RE: Lewis Black and George Carlin nail it
March 25, 2018 at 2:37 pm
(This post was last modified: March 25, 2018 at 2:46 pm by Edwardo Piet.)
(March 25, 2018 at 2:23 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: When it comes to so-called 'racist' language, I can truly empathize with Carlin.
Not long ago, on another message board, some yammerhead opined that using the n-word under any circumstances and in any context makes you a racist, so I posted, 'The word "nigger" appears more than 200 times in Twain's Huckleberry Finn. Does saying this make me a racist?' She said 'Yes', blocked and reported me.
Boru
Wow! What a stupid honky she presumably was!
I once had a friendship for several years with a vegan woman from London. She also used to be a poster on AF and known as Norabrimstone over here. We chatted on Facebooks off and on for years.
One day, I let her know that the rest of my family were vegan but I'm not. She said "WHAT?! So you care more about your own stomach than baby animals!", blocked me and never talked to me again.
I had never told her that I was vegan.... so it's like she just assumes everyone is vegan by default and befriends people based on that assumption, and then when she discovers that, shockingly they're not vegan as most people aren't, she never talks to me again.
She also told me she was appearing on a BBC Program at a specific time and told me to watch.... but she refused to tell me who on the program she was or what she even looked like. What was the point? I wasn't even interested in that program and I didn't even know who I was looking for. Lol.
Point being, some people are fucking weird. And that's ME saying that and I'm pretty fucking odd myself!
(March 25, 2018 at 2:37 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Maybe these fuckwits should read Twain's 'The United States of Lynchdom' to get a more accurate picture about his views on race.
And it's like they're too stupid to realize that people can be progressive for their time, even if they're not progressive by today's standards, and they're still progressive for their time.
Abraham Lincoln was a fantastic president in general and he was famous for liberating the slaves, but by today's standards even he was a racist because despite the fact that he considered it wrong for white people to own black people, he still thought that black people were lesser than white people and "Not our equals".
Would knowing this meaning they wish they'd never even been educated about Abraham Lincoln as well? Lol.
