OT Either stop locking threads or close the OT forum down

No, it’s not.

 

I think that’s the problem. It’s become common form for those that are racist to use terms that could be taken multiple ways. It gives the the “who me” act to play, and allows them to talk out of both sides of their mouths.

I think you are correct that the term isn’t in itself racist, if used it making fun of my own shortcomings and I’ve never heard it uttered with race in mind.

But when you hear or read those same words coming from Simone who is always tiptoeing on the racism line it should give pause and context should require a different reading.

On the other hand @dviss1 might be a little more touchy on the subject of racism than you or I. That’s totally understandable. For him (please correct me dviss if I’m wrong) he expects others who have read countless posts from a particular poster that step over the line to give dviss the credibility to call him out and have the rest of the community get his back from time to time.

These are blurry lines and I think both of you have excellent points and are smart enough to understand the weaknesses of your own arguments.

 

I am asking him to clarify his position, because I had interpreted his meaning that the term "edumacate" was racist in general. Now he's saying that it was only racist because Nate said it to him, and that saying "edumacate" to a black person is considered racism 101. So is saying that word to another white person considered racist? That's all I'm asking.

 

Bad shit happens to people. My mom's cousin was robbed and shot in the head in downtown Portland many years ago.

My wife's sister was kidnapped and shot in Salem.

Portland is still an extremely safe city compared to many urban centers.

But does Portland have neighborhoods where you simply do not go?

 

Fuck white people tho amirite?

 

But see, this was not my intent here. I didn’t want to hear about bad things that have happened to your family members in random places around this city. I wanted to give you examples of what dviss and I we’re SURROUNDED by and INGROSSED in, during our formative years. Events that have formed us and our thinking. I don’t want to speak for him, but like I said before, how you are raised and who and where, is how you see things. I know you I understand this. Of course PDX is safe compared to others....and to be honest the old neighborhood is NOTHING like is was then. Gentrification has taken care of that. But I just didn’t appreciate you coming at me and him about not having “Street Knowledge” because of where our HS was located and because you spent some quiet summer afternoons there.

 

He has the right to his views on racism....and I think it's wrong to say that to him...it is insulting

 

I don’t know what happened to you, but you honestly are being a jerk on here. This type of post is not helping. I would actually like to see threads like this maybe open some eyes and help fix whats wrong with the world today. You think this type of thing is a fucking joke.

 

No I’m being completely serious.

 

I think you’re quoting the wrong post.

 

I was making a joke.

I don’t hate white people.

 

Yeah, Vancouver's the hardest place you can find around here. How do you think I got so hard?

 

But you’re fine with the hate dviss spews lol.

Good luck to you too.

 

Well I don’t come over here often. But the things I’ve seen you post in the last couple days, is very sad. Sad that you feel that way towards others. If you are just bored and trying to stir shit up, good on you. I won’t play into that hate you are trying to spew. Good luck to you and yours.

 

eewww

 

When I typed it, I was wondering woo was going to take it in that context. Lmao.

 

@HCP tell me how this isn’t hate spewed bullshit.

 

@HCP

Look at all the shit dviss said in here, and tell me he isn’t just spewing hate towards white people as a whole.

This is one tiny sample of the racist shit he says.