Casual Racists
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- mrdobolina0
I'm going to go take a shower and wash the shame away.
- creative-0
An ex-girlfriend's dad gave me a half-hour drunken speech on how, even though he was getting loads of stick about it from his work colleagues, he was happy for is white daughter and I to be seeing each other. Now that's a cringeworthy situation I'd rather not be in again.
- Jaline0
This reminds me of "Curb Your Enthusiasm" and Larry's racist and homophobic dog.
- vespa0
omg here's a weird one, i was in southend with my dad (who is white, my mum is asian so i'm mixed up) for a funeral.
some of dad's friends from childhood were there, nearly all of them are brilliant but one of them (not a good friend), after i said who my dad was, a weird look went over his face, he said, "OH I see, yes I remember his wife, haha I thought..." and then he trailed off. And then i realised he thought that because i was asian, i was wife number 2! marrying an old white man, cos that's what south-east asian girls do haha! ewwwww.
- haha. Whatever prejudices against my ethnicity, being a "mail order bride", that must suck!Khurram
- lol, that must've been horrible.Jaline
- not just any mail order bride though:
YER DA'S MAIL ORDER BRIDEkelpie - ooftkelpie
- but mail order bride of my DAD!!!! ewww!!!! bless tho, it just didn't occur to him we're related cos we don't look the same innit.vespa
- ...same innitvespa
- haha kelpie!vespa
- Khurram0
Well, i wont deny it, i'm hard as fuck.
*mwah, love you dobs.
- DaveO0
Black / Carribean guy I work with had the best one....
He was waiting at a pedestrian crossing in birmingham a few years ago, and it was raining, really pouring it down. An old pensioner came up alongside him to wait for the traffic to stop, and said "Alright mate? Hey, I don't know why you lot all come over here, look at this weather!"
Cracked me right up!
- Spookytim0
"DOBS KILLS THREAD, SETS GLOBAL HARMONY INITIATIVE BACK 20 YEARS"
CNN LIVE
- kelpie0
naw man, its ok to be scared of Kuz. I am.
- mrdobolina0
sorry Khurram, I was just playing.
- mrdobolina0
kuz scares my lily white sensibilities. ;)
- Spookytim0
has anyone ever seen.. and therefore can they recall the name and post the link... that website that someone set upa few years ago which is basically a parody of the white 'I'm so fervently non racist I'm actually racist again' state of mind. It was called something like My Black Friends.com or soemthing. Itw as very good anyway... right on the thin line so lots of people would write in with different responses. Odd but compelling whatever it was.
- http://www.blackpeop…
?detritus - weloveblackpeople.co...
something like thatkelpie - Thats it. Wasn't quite how I remembered it though.Spookytim
- http://www.blackpeop…
- Khurram0
Kelpie said: " fuck em - idiots will always be idiots and people will always overlook some character flaws in the folk they meet if they themselves get a basically friendly reception. At least nowadays, even the people with dodgy attitudes built in from birth are force fed some small smidgen of self awareness which might bloom into an enlightened outlook eventually.
This is why my post above occurred to me; its unfamiliarity which allows people not to address the issue (or just the facts really) in their own heads and stay in their tribal comfort zone "
Exactly! That's the weird, because if i was a white kid, would i have a problem with being mates with the "casual racists" in that pub? Would i be any different to my flatmates.. i don't knwo if i would.. i mean if they all treat me so well, and they are not OVERT about their views.. why would you even care?
- Khurram0
To be honest i never actually hang out with my flatmates anyway... so it's all kind of immaterial lol
- kelpie0
fuck em - idiots will always be idiots and people will always overlook some character flaws in the folk they meet if they themselves get a basically friendly reception. At least nowadays, even the people with dodgy attitudes built in from birth are force fed some small smidgen of self awareness which might bloom into an enlightened outlook eventually.
This is why my post above occurred to me; its unfamiliarity which allows people not to address the issue (or just the facts really) in their own heads and stay in their tribal comfort zone
- I find that most people are annoying to be around too much.Jaline
- you just need to smile more toots, you know the whole world smiles with you, right?kelpie
- True. Me too. I'm very reclusive.Spookytim
- I can't fake smile. Most of my previous employers have told me that every single day I worked. That's my natural disposition....Jaline
- disposition, so I refuse to change it all the time. It doesn't mean I am not happy on the inside ;)Jaline
- -2730
In the words of snoop dog, get in where you fit in. Ignorant people are ignorant people regardless of their color man. Sounds like you are better educated so try and find some peeps you can have an intelligent conversation and reason and build with. peace.
- Khurram0
I know they're not. But they're ingratiating themselves into a community i'm not very welcome in. And they had no idea this "community" held these views.
- stem0
Great little story Khurram...
Saw this documentary on Roy 'Chubby' Brown. and he was talkin' about his childhood, how he'd never seen a 'black face' until he was in his twenties and I found myself having a strange bit of empathy towards him. He was very naive, but from this you could see how people in these insular little groups develop their attitudes.These people need to get out more...
- I grew up on a wee island where white folks from other places were as exotic as it got. Its no excusekelpie
- capsize0
iris murdoch on advice to artists:
what you can't change, you endure.
- detritus0
So.. you're intolerant of your friends' tolerance?