What is wrong with people these days?

[konakona]

Originally posted by: jagec

Originally posted by: ZeroIQ
Had it been reversed, color-wise, and he said "why all you n-words always telling me what to do"... what would the response have been?

Fact is, the guy was racist* yet it wasn't a big deal. Had a white person been racist, all hell would have broke loose.


*I don't consider is racist... but I also am not a pussy.

The actual reversal would be "why all you blackies always telling me what to do".

Yup, it's racist.

The reason for the so-called "double standard" is that ultimately, this is a white man's world...by-product of the colonial era. As such, a white person being racist has overtones of implied inferiority and scorn. Another race being racist against whites (at least in the US) has overtones of bitterness, resentment, and maybe even jealousy. Note that I'm talking about how the person who HEARD the racist remarks will think, not speculating on the motivations of the person who SAID them, which can often be quite different.

Honestly, which is more offensive, you thinking the other person is calling you a lower human being, or you thinking the other person is resentful of what you have? I can totally understand why a white person being a racist is taken more seriously in this country.

I was going to post something along that line, but apparently you phrased it better than I ever could :thumbsup:

 

[DangerAardvark]

Originally posted by: FoBoT

Originally posted by: ryan256

Originally posted by: FoBoT
mythbusters did the "will cigarette blow up gas" myth
unless the gas is being vaporized in an enclosed space, the chance of ignition is low but still exists

Fixed.
Sorry but I prefer not to take chances of this nature.

then you should have thrown a brick at him

or sprayed him with water

...or sicced the dogs on him?

 

[jjones]

You should have recommended that he investigate getting natural gas for his home.

 

[Felisity]

You were in Alabama, need I say more?

I grew up in Birmingham and you have to be excessively careful about what you say to people. In my experience, there are alot of miserable middle class to lower middle class people there just looking for ANY excuse to start something (fight, name calling, pulling the racist card, etc)

So glad I don't live there anymore for exactly situations like what you went through, OP. Sucks, but I wouldn't let it get to you. You were looking out for the welfare of another human and that's a great thing. :thumbsup: Don't stop being kind like that just because of some a-hole.