Common Knowledge
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*shrugs*
We don't exactly have the best track record throughout history. Although I recognize it's something I should try to not have lessen my perception of individual people in my life.
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What racist things have you done in your life?
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*shrugs*
We don't exactly have the best track record throughout history. Although I recognize it's something I should try to not have lessen my perception of individual people in my life.
Captain Pants
Killed by a goddamned Dredgeling
I'm not defending it. I imagine there are limits here, but I sort of assumed this thread was about admitting to behavior that is in one way or another awful or antisocial, what with it asking us to admit to racist things we do or have done.
Subpar Spatula
Banned
When I turned 19, I went to the liquor store and got a 40 of Old E and put it in a paper bag.
White guilt solves literally nothing. It's the easiest act to not have to care about anything else. If there's privilege in your veins, then use it to solve whichever injustice you're passionate of ending, because I'll tell you, being disillusions towards white people in history is the bane minorities have no choice but to suffer.
If you decide that there's no grey between pride and guilt, then you're leading an example by which there is no end to racism -- and the next generation won't be any closer to stop giving a shit about people's skin colour as if it makes any difference.
I wish a neutral, fact-facing approach was accepted, but I understand why it isn't, and how easily it sounds like if someone isn't on one side they're on another. But then I'm not the judge, so my opinions are worth nothing -- so if all they do is call out people's emotions, whether warranted or not, then I understand why that's not a good thing.
I don't live in the same world as people who have faced clear racism. My inexperience is good for me, but it means jack, I guess. That's what I learned from that ban.
Bay Maximus
Banned
I don't trust soul food unless black people are cooking it. Friends is an awful show.
Kayo Police
Member
Hmm...might qualify...
I said the N-word around some of black friends in the locker room after practice one day during my mini rant about my coach chewing me out for being lazy in practice. When I realized what I said I was frozen with fear.
They just laughed and fist bumped me, saying that's my dude. Needless to say I was confused.
I said the N-word around some of black friends in the locker room after practice one day during my mini rant about my coach chewing me out for being lazy in practice. When I realized what I said I was frozen with fear.
They just laughed and fist bumped me, saying that's my dude. Needless to say I was confused.
Don't act so surprised if someone makes good plantain and they're not black though. The Carribean is very multi-racial.
Gordon Shumway
Banned
I'm black. In Florida. Recently, I mentioned that I hate going out in my town because the white folks around me are all Trump supporters. I was called racist. That's some sit and spin talk..
richardhawk
Member
Some lady merged into my lane when I was on my motorcycle on the freeway. No signal, didn't slow down, and she didn't even do the over the shoulder look. She smacked the side of my exhaust with her car and nudged me a bit. I was super pissed and pulled off to check my bike and she pulled up right behind me. Took my helmet off and very audibly said "of course you're fucking Asian". Felt like a shitbag the moment it came out of my mouth and I said sorry right after. She was about my age (19/20) and said sorry and offered me some money which I declined. I don't think I've ever gone from full anger to embarrassment in such an instant, really weird feeling.
Lys Skygge
Member
I used to throw around the N-word when I was in high school. It was never with said negativity...just a "what up my n---" to my fellow white friends. As I grew older and less ignorant I stopped. I cringe to think about how I talked while in high school >.<
I'm about the same..... And i've to confess that i still laugh to a lot of that humor. Old cartoons, Looney Tunes, Family Guy, Bordertown, you name it.
Then i feel awful but still laugh to repeat watching.
HALP
Until a few months ago I'd never seen a full burqa in person and I've spent time in many large cities in the US and Europe. I went to Universal Studios this summer and suddenly there were women in burqas everywhere. One woman wearing one stood alone next to me watching a ride and I was like "ahhhh she's a terrorist, this ride's gonna blow!" and the rational part of my mind argued "no she's not, you're being racist as fuck" and then the rest of my mind was like "yeah, you're right. my bad"
I think most people have dumb shit go through their mind every once in a while. Key thing is to catch it and recognize it for the dumbass thought it is before your id acts on it.
I think most people have dumb shit go through their mind every once in a while. Key thing is to catch it and recognize it for the dumbass thought it is before your id acts on it.
BibiMaghoo
Member
Is it racist to laugh at racist jokes? If so, I am guilty of this on many occasions.
Thinking about it i dont think i would have anyone but a Black Barber cut my hair.
Did it end in -a or -er
Recently on a 3 hour plane flight the guy behind me was talking in Arabic on his phone, before take off. After he got off the phone he seemed to say a prayer in Arabic during takeoff.It made me feel kind of anxious and then I immediately felt really shitty for reflexively making assumptions about the guys intentions based solely on the language he spoke. Despite feeling terrible about it, I found myself sneaking glances at what the guy was doing behind me every now and then...which also made me feel incredibly shitty. Like my conscious mind knew I was being a total cunt, but my unconscious mind was wouldn't let go of the notion that this guy might be up to no good based solely on the language he spoke on a plane.
Then the guy seemed to say a prayer again during landing, and I realized the guy was probably a bit anxious about flying and was just praying to safely get through the worst parts, (takeoff and landing).
Whenever I see threads on GAF about people being thrown off flights for speaking Arabic or wearing the wrong thing, I always judge the people who are overreacting. But here I was thinking the exact same things they were. My only consolation is that I didn't freak out to the same extent as those people and didn't have the guy thrown off the flight.
Then the guy seemed to say a prayer again during landing, and I realized the guy was probably a bit anxious about flying and was just praying to safely get through the worst parts, (takeoff and landing).
Whenever I see threads on GAF about people being thrown off flights for speaking Arabic or wearing the wrong thing, I always judge the people who are overreacting. But here I was thinking the exact same things they were. My only consolation is that I didn't freak out to the same extent as those people and didn't have the guy thrown off the flight.
PackerinMN
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I have black cousins so I could always one-up the black friend comment. I was a dumb kid and just less dumb now.
Kayo Police
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Zeus The Dino
Member
I pullllllllll up on the block im speed racin.......
bet she was listening to that
Princess Viola
Member
I used to do the 'pull your eyes back and say you're Chinese' shit in 5th grade.
Mighty Chin
Banned
I've done nothing.
Clockwork5
Member
Maybe the Tomahawk Chop at Chiefs games? Is that racist?
OriginofHysteria
Banned
I used to tense up a lot when I saw a black person walk towards me on the street.
Troubled Bat
Member
Stereotypical jokes? That's pretty much the thing I do with all my friends.
Randy Solo
Member
I once caught one of my staff members stealing money from work (he was from Nepal), and when I reported it to my supervisor, the guy who was caught said in his defense that he was only getting in trouble because I was racist and not because he was a thief...
Ozzy Onya A2Z
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Accidental racism on this one, a few years ago. I was carrying shopping bags (glass drink bottles) with my son and they were clanging. So I start absent mindedly mimicking the sound to my 2 year old...chink chink chink. An elderly Asian man walks past and I didn't even register the perception of what I had done until putting the shopping away in our car.
I felt fucking horrible and would have given anything to realise before it happened. The poor guy. Still feel horrible about it to this day.
I felt fucking horrible and would have given anything to realise before it happened. The poor guy. Still feel horrible about it to this day.
Admiral Woofington
Member
I say racist jokes all of the time, but I only tell them with multi ethnic friends and do self hating hispanic booked (plus take the jokes). I love my group of self hating multicultural friends.
Admiral Woofington
Member
Sorry double post
Elitist1945
Member
I'm white, and used have a habit of saying 'nigga' to my friends (everyone in my high school said it, regardless of race, not that thats an excuse). One day at work, when saying bye to a black coworker after a shift I said "See ya nigga!" without thinking. She thought it was super funny and laughed, but thats one of the most guilty, shitty feelings I've experienced and it instantly set me straight. Not once have I spoken that word after that, which was some 2 years ago.
TheOfficeMut
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I wish that's person who submitted to the anonymous confessions thread that he failed a black kid because he looked down on black people would reveal himself. That was some fascinatingly deplorable shit. Quite unbelievable.
EstoyBlackWaldo
Member
Completely ignored white women as romantic interests.
BLACK AMERICAN PSYCHO
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That stuff is pretty common breh, basically systematic racism in a nutshell. That's what happens you give white people a position of power over blacks.
Admiral Woofington
Member
this is what I can't stand about people like you. Nowadays you're always wanting to talk like you got something to say. But absolutely nothing comes out when you move your lips, honestly it's a bunch of gibberish
TAJ
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Using the term 'porch monkeys' to describe my inbred white trash neighbors in the '80s. I thought it meant grown-ass adults who hang out in plastic kiddie pools in front of their HUD-subsidized apartments drinking beer all day every day.
paragonpro
Banned
Considered supporting trump when the election first started, very quickly learned the error of my ways
Nothing to anyone that I can remember. I try not to stereotype, but I think most of us fall into that trap occasionally.
My first experiences with message boards were on X-Men fan boards that no longer exist. they always had a decent number of black members, international members, gay members, female members, etc, so when I started posting on gaming forums (IGN, GameFAQs) and on IMDB, I was sort of surprised how hostile so many people were.
NeoGAF is much better than most gaming forums in that regard.
My first experiences with message boards were on X-Men fan boards that no longer exist. they always had a decent number of black members, international members, gay members, female members, etc, so when I started posting on gaming forums (IGN, GameFAQs) and on IMDB, I was sort of surprised how hostile so many people were.
NeoGAF is much better than most gaming forums in that regard.
I once left my car parked in DC because of work, in a primarily Black neighborhood. Not a particularly bad neighborhood visually, but anyways. I was coming from school and had my backpack in the back seat. I'd forgotten I had it and went off to work. Long story short, I came back after work and found my window smashed, my backpack gone with about a grand in tech as well as multiple soon to be due HW assignments gone along with it. I didn't say anything aloud, but you can bet your ass I was screaming some not-nice profanities mentally. Nevermind that I had no proof it was a Black person. Several weeks later I was over it, if sore about the dent in my bank account. No lingering hostility towards Black people, because I'm not dumb enough to think one petty crime represents an entire group of people. I instead got a life lesson in why we can't leave our nice things out in the open.
Is that how lifelong racists are born? They get in a similar situation, but rather than get past their moment of rage and generalization, they latch on to that and run with it? Then slap on a whole bunch of heresy, conspiracy theories, and Fox News? Oh who am I kidding, that's exactly how it goes.
Is that how lifelong racists are born? They get in a similar situation, but rather than get past their moment of rage and generalization, they latch on to that and run with it? Then slap on a whole bunch of heresy, conspiracy theories, and Fox News? Oh who am I kidding, that's exactly how it goes.
Zeus The Dino
Member
it was a black person
lightskintwin
Banned
Can't think of any, I think I'm far more guilty of doing or saying sexist things in my life.
Megalosaro
Banned
When I see a POC I:
-Put my hands in my pockets.
-Lock my door
-Look for my wallet
-Hide my white women
-Call the police
-Put my hands in my pockets.
-Lock my door
-Look for my wallet
-Hide my white women
-Call the police
Actually, when I was in Peru about 10 years ago, I kept most of my money in my sock, and was sort of paranoid about being mugged/pickpocketed. Especially in the poorer places I visited.
Reflecting on that, I suppose that was sort of racist. Definitely stereotyping.
People were friendly, and no one ever bothered me.
Reflecting on that, I suppose that was sort of racist. Definitely stereotyping.
People were friendly, and no one ever bothered me.
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