rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

for better or worse, i think of you as buffalonian

I met a girl last week who, after I told her my name, said "that is so spiritual"

haaaa

p sure that's racist

oh well

horseshoe does anyone ever call you "nebula"

'the horse's hoe nebula'

I believe in spiritual last names

wait, thinking of me as buffalonian is not racist, to clarify, that is just true. telling an indian dude his name is "spiritual" is smurfy as hell and also a little racist.

dang I want a spiritual last name, feel so wite rite now

indians hunted buffalo, but not those kind of indians and not that kind of buffalo. so i think it is racist.

or i'm racist, i dunno.

no one has ever called me nebula to my recollection. recently a student told me i look like velma from scooby doo, which is too true for contradiction. also not racist.

has anyone ever complimented you on your mastery of english?

(i was present when this happened to my friend pratik)

that one has happened a number of times, and one time it was in the middle of the strangest-attempt-to-racially-place me encounter of my life. when i finally told this crazy and rude lady my parents were indian she said, "wow, you speak really well English."

I get asked where I am from about ever two to three days

"wow, you speak really well English."

dying

and you said 'from a fantasy'

I guess that's grammatically not incorrect, but who the hell puts the words in that order? xpost

one time i was at the gym on a treadmill and an old white dude walked up to me and said something and i had to take my headphones off to hear what he said and he repeated his question and it turned out to be "what's a four-letter-word for indian bread?" because he was doing a crossword and i automatically told him the answer but i was also annoyed.

"I guess that's grammatically not incorrect"

xpost omg

notice the umlaut, in deutsch that would be correct

lmao naan

i am still mad at myself that i answered him all dutifully, like must make the old white man happy

maybe then it will be okay that i'm in his gym being all indian

so glad i could make myself useful

have we had "dumblr whites" introduced into the lexicon yet

i'm always glad to help out with a crossword tho

"I guess that's grammatically not incorrect"

― suidavyvan eht nioj (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, May 1, 2012 10:00 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

fair game

that's not racist I would be happy to do that

its prob racist but still

i guess i just felt like there was something brusque in his manner. he didn't even say thank you! i felt made use of but not really addressed as a person?

like no hello, no could i ask you a question, just what's a four-letter-word for indian? and then i told him and he walked away. i sort of felt like a computer.

ur siri

haha a four letter word for indian bread i meant

oh i'm sure it was racist i just like crosswords

it was a pretty fucking easy crossword judging by that clue if you ask me /still mad

totally racist, also it takes some balls to interrupt someone like that

yeah i appreciate cruciverbalism it's a bit cultish

even if someone was doing the hitlerjugend crossword i would probably help them out, tell them that afrika is spelt differently in german and all that

i really didn't bring it up to be like it was a huge deal and it scarred me. the question isn't inherently racist; that dude's manner and approach and i would imagine worldview were instrumentalizing of someone different than him, though.

horseshoe, I think of you as a Ruffalonian.

that sounds like a setup from 90s uk-desi sketch show 'goodness gracious me', which would probably culminate in the asker being beaten about the head with a naan

there it is

xp omg is this a real show? is it funny???

"what's a four-letter-word for indian bread?"

"it's naan of your business"

oh man, crossword dude

that is so fucked that i don't want to believe u

also wtf get better at crosswords

horseshoe, I think of you as a Ruffalonian.

otm

it's a real show

i'm not sure if it's funny, i thought it was funny when i was 13

"what's a four-letter-word for indian bread?"

"it's naan of your business"

― Dale, dale, dale (Abbbottt), Tuesday, May 1, 2012 10:15 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

man if only i were quick like you <3 <3 <3

it was sometimes funny