Electric_E wrote:
Should I Strip wrote:
Hi, I read the post as well. I’m new and I sort of think stereo typing people like this isn’t very nice. I like your posts because I’ve read some of them. But this one is a lil mean. :frowning:

That was the idea behind the thread, it wa meant to be offensive.

There was a recent article in the mainstream media ‘what white people like’
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I thought you started this post because you saw this:
http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com/ It’s hilariously true! 90% of the time, anyways. Which makes it totally true, as we all know that 90% is as good as 100%…

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[quote]T Ham wrote:
Electric_E wrote:
Should I Strip wrote:
Hi, I read the post as well. I’m new and I sort of think stereo typing people like this isn’t very nice. I like your posts because I’ve read some of them. But this one is a lil mean. :frowning:

That was the idea behind the thread, it wa meant to be offensive.

There was a recent article in the mainstream media ‘what white people like’

I thought you started this post because you saw this:
http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com/ It’s hilariously true! 90% of the time, anyways. Which makes it totally true, as we all know that 90% is as good as 100%…[/quote]

That’s why I started the thread yes.

I did not like that article, why is it funny to stereotype white people but racist to stereotype black people?

I think we shouldn’t stereotype any race white, black, yellow, funny, nasty or any which way round you want to do it.

On the other hand I am very open minded and easy going so I can accept stereotyping of my race as long as other people accept it of their race.

This thread actually really proved me wrong, I expected a barrage of opposition to stereotyping blacks, to which I would have asked, well how come you/we accept the stereotyping of white people then, why did you not complain about that thread too?

In fact nobody really seemed to be that offended by this thread and that’s a good thing I guess.

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[quote]Electric_E wrote:
OK please stop now, I was just making a point about how controversial the “stuff white people like” but I had to be extreme with my post, I did not want to down this route[/quote]

Bollocks! You knew this would happen! What Prof X says is true: “All ya whiteys be racist…yull…ya’ll is racist!”

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[quote]Electric_E wrote:

In fact nobody really seemed to be that offended by this thread and that’s a good thing I guess.

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See previous post.

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[quote]lixy wrote:
Electric_E wrote:
In hindsight it was a rather bad idea though

Glad you realize that.

You opened the door for some nasty racist talk.[/quote]

Iraq.

(For those who don’t know, no thread is complete for Lixy unless Iraq is in there somewhere.)

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[quote]Headhunter wrote:
Iraq. [/quote]

Black people like Iraq.

At least, that’s one possible conclusion from the disproportionately large number of blacks in the US military.

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[quote]Electric_E wrote:
lixy wrote:
Electric_E wrote:
In hindsight it was a rather bad idea though

Glad you realize that.

You opened the door for some nasty racist talk.

I did not expect people to do that, I thought people would post their objections to the thread and say how we should not stereotype, then leading to a discussion about why nobody had the same complaints about the ‘stuff white people like’ article [/quote]

For one thing, nobody implied that white people stole, butchered the English language, had shitty taste in music or let their families starve while they buy shiny toys. I didn’t see anything that outrageous in the “What White People Like thread”.

Secondly, you seem to ignore all historical context. Hatred towards black people is alive and well today, and it was doing even better as little as a few decades ago. Oppression, repression and discrimination are still alive in the collective memory.

This is the reason a black verbally abusing a white person is more acceptable than a white doing something similar. The same logic can be applied to understand why women get away with much more than men in our modern world. Or how an inherently discriminatory state was able to open shop 60 years ago.

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[quote]lixy wrote:
Electric_E wrote:
lixy wrote:
Electric_E wrote:
In hindsight it was a rather bad idea though

Glad you realize that.

You opened the door for some nasty racist talk.

I did not expect people to do that, I thought people would post their objections to the thread and say how we should not stereotype, then leading to a discussion about why nobody had the same complaints about the ‘stuff white people like’ article

For one thing, nobody implied that white people stole, butchered the English language, had shitty taste in music or let their families starve while they buy shiny toys. I didn’t see anything that outrageous in the “What White People Like thread”.

Secondly, you seem to ignore all historical context. Hatred towards black people is alive and well today, and it was doing even better as little as a few decades ago. Oppression, repression and discrimination are still alive in the collective memory.

This is the reason a black verbally abusing a white person is more acceptable than a white doing something similar. The same logic can be applied to understand why women get away with much more than men in our modern world. Or how an inherently discriminatory state was able to open shop 60 years ago.[/quote]

This is more of the type of reply I was expecting (hoping for)

We now have political correctness and for it to be correct it should mean we are all equal, but PC is not equal rather it has turned things on their heads, so it is Ok for blacks to make fun of whites and women to make fun of men etc…

My point is if we are going to have equality lets have it properly lets have all people, black, white male female treated equally.

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[quote]Electric_E wrote:
lixy wrote:
Electric_E wrote:
lixy wrote:
Electric_E wrote:
In hindsight it was a rather bad idea though

Glad you realize that.

You opened the door for some nasty racist talk.

I did not expect people to do that, I thought people would post their objections to the thread and say how we should not stereotype, then leading to a discussion about why nobody had the same complaints about the ‘stuff white people like’ article

For one thing, nobody implied that white people stole, butchered the English language, had shitty taste in music or let their families starve while they buy shiny toys. I didn’t see anything that outrageous in the “What White People Like thread”.

Secondly, you seem to ignore all historical context. Hatred towards black people is alive and well today, and it was doing even better as little as a few decades ago. Oppression, repression and discrimination are still alive in the collective memory.

This is the reason a black verbally abusing a white person is more acceptable than a white doing something similar. The same logic can be applied to understand why women get away with much more than men in our modern world. Or how an inherently discriminatory state was able to open shop 60 years ago.

This is more of the type of reply I was expecting (hoping for)

We now have political correctness and for it to be correct it should mean we are all equal, but PC is not equal rather it has turned things on their heads, so it is Ok for blacks to make fun of whites and women to make fun of men etc…

My point is if we are going to have equality lets have it properly lets have all people, black, white male female treated equally.

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I am staying out of this one beyond this post…but are you actually comprehending what Lixy wrote in that post? This thread is strangely much more nasty than the other one and they were both started around the same time. With that in mind, how have we attained “equality”?

I’m not even offended by this thread. I am just making an observation.

There was no relation of “white people” to “red necks” yet there is a relation of “black people” to the most ghetto-like activities.

Is that “equality”? Let me know when we get there.

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No like I have said previously this thread contained some very negative and racist stereotypes, which is bang out of order, but sometimes to make the point of your argyment you need to take your argument to the extreme.

This thread = VERY WRONG

The white thread = nowhere near as wrong but still wrong

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[quote]Electric_E wrote:
No like I have said previously this thread contained some very negative and racist stereotypes, which is bang out of order, but sometimes to make the point of your argyment you need to take your argument to the extreme.

This thread = VERY WRONG

The white thread = nowhere near as wrong but still wrong
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…which should prove to you that we have not reached “equality” yet. So, then, why do you compare some comedian’s joking reference to how some white guy speaks (which is happening less and less lately) to the perception that “black people” in general all fit into the most basic aspects of their culture?

Which one do you think has the most negative influence on a culture or group of people socially?

Do you think the average white person might be denied a job based on the fact that Chris Rock made a joke about how they can’t dance?

Do you think the average black person may experience some difficulties in that arena if the perception is that they let their kids starve while they buy Cadillac rims?

One causes more harm than the other. Which one do you think that is?

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The white thread is funny. This one isn’t funny.

I guess that means white people are funnier.