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RiffRandell

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33. No need to lecture me.

Sat Jun 21, 2014, 11:31 PM

Jun 2014

Of course racism doesn't always show as violence.

Just like some people can make mistakes, need some help and other people that are supposedly "progressive" can be completely unsympathetic idiots, don't offer help and want to call the police on them. FYI...I'm not referring to the thread about the working mother and the children at home.

I don't understand it myself; then again I'm an empathetic, non-judgmental liberal except when it comes to assholes.

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"Just saw Titanic. How are you dealing? I had no idea your people had it so hard." [View all] Gravitycollapse Jun 2014 OP

So, Boom Sound 416 Jun 2014 #1

What do you mean? Gravitycollapse Jun 2014 #2

I mean what you just showed is so fucking stupid. RiffRandell Jun 2014 #5

Racism or racial ignorance do not necessarily manifest in discrete, violent acts. Gravitycollapse Jun 2014 #8

"They manifest very often in passive aggressive acts or simply acts of total ignorance." nomorenomore08 Jun 2014 #10

No need to lecture me. RiffRandell Jun 2014 #33

For anyone reading this, RiffRandell is post stalking me... Gravitycollapse Jun 2014 #36

If that's the case, yikes! (nt) Babel_17 Jun 2014 #39

So alert. Stop being dramatic. Boom Sound 416 Jun 2014 #43

Hilarious! arcane1 Jun 2014 #3

My favorite line of all!! wcast Jun 2014 #4

I would not find any of this upsetting. Would anyone? n-t Logical Jun 2014 #6

If people repeatedly said such things to you with no sense of shame or tact on their part nomorenomore08 Jun 2014 #11

Well, I guess I would not know until they said it. So good point. n-t Logical Jun 2014 #14

Anyone who's experienced the systematic biases and prejudices that exist in society nomorenomore08 Jun 2014 #17

Odd timing for this post as I just finished watching this... Snarkoleptic Jun 2014 #7

Is this for real?..I can't imagine going up to ANY stranger & asking them to "touch" any part whathehell Jun 2014 #45

LOL BootinUp Jun 2014 #9

That was hilarious. bermudat Jun 2014 #12

Post removed Post removed Jun 2014 #13

You are mesmerizing in your stupidity. Gravitycollapse Jun 2014 #15

You signed up just to post that npk Jun 2014 #16

Wow!!! An amazing first post. FreedRadical Jun 2014 #18

I was a middle and high school kid who was nicknamed "queerbait." hunter Jun 2014 #19

Volunteering at an orphanage in Europe helping white kids? Nye Bevan Jun 2014 #20

The volunteering part has nothing to do with the joke. Gravitycollapse Jun 2014 #21

Given that people volunteer both in Africa and in Eastern Europe, Nye Bevan Jun 2014 #22

It's not being made into a racial issue. It IS a racial issue. Gravitycollapse Jun 2014 #25

The people I have known who have volunteered abroad, IMO, have been good people, Nye Bevan Jun 2014 #28

All of your friends are exceptional human beings who couldn't possibly do anything bad. Gravitycollapse Jun 2014 #29

I guess you could be right. They could have been motivated by racist, colonialist instincts, Nye Bevan Jun 2014 #30

It always seems that magical, selfless friends materialize out of nowhere in these arguments. Gravitycollapse Jun 2014 #31

OK. I concede that somewhere out there may be an army of bigoted orphanage-volunteers, Nye Bevan Jun 2014 #32

I think that you should tell your friends to stop volunteering Dragonfli Jun 2014 #34

Sorry, my comparison implied I'm saying you're friends are bigots or something. That was my fault. Gravitycollapse Jun 2014 #42

Is that what you HAVE to be to volunteer? whathehell Jun 2014 #44

We're all flawed Babel_17 Jun 2014 #37

Yes, I suppose you are correct. But we should nonetheless recognize our flaws. Gravitycollapse Jun 2014 #41

"Those little white boys and girls. They were so inspiring!" gollygee Jun 2014 #24

When someone volunteers at a foreign orphanage, whether in Africa, Eastern Europe, China, Nye Bevan Jun 2014 #26

They're basing the video on stuff that's been said to them gollygee Jun 2014 #27

This was great and points out why we have a long way to go. Notafraidtoo Jun 2014 #23

Do you know Joe Namath? Babel_17 Jun 2014 #35

So there are white people who say things like "do you know Clarence Thomas" to black people? Nye Bevan Jun 2014 #38

Not quite that extreme anymore, probably, certainly not as much :) Babel_17 Jun 2014 #40