Life so I just got the *racist stare* - Page 6

DenverChief · 10-07-2014, 06:50 PM

I'm on vacation. Sitting in a pretty empty train station. Spread out on a bank of chairs next to a plug in with my significant other. A lot of people come and go using the restrooms buying sodas but no one ever sits or stays for long. Got here at about 4pm waiting on a 630pm train. Anyway a big group comes in and people start taking chairs. We having a whole bank to ourselves (laptops and tablets charging) have our bags at either end if the bank while sitting closest to one end where the electricity is.

A big guy comes walking buy and sits in the bank of chairs opposite the side we are on. I decide I should move our bags together so that we aren't being rude and taking up more space than necessary now that we have company. After moving my bag I look up and this big guy is staring at me giving me the "eye". I ask him "what's up?" And he just shakes his head and sits down.

I'm like wtf. Does everything someone does have to be racist?

Simply Red · 10-08-2014, 08:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Baby Lee

Someone finally got around to seeing Gummo.

yeah I JUST saw it.

BIG_DADDY · 10-08-2014, 08:12 AM

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Originally Posted by J Diddy

WTF?

You're not black?

How in the mother****ing holy hell do you get to pick a u/n of black op w/out being black.

Chicken pecking mother****er.

People can be so friggen weird.

**Donger** · 10-08-2014, 08:24 AM

Perhaps it wasn't racist. Perhaps it was a sexual orientation stare.

**Donger** · 10-08-2014, 08:26 AM

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Originally Posted by listopencil

Yes, I would have raped you just to make a point.

I saw her first!

scorpio · 10-08-2014, 08:29 AM

The other day I noticed I had left my wallet full of cash sitting out on my desk, so I grabbed it and threw it in a drawer right as a Mexican custodian happened to be walking into my office. I got the look.

**loochy** · 10-08-2014, 08:48 AM

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Originally Posted by BlackOp

If I were black..I would despise white people..and it would be justified.

If I were lazy...I would despise hard workers...and it would be justified.

displacedinMN · 10-08-2014, 09:17 AM

an appropriate cartoon for today's society

**ptlyon** · 10-08-2014, 09:35 AM

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Originally Posted by Donger

Perhaps it wasn't racist. Perhaps it was a sexual orientation stare.

awesome

**MahiMike** · 10-08-2014, 09:54 AM

you shoulda done the 2 finger wrist roll followed by stuffing them under your arm pits when you said 'sup?' Follow that up with the little chin bump.

Katipan · 10-08-2014, 09:55 AM

Anyone else stick two fingers up and roll their wrist trying to figure out what the **** he's talking about?

...

Maybe it's just me.

**loochy** · 10-08-2014, 10:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Katipan

Anyone else stick two fingers up and roll their wrist trying to figure out what the **** he's talking about?

...

Maybe it's just me.

I so completely just did that

**Baby Lee** · 10-08-2014, 10:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Katipan

Anyone else stick two fingers up and roll their wrist trying to figure out what the **** he's talking about?

...

Maybe it's just me.

Though it doesn't count as a true googlewhack since it uses quotation marks, searching '2 finger wrist roll' DOES result in exactly one result, this thread.

mcan · 10-08-2014, 10:29 AM

See, I can't tell from the information in this story if you are black and he's white or if you're a skinny white guy and he's a big Samoan. I'm not sure what offense is even being discussed.

I assume you mean you're a white guy, who by moving his bags over, was afraid that the black guy who sat down was thinking you might be afraid he'd take your bag or steal something out of it. So, he gave you a rotten look, like "dude, I'm not gonna steal your bag" but you can't say, "dude, I didn't think you WERE gonna steal my bag, I was trying to be polite" and now you're in an argument with somebody in your own head because this piece of shit doesn't recognize politeness when he sees it, and the media has told him all the white guys moving their bags around are racists. This is all that ****in' Obama's fault!

Or, maybe it was a misunderstanding and he's upset because he's waiting in a train station and isn't having the same conversation in his head that you are. These interactions happen with humans all the time. We're selfish creatures who THINK we're better at figuring out what's going in other people's heads than we are.

Mostly, the other guy is probably thinking something like: "I told her specifically that I didn't want go to this gate. They always take the chairs out at the wrong time and, see... No ****ing chairs. This poor guy over here, he has a whole living room set up but everybody else, no ****ing chairs. Damn, Missy lets just park over there next time... What's this dude looking at me for? What? Just shake your head. Damn, Missy."

**Baby Lee** · 10-08-2014, 10:36 AM

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Originally Posted by mcan

See, I can't tell from the information in this story if you are black and he's white or if you're a skinny white guy and he's a big Samoan. I'm not sure what offense is even being discussed.

I assume you mean you're a white guy, who by moving his bags over, was afraid that the black guy who sat down was thinking you might be afraid he'd take your bag or steal something out of it. So, he gave you a rotten look, like "dude, I'm not gonna steal your bag" but you can't say, "dude, I didn't think you WERE gonna steal my bag, I was trying to be polite" and now you're in an argument with somebody in your own head because this piece of shit doesn't recognize politeness when he sees it, and the media has told him all the white guys moving their bags around are racists. This is all that ****in' Obama's fault!

Or, maybe it was a misunderstanding and he's upset because he's waiting in a train station and isn't having the same conversation in his head that you are. "

These interactions happen with humans all the time. We're selfish creatures who THINK we're better at figuring out what's going in other people's heads than we are. Mostly, the other guy is probably thinking "I told her specifically that I didn't want go to this gate. This gate is always the gate they take the chairs out at the wrong time and, see... No ****ing chairs. This poor guy over here, he has a whole living room set up but everybody else, no ****ing chairs. Damn, Missy lets just park over there next time... What's this dude looking at me for? What? Just shake your head. Damn, Missy."

Isn't this just like white privilege, to deny minorities the delicious outrage of being subjected to suspicious stares.

mcan · 10-08-2014, 10:41 AM

in the meantime he has no idea that you're sitting across from him fuming because you're imagining that he's calling you a racist. Like, this guy over here doesn't have his own thing going on...

Now, imagine everywhere you go, these little misunderstandings happen all the time. White guilt is leading to thousands of micro transactions of unspoken racism misunderstandings every day. These transgressions are to be expected. The nuclear fallout residue that sticks to a culture for years after the primary explosion has been detonated. The back and forth pendulum of blame swings from the persecutor, to the victim, and back again until whatever friction put upon it by human empathy eventually sets the pendulum back at rest again.

10-07-2014, 06:50 PM
DenverChief MVP Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Rocky Ford Casino cash: $5679867	so I just got the racist stare I'm on vacation. Sitting in a pretty empty train station. Spread out on a bank of chairs next to a plug in with my significant other. A lot of people come and go using the restrooms buying sodas but no one ever sits or stays for long. Got here at about 4pm waiting on a 630pm train. Anyway a big group comes in and people start taking chairs. We having a whole bank to ourselves (laptops and tablets charging) have our bags at either end if the bank while sitting closest to one end where the electricity is. A big guy comes walking buy and sits in the bank of chairs opposite the side we are on. I decide I should move our bags together so that we aren't being rude and taking up more space than necessary now that we have company. After moving my bag I look up and this big guy is staring at me giving me the "eye". I ask him "what's up?" And he just shakes his head and sits down. I'm like wtf. Does everything someone does have to be racist?
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10-08-2014, 08:24 AM	#78
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10-08-2014, 09:55 AM	#85
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10-08-2014, 10:29 AM	#88
mcan Apr 13,1949 – Dec 15, 2011 Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Kansas City, MO Casino cash: $9996085	See, I can't tell from the information in this story if you are black and he's white or if you're a skinny white guy and he's a big Samoan. I'm not sure what offense is even being discussed. I assume you mean you're a white guy, who by moving his bags over, was afraid that the black guy who sat down was thinking you might be afraid he'd take your bag or steal something out of it. So, he gave you a rotten look, like "dude, I'm not gonna steal your bag" but you can't say, "dude, I didn't think you WERE gonna steal my bag, I was trying to be polite" and now you're in an argument with somebody in your own head because this piece of shit doesn't recognize politeness when he sees it, and the media has told him all the white guys moving their bags around are racists. This is all that **in' Obama's fault! Or, maybe it was a misunderstanding and he's upset because he's waiting in a train station and isn't having the same conversation in his head that you are. These interactions happen with humans all the time. We're selfish creatures who THINK we're better at figuring out what's going in other people's heads than we are. Mostly, the other guy is probably thinking something like: "I told her specifically that I didn't want go to this gate. They always take the chairs out at the wrong time and, see... No ing chairs. This poor guy over here, he has a whole living room set up but everybody else, no *ing chairs. Damn, Missy lets just park over there next time... What's this dude looking at me for? What? Just shake your head. Damn, Missy." Last edited by mcan; 10-08-2014 at 10:46 AM.. Reason: punctuation/clarity*
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10-08-2014, 10:41 AM	#90
mcan Apr 13,1949 – Dec 15, 2011 Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Kansas City, MO Casino cash: $9996085	in the meantime he has no idea that you're sitting across from him fuming because you're imagining that he's calling you a racist. Like, this guy over here doesn't have his own thing going on... Now, imagine everywhere you go, these little misunderstandings happen all the time. White guilt is leading to thousands of micro transactions of unspoken racism misunderstandings every day. These transgressions are to be expected. The nuclear fallout residue that sticks to a culture for years after the primary explosion has been detonated. The back and forth pendulum of blame swings from the persecutor, to the victim, and back again until whatever friction put upon it by human empathy eventually sets the pendulum back at rest again.
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