Comments on: “I’m Not Racist!”

By: EJ

EJ — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 23:29:48 +0000

When someone actually says something horrifically racist to your face, the first instinct is to yell at the person to go fuck themselves, not to rationally explain exactly how they are furthering derogatory stereotypes and increasing the already disturbingly large divide between the various ethnicity and races in the US. Yes, it would be absolutely wonderful if minorities were somehow all wonderful, saintlike human beings who could avoid pesky things like human emotion and use personal attacks that seem to flow so easily from so many people as nothing more than a wonderful opportunity to educate, but that is just not how the human psyche works. I have a lot of respect for both you and your blog, but your judgment of the women in this video for their natural, human reaction to such horribly offensive statements is a pretty strong indicator that you have absolutely no idea how much your own white privilege shields you from the types of offensive attacks that minorities get nearly every day. Seriously, I have had total strangers come up to me and ask me if I’ve undergone female genital mutilation because I wear an Islamic headscarf. You dont respond to that nicely. You go into shock and ask them how dare they ask a stranger about her vagina, tell them that where I come from we start a conversation with “hello,” and then suggest that they do us all a favor and kill themselves and stop using oxygen that decent living beings could be using instead. I’ve been asked SO many times by strangers if my husband beats me that for that one I finally came up with a conversation stopping reply that neither educates nor provokes (only in bed. somehow the idea that I might actually have sex -let alone joke about it-seems to floor the kind of people who feel entitled to ask me such a thing) The point is, I dont feel obligated to educate the ignorant. There are a million resources out there that people can use if they want to actually expand their minds, and if not, well, those people are out there-usually breeding- and that’s just not my fucking problem. I have better things to do with my life than waste it trying to get some ignorant waste of a cum shot to understand why she or he is racists. That is NOT my responsibility and it is absolutely unacceptable that you would attempt to put it on me and the other minorities in the US. Honestly, I’m as offended by your comments here as I have been in the past by statements you’ve posted blaming victims of sexual assault for their attacks. An attacker is an attacker, no matter how they’re attacking, and it is NOT up to the victim to try to “fix” the attacker, and I absolutely can NOT tolerate a white woman telling minorities how they should be responding to an attack that you will NEVER have to deal with.

By: Broccoli

Broccoli — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 01:09:07 +0000

That left me appalled, but honestly… it’s nothing I haven’t seen before. Especially the whole part where she tries to make it write by calling her ignorance ‘narrow-mindedness’ No bitch, that’s ignorance. The fact that you acknowledge your ignorance does not justify that you have horrible worldview.

“Acknowledged Racism” as I like to call it, is the worst kind. People who are blatantly racist and attempt to break down their bigotry through logic and reason, instead of the Bible, like how it was in the good ‘ol days.

By: Epiphora

Epiphora — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 05:27:05 +0000

The comment about all people sweating was awesome. YOU JUST GOT OWNED.

By: soapy

soapy — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 17:32:08 +0000

The stupidest thing to me is that if she had just said “I don’t want to go to a club and get hit on by guys” none of that bs would have happened.

By: Britni TheVadgeWig

Britni TheVadgeWig — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 16:20:36 +0000

Oh man. You’ve never heard of it?? Joel Mchale mocks it endlessly on The Soup.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky09pMiuibU

And the BEST CAST MEMBER EVER: TANISHA– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvL5LK-Y9eA

By: dmf

dmf — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 16:12:06 +0000

what the fuck kind of trash tv is this? “bad girls club”? i just looked it up on the wikipedias. and now i feel dirty.

i mean, the show is set up for stupid shit like this to happen. so. yeah, she’s a fucking retarded latent racist. but. what else did you expect…? ya know?

By: Sarahbear

Sarahbear — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:51:54 +0000

I saw something similarly racist and annoying on Bridal Bootcamp. The black girl called the Korean girl ‘Lucy Liu on steroids’ and when she got called racist she said ‘I wasn’t calling you that because I’m racist, I just don’t know your name.’ So, because she was too lazy/uncaring to learn the girls name it was suppose to be okay to choose a random actor (who isn’t even necessarily the same ethnicity as the Korean girl) and add a negative adjective to it.

Totally not racist.