rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

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

Did you just call me a ghost?

what is ghettohikes oh wait google oh no slowly ghettobackingaway

again, it's not from the wdyll threads that i become aware of this stuff fwiw. race affects people's "pure ideas"

^^^^ OTM, I think the only times I pay attention to the WDYLL threads are the sporadic instances where my picture shows up on it

sounds p racist dude

(xpost)

again, it's not from the wdyll threads that i become aware of this stuff fwiw. race affects people's "pure ideas"

― horseshoe, Friday, February 24, 2012 8:05 AM (57 seconds ago) Bookmark

oh yeah, it definitely does, as does gender and sexual orientation and lots of other stuff. but they're not always equally self-evident. perhaps especially so where i'm concerned: i was misdiagnosed as autistic when i was a kid, and i've always been a little slow on the social uptake (big surprise, i know).

thanks contenderizer.

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

thanks, contenderizer.

whoa that was weird. zing is bron weird. didn't mean to do that twice!

bron weird

^^^ new gaga single

ftr, i'm personally very concerned about being put on any race xls lists. my peeps have had bad experience with that.

Mordy, I will put you down as "Navajo"

again, it's not from the wdyll threads that i become aware of this stuff fwiw. race affects people's "pure ideas"

Yeah, if you pay a little attention, you can pick up a lot without a pic and a biography.

For example, by reading the description to ghettohikes (hint: urban kids (of all races)) and reading a couple pages, I can tell that Mr. Cody is a white dude who is obviously making up a lot of blatantly racist jokes with barely a wink at pretending to be a humble documentarian.

O_o at anyone believing this is in any way innocent kids say the darndest things stuff. (sorry, I assume this was beaten to death upthread based on apologies and whatnot.) </ghettohikes>

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.

― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Friday, February 24, 2012 11:03 AM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

here's a really good rule of thumb: never accuse someone of "reverse racism", regardless of their race

yeah, no, it wasn't "reverse racism", it was hyperawareness of difference = plain old ordinary racism

irony being that my comment was a product of tone-deaf ignorance of difference

all joking aside, you guys are all white though right?
right?
*hyperventilates*

i thought you were all women

;_;

I am a sentient gas cloud from another dimension, I don't know what you're all on about.

the singularity is happening itt

looooooooooooool invisible nutsack

<3 <3 <3

"My name is VegemiteGrrl and I am a centaur."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet,_nobody_knows_you're_a_dog

fuck you i'm a dragon

getting all or purple itt

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/13220238/images/1292858589016.jpg

The Great White Phil D.

shark dick otm

Heritage, Not Hikes

― pplains, Friday, February 24, 2012 9:51 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

(this was actually posted on a private listserv for attorneys to which i belong. oh the embarrassment oh the despair ... anyway, excuse me if this nonsense has already been posted here)

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