Out on a double date and out fo the blue her friend's boyfriend tells a race joke (lesbians, women)
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So, I was out with someone and she saw a couple she knew so we stuck together for a lot of the night. As things wound down we found ourselves in a hippie kind of bar. The tables were bolted down, so when her friend's boyfriend tried to move one I said, "Don't steal it".
Then he went into a one sided conversation that started with, "Yeah, you know how us white people do/ok since you said that, then I can tell you this. Then he told a really bad n-word joke. And he actually said the n-word.
Why do people do this?
Who knows why they do it. Perhaps he didn't find what you said funny. If the atmosphere took a turn like this, I would either ignore it, change topics or find some way to excuse myself. Misunderstandings are simply that, misunderstandings.
The bigger question I think is why are people so damn sensitive? It's just a joke! I swear people are such pu**ies these days! Black people AND white people!
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God, I'm so tired of bland PC bores...
This is the one thing that I love about C-D. If it wasn't for C-D, I would not believe for one second that there are people out there who like to joke around.
You can say I'm being too PC, but on another outing if I jokingly say, "OMG, the President went to Ireland and he's part Irish(true), he could be a terrorist. *gasp*" This of course is IRA related. My friend would find this offensive and then reveal that she is part Irish.
She of course knows nothing about the IRA or Ireland and it's history.
You can say I'm being too PC, but on another outing if I jokingly say, "OMG, the President went to Ireland and he's part Irish(true), he could be a terrorist."
That's more on the dangerous side. There's time and place for everything. I wouldn't joke with some TSA moron about a bomb, either.
That's more on the dangerous side. There's time and place for everything. I wouldn't joke with some TSA moron about a bomb, either.
She isn't TSA.
How is it dangerous to suggest that the leader of your country may have "terrorist" connections based on bloodline when the Tea Party has done so a hundred times over based on his other ancestry?
How is it dangerous to suggest that the leader of your country may have "terrorist" connections based on bloodline when the Tea Party has done so a hundred times over based on his other ancestry?
Do you believe in the anonymity of the Web or something...?
Do you believe in the anonymity of the Web or something...?
No, I don't.
I seriously don't think the Executive branch cares about a sarcastic joke I make on a random Friday night to try to talk about current events.
Also, the IRA has long made peace and only the provisional IRA has been active in the last 10 years. So, that makes the joke absurd to anyone who knows about the history of Ireland. You might want to look it up.
Meanwhile, the Tea Party can stand wherever they want to with signs saying he's a "terrorist", maybe an assault rifle in plain view, and loads of rhetoric and all he does is comply, not detain. And they do it on the basis of a religion he isn't even a part of.
Who do you think should be detained first?
Last edited by Java378; 06-21-2011 at 01:18 PM..
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