on friday my boss said to me... the stupidest thing i ever heard

[FrustratedUser]

LOL
Pretty good. 'Electronic Americans'

 

[0roo0roo]

its just as joke

 

[djheater]

Originally posted by: newParadigm
omg, not racist really. In response to the above post: why is it unpolitically correct to call someone by their skin color, but not their origin. Both dsicriminate between blacks and whites.

Good question, I don't know why it's a standard. There is however a negative connotation to the term blacks, as demonstrated by the standard of referring to them as African-Americans. Personally I think African Americans is a pretty silly term, I knew a white, South African, naturalized citizen who took particular pleasure in screwing with people.

 

[Eos]

Sounds like a Michael from "The Office" (U.S. version) moment.

 

[bigrash]

lol

 

[Pepsei]

after all the replies, i still don't get it...

 

[RGUN]

We wouldnt want to offend a computer monitor now would we... thats the least racist thing Ive read in this thread actually.

 

[Excelsior]

Originally posted by: djheater

Originally posted by: newParadigm
omg, not racist really. In response to the above post: why is it unpolitically correct to call someone by their skin color, but not their origin. Both dsicriminate between blacks and whites.

Good question, I don't know why it's a standard. There is however a negative connotation to the term blacks, as demonstrated by the standard of referring to them as African-Americans. Personally I think African Americans is a pretty silly term, I knew a white, South African, naturalized citizen who took particular pleasure in screwing with people.

Not really. African-Americans isn't a standard...well not for common people, who talk to eachother on a daily basis, informally. I had black friends at Uni, and they never used the term African-American. No one had a problem with being called black...just like I didn't have problem with being called white.

Most of them are no more African-American, than I am Euro-American, anyway.

 

[djheater]

Originally posted by: Excelsior

Originally posted by: djheater

Originally posted by: newParadigm
omg, not racist really. In response to the above post: why is it unpolitically correct to call someone by their skin color, but not their origin. Both dsicriminate between blacks and whites.

Good question, I don't know why it's a standard. There is however a negative connotation to the term blacks, as demonstrated by the standard of referring to them as African-Americans. Personally I think African Americans is a pretty silly term, I knew a white, South African, naturalized citizen who took particular pleasure in screwing with people.

Not really. African-Americans isn't a standard...well not for common people, who talk to eachother on a daily basis, informally. I had black friends at Uni, and they never used the term African-American. No one had a problem with being called black...just like I didn't have problem with being called white.

Most of them are no more African-American, than I am Euro-American, anyway.

He wasn't in an informal setting. In my professional environment, I couldn't imagine referring to clients as Blacks. Though I admit it's debatable. Language is a living thing. What's most important though is that implicit in the joke is the assumption that Black is "incorrect" usage and African American is more "correct".

 

[Lonyo]

Originally posted by: djheater

Originally posted by: Excelsior

Originally posted by: djheater

Originally posted by: newParadigm
omg, not racist really. In response to the above post: why is it unpolitically correct to call someone by their skin color, but not their origin. Both dsicriminate between blacks and whites.

Good question, I don't know why it's a standard. There is however a negative connotation to the term blacks, as demonstrated by the standard of referring to them as African-Americans. Personally I think African Americans is a pretty silly term, I knew a white, South African, naturalized citizen who took particular pleasure in screwing with people.

Not really. African-Americans isn't a standard...well not for common people, who talk to eachother on a daily basis, informally. I had black friends at Uni, and they never used the term African-American. No one had a problem with being called black...just like I didn't have problem with being called white.

Most of them are no more African-American, than I am Euro-American, anyway.

He wasn't in an informal setting. In my professional environment, I couldn't imagine referring to clients as Blacks. Though I admit it's debatable. Language is a living thing. What's most important though is that implicit in the joke is the assumption that Black is "incorrect" usage and African American is more "correct".

If I had a black client, I would refer to him as client x.
If I had a white client I would refer to hive as client y.
I can't imagine referring to clients by their skin colour or ethnic origins.

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: sygyzy

Originally posted by: Astaroth33
It's not racist. What it is is a dig at the whole "political correctness" thing. Was kind of funny, too.

Do you know who makes "digs" at the whole political correctness thing? Racists.

I'm going to kill you now, OK? I'm sorry, I must do this for the sake of the human race.

 

[dethman]

Originally posted by: TallBill
If you find that racist, then you have a whole semi truck full of sticks up your ass.

I found it funny myself.

 

[Excelsior]

Originally posted by: djheater

Originally posted by: Excelsior

Originally posted by: djheater

Originally posted by: newParadigm
omg, not racist really. In response to the above post: why is it unpolitically correct to call someone by their skin color, but not their origin. Both dsicriminate between blacks and whites.

Good question, I don't know why it's a standard. There is however a negative connotation to the term blacks, as demonstrated by the standard of referring to them as African-Americans. Personally I think African Americans is a pretty silly term, I knew a white, South African, naturalized citizen who took particular pleasure in screwing with people.

Not really. African-Americans isn't a standard...well not for common people, who talk to eachother on a daily basis, informally. I had black friends at Uni, and they never used the term African-American. No one had a problem with being called black...just like I didn't have problem with being called white.

Most of them are no more African-American, than I am Euro-American, anyway.

He wasn't in an informal setting. In my professional environment, I couldn't imagine referring to clients as Blacks. Though I admit it's debatable. Language is a living thing. What's most important though is that implicit in the joke is the assumption that Black is "incorrect" usage and African American is more "correct".

I could understand you not wanting to offend your clients. I don't think that was implied though..to be honest, I doubt his boss is smart enough to go through such a thought process.

If it was implied, though, he would be correct. I personally think it is a joke, because we are all Americans. In the case of first generation immigrants, I could understand hyphenating their nationality, maybe.

 

[djheater]

Originally posted by: Excelsior

Originally posted by: djheater

Originally posted by: Excelsior

Originally posted by: djheater

Originally posted by: newParadigm
omg, not racist really. In response to the above post: why is it unpolitically correct to call someone by their skin color, but not their origin. Both dsicriminate between blacks and whites.

Good question, I don't know why it's a standard. There is however a negative connotation to the term blacks, as demonstrated by the standard of referring to them as African-Americans. Personally I think African Americans is a pretty silly term, I knew a white, South African, naturalized citizen who took particular pleasure in screwing with people.

Not really. African-Americans isn't a standard...well not for common people, who talk to eachother on a daily basis, informally. I had black friends at Uni, and they never used the term African-American. No one had a problem with being called black...just like I didn't have problem with being called white.

Most of them are no more African-American, than I am Euro-American, anyway.

He wasn't in an informal setting. In my professional environment, I couldn't imagine referring to clients as Blacks. Though I admit it's debatable. Language is a living thing. What's most important though is that implicit in the joke is the assumption that Black is "incorrect" usage and African American is more "correct".

I could understand you not wanting to offend your clients. I don't think that was implied though..to be honest, I doubt his boss is smart enough to go through such a thought process.

If it was implied, though, he would be correct. I personally think it is a joke, because we are all Americans. In the case of first generation immigrants, I could understand hyphenating their nationality, maybe.

It wouldn't be a conscious thought process. Proof of the implication is in the fact that we all understand "African American" to be more politically correct than "Black".
Just to be clear, I think political correctness is as silly as the next guy, but just because I think a societal norm is silly isn't justification for me not respecting it.

As to another poster not understanding why anyone would refer to clients by their ethnicity, it is relevant to some topics. Marketing for example.

I'm pretty tired of analyzing this one. Who cares what some guy's boss said... I don't.

 

[Excelsior]

Originally posted by: djheater

Originally posted by: Excelsior

Originally posted by: djheater

Originally posted by: Excelsior

Originally posted by: djheater

Originally posted by: newParadigm
omg, not racist really. In response to the above post: why is it unpolitically correct to call someone by their skin color, but not their origin. Both dsicriminate between blacks and whites.

Good question, I don't know why it's a standard. There is however a negative connotation to the term blacks, as demonstrated by the standard of referring to them as African-Americans. Personally I think African Americans is a pretty silly term, I knew a white, South African, naturalized citizen who took particular pleasure in screwing with people.

Not really. African-Americans isn't a standard...well not for common people, who talk to eachother on a daily basis, informally. I had black friends at Uni, and they never used the term African-American. No one had a problem with being called black...just like I didn't have problem with being called white.

Most of them are no more African-American, than I am Euro-American, anyway.

He wasn't in an informal setting. In my professional environment, I couldn't imagine referring to clients as Blacks. Though I admit it's debatable. Language is a living thing. What's most important though is that implicit in the joke is the assumption that Black is "incorrect" usage and African American is more "correct".

I could understand you not wanting to offend your clients. I don't think that was implied though..to be honest, I doubt his boss is smart enough to go through such a thought process.

If it was implied, though, he would be correct. I personally think it is a joke, because we are all Americans. In the case of first generation immigrants, I could understand hyphenating their nationality, maybe.

It wouldn't be a conscious thought process. Proof of the implication is in the fact that we all understand "African American" to be more politically correct than "Black".
Just to be clear, I think political correctness is as silly as the next guy, but just because I think a societal norm is silly isn't justification for me not respecting it.

As to another poster not understanding why anyone would refer to clients by their ethnicity, it is relevant to some topics. Marketing for example.

I'm pretty tired of analyzing this one. Who cares what some guy's boss said... I don't.

Bah. I don't care that some people consider it to be a "societal norm". Folks only use AA because they are so scared that they might offend someone. So you respect it out of fear, right? You wouldn't want anyone to think you're racist, right? I am serious..I'd like to know.

 

[mobobuff]

At "21 inches" and "black", I thought the story was going somewhere else entirely...

 

[djheater]

Originally posted by: Excelsior

Originally posted by: djheater

Originally posted by: Excelsior

Originally posted by: djheater

Originally posted by: Excelsior

Originally posted by: djheater

Originally posted by: newParadigm
omg, not racist really. In response to the above post: why is it unpolitically correct to call someone by their skin color, but not their origin. Both dsicriminate between blacks and whites.

Good question, I don't know why it's a standard. There is however a negative connotation to the term blacks, as demonstrated by the standard of referring to them as African-Americans. Personally I think African Americans is a pretty silly term, I knew a white, South African, naturalized citizen who took particular pleasure in screwing with people.

Not really. African-Americans isn't a standard...well not for common people, who talk to eachother on a daily basis, informally. I had black friends at Uni, and they never used the term African-American. No one had a problem with being called black...just like I didn't have problem with being called white.

Most of them are no more African-American, than I am Euro-American, anyway.

He wasn't in an informal setting. In my professional environment, I couldn't imagine referring to clients as Blacks. Though I admit it's debatable. Language is a living thing. What's most important though is that implicit in the joke is the assumption that Black is "incorrect" usage and African American is more "correct".

I could understand you not wanting to offend your clients. I don't think that was implied though..to be honest, I doubt his boss is smart enough to go through such a thought process.

If it was implied, though, he would be correct. I personally think it is a joke, because we are all Americans. In the case of first generation immigrants, I could understand hyphenating their nationality, maybe.

It wouldn't be a conscious thought process. Proof of the implication is in the fact that we all understand "African American" to be more politically correct than "Black".
Just to be clear, I think political correctness is as silly as the next guy, but just because I think a societal norm is silly isn't justification for me not respecting it.

As to another poster not understanding why anyone would refer to clients by their ethnicity, it is relevant to some topics. Marketing for example.

I'm pretty tired of analyzing this one. Who cares what some guy's boss said... I don't.

Bah. I don't care that some people consider it to be a "societal norm". Folks only use AA because they are so scared that they might offend someone. So you respect it out of fear, right? You wouldn't want anyone to think you're racist, right? I am serious..I'd like to know.

There is a subtle racism in American culture (often not so subtle at all), the joke and its use of socially understood tems is demonstration of that.
Those societal norms may indeed be silly and insincere, but I don't believe convention breaking is a merit in and of itself. Our culture has a very sketchy history when it comes to racism and it's no wonder we handle it as delicately as we do.

 

[Shawn]

hahaha, nice.

 

[Trevelyan]

bad joke, but not racist

 

[DeafeningSilence]

neither funny nor racist

 

[eits]

that wasn't really racist. racist would have been if he called the monitor a n****r monitor or something.

 

[amol]

Originally posted by: eos
Sounds like a Michael from "The Office" (U.S. version) moment.

I was going to say that!

Can't wait for Season 3 to start ...

 

[eits]

"the office" = teh win

 

[Fritzo]

Heh...I thought it was pretty funny

 

[Cooler]

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