Had a white dude call Arabs....(read inside)

[Am_I_Anonymous]

So I'm at a gas station today. Dude's card wouldn't work after 3 or 4 tries so the cashier asked him to use the ATM and step aside so the rest of us could be checked out.

This bro....no shit....turns around and says "sand n*ggers and their bullshit" to ME.

I replied "I can't understand how a classy fella like you can't get your natural light and smokes on name alone"

He totally said "hell yeah" totally unaware of my insult.


White people. Stahp.

[Stoney Mason]

Racist white people tend to love to include you in on their racism toward other groups. When I lived in Cali it was far more common for white people to engage on racism towards Mexicans than black people and want to include me in their casual race baiting even though I'm black.

As if it was okay because now here's a new enemy for everybody to hate.

The racism towards arabs seems to be on the increase in the US partly because of world events and partly because of people like Carson and Trump.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

I just don't get it to be honest.

The only people in this entire world I immediately have disdain for are poor white people who think their race allows them to cast aspersions on others. It annoys me.

Edit: And I mean "those guys" not all poor white people. You all know the type I don't have to explain it.

[Human Snorenado]

Shit, I grew up with those people, no explanation needed. Poor dumb white people are the worst motherfuckers out there.

[Momo]

I've heard people use the slur sand distinguished black fellow so often but i could never quite make sense of it. Are they going to start calling the Chinese bamboo distinguished black fellows, the Polynesians canoe distinguished black fellows etc? Just doesnt seem like consistent use of the word distinguished black fellow. 

[Momo]

distinguished black fellow needs to be set to word transmute back to distinguished black fellow recursively.

[Mandark]

IME when white people say racist shit about black people, it's still somewhat in code, or preceded by "I'm not racist, but..."  There is, on some level, a recognition that "being a racist" is a bad thing and should be avoided, and an effort by the person saying this stuff to protect their self-image.

The shit I've heard some people say about Arabs/Muslims recently, same as I heard in the aftermath of 9/11, is really blunt and direct by comparison.  Just complete insanity about what "the Muslims" believe, what they've done in Europe, what they want to do in the US, how we should just carpet bomb the entire region, etc.  Just completely, blatantly dehumanizing.  Half of the time I can laugh it off cause it's so outlandish, but only half.

[Samson Manhug]

I've heard "potato distinguished black fellow" to describe an Irish person before so it might be more consistent than you think.

[Mandark]

Yeah, bigots are generally not famous for their creativity or keen wit.

[Shadow Mod]

IME when white people say racist shit about black people, it's still somewhat in code, or preceded by "I'm not racist, but..."  There is, on some level, a recognition that "being a racist" is a bad thing and should be avoided, and an effort by the person saying this stuff to protect their self-image.

The shit I've heard some people say about Arabs/Muslims recently, same as I heard in the aftermath of 9/11, is really blunt and direct by comparison.  Just complete insanity about what "the Muslims" believe, what they've done in Europe, what they want to do in the US, how we should just carpet bomb the entire region, etc.  Just completely, blatantly dehumanizing.  Half of the time I can laugh it off cause it's so outlandish, but only half.

Americans are fucking assholes. We kill indiscriminately, essentially destabilize regions for own interests and then get pissy that those people are trying to get into our country after we made it so druglords and warlords run amok in theirs.

[Samson Manhug]

Mandark's point about reluctant or shameful racism from whites about blacks reminds me of this piece I read today. One thing that struck me was the quote from one of the sentenced kids' mothers:

The racism present was not the public and proud strain common in America’s past. This was racism clouded by denial and shame. Sarah Graves’ mother, Mary Miles Harvey, wrote a letter to the court saying that she didn’t raise her daughter to be a racist. At Graves’ sentencing hearing, Judge Harvey Wingate called Harvey to the witness stand to ask her about the letter. He noted that Graves had told investigators that when her and her brother’s rooms were messy, Harvey would tell them they were “living like distinguished black fellows.” Harvey denied saying that.

“I would have said Negroes, not distinguished black fellows,” she said. “I just meant that their rooms were nasty, like a pigsty.”

Wingate asked her what she thought the word “distinguished black fellow” meant.

“An ignorant, nasty person,” Harvey said. “I was taught in school that a distinguished black fellow was a nasty person, and a Negro was a black person.”

She's aware enough that she knows it's racist to say "distinguished black fellows," but not enough to realize that using a less offensive word to convey that black people are nasty and like pigs is still racist.

[Momo]

I've heard "potato distinguished black fellow" to describe an Irish person before so it might be more consistent than you think.

The things I've heard Irish people call travelers

[Shadow Mod]

Used to that kind of shit.

It's not racist unless a pejorative is uttered or a cross if burned or whatever.

[Kara]

When I'm at a post office I use a lot that's staffed pretty much exclusively by people who aren't white, the one white person in line always turns to me to gripe about the post office employees being "lazy" when they don't just blast through a line of people like it's me with a bottle of Mio Energy. I'm starting to feel the need to bring my kippa with me (yes I have one) and put it on when this cliche with a pulse tries to include me in this particular cactivity.

[brawndolicious]

A month ago he probably would have thought the clerk was Mexican. And still said something stupid.

[Phoenix Dark]

Last week I was at a gas station and the (black) lady in front of the line kept fucking up using the credit card machine. You know how when you slide your card it'll ask you whether you want cash back, you press no and then it asks you to confirm your purchase? Well she must have confused the last step with the cash back step, then would cancel the payment process and have to start all over again while saying "I don't want cash back, stop this shit." The Arab dude kept trying to help her and she said "you damn sand people already charged fraudulent charges on my card in the past and I let it slide, don't mess with me today." As if anyone who was robbed like that would let it slide lmao.

Anyway she must have fucked up the payment process three times before getting it right. The black dude next in line walked up afterwards, turned around to me and said "black women huh. And that's what I'm going home to."


Me and the Arab dude had a brief non verbal moment where I could tell we both were thinking what the fuck is wrong with people today.

[Momo]

2015: year of the biome based slur

[Brehvolution]

Right wing media has turned these assholes on full blast. They literally think the world is working against them.

[tiesto]

Shit, I grew up with those people, no explanation needed. Poor dumb white people are the worst motherfuckers out there.

Growing up in Long Island, rich dumb white people are pretty bad too

[Cerveza mas fina]

As the one Arab dude who could speak English fluently in a place where a lot of Arabs are there to learn English. Every dumb white dude wants to come up to me with the "man what are all Arabs *insert dumb stereotype here*? Not you, you're different. Explain" and are surprised that I tend to avoid them later on.

A dumb ass is a dumb ass. I tend to not care

If I had a penny for every time I heard someone bitch about immigrants only to say "but you are different"

Fucking hate that shit

[Shadow Mod]

Right wing media has turned these assholes on full blast. They literally think the world is working against them.

Well it kind of is, drugs becoming legal, less people going to church, gay people getting married, more women in college and moving up in the work place, trans people becoming more exposed, Confederate Flags finally going the fuck away...

The status quo is eroding, it's a scary time for bigoted shitstains.

That's probably why so many are lashing out at Arabs/Muslims, it's an easy target for their rage as long as other Americans don't call them on their shit.

[Shadow Mod]

Tell them bitches to go read a book about how the ME has been consistently destabilized by their favorite countries US, France and Britain then to get back to you.

[Shadow Mod]

I get being exhausted and just spending your time with cool peeps for a lowkey drama free experience.

[tiesto]

Right wing media has turned these assholes on full blast. They literally think the world is working against them.

Well it kind of is, drugs becoming legal, less people going to church, gay people getting married, more women in college and moving up in the work place, trans people becoming more exposed, Confederate Flags finally going the fuck away...

The status quo is eroding, it's a scary time for bigoted shitstains.

That's probably why so many are lashing out at Arabs/Muslims, it's an easy target for their rage as long as other Americans don't call them on their shit.

Part of me wonders if its a 'culture wars' thing - that the hard right are scared of demographic and social change... the other part of me wonders if its base economic fears - people making less and struggling to get by, and then taking it out on the Muslims or whatever minority happens to be the popular whipping boy of the day. The Syrian refugee situation - I've never seen so many people who I thought were fairly sane (even the right wing ones), or politically apathetic, so vehemently opposed to taking in refugees. And then my gf suggested that many people like this probably aren't all anti-Muslim, rather they feel that helping the refugees is already dipping into an ever shrinking pot.

Shame these same people cover their ears whenever you mention the words "corporate welfare".

[Am_I_Anonymous]

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[Joe Molotov]

Ya'll distinguished caucasian fellows need jesus.

[brawndolicious]

Right wing media has turned these assholes on full blast. They literally think the world is working against them.

Well it kind of is, drugs becoming legal, less people going to church, gay people getting married, more women in college and moving up in the work place, trans people becoming more exposed, Confederate Flags finally going the fuck away...

The status quo is eroding, it's a scary time for bigoted shitstains.

That's probably why so many are lashing out at Arabs/Muslims, it's an easy target for their rage as long as other Americans don't call them on their shit.

Part of me wonders if its a 'culture wars' thing - that the hard right are scared of demographic and social change... the other part of me wonders if its base economic fears - people making less and struggling to get by, and then taking it out on the Muslims or whatever minority happens to be the popular whipping boy of the day. The Syrian refugee situation - I've never seen so many people who I thought were fairly sane (even the right wing ones), or politically apathetic, so vehemently opposed to taking in refugees. And then my gf suggested that many people like this probably aren't all anti-Muslim, rather they feel that helping the refugees is already dipping into an ever shrinking pot.

Shame these same people cover their ears whenever you mention the words "corporate welfare".

It feels more like those people are probing for a win due to current events. Of course, like any backwards-ass policy the people who support it are pushing it like a rabid dog fucking a tailpipe instead of trying to be a bit subtle and rational. It's already a 2+ year process to get in the country as a refugee and they want to add additional layers of bureaucracy and background checks for widows and orphans who likely don't have much documentation. Not to mention the states refusing to admit any refugees and Trump campaigning as a front-runner with his Muslim ID cards.

Meanwhile, any actual terrorist would get a visitor visa in less time than it takes to name their future virgins.

[Mods Help]

IME when white people say racist shit about black people, it's still somewhat in code, or preceded by "I'm not racist, but..."  There is, on some level, a recognition that "being a racist" is a bad thing and should be avoided, and an effort by the person saying this stuff to protect their self-image.

The shit I've heard some people say about Arabs/Muslims recently, same as I heard in the aftermath of 9/11, is really blunt and direct by comparison.  Just complete insanity about what "the Muslims" believe, what they've done in Europe, what they want to do in the US, how we should just carpet bomb the entire region, etc.  Just completely, blatantly dehumanizing.  Half of the time I can laugh it off cause it's so outlandish, but only half.

To white people nothing is worse than being called a racist.

Doesn't matter if they're liberal or conservative.

[Mods Help]

As the one Arab dude who could speak English fluently in a place where a lot of Arabs are there to learn English. Every dumb white dude wants to come up to me with the "man why are all Arabs *insert dumb stereotype here*? Not you, you're different. Explain" and are surprised that I tend to avoid them later on.

A dumb ass is a dumb ass. I tend to not care

Yet you chalked my statement that all white peoplenare racist as a troll.

 

[Dickie Dee]

I've heard "potato distinguished black fellow" to describe an Irish person before so it might be more consistent than you think.

What other tales have you brought back from 1904?

[mormapope]

IME when white people say racist shit about black people, it's still somewhat in code, or preceded by "I'm not racist, but..."  There is, on some level, a recognition that "being a racist" is a bad thing and should be avoided, and an effort by the person saying this stuff to protect their self-image.

The shit I've heard some people say about Arabs/Muslims recently, same as I heard in the aftermath of 9/11, is really blunt and direct by comparison.  Just complete insanity about what "the Muslims" believe, what they've done in Europe, what they want to do in the US, how we should just carpet bomb the entire region, etc.  Just completely, blatantly dehumanizing.  Half of the time I can laugh it off cause it's so outlandish, but only half.

To white people nothing is worse than being called a racist.

Doesn't matter if they're liberal or conservative.

Its a tie with being called a liar.