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Azzy ([info]azawakh) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2006-02-12 23:36:00


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"SPO doesn't care about black people."
In everyone's favorite holier-than-thou community, [info]stupidpetowners, [info]penguinsane posts about kids dragging a puppy around with a belt. Standard fodder, really. However, the drama quotient skyrockets thanks to...

Hardly minutes ago, I pulled up from going to the laundromat to see ... two little black kids (about ten years old, one of whom seemed to lack the knowledge of proper fitting pants, hanging all off him) yanking a pit bull puppy around by a leash.

AND

I'm all O_O as they pass and junk, then two little white boys right around the corner squeal and want to pet the puppy. The boy tugging the dog around lets them, and the other one (the one with the ill-fitting pants) was screaming "NO HE HAS TO BE MEAN HES A PITT BULL HE HAS TO BE MEANNNN"

Naturally, people question the necessity of including race. [info]penguinsane becomes defensive, but the thread seems to steer clear of NUCULAR LOLOCAUST, until [info]rpkierstan makes the makes the standard comment about turning the SPOs abuse on themselves. [info]penguinsane uses this opportunity to make a jab about hate crimes, and voila! Let the editing of posts and mod reports begin!

EDIT: Bonus: use of "colored." I'm now having flashbacks of a former asshole landlord who'd bitch about what the "colored people" were doing in his slums.


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rowleyorama
2006-02-13 05:48 am UTC (link)
It gives me a sinking feeling to see the names of people on my flist show up here.

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[info]azawakh
2006-02-13 05:56 am UTC (link)
AH SYMPATHIZE

I've been there many a time through fandom_wank.

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(no subject) - rowleyorama, 2006-02-13 06:01 am UTC

[info]siobhania
2006-02-13 02:56 pm UTC (link)
Mason! Oh how I love his whiny, incompetent ass.

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[info]brown_betty
2006-02-13 05:49 am UTC (link)
not allowing me to drag persons about on a leash=omg oppression

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[info]mookie
2006-02-13 06:04 am UTC (link)
Well, unless, you know, that's the sort of thing they're into.

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[info]mookie
2006-02-13 06:03 am UTC (link)
I'm all O_O as they pass and junk

Forget the racist/not racist wank. That sentence makes me twitch.

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[info]delcj
2006-02-13 06:28 am UTC (link)
agreed.

also, [info]penguinsane should be informed that in order to successfully use "plzkthx" and such expressions in an ironic way, one must not actually be as dense as the people that these expressions mock.

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[info]phosfate
2006-02-13 10:09 pm UTC (link)
Surely the proper construction would be, "And then, dude, I'm, like, all O_O and junk as they pass."

At least that's how I was taught.

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(no subject) - [info]mathilde, 2006-02-13 11:57 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]rotten_fish, 2006-02-14 05:14 pm UTC

[info]judyhazeleyes
2006-02-13 06:37 am UTC (link)
I was pointing out the fact that if I had taken the belt around the boy's neck and dragged HIM around ... it would've been a hate crime. But if I had done it to a white person, no one would give two shits about the color of their skin.

... uhm. I'm pretty sure that either way, if you were dragging a child around on a homemade belt-leash, anyone who witnessed that event would be so entranced by your complete LUNACY that they wouldn't notice the colour of anyone's skin.

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[info]stjarna
2006-02-13 04:55 pm UTC (link)
But would it make any difference if I took both my kids out on leashes, i have one of either skin tone. :|

Your comment made me chuckle, lord knows why, but thanks, I'm having a poo day and it cheered me up. Possibly had too much caffeine...

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(no subject) - [info]judyhazeleyes, 2006-02-13 08:01 pm UTC

[info]moonjaguar
2006-02-13 06:05 pm UTC (link)
Well, the kid being dragged around the neck would probably turn a noticeable shade of blue after awhile...

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(no subject) - [info]judyhazeleyes, 2006-02-13 08:00 pm UTC

[info]mistal
2006-02-13 06:44 am UTC (link)
Hehe, saw that post yesterday and told myself "someone is going to wank about that". I should have post it to clairvoyantwank...

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pink_lightning
2006-02-13 07:41 am UTC (link)
God Almighty. As far as the post goes, that sounds exactly like something that'd happen in my town. O.o

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[info]jat_sapphire
2006-02-13 02:20 pm UTC (link)
penguinsane: Not really, it's just automatic from me.

I had to get some serious self-control to keep myself from just randomly putting, "I'm racist." c_c


Wow, that's SUCH a convincing "Oh please, **me** racist?!" argument.



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[info]smo
2006-02-13 04:32 pm UTC (link)
*sigh*

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[info]emiweebee
2006-02-13 06:02 pm UTC (link)
Oh please. I'm not racist. I would've said the same thing for any other race, including my own to describe what was going on.

...Which I would buy if I ever saw someone, [info]penguinsane included, actually do.

A cursory glance at the comm, however, shows that no one actually includes the race of the SPOs, so...yeah. What a bad defense.

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[info]belafarinrod
2006-02-13 09:12 pm UTC (link)
Yep. I once went through the paper and counted all non-colored descriptions like "30 year old male" and "teacher" etc and mentally added "white". It really gave a different feeling.

And when talking about bratty kids, there's really no need to point outthe skin color. They were little assholes - so? There's assholes of all shades

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(no subject) - [info]azawakh, 2006-02-13 09:40 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]felinephoenix, 2006-02-13 09:58 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]azawakh, 2006-02-13 10:03 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]felinephoenix, 2006-02-14 02:56 am UTC

[info]ravenscanary
2006-02-13 07:09 pm UTC (link)
Here, people reference/describe the colour of skin about anyone who isn't white. It doesn't make them racist, it's what people do when someone isn't white.

...

But...why?

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[info]puipui
2006-02-13 08:08 pm UTC (link)
It doesn't make them racist, it's what people do when someone isn't white.

Yeah, see, they're not racist, they're just doing racist things. It's entirely different, really.

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(no subject) - [info]loopywafflehead, 2006-02-13 09:11 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]felinephoenix, 2006-02-14 02:57 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]loopywafflehead, 2006-02-15 01:05 am UTC

[info]belafarinrod
2006-02-13 09:16 pm UTC (link)
...see, I think that communities like debunkingwhite and such are pretty crazy. But then, up comes these people and voila, I suddenly see the point of the debunkingwhite crowd (I don't agree with them on all points, but still)

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[info]slackerbitch
2006-02-13 09:33 pm UTC (link)
So they don't have to think about their "white = default" mentality?

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(no subject) - [info]azawakh, 2006-02-13 09:43 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]ravenscanary, 2006-02-13 10:30 pm UTC

[info]gal_montag
2006-02-13 09:13 pm UTC (link)
I can't do that because then it'd be considered a hate crime. But do that same thing to a white person and omg it's okay!

I'm sorry, but wtf? That had jack shit to do with the topic at hand, what was the point in making that comment except to stir up some race related drama?

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[info]azawakh
2006-02-13 09:31 pm UTC (link)
Well, she uses "colored folk" later on, so it wouldn't surprise me in the least.

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(no subject) - [info]antigone, 2006-02-14 01:21 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]azawakh, 2006-02-14 03:00 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]rubylou, 2006-02-14 02:32 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]azawakh, 2006-02-14 02:53 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]slackerbitch, 2006-02-13 09:32 pm UTC

pink_lightning
2006-02-14 08:39 am UTC (link)
I had three white clouds and a pleca living comfortably in a small tank. Someone told me I needed to have a 20 gallon tank for the three white clouds (wtf?), I made the investment, and almost all of them died from stress and fin rot. >.< Of course I "obviously" didn't do enough research and should be shot. My betta lived in one gallon tupperware and was having a fine and dandy time. Move to tank = SPLURT. DEAD.

'Course now they have fin rot AGAIN for some goddamn reason. There's only two white clouds left and they are TINY.

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(no subject) - [info]randomsome1, 2006-02-14 09:18 am UTC
(no subject) - pink_lightning, 2006-02-14 04:16 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]randomsome1, 2006-02-14 05:33 pm UTC
(no subject) - pink_lightning, 2006-02-15 04:50 am UTC
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(no subject) - pink_lightning, 2006-02-15 06:30 pm UTC

[info]rotten_fish
2006-02-14 05:58 pm UTC (link)
Oh please. I'm not racist. I would've said the same thing for any other race, including my own to describe what was going on.

I had to get some serious self-control to keep myself from just randomly putting, "I'm racist." c_c

I can't do that because then it'd be considered a hate crime. But do that same thing to a white person and omg it's okay!

I didn't drop n-bombs


I'm not racist, except when I am! Stop calling me 'racist,' I didn't give you permission yet! If those kids abusing the puppy were white, I totally would have said so! Stop it, you are seriously jeopardizing my right to be Chuck Norris a badass pet owner on the internet!

I liked the part about child abuse. It warmed the cockles of my withered, diseased heart.

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