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Candy Beard
 
2012-01-24

You know what my problem with race is? I don't give a shit. I am so over it. I just don't care.

Imagine somebody asking you, "But what if your daughter started dating a guy with green eyes? Would you really be okay with that?"

You would, wouldn't you? You just wouldn't give two shits would you? Yeah. Exactly.

Skin color. Eye color. Hair color. It just doesn't interest me. I don't understand the extent to which it interests - nay, obsesses - other people. Yes, I understand the historical context, blah blah blah. I get why it's exciting that Obama is president.

But I moved on a long, long time ago. And I tend to imagine that the rest of the country, if not the world, has more or less moved on too.

And then, today, while searching the int0rwebs for something totally unrelated to race/racism, I find this fucking site.

Our message is simple. Niggers are a cancer upon human society.

Seriously? Are you fucking kidding me? Is it still the 1800's? Have we nothing better to worry about? Nothing else to spend our time and mental energy on?

What the fuck, people? What the fuck?

jestros
 
2012-01-24

Wait a second, just wait one fucking second.

Someone put something inflammatory, on the internet? I need a drink, this is unfuckingbelievable.

The_Spectre
 
2012-01-24

Clarky, as a whole, people on this planet just aren't that bright.

Lower your expectations a smidge. It'll be good for your blood pressure.

It took us a few eons to get to the point where MOST people believe the Earth is round.

Candy Beard
 
2012-01-24

Originally posted by jestros

Someone put something inflammatory, on the internet? I need a drink, this is unfuckingbelievable.

I know.

I'm shocked - shocked! - to find that gambling is going on in here.

I guess it's like, say, the horrible things some people do to children. I can't conceive of doing them myself, but I know that they happen. There are sick individuals out there. Granted.

But I'd be pretty shocked to find a community of people built around the abuse of children, sitting right out in the open, powered by vBulletin, full of people talking and joking about burning, beating and raping their kids, complete with hilarious animated GIFs.

dwadwee
 
2012-01-24

maybe I'm being hopelessly naive, but I cannot believe that that site represents most people's views.

The only thing that's new here is that a conversation that was once held in private is now made public on an internet forum, and we can hear it and link to it. It's not worth getting worked up over.

wingworm
 
2012-01-24

White people have tiny dicks and chicken heads.

Candy Beard
 
2012-01-25

I thought a chicken head was a crack ho?

scudsucker
 
2012-01-25

The level of stupidity on that site orders on parody.

rogue_designer
 
2012-01-25

We used to say if you could buy it, love it, hate it, or abuse it, there was a support group and a magazine for you... the internet is all of that +1000 and the benefit of relative anonymity brings out the stupid.

But that's some eff'd up stuff there. At some point, I'd like to think people would go, "you know, I might think that, but I'm sure as hell not going to say it out loud, or where it can be archived." Clearly, people don't actually think that way though.

But green eyed people really are the worst. k

Candy Beard
 
2012-01-26

Last night, my son said to me, "Didn't they still have racism when you were little?"

I had to tell him that, sadly, they we still have racism today. We even checked out that web site for a while.

arigato
 
2012-01-26

F'reels? There's sheltered & there's cloistered, yo.

Candy Beard
 
2012-01-26

You gotta grade on a scale. Today's racism ain't a patch on the stuff we usta get in the old days.

Stickman
 
2012-01-26

They just don't make racists like they used to.

Walt
 
2012-01-26

Originally posted by Walt

Originally posted by Stickman

They just don't make racists like they used to.

yeah, they hide behind their veiled references now... like Newt Gingrich's crowd the other day when he talked about sending Obama back to Chicago in November, the crowd began chanting, "Kenya! Kenya!" no, of course tyhat's not racist is it now?

or Connecticut mayor Joseph Maturo while interviewed by a local news reporter yesterday, when asked how he will help out his latino constituants who've been having police brutality issues recently [reason for said interview] says "I might have tacos when I go home."

I'm afraid racism's a long way from dead. it's like folks round here say about hippies and boomers who were going to make change... racists and hippies have just become mainstream. peopl are gonna hate me saying so, but the hippy/racist split falls surprisingly close to the Democrat/Republican fault line. Like Bill Maher says “I would never say and I have never said, because it’s not true that Republicans, all Republicans are racists. That would be silly and wrong. But nowadays, if you are racist, you’re probably a Republican. And that is quite different,” racism dead? sorry, I didn't get that news anywhere in my search.

Walt
 
2012-02-05

nsfw

Walt
 
2012-02-05

nsfw

Stinky
 
2012-02-06

Yikes Walt, way to make this look like a fucking stormfront forum.

FlamingoJeff
 
2012-02-06

Who knew that Tripod was still around?

Originally posted by arigato

http://members.tripod.com/~HostBebe/poohtig.gif

arigato
 
2012-02-06

Indeed! Stupid tripod.

Walt
 
2012-02-06

Originally posted by Stinky

Yikes Walt, way to make this look like a fucking stormfront forum.

k

Walt
 
2012-02-06

racism NSFW? I thought that's where it comes from.

arigato
 
2012-02-06

Wait, I don't get it - what's wrong with tiggers?

http://youtu.be/dJFyz73MRcg

The_Spectre
 
2012-02-06

I was watching an episode of Degrassi Junior High yesterday and I was a little surprised that they dropped the N bomb a couple times.

It was 25 years ago (cripes...25 years) but still.

Walt
 
2012-02-08

seriously, I understand there's legitimate market for kosher Hispanic restaurants...

think perhaps a post-racial america might be ready for

Jew Hungry?™

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A post-racial America?