Do you think the Staff is to strict

[SaiKar]

I wonder if SaiKar is a transvestite... what? No! Don't ban me! XD

Executive transvestite.

[Grandy]

Not really, considering it was put out at a time where black people were considered lesser beings.
These days it's published as Ten Little Soldiers.

I mean to say nowadays. I've seen it named "Ten Little Niggers" in recent versions.

[DedlellyDeth]

I mean to say nowadays. I've seen it named "Ten Little Niggers" in recent versions.

It doesn't really matter. There are no black characters in the book. Just those little tribal figurines and those kids in that nursery rhyme.

[Ben]

fun fact
Up until the early eighties, licorice kids, the gummy licorice candies were sold under the name of "n i g g e r babies"

[DedlellyDeth]

It's true, Gem!

[Ben]

also, lets not avoid the inevetable

things like harmless racial slurs in literature made before the times where political correctness was not an issue, are sort of beginning to be overlooked.

Its a tough one to notice, but Im finding more and more that the backlack from the PCnazis of the Nineties is beginning to subside.
People are sort of getting over it.

Except for the Jewish.
I mean, seriously, I have some black friends, and they joke around all the time about racial things, as do i in their presence.
I have some Jewish friends too. But you dont get to make holocaust jokes around them.


This thread is pretty much derailed.


What happened to trymaker? Did somebody ban him, or did he just get upset and leave?

[DedlellyDeth]

This thread is probably gonna get locked, thus ending Trymaker's spree of malice.

Maybe he's banned already.

[Valiere]

I'm a fan of political correctness to a point. Criticizing the use of derogatory terms like the n-word is legit (It may have been tolerable in the 50's, but it's not now). Criticizing M. Night Shyamalan changing the decidedly dark-skinned leads of the "Avatar" series into lily-white teens for the film is legit. Criticizing The Smurfs for being a near-sausage fest is also legit.

Criticizing the terms "master" and "slave" in electronics....not legit. Nor is getting a guy fired for using the word "niggardly," which has nothing to do with the derogatory name.

However, it's disquieting how the PC-crazed nineties are being followed up with a huge backlash against anything PC. Now, the n-word is funny again, Jew-bashing is funny again, and you get Michael Richards launching into some berserk racist rant at a comedy club. Sure, there was a media outcry against Richards, but he probably thought he could get away with it at the time, and in a couple years, he probably could.

[SaiKar]

This thread is probably gonna get locked, thus ending Trymaker's spree of malice.

Maybe he's banned already.

He's not.

[Ben]

honestly, i think the whole thing is a joke. You gotta laugh it off man. People get mad and say bad things, and its usually pretty lulzy.
Tell me that there isnt a group of black guys who have sat around poking a bit of fun at the white guy they work with that goes golfing and wears the goofy shirt.... "that stupid cracker. Hes a good guy, but man, that guy is whiter then the middle of a twinkie"
Or something of the like. Maybe its because i live in a place where racism has never been a problem.

Something that has always bugged me, is that fact that EVERY ETHNIC GROUP is allowed to feel proud of themselves except white guys.

Im a white german candian male. I am living with my commonlaw cantonese candian lady. My best friend as a child was a jamacian. My first employer was a family of lebanese. During my whole life, I have always been able to rely on a bit of racial/minority humour among my cirles of friends.

[Ben]

its the backlash man.
Its at the point that EVERY GROUP but north american white people can have a harmless laugh at racial humour.
Ever watch a black comedian? Or a Gay comedian? 9/10 of them base their routines on racial or minority jokes. And its usually pretty funny.
Id be lying if I said i havent watched ever god damn episonde of the chapelle show and loled my *** off. Funny crap.
If a white dude of twice the comedic talent were to make these jokes, he would get shot

[DedlellyDeth]

Btw whats wrong with this DedlellyDeth person.

Nigga please. XD

[Fisherson]

You mean to say it is not?

*sips pepsi*

Okay I give up. What's with the pepsi?

[Valiere]

Okay I give up. What's with the pepsi?

Grandy's a shill for Pepsi.

its the backlash man.
Its at the point that EVERY GROUP but north american white people can have a harmless laugh at racial humour.
Ever watch a black comedian? Or a Gay comedian? 9/10 of them base their routines on racial or minority jokes. And its usually pretty funny.
Id be lying if I said i havent watched ever god damn episonde of the chapelle show and loled my *** off. Funny crap.
If a white dude of twice the comedic talent were to make these jokes, he would get shot

Everything you just said is true.

But -- and this is a concept most people really don't understand -- but there's a big difference between a laugh at a dominant group's expense and a laugh at a minority group's expense. That's why in commercials and sitcoms you often see a black person triumphantly choosing the "better" product over the white guy or the savvy wife getting the better of the bumbling dad. Laughing at a dominant demographic is fighting the power, showing the underdog has some bite, too. Laughing at a minority is just kicking a guy when he's down.

I know that sounds backwards, since we're taught that all groups should be treated equally. And I don't particularly like it...I usually roll my eyes at anti-men jokes. But I don't get pissed if a black comic takes a jab at white people either. Because it's not a threat. They're just psychologically trying to survive in a country that considers them a deviation from the white norm by laughing at things white people do, and therefore stating that they can be abnormal, too.

[Grandy]

Okay I give up. What's with the pepsi?

 Well, there were no Orange Fantas in the store. So I settled for this. But that was yesterday, when I actually had a Pepsi.

 *sips Guaranį soda*