Mornin', Oppo

"Takuro Spirit" (takurospirit)
08/14/2018 at 09:45 • Filed to: None

Oh look, a racist comment on Jalopnik. I hope they get BallaBANNED into the greys, since racism is NOT TOLERATED on Jalopnik.

Link, and screenshot in case Kinja’d.

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DISCUSSION (17)

KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time > Takuro Spirit
08/14/2018 at 09:54

I did find this transcript to be quite funny though, I admit I chuckled at this

“Oh my gosh,” exclaims our dashcam narrator. “Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. Making an emergency....ohhhh my gosh.”

Rainbow > Takuro Spirit
08/14/2018 at 09:58

I dunno. As a white person, I make fun of white people a lot.

LOREM IPSUM > Takuro Spirit
08/14/2018 at 10:08

As a brown guy once told me: “Only white people can be racist.”

Seems like a lot of people seem to feel that way , sadly.

(“Brown guy” is a socially acceptable term here with no ill intent, before anyone starts firing up the torches.)

...and if I hear one more white person refer to “white privilege” I’m not quite sure what I might do.

Takuro Spirit > Rainbow
08/14/2018 at 10:15

We’re pretty good fodder.

KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time > LOREM IPSUM
08/14/2018 at 10:29

“Only white people can be racist.” is in itself, racist. But I am afraid he doesn’t understand advanced concepts such as irony

Spanfeller is a twat > Takuro Spirit
08/14/2018 at 10:33

Not justifying the root or jezebel or whateve, but they seem to make ironic criticism of white people to upset us into saying some shit and then they can make a false equivalence argument

Is that good? I think it’s playing with fire, but they find some sort of liberation in being like this.

Spanfeller is a twat > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time
08/14/2018 at 10:39

“The, um, Emergency blinkers!”

LOREM IPSUM > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time
08/14/2018 at 10:56

The guy in questions mom is Fijian, d ad East Indian, he was born in Prince George.

He also has a black friend who prefers to be called Michael, but is instead referred to as, um, “N-word-Mike” by his “friends”. (But they’re not saying it like I typed it.)

Progressive and inclusive place, ain’t it?

John-Palazzo > Takuro Spirit
08/14/2018 at 11:13

I sure hope you're joking.

Takuro Spirit > John-Palazzo
08/14/2018 at 11:21

I never joke. Unless its on the FP. Where I was banned for a joke. Which wasn’t a joke.

LOREM IPSUM > LOREM IPSUM
08/14/2018 at 12:03

Stunned silence is actually the correct response.

Just gonna say, I’m glad to be rid of that guy. Former coworker, if anyone was wondering.

Rainbow > LOREM IPSUM
08/14/2018 at 13:39

Okay, but white privilege is 100% real and if you don’ t think so, you obviously don't listen when people explain it.

LOREM IPSUM > Rainbow
08/14/2018 at 13:57

Maybe not, but I tend to tune it out when I hear that kind of blame-whitey rhetoric. Especially when it’s coming from self deprecating white folks who have been somehow convinced that their skin tone is something to be regretful or embarrassed by. It’s not, and neither is anyone else’s, as far as I’m concerned.

Judge by who people are, not by color, creed, national heritage, etc. Be embarrassed by the actions and beliefs of those who came before you perhaps, and make steps to ensure those ways stay in the history books where they belong, but don’t be regretful or ashamed of who you genetically are.

Though I wish they were, I’m not suggesting everyone is treated fairly, equally, or properly. I’m just not going to stand by and have the blame for such leveled at an entire race of people, who by and large have reversed their hitorically racist ways and beliefs of the past. Even if we’re not quite all the way there yet.

If we all treated each other better, regardless of what you look like or where you or your ancestors happen to hail from, there would be no need or desire to guilt an entire race of people for not getting f-d with as much as someone else might happen to experience.

Respectfully.

Rainbow > LOREM IPSUM
08/14/2018 at 14:13

It’s not even close to white guilt or anything. All it is is that society is built to favor white people, mostly unintentionally. I could go more in-depth, but I don’t have a lot of time to type right now.

LOREM IPSUM > Rainbow
08/14/2018 at 14:31

I get the concept, but it does lend itself towards leading those who earnestly do care quite a lot towards feeling guilty for no good reason. Melanin Mistreatment, would probably strike my ears and mind a bit less accusatorially, while lik ely being just as accurate.

As for my own experience, which I can’t help but draw from of course, I’ve:

Been referred to as “hey white boy” as if it were my name.

Been chased down a city block by a group of youths for the egregious crime of being white in a predominantly non-white neighborhood.

Been effed with by p olice for no good reason other than they felt like exerting their power over others, I guess.

Been patted down and kicked in the knee hard enough for it to swell to double it’s normal size, by a black police officer, for the crime of handing out flyers to a rave. W hilst being exceedingly polite to him the entire time. (Latino manager at the McDonald’s called it in, said I was selling drugs in the parking lot.)

Been followed around the grocery store more than once by il l-performing undercover security guards, w hile shopping after work in clothes that may or may not resemble those of a homeless person.

Of course, this doesn’t change the fact that others are frequently mistreated for no good reason nor does it lessen the level of wrong- ness behind it all, but it doesn’t make m e feel particularly privileged. Which is where I take issue with the concept , I guess.

LOREM IPSUM > LOREM IPSUM
08/14/2018 at 15:21

I also have a “gee, that was unexpected racism” situation I can recall as well, since I’m kind of on the topic.

I was managing one of an internationally known office supply stores locations, in a predominantly non-white neighborhood... (Aside from some of the college students, anyway.) Uniformed but off duty city cop standing post by the front door. A Puerto Rican woman, by chance, who I had happened to have built a friendly rapport with.

So I get paged and answer the line, and it’s the officer. In a nutshell, she said “A black kid just walked in and went into the business machines department. He’s not here to buy anything. Watch him and shout if he grabs anything and runs for the door.”

Now this was a shit neighborhood, and the chances of her being right may very well have been just as good as being wrong, but damn. Not what I expected.

I approached the guy like I did anyone else who happened to be perusing that department and just did my job. Most stuff in that area of the store was either in locked bins or just had display models with the actual product in the back lockup, so no latent racism behind my approaching him. Turned out, he wanted new headphones and was having a look to see if we had anything good in stock. Which, we didn’t.

I acknowledge that had he been white, that cop would have never thought to pick up the phone. Still though, the phrase in question just rubs me a bit wrong...

LOREM IPSUM > LOREM IPSUM
08/14/2018 at 21:32

The more things change, the more they apparently stay the same :

https://globalnews.ca/news/4385990/staples-pregnant-woman-shoplifting/amp/

Still though, my feelings on the earlier topic are what they are.