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Bwahaha - Priceless!

so , who cleans that up?

if i came to work and my cube was like that, i would just go home. each day i would come in and see if it was back the way it was, if not, i would go home
 
Originally posted by: Baked
Man, that's last one's totally racist.
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agreed.

and i never liked the way the elian gonzalez situation was handled. poor kid. why do they have to make jokes about him? his mother died for crying out loud. it's not like he forced himself in the spotlight for doing something dumb. he was 5 years old.
 
Originally posted by: tami
Originally posted by: Baked
Man, that's last one's totally racist.
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agreed.

and i never liked the way the elian gonzalez situation was handled. poor kid. why do they have to make jokes about him? his mother died for crying out loud. it's not like he forced himself in the spotlight for doing something dumb. he was 5 years old.
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I have to disagree..

It might be tasteless, but it's not racist..

You can put any kid on that situation with the quote and it will fit..
 
Originally posted by: Baked
Man, that's last one's totally racist.
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Where in that joke is the kid's race (Race = inherent traits and features) denegrated?

Cubans are not a race. They are a country and a culture.

This is the same sh!t that sisqo kid tried pulling. :roll:
 
Originally posted by: Papagayo
Originally posted by: tami
Originally posted by: Baked
Man, that's last one's totally racist.
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agreed.

and i never liked the way the elian gonzalez situation was handled. poor kid. why do they have to make jokes about him? his mother died for crying out loud. it's not like he forced himself in the spotlight for doing something dumb. he was 5 years old.
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I have to disagree..

It might be tasteless, but it's not racist..

You can put any kid on that situation with the quote and it will fit..
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well, that would have worked had the issue not been so political (P&N!) and sensitive in nature.
 
Originally posted by: Amused
Originally posted by: Baked
Man, that's last one's totally racist.
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Where in that joke is the kid's race (Race = inherent traits and features) denegrated?

Cubans are not a race. They are a country and a culture.

This is the same sh!t that sisqo kid tried pulling. :roll:
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Er, I'm pretty sure "Cuban" is a race. I mean, weren't there an indigenous people living there? A people who would have passed down their blood to many of the current inhabitants of Cuba?
 
Originally posted by: kogase
Originally posted by: Amused
Originally posted by: Baked
Man, that's last one's totally racist.
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Where in that joke is the kid's race (Race = inherent traits and features) denegrated?

Cubans are not a race. They are a country and a culture.

This is the same sh!t that sisqo kid tried pulling. :roll:
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Er, I'm pretty sure "Cuban" is a race. I mean, weren't there an indigenous people living there? A people who would have passed down their blood to many of the current inhabitants of Cuba?
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No, Cubans are not a race. They are a mix of Spanish, Indian and some African... just like the rest of the Caribbean, South, and Central America. There is no specific "Cuban race."

And even if there was, their culture is not an inherent trait, and therefore criticizing it is NOT racism.

Racism is claiming or implying that one race is somehow INHERENTLY (genetically, if you will) inferior or superior to another.

The joke in the OP does nothing of the sort.
 
Originally posted by: kogase
Er, I'm pretty sure "Cuban" is a race. I mean, weren't there an indigenous people living there? A people who would have passed down their blood to many of the current inhabitants of Cuba?
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Considering "Pacific Islander" is a race, and that covers a HUGE area of the world, I doubt the natives of every single island on earth get to call themselves a separate race.
 
Originally posted by: jagec
Originally posted by: kogase
Er, I'm pretty sure "Cuban" is a race. I mean, weren't there an indigenous people living there? A people who would have passed down their blood to many of the current inhabitants of Cuba?
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Considering "Pacific Islander" is a race, and that covers a HUGE area of the world, I doubt the natives of every single island on earth get to call themselves a separate race.
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Heh, I bet they get to call themselves whatever they like. What everyone else calls them is a different matter...
 
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