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anaron · Sep 17, 2015

#NotAllTexans

https://twitter.com/amellywood/status/644256406137278464

Rafa=FedKilla · Sep 17, 2015

Props to Amell for standing up for me. Just a great guy all around.

pants · Sep 17, 2015

I dont see how people can be mad at Amell here

AmethystEnd · Sep 17, 2015

So he's saying we haven't all failed our cities.

Any way, yeah, I live in Texas but I just take all this current outpouring of hatred toward the state in stride.

Frodo · Sep 17, 2015

Texas is so liberal and progressive. Truly the socialist, secularist, equality loving utopia of the USA.

How does that sound?

Shaanyboi · Sep 17, 2015

He also posted this video when saying he was going to back off social media.

victreeb3l · Sep 17, 2015

Yeah, I agree. I dont think its fair to use broad strokes to describe an entire population because of some idiots. I haven't spent much time in Texas outside of Austin but I've been treated very well each time.

SomedayTheFire · Sep 17, 2015

"If you're outraged at an opinion it's because you're bored" he says, while being outraged at opinions.

Crud · Sep 17, 2015

What can you do? It happened in Texas. We gon get shit on. It's all good, I'm sure people don't think Texas is 100% racist. I guess this really got to him. I live in Texas but I don't have the pride.

- J - D - · Sep 17, 2015

I think Texas will be okay, Stephen.

anaron · Sep 17, 2015

pants said:
I dont see how people can be mad at Amell here

uh, because he's a dumbass who's trying to compare the historically accurate stereotype that accompanies Texas as a state to the living systemic racism that minorities face every day.

Texas doesn't need any protection and it's hilarious to see a privileged white dude jump to its defence this way.

THRILLH0 said:
Pretty misguided.

Stereotyping a state might result in a few jokes or nasty comments on social media.

Stereotyping a person resulted in a kid being arrested and thrown in jail.

Exactly.

Chichikov · Sep 17, 2015

And that's exactly why profiling Muslims is much worse than saying mean things about Texas on the internet.
In fact, the harm is such "profiling" does is somewhere between "zero" and "insignificant", so much that I don't think it's worthwhile bringing it up in the context of that story.

Zoned · Sep 17, 2015

It's total BS and I wouldn't take you seriously personally, if you don't think there is a huge racism problem in Texas.

THRILLH0 · Sep 17, 2015

Pretty misguided.

Stereotyping a state might result in a few jokes or nasty comments on social media.

Stereotyping a person resulted in a kid being arrested and thrown in jail.

A Fish Aficionado · Sep 17, 2015

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Walpurgis · Sep 17, 2015

He's equating two things that are not even close to equal. Good riddance. Your show sucks.

Zoned · Sep 17, 2015

effingvic said:
Yeah, I agree. I dont think its fair to use broad strokes to describe an entire population because of some idiots. I haven't spent much time in Texas outside of Austin but I've been treated very well each time.

Do you belong to a non Christian minority?

Besides that Austin is pretty liberal anyway.

Spinifex · Sep 17, 2015

Reminds me of that gaffer who got offended when somebody told him his favorite sports team sucked.

Monocle · Sep 17, 2015

Um, Ahmed is an individual who was piled on by racist fraidycats with institutional power. Texas is a state that people make fun of sometimes because some of its residents are ridiculous.

What I'm trying to convey here is that the two cases are exactly the same.

- J - D - · Sep 17, 2015

SomedayTheFire said:
"If you're outraged at an opinion it's because you're bored" he says, while being outraged at opinions.

I think we're jumping a few degrees here. It's a thing with internet discourse that any expression of the slightest annoyance is automatically read as outrage.

I'm outraged at your opinion though. just fyi so we're clear.

anaron · Sep 17, 2015

effingvic said:
Yeah, I agree. I dont think its fair to use broad strokes to describe an entire population because of some idiots. I haven't spent much time in Texas outside of Austin but I've been treated very well each time.

Well, that's probably why. Austin is extremely liberal.

Frodo · Sep 17, 2015

Had the State of Texas been arrested for profiling a 14 years old boy wearing a NASA t-shirt, he would be totally on point.

As it is, he is not wrong, but... he is missing the centre of the problem.

Monocle · Sep 17, 2015

Spinifex said:
Reminds me of that gaffer who got offended when somebody told him his favorite sports team sucked.

Well, that's practically the same thing as racism, so who can blame him!

pants said:
I dont see how people can be mad at Amell here

I can't stay mad at that face.

Zoned · Sep 17, 2015

What does he know about ground reality in Texas anyway? Being white and having some family members experience there doesn't tell you about rampant racism against minorities. Ask non Christian non white people and then you'll get an answer.

victreeb3l · Sep 17, 2015

Zoned said:
Do you belong to a non Christian minority?

Besides that Austin is pretty liberal anyway.

Yeah I'm a brown Muslim dude. Austin might be an outlier, true, and I'm not gonna pretend I don't hear awful news out of Texas but I'd like to believe there are also lots of non bigots just going about their lives in the state.

I'm going to Big Bend later this year and I do admit I'm a little apprehensive. Then again, I'm usually irrationally nervous when I step outside of major cities.

Switch Back 9 · Sep 17, 2015

effingvic said:
Yeah I'm a brown Muslim dude. Austin might be an outlier, true, and I'm not gonna pretend I don't hear awful news out of Texas but I'd like to believe there are also lots of non bigots just going about their lives in the state.

I'm going to Big Bend later this year and I do admit I'm a little apprehensive. Then again, I'm usually irrationally nervous when I step outside of major cities.

Ehhhh, I don't think it's completely irrational.

Aaron-Lagann · Sep 17, 2015

You have failed this state.

HP_Wuvcraft · Sep 17, 2015

I get what Amell is trying to say. And it is a good point.

Except this is where it falls apart:

Saying that something is a systemic problem is not profiling. Systemic does not mean "those people". It means that it has happened before. Which it has. Texas has a history of being a little bit backwards in some parts.

But you know what? Racism is systemic everywhere. Not just Texas.

So spare me the (well intentioned) bullshit concern trolling very transparently brought on by your wife's native state.

way more · Sep 17, 2015

I don't see how saying all Texans are racist cow-fuckers is similar to exposing the plight of our Muslim brothers.

Comedy can only punch up to be funny.

injurai · Sep 17, 2015

I get what he's saying, but you'd only bring it up the way he did for all the wrong reasons. Why does he feel the need to defend Texas? Why does he defend Texas so sweepingly? Pretty suspect is it not?

kirblar · Sep 17, 2015

Yeah, he doesn't understand what "systemic problem" means here and has gone off the rails because of it. It's not about stereotyping.

Aaron-Lagann · Sep 17, 2015

We need to stop profiling every state! Oregon isn't all wacky hipster stoners! It's mostly meth head homeless people and crazy mountain people who think this is the South!

Zoned · Sep 17, 2015

kirblar said:
Yeah, he doesn't understand what "systemic problem" means here and has gone off the rails because of it. It's not about stereotyping.

Next time he is gonna say that it's profiling when you say America has systemic police brutalization. His logic would be something along the lines of I have family members/relatives working to serve the people, which is totally irrelevant to the problem.

Hot Coldman · Sep 17, 2015

He was so close - in that this is a systemic problem in all English-speaking nations - but then he fucked it up.

IdreamofHIME · Sep 17, 2015

Schools are full of morons, its not any particular state its just how they are everywhere now.

Jigorath · Sep 17, 2015

You're not profiling Texans by saying racism is a systemic problem in the state.

webkatt · Sep 17, 2015

Welp.

I was interested in watching Arrow but now I won't.

Squire · Sep 17, 2015

The egg avatar is just the perfect icing on a very shitty cake, indeed.

You Know Nothing · Sep 17, 2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvkjewgF8GQ

Love the backtrack in that final tweet.

Korey · Sep 17, 2015

.......OK?

anaron · Sep 17, 2015

Inorigo said:
The egg avatar is just the perfect icing on a very shitty cake, indeed.

I like how he decided to "leave twitter" by switching to the egg. lol

HP_Wuvcraft · Sep 17, 2015

You Know Nothing said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvkjewgF8GQ

Love the backtrack in that final tweet.

Seriously, right?

I made the mistake of replying to two of those Tweets.

Am currently getting swamped on Twitter by the wrath of the Amell Nation.

webkatt · Sep 17, 2015

Korey said:
.......OK?

I have a black friend, it's okay!

Basically

Kyou · Sep 17, 2015

Is Texas code for white people?

Soodanim · Sep 17, 2015

I think he wanted to point out the hypocrisy of stereotyping up to 26 million people for the actions of a lot less than that. There's nothing wrong with the point in and of itself. It's just that the "Not all Texans" part took him off course a bit.

HP_Wuvcraft · Sep 17, 2015

webkatt said:
I have a black friend, it's okay!

Basically

I'm assuming that is the real reason he is upset.

Jigorath · Sep 17, 2015

Korey said:
.......OK?

I wonder if he thought people were saying his wife is racist cause she came from Texas lol.

webkatt · Sep 17, 2015

HP_Wuvcraft said:
I'm assuming that is the real reason he is upset.

I don't get it!

HP_Wuvcraft · Sep 17, 2015

webkatt said:
I don't get it!

Well, you basically said it.

His wife is from Texas.

She's not racist.

So therefore he's an authority on race relations in this country.

Korey · Sep 17, 2015

#StandByAmell'sWife

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