Why is it racist?
joke made by my examinations officer today....
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Why is it racist?
Linking Chinese names (actual people) to items on a menu, where there is none whatsoever other than language?
Doing it to an individual person would constitute bullying. Doing it to a group of people (specifically of one country)?
Since when? The only examples of racism against white people I've seen have been pretty extreme, which no one would condone.
Because non-extreme examples don't get classed as racism when it is against white people, generally.
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Then they can go take a running jump.
hahaha was getting all depressed about my last exam tomorrow (will be number 7) and that has cheered me up loads.
It's not racist but I personally would never say it. One of our lecturers is just as bad, for some reason every time we had this particular lecture a lot of foreign students would turn up about 10-15 minutes late and he quite often said things like 'nice to see China are attending after-all'
It's not racist but I personally would never say it. One of our lecturers is just as bad, for some reason every time we had this particular lecture a lot of foreign students would turn up about 10-15 minutes late and he quite often said things like 'nice to see China are attending after-all'
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Not the joke, this.
That's not life, that's closed minded and pure ignorance.
I can't see any investigative board having such a blase attitude about it - ultimately it doesn't matter whether the comment caused any genuine offence, what matters is whether a case could be built to suggest that it did. Even if any investigation found in the officer's favour, it would still have resulted in a waste of time and effort.
Nobody will ever be as good as Sujoy, an Ecomonics lecturer I had in the late 90s. Some foreign girl turned up a bit late for a lecture, poked her head round the door, and uttered in broken English
"Can I... come...?"
To which Sujoy replied
"That can be arranged."
LEGEND
(although he delivered it a lot better than I just did, it was a lot funnier in person!)
Give me an example. I don't think casual white racism exists in a significant number in the UK.
How would you stereotype white people in the UK?
Haha that's brilliant. Some of our Economics lecturers have a great sense of humour, makes lectures far more enjoyable given how tedious the subject can get sometimes!
Of course it does, from blacks and asians.
How is commenting that a list of CHINESE names is like reading out a CHINESE menu stereotyping them?
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White people don't seem to care though. None of my white friends take issue with the word 'Honky'. Of course, if there was something that they called me that I had issue with, they still wouldn't stop
Because getting worked up about it is stupid, just like most casual "comedic" racist words that are used by millions of people.
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By stereotyping an entire race and culture base on your little experience with them.
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It depends on the context it's used in. Eg:
"yo wassup honky"
No problem there.
But:
"You're just a stupid honky piece of crap"
There the word is being used to wind the person up, and is clearly adding to the insult.