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akuma587 on 04 January 2009
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Kasz216 said:
akuma587 said:
Kasz216 said:

That's really funny considering how critical you've been to republican racist missteps.

Your comment was much worse then say... the Obama Bucks.

You really seem to hold people do different standards based on whether or not they agree with you.  It's quite disheartening.

 

A high ranking party official in a position of power is completely different than a random schmuck on the internet like me.  And you totally took what I was saying about the whole "Magic Negro" thing out of context.  I'm not losing a bit of sleep about what the guy said, my whole point was that from a strategic standpoint it was a nightmare for the Republican Party.  He is a guy who is in charge of Republican strategy, so he should know better unless he wants to drive his party even further into the ground.  It wasn't about him being racist, it was about him being a retard who should know better since it will reflect on his entire party.

I've already filled my racial quotas for friends (government mandated you know), so get off my back!  Its statistically proven that I'm not a racist.  I've even got a black cousin!

Tell you what, you guys can say whatever racist things you want and I'll hold you to the same standard I hold myself.  You want to vent about whites, blacks, Asians, go ahead.  I'll get a kick out of it.  Watch out for the mods though.

 

You've also complained about racist regular people.

The Obama bucks was not a high ranking party official.

 

I'm not even really sure what the Obama bucks comment was.  You'll have to fill me in.

If I was a racist, then this would be a bigger deal.  Personally I don't mind if people IN A REGULAR SOCIAL SETTING (not party officials, etc.) make racist jokes if they aren't actually intending them to be racist but just intending that they be funny.  Obviously if they are around a lot of people they don't know they should be a little bit more careful so that they don't offend anyone (kind of like I did).  Racist remarks can also be an effective hyperbole, like as nervous as a black guy in the middle of a Klan meeting.  Mine was intended to be something along these lines.

I'm not one of those Democrats who thinks everything people say has to be politically correct.  If someone wants to make jokes about white people and they don't have any ill intent, I could care less.  Even if they did I would probably laugh about it.  My remark could have been interpreted as racist (frankly I had never even heard of comrade_toyva's interpretation of what I said as a racist remark) but I didn't intend it to be racist.  I'm not a public official, so its not like I'm going to create a media firestorm.

I just understand that in a political setting you have to really just not even try to make a racist joke.  Its like pouring gasoline all over yourself and playing with matches to try and get a laugh.  Nothing good is going to happen.



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