Are You a Racist?

[Secret Chief]

I have all sorts of race-based reactions to
people of the same & other races.

Care to share any examples?

 

[Revoltingest]

I found it interesting to learn that many of the Africans I knew often objected to the term 'African American'.

They felt Black Americans(which is how they called them) were of a much different culture than they, and didn't really like their own nationality brought into it.

Knowing both Africans and Black Americans, I thought they had some valid points. Probably a similar situation I'd face if I went around saying I was German American due to having family members immigrate here from Germany many many generations before I was born(despite the fact I know beans about Germany or its culture). Germans would probably object.

I'm a mongrel Ameristanian.
Not much pride to be gotten from that.

 

[Revoltingest]

Care to share any examples?

Air my faults on RF with great specificity, eh.
Well, here's one...
In athletic events I usually root for the white guy.
Usually.

 

[Secret Chief]

In Hong Kong, you'd be just a woman of color.
It's similar to how you don't eat "Chinese food"...it's just "food" to you.

Every now & then, we'll hear some announcer or other
talking head refer to a someone from another country
as "African American" just cuz they're black. It's the
only acceptable way for many woke folk to say "black"
these days.

Bruno knows about the African Americans in Africa....

I'd never heard the term "European American" till I took that "test" earlier in this thread. Weird. Do you have others? Australasian Americans frinstance?

 

[Secret Chief]

Air my faults on RF with great specificity, eh.
Well, here's one...
In athletic events I usually root for the white guy.
Usually.

Fair enough. We all got faults.

 

[JustGeorge]

I'm a mongrel Ameristanian.
Not much pride to be gotten from that.

I think most of Ameristanians are, whether they admit it or not.

I guess everyone wants to feel special.

 

[Revoltingest]

I'd never heard the term "European American" till I took that "test" earlier in this thread. Weird. Do you have others? Australasian Americans frinstance?

Now that religion is a race, I'm an "Atheist Americastanian"
in addition to "Mongrel Ameristanian".

 

[Revoltingest]

Fair enough. We all got faults.

I've too many to count.
But in my defense, it's the difficulty of counting.

 

[Secret Chief]

Now that religion is a race, I'm an "Atheist Americastanian"
in addition to "Mongrel Ameristanian".

I self-identify as Northern Scum.

 

[Revoltingest]

I self-identify as Northern Scum.

Well, lah dee dah!
We have one of the elite on RF.

 

[JustGeorge]

I identify as the Crazy Cat Lady.

I wonder how many cultures that exists in.

 

[ChristineM]

I self-identify as Northern Scum.

North western scum

 

[Secret Chief]

Well, lah dee dah!
We have one of the elite on RF.

Better to be that than the alternative (Southern *******)

 

[ChristineM]

I identify as the Crazy Cat Lady.

I wonder how many cultures that exists in.

It exists in this one, i am locally known (including at the mairie (town hall) and maire (mayor)) as the crazy english car lady.

The english part separates me from the french crazy cat lady who lives close by ;-)

 

[Revoltingest]

Better to be that than the alternative (Southern *******)

Don't diss the 'billies.

 

[ChristineM]

Don't diss the 'billies.

Completely different thing, @Secret Chief is talking about the toffee nosed, stiff upper lip, funny accent sourhern gits. Not those lovable Clampet relitives

 

[Stevicus]

I'd never heard the term "European American" till I took that "test" earlier in this thread. Weird. Do you have others? Australasian Americans frinstance?

I heard "European-American" and "African-American" for the first time in the 1980s. By the late 90s, there were those who considered anyone a racist if they used any other term (even "black"), although that didn't really take hold.

I still remember a time when a DC city councilman used a term which means "stingy," but sounds very similar to the "n word." After getting a ton of hell over that and being forced to resign, a number of black leaders (including Rep. Julian Bond) stepped forward and pointed out just how stupid people were being.

 

[Kooky]

I identify as the Crazy Cat Lady.

I wonder how many cultures that exists in.

Most cultures that have both cats and ladies, I reckon.

 

[Kooky]

It has become a tool for gatekeeping by the (mostly white) "woke" crowd, to be able to remember what you are allowed to call moors negroes blacks coloured people people of colour African Americans this week.

This is just conspirational nonsense. Where is this supposed "woke crowd" located that decides tyrannicaly without anybody's input which words are "allowed", and brutally punishes all those who dissent?

Obviously, people don't want to be rude to others, and so are trying to come up with more pleasant alternatives to existing rude words; however, over time, people just use those euphemisms to be rude to the exact same people, necessitating a new word to displace the newly rude one, and so on. It's called the "euphemism treadmill" and has been around since the 1960s.

But sure, why not project this problem onto a vague cabal of nefearious shadow conspirators trying to control all speech and daring you, specifically, to heroically resist their tyranny and stand up against oppression by calling a black person by the n-word!

 

[Heyo]

I'd never heard the term "European American" till I took that "test" earlier in this thread. Weird. Do you have others? Australasian Americans frinstance?

Or Asian American. But that is normal now, wait for African Africans to appear.