Getting tired of being white (7/11 trip report)

[swede123]

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Jesus H. Christ. I didn't say "my brutha". I said something that included the word "bro". Man...

-JihadOnTheACLU

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Sorry brah, once you get the racist tag you can't ever get rid of it. Might as well start a new account around here, perhaps named SnugglesOnTheRiver.

Swede

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What's the proper slur for Swedish?

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www.rsdb.org

thank me later

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That website is hilarious, thanks Daryn

Swede, the Swedish Meatball.

[vulturesrow]

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Now I know who the stupidest person in OOT is now. Congrats! And for the record, if anyone wanted to fight me because I called them bro or brother, that would meake them a far greater [censored] than me.

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Have you ever actually interacted with significant amounts of poverty-sticken african americans living in slums? Try walking up to a large group of african americans in 'the hood' and saying 'whadup brothas'. see how they greet you

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Funny you should ask, since that pretty much was what my peer group in high school was. They never seemed to have a problem with it.

[TheCroShow]

we need a black person's POV on this one

[JihadOnTheRiver]

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'whadup brothas'

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I think you're confusing the use of "whadup brothas" a la Malibu's Finest with the "bro" a la Hulk Hogan, which many silly corny honky's use on a fairly consistent basis.

[STLantny]

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There are some really uptight people in OOT. For the record, I call people brother, white or black, all the time. Who the [censored] wants to walk around all the time worrying about this [censored].

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Then you clearly never learned how to interact with strangers. You are not supposed to go around calling poeple 'brother'. It probably will get you in a fight one day. You should learn the basic, simple principles of common courtesy or else you'll behave no better than all the loud-mouthed thuggish porch monkeys on welfare

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i hope you get hit by a car.

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Now you go around wishing violence and harm to come to others? This isn't much different from wishing a drive by on somebody so they get 'smoked' because they are 'trippin'

people like you don't deserve to live in america

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yes, people like me, who dont promot seperation of race, and wish harm on ignorant racist [censored] like you do not deserve to live in america....

[Baseballer02]

End the racial tension. Share the love.

[STLantny]

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There are some really uptight people in OOT. For the record, I call people brother, white or black, all the time. Who the [censored] wants to walk around all the time worrying about this [censored].

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Then you clearly never learned how to interact with strangers. You are not supposed to go around calling poeple 'brother'. It probably will get you in a fight one day. You should learn the basic, simple principles of common courtesy or else you'll behave no better than all the loud-mouthed thuggish porch monkeys on welfare

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i hope you get hit by a car.

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Is this from the "lighten up" school of thought?

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yes, it is, as in, it was a joke......

[JihadOnTheRiver]

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we need a black person's POV on this one

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You're right. MR T, what do you think of white people using the word "bro"?

[theben]

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Now I know who the stupidest person in OOT is now. Congrats! And for the record, if anyone wanted to fight me because I called them bro or brother, that would meake them a far greater [censored] than me.

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Have you ever actually interacted with significant amounts of poverty-sticken african americans living in slums? Try walking up to a large group of african americans in 'the hood' and saying 'whadup brothas'. see how they greet you

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Funny you should ask, since that pretty much was what my peer group in high school was. They never seemed to have a problem with it.

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There is a profound difference between how you can act with your close friends and what you can say in front of them compared to how you can behave against complete strangers. i'd wager since they were your close friends, you could say absolutely anything to them. consequently, your arguement in this case is completely invalid.

[Blarg]

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I dont think its cool. Its just something that ive always said, I think my dad or one of my uncles calls everyone brother, so I picked it up when I was young. I just never thought abotu the ramifications of it, becasue anyone who is tight assed enough to call me a racist for saying thigns like that is nto worth my time.

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Umm ... so you're saying both that you've never thought about it the ramifications, but if there are any, you've already determined it must be that someone else is the party who is looking at things the wrong way?

A better approach to things you haven't thought through the ramifications of is clearly to put yourself on the same footing as them and step back from the situation, not just grant yourself a free pass on your unexamined behavior and make the other guy into the bad guy automatically.

There's nothing wrong with having the ability to not react to confrontations by going into a defensive shell or automatically having the attitude of attacking back. Sometimes, we can just do things a better way. It's worth thinking about if making special allowances for people might be doing things a better way. It would hardly kill ya, and being respectful of people is not the huge sacrifice that so many people seem to think it is. You don't have to like or agree with someone's point of view to respect them and treat them decently. And it's really nuts to turn them into the bad guy when you get caught out at being a clod.