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[The Lemon]

[peppermint]

Personally, I'd consider myself to be somewhat anti- PC. Don't flame me yet!

I think that all the fuss over finding a polite title for various groups of people serves as a distraction from dealing with the real problems of how to peacefully coexist as individuals rather than groups.

All of the debate on this thread over weather "blacky", "whitey", "darky" is more offensive, does nothing to answer the OP's question. Of course that statment was stunningly rude.

My question is why there are people who have to ask if something like that is offensive? Same thing with the "guys are animals" thread. The guy described in that original post was behaving like jackass, wether it was rape or not. Shouldn't it be obvious what is and isn't offensive, and isn't that highly personal anyway?

Okay, I'm done with the soapbox now.

[HardyandTiny]

If you keep concentraing on the OP's final statement then you are buying into what they wanted to happen.
Answer the original statement and disregard the "whitey" bait.

[rapier]

have to agree with tancred. Knock the obnoxious beehatch's brains out. A little rage and out of control anger is good for a person sometimes, at least once every 2 years. (which is about my average).

[Seoultrader]

1. The chick sounds like a CUNY LibArts grad (and for those mods about to get all huffy, CUNY is the abbreviation for City University of New York...although the chick most definitely is the other one as well...)

2. As a proud cracka/gook, I think y'all niggas need to chill with this racial oversensitivity. Listen to some Chris Rock, George Carlin and have a beer.

[xat552000]

well! I didn't expect this much feedback, though I do appreciate it. By the way, can someone tell me what OP means?

I haven't read all the messages in detail, but I read more than once that the fact that these people were white shouldn't have mattered or shouldn't have been pointed out. In a perfect world, that's probably the correct thinking. However, this is not a perfect world and in my experience growing up in the states and having been around quite a few white people, whether friends, girlfriends, employers, teachers, etc., I have found that white people have been the ones (more than other groups) to point out one's ethnicity in describing someone's behavior when the person wasn't white (example: american scientist who happens to be of chinese ancestry arrested for allegedly passing on secrets to the Chinese government.) A white person would be more likely (in my experience/observation) to point out that the guy here was of chinese ancestry and that therefore there had to have been a sinister element involved here even though in many respects his heritage was irrelevant.

Further, the fact of the matter was that the maker of these ignorant comments was a white-american woman. That is an undisputed fact. Perhaps if you see the "racial" aspect of this statement, you are the one who is a bit too sensitive.

I asked the question of whether I should be offended by this because the lady I'm talking about turned out to actually be a pretty nice person who happened to have stuck her big-ass foot in her mouth in this one instance. In other words, I could tell that her stating these inelegant statements was a result of ignorance rather than racism. However, that doesn't excuse the fact that she was so retarded in the way she conveyed her thoughts.

I personally was offended, furious in fact, but wanting to be civil I didn't say anything at that time. I will likely never see this person again and therefore I will never get my "revenge." However, knowing that many white people interested in Korea troll this site, I thought it would actually be educational. It seems to me that those interested in Korea or Asia for that matter understand the "white american's" perspective and the "Asian" perspective, but not necessarily the "asian american's" perspective in this whole thing. Hopefully, my message shed some light on that.

Also, the "whitey" slur at the end was a typo. So, there was no racial animus intended. If there was anyone offended, I apologize for that.

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[matthewwoodford]

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