Does The Word "Racist" Have Any Real Meaning Nowadays?

[Little Red Wagon Repairman]

There is still racism and people of all races have been guilty of this. But when the race card is flung at people like Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi does the name "racist" really mean anything anymore? Seems it's just a name to call someone of a different race when they don't agree with you but you don't have another name to call them.

I'm glad I'm not in politics. I worked the door for years and was called a racist more times than I could count. To be honest sometimes I was but many times I was 100% not guilty as the card was flung at me by someone trying to avoid taking responsibility for their own actions. My advice, unless you're a politician that needs to pander and kiss-ass for votes, is that if you are called a racist to either ignore the name or agree with them. The whole intent is to make you feel defensive.

 

[~~whimsy~~]

Not to me. Also can tell when somebody is being genuinely racist and a real POS as opposed to racist being used as a shut this conversation down now method.

 

[Mr. Daystar]

Not really, people love to call ANYONE that disagrees with anyone different, a racist, and since that's just fucking stupid, no, it doesn't mean shit

 

[Ace Boobtoucher]

This should end well.

 

[Little Red Wagon Repairman]

This should end well.

Ace, I can vouch for you and give you an official seal of approval that you are not a racist. I’ve seen you feeding the black people. You also provided photographic evidence that you still had all 5 fingers left on each hand after you were done.

 

[Ace Boobtoucher]

Thanks, mang. I've been in one uniform or another for the better part of 30 years (holy fuck I'm old) and with the advent of body cams it makes it harder for people to make accusations of racism. I think that may be why those BLM liars don't like it when body cam footage derails their race pimp narrative.

Simply pointing out our President's past and familial relations should really cause people to shut the fuck up about him. I know tons of people who continue to call him racist in spite of the factual and anecdotal evidence that completely ends that notion.

For some of those die hard TDS sufferers racism is the only straw they can grasp at and still gain traction because so many people are really stupid and willing to believe Talcum X or Rob Reiner. It's one of the hardest accusations to survive without lasting stigma. But I think diving head first into the accusation and calling someone a liar for making the accusation could work out as long as you can back up the defense.

It's a double edged sword, really. Having to defend yourself would probably expose someone to further claims of punching down or oppressing their bullshit beliefs. I think President Trump could handle many situations better. And I've stated since he announced his candidacy, that someone should break his thumbs and keep him off the twitter.

 

[Little Red Wagon Repairman]

Thanks, mang. I've been in one uniform or another for the better part of 30 years (holy fuck I'm old) and with the advent of body cams it makes it harder for people to make accusations of racism. I think that may be why those BLM liars don't like it when body cam footage derails their race pimp narrative.

Simply pointing out our President's past and familial relations should really cause people to shut the fuck up about him. I know tons of people who continue to call him racist in spite of the factual and anecdotal evidence that completely ends that notion.

For some of those die hard TDS sufferers racism is the only straw they can grasp at and still gain traction because so many people are really stupid and willing to believe Talcum X or Rob Reiner. It's one of the hardest accusations to survive without lasting stigma. But I think diving head first into the accusation and calling someone a liar for making the accusation could work out as long as you can back up the defense.

It's a double edged sword, really. Having to defend yourself would probably expose someone to further claims of punching down or oppressing their bullshit beliefs. I think President Trump could handle many situations better. And I've stated since he announced his candidacy, that someone should break his thumbs and keep him off the twitter.

You are welcome. You are 100% absolved from all the times you have been called racist and the next 8 times as well. Don't forget to bring your punch card so an accurate tally can be kept. (I have more punch cards if you need them as they are free to Cops and X-Cops). I'm having the printer make me up some brutality vouchers too.

I have a tenant who's a Hollywood Screenwriter who suffers from terminal White guilt and chronic Virtue Signaling. He thinks being a racist is worse than being a serial killer of children (although the killing of a 2 year old by its mother is just a late term abortion which is totally OK as it's a woman's right to choose). If he were called a racist he would pour gasoline over his head while holding a lit match then use the other hand to put a knife to his throat and beg for forgiveness just to show how progressively woke and self-loathing he was.

 

[georges]

Obama Muppets/democraps label systematically patriots and people who defend the army, the flag, the 2nd amendment, the borders and the constitution as racist. The Obama muppets/ democraps love community organizers and despicable people like Farrakhan, Tlaib, Omar and Gillum who are themselves antiamerican, antisemitic and absolutely unpatriotic douchebags. It is more easy to blame someone who is defending beak and claws his country and portray him as racist than seeing why he is a protectionnist. Do really some people think that America can embrace all the third world misery coming from South America???That is insane and unrealistic to think so . At the very beginning , America was a conservative country, you hardly turn a conservative into a socialist country except in some countries in Europe, but also Sweden, Denmark and Venezuela where the socialism has made its marvels in terms of ruining everything litterally.

 

[xfire]

To Dino: What would qualify as a, "racist" act?

To address the institutional stupidity that is George- "At the very beginning , America was a conservative country": that is just wrong and suffers from a complete lack of understanding, education, or perspective.

 

[Little Red Wagon Repairman]

To Dino: What would qualify as a, "racist" act?

A racist act IMO would be an action where the determining factor was race. Could be discrimination, reverse discrimination, violence because of a person’s race, assuming someone was better at basketball or swimming because of race... Not all of those are exact actions but some are ideas.

I admit to being racist occasionally or often when I worked in the bar business. I would never let large groups of black males in (4 or more) but they usually gave me a legitimate reason either not bringing ID, dress code violation, or bad attitude. People might not like it or agree with me but IMO it was better to be that way and the owners of every place I worked at would agree. The white ladies unless they were mudsharks also preferred the place that way as they didn’t want black guys chatting them up. Even the black guys I worked the door with worked like that. Blacks expected me to discriminate but the blacks I worked with caught tons of shit for doing it getting called the N-Word all kinda times right in front of me. Many of those fellas were friends of mine and I felt bad for them. Also the blacks who were servers didn’t want to serve their own because they said they don’t tip and also made them run back at forth for BBQ sauce and ranch dressing and complain about being hit for a service charge on the check that the black server requested the manager on duty to add.

I wanted to respect your question and answered as honestly and thoroughly as I could.

 

[xfire]

What you call telling Brown people to, "go back to where they came from"?

 

[Little Red Wagon Repairman]

What you call telling Brown people to, "go back to where they came from"?

Depends who the brown person is. If she’s Puerto Rican like AOC it could be racist or just dumb making it seem like PR is not part of America. You’d have to ask the person and find out how they intended it. If it was the Somali Congress gal from Minnesota but born in Somalia, who is black, it could be because of something she said that was interpreted as resentful toward our country having nothing to do with race.

If you are referring to Trump I also shake my head at all the unforced errors he makes and dumb things he says or tweets. He’s a politician and can’t let his hair down like he’s Archie Bunker talking to the dingbat or the meathead while sitting in his chair.

 

[xfire]

I wanted to respect your question and answered as honestly and thoroughly as I could.

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Dino Velvet again.

I appreciate the answer, bro. I take black people the same way I take anyone else, ad hoc, on a one-on-one basis. I'm just as uncomfortable around a bunch of meth head "whiskey tangos" (RIP lil' dog) as I am around a bunch of pipe-hitting thugs from the 'hood.

 

[Little Red Wagon Repairman]

BTW, I made those 2 posts while sitting on the toilet pinching off a loaf. I forgot if I wiped myself. I guess I gotta do it again.

 

[Little Red Wagon Repairman]

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Dino Velvet again.

I appreciate the answer, bro. I take black people the same way I take anyone else, ad hoc, on a one-on-one basis. I'm just as uncomfortable around a bunch of meth head "whiskey tangos" (RIP lil' dog) as I am around a bunch of pipe-hitting thugs from the 'hood.

Thanks X. I like you enough to be honest with you even if I know you won’t agree with me.

I also don’t like trailer trash but I fought with those Slackjawed Yokels when I worked in Texas. Out here I worked mainly in Santa Monica at beach locations. Plenty of people who started work at the same places started out not being racist but became that way over time seeing behavior that was consistent that didn’t break pattern often enough.

My life is different now and I don’t work the door anymore. I may still have racist ideas and thoughts but I can’t remember a blatant racist action I’ve committed of late. I get along with pretty much everyone these days even if they are assholes regardless of color.

 

[xfire]

Depends who the brown person is. If she’s Puerto Rican like AOC it could be racist or just dumb making it seem like PR is not part of America. You’d have to ask the person and find out how they intended it. If it was the Somali Congress gal from Minnesota but born in Somalia, who is black, it could be because of something she said that was interpreted as resentful toward our country having nothing to do with race.

If you are referring to Trump I also shake my head at all the unforced errors he makes and dumb things he says or tweets. He’s a politician and can’t let his hair down like he’s Archie Bunker talking to the dingbat or the meathead while sitting in his chair.

Tony Schwartz & Michael Cohen have both said Trump is racist, both of whom have spent a lot of time around him. There is persuasive evidence to support the charge that Trump is racist, if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, and all that.

But I think it's more than just, "racism" with the modern day Republican party. It's misogyny, homophobia, aporophobia. intolerance for any religion that isn't some flavor of "christianity", and Republican Tribalism. They don't just hate different races, they hate anyone that's not in their pack.

 

[Rey C.]

When people like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Hillary Clinton affected Black accents when speaking to Black people, I think they both showed their own race hangups. How would it be seen if a White or Black person (non-Jewish) affected a Jewish accent when speaking to a group of Jews? Or what if, say, Barack Obama had affected a hillbilly accent when speaking to White people in Tennessee or Kentucky? What if an Hispanic person affected a Chinese accent when speaking to some Chinese people? How would that go over??? At the very least, those things would/should be seen as patronizing and disrespectful. The difference is, people like Ocasio-Cortez and Hillary always expect to get a pass on anything that they do. Probably has to do with their sense of female entitlement or privilege (see what I did there? ). PC Police are just like real life police: they think that they're above the rules that they expect others to follow. The more I learn about Ocasio-Cortez, the less I like her... the less I respect her. She seems to be pretty quick to launch accusations at other people, all while wanting a pass for similar things that she's done. I wouldn't piss on Nancy Pelosi's head if she was on fire. But I don't think that the old gal is a racist, or that she called out the Rebels Without a Clue for reasons of race. I think she called them out because they have a habit of acting like crying babies throwing a tantrum.

To answer the OP, yes, I think the terms racism, misogyny, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, homophobia, Mexiphobia (a brand new one on me), etc. lose meaning when they're flung around at the drop of a hat. But sadly, we're living in a time when far too many people (IMO) wake up in the morning looking for something to be offended by. Sometimes people don't agree with you. Sometimes people don't like you. Maybe race, religion, gender or national origin are at the heart of it. But maybe not. Instantly dropping one of the cards just makes me not take that person seriously.

 

[xfire]

My wife affects accents all the time, it's fucking embarrassing, but she won't stop. Go to the Mexican grocery store, she talks in broken English and makes huge hand gestures, while I'm dying pushing the grocery cart. Go to the Chinese buffet, same thing, only with a little soy sauce on top. She swears she's Native American, so she gets a pass. Yeah, uh-huh, right.

 

[zipper_666]

I am definitely not a racist, but if someone wants to call me one because of some irrelevant reason, I don't give a fuck. I'll agree with them just to piss them off. I remember watching a video once of a White dude calling a Black girl a racist. The woman was so surprised and stated ...I didn't even know that Black people could even be racist.

WTF?? Obviously, she doesn't even understand the definition of a racist. So many people are just fucking stupid.

 

[Little Red Wagon Repairman]

My wife affects accents all the time, it's fucking embarrassing, but she won't stop. Go to the Mexican grocery store, she talks in broken English and makes huge hand gestures, while I'm dying pushing the grocery cart. Go to the Chinese buffet, same thing, only with a little soy sauce on top. She swears she's Native American, so she gets a pass. Yeah, uh-huh, right.

I do a heck of a good Persian accent myself. I make sure not to do it outside the house or anywhere in Westwood. During the Holidays I do my famous parody of a Persian Just For Men commercial that was based on my next door neighbor ambushing me on my front lawn and telling me, "Hey buddy, when you grow beard you should look like young lion, not old lion." He's a good guy.

I would guess that Mofaz isn't one of my Westwood peeps but probably lives in Tarzana.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=mofaz+the+depressed+persian+t ow+truck+man