(March 27, 2015 at 2:40 pm)Esquilax Wrote:I'm giving you a pass because you're Australian...(March 27, 2015 at 2:26 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: Fist of all, he states "I think HE (referring to me) likes HIS Bling-Bling.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bling-bling
Obviously he assumes all black people wear a bunch of Jewlery.
Then he goes on the state....
It's quite common for simple people (Black people, since we already established what group hes referring to) to judge things on the basis of how shiny they are (probably a reference to monkeys). If it were up to them (black people) - all the financial transactions would be conducted using golden chains and rims (bling bling) for currency...
I did say to ask him, did I not? I mean, I think he'd know more about his own intentions than you or I; I can see, easily, how you could spin that to be racist, but I also haven't missed the fact that in order to do so you had to add a lot of things that weren't in the original text, to the point where it's equally probable that you're misinterpreting it. If you have to make as many assumptions as you have here in order to find the racism, it's probably not there.
When I read things like that I read the second attribution as an implication that you are a member of the group "simple people," whereas you, because you want there to be some hypocrisy, decide that this should go precisely in the reverse for no reason, in addition to linking those attributions to a group of people that were never listed anywhere in the text. If you're hanging your entire case here on the fact that he first used "bling-bling" to describe gold, then I have to tell you that that term is no longer an explicit cultural marker, in that it has mainstream penetration; I occasionally use the term to refer to shiny things too, though rarely seriously, and never in reference to race.
That's why I counseled to ask, rather than assume; the water is muddier than you think. Yes, one could take that as racism, but you have to want to see it... and it's a relatively easy situation to resolve, without jumping to self serving conclusions.
PS: Since I have a feeling you'd rather trundle along with your assumptions rather than even entertain the possibility of being wrong, I should tell you that the post you're talking about has come up in a few reports in the staff section, the response unanimously being that if the intent was to make light of your race, it's a dickish thing to do. So your initial point is just wrong, even if I've got the wrong end of the stick on Nutter's meaning.
Out of curiosity, If he said used "fried chicken" instead of "bling bling" and "using watermelon for currency" would you see that as racist?
