rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

Stand down mordy, i's a HOOS in-joke

standing down

it's funny, now that you mention it, i get the in-joke, but it seemed painfully sincere when i first read it

board politics; tearing ILX apart

I just like that forks can call off Mordy.

condz this isn't me coming at you this is me saying "if a person of color says he is offended by a remark it is not really your place to roll in and say 'no no your feelings are invalid'

well, that brings up the interesting invisibility of race in a virtual environment. there are lots of regular ILX posters about whom i know very little. you have to spend a fair amount of time here and pay close attention to sometimes subtle cues to begin to be able to accurately sort people by things like race and gender. i initially responded to dayo without considering that, which, in retrospect, was thoughtless of me.

Subtle cues like the WDYLL thread?

some people never look at those threads (although we pick up other cues from people's posts)

fwiw, not everyone participates in those though

that brings up the interesting invisibility of race in a virtual environment.

It isn't "invisibility", it's "normalization".

Right. Like, would it have been OK if you were certain it was "just us white guys" talking?

everyone on the internet is the same race, and that race is 'asshole'

i feel like its usually better to err on the side of not telling people that their feelings are wrong, generally

also its good practice not to say things that can reformulated as "isnt it you who is the real racist"

Right. Like, would it have been OK if you were certain it was "just us white guys" talking?

lol I thought frogbs was banned

ideally you wouldn't tell people that what they're telling people is wrong. but since that's not the case, I can say this!

so wait, is telling people that telling people that they are telling people that what they feeling is wrong, wrong? I'm trying to make a chart

well there are exceptions, for example if you feel that dayo is the real racist, your feeling is wrong

except when he was repping hard for ghettohikes

didn't we already have a huge discussion about how things can be racist even if the person doing those things is not Hitler

does contenderizer even think hitler is racist tho

I'm glad that you're capable of forgiving and forgetting, some dude

hate the crime, love the war criminal

haha i totally forgot about you defending ghettohikes until you brought it up itt!

that was buzza! in any case if it wasn't clear before, I'm really sorry for attempting to defend ghettohikes and I'm sorry!

^^ worse than hitler imo

this thread, summarized:

http://www.iqcontent.com/blog/files/wp/2009/05/infinity.jpg

Heritage, Not Hikes

no j/k if Hitler had posted the thread of real chinese food I'd forgive him too self-xps

newsreader thing seems like a guy saying a sports phrase, but saying that i really don't think dyao is a racist for believing otherwise and hope the court rules against contenderizer here, who is also prob not racist but sure likes to argue about this stuff

ghettohitler would get so many followers

dmac were not talking about the espn anchor, we're talking about the wnyw guy

americans all look the same to me

DJP otm about normalization; also my guess would be that posters of color on ilx are hyperaware of the races of other posters, just like in the world. i know i make a mental note about it. this is not to blame white posters for anything; it's just to say. WDYLL thread is not the source for my mental database about this stuff fwiw.

for ages i assumed deems was wite but it turns out he is white

I can't even tell who's male or female, much less what continent from the past 1000 years their ancestors originated from.

okay tbf i am also likely creepier than the avg ilx poster

ghettohitler would get so many followers

http://static.fjcdn.com/pictures/ghetto_7d3769_1720320.jpg

hs I do try to keep aware of those attributes but I think I may also be a little jaymc.xls about it too

horseshoe_race.xls

haha xp

my point was that people of color have more reason/need to be jaymc.xls about race in general but i shouldn't assume about ilx, i suppose

(makes small mark next to horseshoe's name on list of ILX posters)

(becomes self-conscious that the mark might be misinterpreted - it was meant to be just a tick, right?)

(furiously scratches out entire page)

horseshoe - indian (that's all i know)

I thought it was Indianan.

This thread's bad for me making up racist jokes in my head.

When I get arrested for yelling racial epithets off a building down here, I'm telling you now that I'm going to say it all came from reading too much ILX.

Right. Like, would it have been OK if you were certain it was "just us white guys" talking?

― A Full Torgo Apparition (Phil D.), Friday, February 24, 2012 7:38 AM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark

i basically never visit the WDYLL threads, and that's perhaps a mistake on my part. i like the "pure ideas" aspect of internet communication, and maybe i do sometimes allow that enthusiasm to override my respect for difference (i.e., universal white man syndrome). if some raceless internet apparition says something that seems to imply a kind of racism they're perhaps not aware of, i'm tempted to call it out. problem is, there is no such thing as a "raceless inernet apparation", and i wind up sticking my foot in my mouth, as happened here.

on that note, i'm sorry for being an ass, dayo