Reminds me of The Office joke where Michael asks Oscar what his ethnicity is and Oscar says “Mexican” and Michael says “There’s gotta be a better word to use than that”.

Calling a black object “black” = Does not offend.

Calling your car’s late ignition timing “retarded” = Does not offend.

Calling your dog a “bitch” = Does not offend.

Calling your rooster a “cock” = does not offend.

Calling a tied bundle of sticks for burning a “removed” = Does not offend.

Just follow your friendly dictionary and you’ll be fine.

Also: Hi mods. You’re probably here because of your word filter.

Edit: Something replaced “f-a-g-g-o-t” with “removed” automatically. I’m going to leave it because it’s hilarious that bundled sticks are forbidden.

I think the crack about Spanish is because the Spanish word for “black” is “negro.” But it is also not pronounced the same way as racist southerners say it. Spanish uses a short E, where as rednecks insist on saying it “neeegro,” perhaps in the hopes that it’ll make them taller. So don’t do that.

The peanut gallery will win no points for guessing that the origin of the n-word is a mutation and/or corruption of “negro” and its various permutations in the other Romance languages that white people were all dragging with them across the Atlantic, all of which are just the words for the color black. For instance, in Latin it’s the even closer “niger,” single G.

So decades ago I worked at a bike shop and some college students came in. One of them was black, everyone else in the shop was white. She sat down on a bike, that was all black with dark grey lettering. And I said “this bike looks great, I love the black on black look.” Everyone looked at me funny, she immediately got off the bike, and i literally died inside and froze up.

20 years later and i still think about this.

Also I should note that it was not the first time I used that phrase for that bike - when you work sales you end up with little automatic narratives that you barely think about.

The implication I got from the comic imo is that the person is going to ridiculous lengths to appear anti-racist

Yeah lots of repressed racism with whoever does these shitty strips.

Saying anyone is black is never racist.

Now I’m thinking of the politician who was offended by black holes.

Best I can do is a Han job

Depends on where from cause I’ve only heard “café negro”

I’ve always heard americano, but I don’t drink coffee

Nah, most places it’s called “café negro”, and it’s fine. “Negro” refers to the color, and there’s nothing intrinsically racist about that word.

If tomorrow some nazi fash starts using the word “goal” as some slur, would it be then incorrect to say “I have goals” or “omg, we’re goals” (“we’re goals” as “we’re matching”)? If we concede them every word they co-opt, then they’ll colonialize all language. Just as with the word queer, we should be the ones reclaiming it for ourselves.

“What would Janeway do?” is a great way to navigate through life.

I am not being sarcastic in the slightest.

Yeah but Tuvok is trained to stuff his emotions deep inside where they can fester and explode depending on the needs of the episode.

Frapachino. On the rocks.

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I dont think so, I saw it years ago. I think before AI was mainstream

I feel like it isn’t, but just unfortunately resembles it due to the warm color palette

Everything looks intentional, like it was illustrated with purpose

Nope. You can’t define a term in reference to itself. There are no races except those that racism defines. You therefore cannot treat people differently based on their race without racism being present before the treatment. Therefore, treating people differently based on race cannot be the definition of racism.

Abstract racism, which doesn’t really exist except for in apologia, is a system by which we categorize humans into groups by phenotype.

But none of us have ever experienced abstract racism. We all know and have experience with one historical phenomenon called Racism, and that is European Racism. European Racism was developed by the European elite in order to divide humanity into categories that they could use to justify their domination and enlist the non-elite of their society in defending, supporting, and spreading the dominance of those elite.

That racism is the racism Europeans exported all over the world through violent dominance, subjugation, colonialism, and neocolonialism.

Once you understand that, it becomes obvious that we are require to treat people differently based on which racial category our society assigns to them, because the harm they experience from our society is informed by that racial categorization. If you don’t treat them differently at all, then you are failing to acknowledge the harm they have experienced and therefore cannot possibly approach justice.

It would be like a doctor saying we can’t give people different treatments based on the form of illness they have because that would be a form of unequal treatment.

I know what you mean, but this is also essentially the same rhetoric that actual racists use to refute good policies like DEI. Diversity is a good thing, and I’m not sure you can achieve it by letting everyone self-police their behavior towards someone of a different race. Racism simply exists in our culture whether or not people are aware of it, so we need policies that counteract it.

Maybe a more persuasive way of saying the same thing: if you agree that some ethnicities or social demographics are historically disadvantaged and need more help than others, why would you not try to focus policy to prioritize their needs? It’s similar to making policy that reduces child suffering at the expense of some freedoms for adults.

That said, I also believe it’s good to try making policy that doesn’t explicitly target specific races if possible. For example, strengthening workers’ rights in general improves the lives of an entire economic class, and coincidentally it would disproportionately help Black and Mexican people (per capita).

With sadness, rain, and a grey city mired in mysteries?

As with most stolen jokes, the oryginał is funnier.

Honestly one of my favorite throw-away lines in a movie ever

I play a card game called Spitzer, where one of the rules is that the holders of the two black queens end up on a team. It is incredibly common to say things like “you beat the blacks”, etc. Context is everything.

Ew no, if I order a black coffee, I’d want my coffee blacker than most black people. Most black people are still brown if we have to talk about literal skin color.