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AsGryffynn on 15 September 2017
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contestgamer said:
AsGryffynn said:

Refer to post where I say I am not American, it's not seen as racist here and people do it at times yet no black people feel offended because in our society we didn't mock black people to the point they wanted to set their eyes on fire back when YOUR people were debating whether they should have rights or not. 

I am not in America and thus your values do not apply to me. I understand this much. 

That's different, fair enough. But if you were American it would be deeply offensive. 

Thanks. For an instant I wondered if I had genuinely done something awful since I actually do care about racism. It's just that people sometimes point to something that happened fifty years ago and which wasn't a thing here and suddenly treat me awful even though it's a first. 

Never mind what happened in the US though... Reap what you sow I guess... While I think it's a bad thing over there, I am not into repressing creative freedom for the sake of political correctness. Especially when the real culprits are long gone, so I still think even things such as blackface shouldn't automatically be classed racism unless there's a clear wish to denigrate or mock someone. 

My two cents.

DonFerrari said:
contestgamer said:

What they did is normnalizing racism. A real racist could not make fun of accents under the guise that these "non racists" did it. I'm for equality and fairness - if someone can't do it, then no one can do it.

So why haven't the other friend that made joke about the british accent weren't fired them? As you said, if it's valid for one it should be enforced on the other.

sethnintendo said:
I want to hear the joke. Just says he did a southern accent.

The joke? He offered a traditional southern dish to his black friend using a southern accent (with no direct inflection of being a dialect or accent that would be used by black people instead of white people). So there were no joke, just mock on accent that both done to one another.

Wait... that's it? It's a wonder Brits don't consider me score then, given I have a field day doing Cockney and Essex accents whenever I am in the UK...