rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

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

but i fear youtube bombing this thread cos a lot of it wasn't v funny

'like Joe Pasquale and Gandhi' sounds like a goodness gracious me punchline

I guess he was asking you because of your phenotype but I would have spent a long time trying to think of an imaginary short word for Navajo fry bread and not been actually quick irl

it was kinda resourceful of the ol codger imho, i appreciated his willingness to sleuth around for his crossword answers

i am going to watch the whole thing thank you nakh and thank you uk desis

i suspect you shouldn't?

ha i'd guess it's worth a look for curiosity's sake

I guess he was asking you because of your phenotype but I would have spent a long time trying to think of an imaginary short word for Navajo fry bread and not been actually quick irl

― Dale, dale, dale (Abbbottt), Tuesday, May 1, 2012 10:17 PM (12 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this whole encounter would have gone down differently in the southwest than in buffalo imo...all kinds of local demographics affect white people's assumptions about indeterminately-raced brown people. there weren't a lot of east indian americans in providence so when i lived there a significant number of white randoms would ask me if i was portuguese which to me was like ??? do i look white to you??? but i feel like portuguese whiteness was somehow not full whiteness in that region.

i kinda think asking for help with crosswords is lame to begin with. i mean if a loved one is at the breakfast table with you and it's bugging you that you can't figure one out, sure, but going up to a stranger? you might as well do your crossword at the computer and google everything.

asking strangers for help with your crossword is a key element of afternoons in the pub tbh. but not based on racial profiling, obv

also gyms are so disgusting and i was all sweaty and i was like please don't attempt to interact with me in this state can't we just ignore each other like civilezed people

omg civilized i guess i am madder about this thing than i thought ps it happened like a decade ago

have a naan

passes u an ice cold naan straight out the indian store freezer

i actually did just have a naan for real (maybe that was what made me think of this?), but maybe i need another.