Does a single person here find this racist? My rant on my sociology class

[Ben Kenobi]

In fact, I see you giving a certain white-religious-supremist stereotype life with this ill-fated line of apologist thought...

How do you know that I am, in fact, white?

Do you have some kind of naked picture procured from my ex that I really should know something about?

[Agathon]

And lo, the condom on the penis of progress doth appear to defend himself.

Don't worry Ben, you don't have problems with racism. Look at Chegitz - he got married to indulge his slave master fantasies. Speer said it, so it must be true.

Each one of us just has to confront the racist inside. It's just good that we have alert Apolytoners around to alert people like you, me and Che to our inner corruption.

[Jaguar]

Originally posted by Agathon
And lo, the condom on the penis of progress doth appear to defend himself.

Second brilliant post by Agathon in this thread. Again, I love you in a completely non-homosexual way.

This thread contains two more brilliant posts than you've ever posted on the rest of poly.

[Agathon]

I've ribbed Ben with that one before. Surprised you haven't seen it.

[Imran Siddiqui]

I've ribbed Ben with that one before.

Wonderful pun (even if unintentional)

[GePap]

Originally posted by Jaguar Warrior

Why is "savages" in quotes?

Value-laden word.

So we can't use the word 'Cannibal' anymore because everyone will assume a cannibal is black, brown, or bears the color of any inferior race?

You can use the word as much as you like: the word in this context is part of the joke built upon a set of stereotypes (why exactly mention these individuals as cannibals? They never threaten to consume the travellers).

[Jaguar]

GePap, the joke never mentions anything about savages. Since you think that this joke is necessarily about non-white people, do you mean to say that non-white people are savages?

[Ben Kenobi]

This thread contains two more brilliant posts than you've ever posted on the rest of poly.

There's a reason why he's on my sig.

[Az]

Btw, I didn't say that the teller of the joke was racist. I've said that the joke is racist, since it's based on racial stereotypes. Can one be offended by this? certainly!

Btw, It's only in arts classes that one can even comprehend a situation in which a student would tell any joke.

[Mercator]

Originally posted by skywalker

We tend to associate cannibalism with primitive tribes

Because, in general, it IS associated with primitive tribes.

Yeah! Those damned Germans!

[DaShi]

Re: Does a single person here find this racist? My rant on my sociology class

Originally posted by Vesayen
When we started the class he asked us to all close our eyes and think about the word cannibal, what was the first thing that came to mind? For me I was thinking about some pristine beach in the south pacific.....

Yes, I think this is racist.

[Patroklos]

Welcome to the PC world.

This is what all the liberals have been working so hard for decades to produce. Enjoy.

[Bereta_Eder]

FUnny joke. I've heard it before. It IS of course racist as it perpetuates stereotypes made up by only a handful of countries.

[The Mad Viking]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui

It dosent matter if it was intended as racist or not, it is. It dosent matter if you intend something to be racist, that is for the victim to decide.

What a dumb statement. Say a white person passed over because of an Affirmative Action program believes that AA is racist, does that mean the people implimenting the program are racist against whites? After all the white person passed over was a 'victim'.

Imran, you forget- white people belong to the privileged and powerful elite, and therefore cannot be considered victims.

[GePap]

Originally posted by Jaguar Warrior
GePap, the joke never mentions anything about savages. Since you think that this joke is necessarily about non-white people, do you mean to say that non-white people are savages?

Awww, you are so cute when you play dumb! AWWW, look at his spittle....

Define savage, then see if anyone we consider "white" fits in that description...