That's racist!

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joevol33 said:
We saw that on the news yesterday. It's getting to the point where if you're white, anything you say will be racist.
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You can't say "cotton picking mind" to a black person. Of course he would need to apologize. It doesn't mean anything if you say it to me, but it means something else when you say it to a black person. It's like saying "your Momma" to a friend who is an orphan. You can't be that tone deaf. That being said, we should all be able to say "that's an honest mistake" and walk away after he apologizes.

**** happens. I said "run boy" to a black football player on the TV with a black friend there. I did not mean anything by it. It's seriously the most harmless thing you can say that can be construed as racist, but I still apologized to him immediately and said I didn't mean it that way. He accepted and said he knew my intent and wouldn't be offended either way, but it was no sweat off my sack to apologize, in case I had offended. This is how adults adult.
 
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n_huffhines said:
First that lady calling the cops on the brothers for using charcoal at the park, now this. I'm not sure either event is racist, but if not racist, congratulations, you're just a ****ing idiot busybody and you're the reason why democracy sucks.

Outcry after woman calls police on little girl selling water - CBS News
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What do you expect in SF? There’s a permit and a fee and a tax for everything. People are complaining but I’d bet good money SF has ordinances preventing that girl from selling on the sidewalk.
 
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n_huffhines said:
You can't say "cotton picking mind" to a black person. Of course he would need to apologize. It doesn't mean anything if you say it to me, but it means something else when you say it to a black person. It's like saying "your Momma" to a friend who is an orphan. You can't be that tone deaf. That being said, we should all be able to say "that's an honest mistake" and walk away after he apologizes.

**** happens. I said "run boy" to a black football player on the TV with a black friend there. I did not mean anything by it. It's seriously the most harmless thing you can say that can be construed as racist, but I still apologized to him immediately and said I didn't mean it that way. He accepted and said he knew my intent and wouldn't be offended either way, but it was no sweat off my sack to apologize, in case I had offended. This is how adults adult.
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My mom has picked more cotton than anyone you know. I would never apologize to anyone for saying either of those things.

Exactly why do you have that kind of guilt pent up inside of you?
 
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n_huffhines said:
You can't say "cotton picking mind" to a black person. Of course he would need to apologize. It doesn't mean anything if you say it to me, but it means something else when you say it to a black person. It's like saying "your Momma" to a friend who is an orphan. You can't be that tone deaf. That being said, we should all be able to say "that's an honest mistake" and walk away after he apologizes.

**** happens. I said "run boy" to a black football player on the TV with a black friend there. I did not mean anything by it. It's seriously the most harmless thing you can say that can be construed as racist, but I still apologized to him immediately and said I didn't mean it that way. He accepted and said he knew my intent and wouldn't be offended either way, but it was no sweat off my sack to apologize, in case I had offended. This is how adults adult.
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Always use “Man”.

Come on man. Run man. Damn it man. What the piss, man. Throw it man. Catch it man.

Works in every context. Always neutral. No offending.
 
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SLICKYINC said:
My mom has picked more cotton than anyone you know. I would never apologize to anyone for saying either of those things.

Exactly why do you have that kind of guilt pent up inside of you?
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My mom did as well. If it's taken as offensive, it costs nothing to apologize even if you didn't mean it to me.
 
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SLICKYINC said:
My mom has picked more cotton than anyone you know. I would never apologize to anyone for saying either of those things.

Exactly why do you have that kind of guilt pent up inside of you?
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There is no guilt, it's just the polite thing to do if something you said can be construed poorly.

Who taught you manners? It's like you're more offended by the notion that you should apologize than the other person is, in this hypothetical.
 
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n_huffhines said:
There is no guilt, it's just the polite thing to do if something you said can be construed poorly.

Who taught you manners? It's like you're more offended by the notion that you should apologize than the other person is, in this hypothetical.
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At some point there is a line. you can't go apologizing for everything. and you definitely can't go around to random people and tell them their manners and how they should act. there is a difference between saying something out of context/awareness and it possibly being offensive, and saying something you didn't mean offensively and someone else taking it that way. when someone is looking to get offended its no fault of mine if they do get offended.
 
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n_huffhines said:
There is no guilt, it's just the polite thing to do if something you said can be construed poorly.

Who taught you manners? It's like you're more offended by the notion that you should apologize than the other person is, in this hypothetical.
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Isn’t it kind of presumptuous to assume the other person could be offended? I see you’re black, so obviously you cannot hear a white person say boy without having an aneurysm.
 
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