BBC: Second Spanish Civil War Is Possible

[garbon]

And I disagree.  We are not taking this seriously at all.  There are places on the internet, and outside it, where people discuss these questions in earnest.

You didn't seem to be joking.

[Barrister]

When denigrating johnny foreigner on the internet, popular wisdom is to inform south americans they are "browns", and all slavs/ southern europeans they are "fake white".

In what way are slavs "fake white"?

I'll admit when it comes to some further southern slavs (Bulgarians, macedonians) you get the same pigmentation issues as, say, Greeks.

But your average Polack or Uke has pretty fair skin.  Plenty of other spurious ways to attack my countrymen without making stuff up.  You can try Neil's "slavs are sub-human", or Malthus' "slavs are all anti-semites" for example.

[Valmy]

It was pretty. Clear when I posted that. Most(much?) Of the thread was racial theory nonsense.

I was making a joke.  Anyway I apologize I was only kidding around.  Come on 'Honky-Crackerness' should have been a clue.

[Barrister]

It was pretty. Clear when I posted that. Most(much?) Of the thread was racial theory nonsense.

I was making a joke.  Anyway I apologize I was only kidding around.  Come on 'Honky-Crackerness' should have been a clue.

You apologize too easily.  If you don't stand up for a proper definition of "white", who will?

[garbon]

It was pretty. Clear when I posted that. Most(much?) Of the thread was racial theory nonsense.

I was making a joke.  Anyway I apologize I was only kidding around.  Come on 'Honky-Crackerness' should have been a clue.

To be honest I don't even recall your contribution.

[Malthus]

But your average Polack or Uke has pretty fair skin.  Plenty of other spurious ways to attack my countrymen without making stuff up.  You can try Neil's "slavs are sub-human", or Malthus' "slavs are all anti-semites" for example.

Well, they are anti-Semites. All of them. No exceptions.

I'm married to one, so I ought to know! 

[Razgovory]

Well sorta.  If you say that somebody is Asian people are going to think they are East Asian.  They will be really confused if an Indian dude walks in.  But by the census they are considered Asian.

That's because of the US's population.  In the UK it'd be the opposite.  You'd have to specify 'East Asian' but if you describe someone as 'Asian' then you'd imagine someone who's Indian or Pakistani.

Aside from that I've always thought racial categorisation kind of pointless.  Never so much as having read this thread

Pretty soon they are going to break out the Calipers and start measuring skull shape.  Mine is lumpy on account of me being clumsy and running into things.

[Malthus]

Well sorta.  If you say that somebody is Asian people are going to think they are East Asian.  They will be really confused if an Indian dude walks in.  But by the census they are considered Asian.

That's because of the US's population.  In the UK it'd be the opposite.  You'd have to specify 'East Asian' but if you describe someone as 'Asian' then you'd imagine someone who's Indian or Pakistani.

Aside from that I've always thought racial categorisation kind of pointless.  Never so much as having read this thread

Pretty soon they are going to break out the Calipers and start measuring skull shape.  Mine is lumpy on account of me being clumsy and running into things.

So, we'll put you down as "mixed race" then. 

[Razgovory]

Abnormal.

[Barrister]

Abnormal.

Abby Normal?  Is that you?

[Razgovory]

Yep.  I was named after Abby Hoffman.

[Jacob]

Yep.  I was named after Abby Hoffman.

Sounds pretty normal.

[Barrister]

I was going for more of a Young Frankenstein riff. 

[derspiess]

Yep.  I was named after Abby Hoffman.

Sounds pretty normal.

I bet it does, hippy

[Lettow77]

In what way are slavs "fake white"?

I'll admit when it comes to some further southern slavs (Bulgarians, macedonians) you get the same pigmentation issues as, say, Greeks.

But your average Polack or Uke has pretty fair skin.  Plenty of other spurious ways to attack my countrymen without making stuff up.  You can try Neil's "slavs are sub-human", or Malthus' "slavs are all anti-semites" for example.

Well, pigmentation isnt really the issue here- the subhuman thing is much more relevant. In currency are terms like "flipper-fingered subhumans" and "godless slave race." "slave race" has a life of its own as an adjective- a particularly inadequate supper is prone to being described as slave race, as is an underpowered game character, the performance of one's team, or a broken chair. Untermensch is likely to come up from those near and dear to me, although I personally don't find it to taste.

  Accusing them of being anti-semites wouldnt really truck much for the desired effect, as anyone on your own team whose incompetence is sabotaging communal efforts is likely to be outed as a jewish agent, which will invariably lead to the aphorism "all jews are bad news."

(Another vital thing, discussed previously I believe, is to assail anything negative as racist, much in the same way as slave race, with the subtle difference that poor quality is slave race, while anything disagreeable or unpleasant, such as the weather or an odious opinion, can be racist. It is possible to have the coveted overlap of "racist slave race shenanigans", but this is rare and reserved for only the most appropriate of times.

   As a final note, poles online are immune to any criticism, and will almost unfailingly be referred to at some point in the gaming experience as a "plucky little pole", or to be "doing the lord's work." In the event that he somehow is racist or slave race, it will be supposed that he is in fact a jewish plant.