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polosandpearls · #**106** 04-13-2006, 12:11 PM

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Originally posted by lil_sunshine
Because it's a well known fact among Earthlings that some Caucasians CAN'T DANCE!!!!!!!!! Can you dance, Rudey?

That's a pretty ignorant statement...you're kidding, right?
QUIT REINFORCING STEREOTYPES.

Rudey · #**107** 04-13-2006, 12:16 PM

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Originally posted by lil_sunshine
Because it's a well known fact among Earthlings that some Caucasians CAN'T DANCE!!!!!!!!! Can you dance, Rudey?

Better than Usher. Never in a cage or on a table. You? :P

I guess comments like this don't bend most people out of shape and we find it funny.

-Rudey

DSTCHAOS · #**108** 04-13-2006, 12:22 PM

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Originally posted by polosandpearls
That's a pretty ignorant statement...you're kidding, right?
QUIT REINFORCING STEREOTYPES.

I think she was teasing.

Many people truly believe that most whites are inherently void of "soul" and are analytical and articulate rather than "hip" and "rhythmic." Whatever the case may be, that is an insult.

There is no excuse for the use of phrases like "white men can't jump" or "white people can't dance." If people excuse phrases like that then they are subconsciously excusing the belief that nonwhites (usually blacks) are inherently nonanalytical and nonarticulate, but are damn good dancers who sure know how to entertain.

ilikehazing · #**109** 04-13-2006, 12:31 PM

I can't dance, I don't want to be able to jump and thankfully I am analytical otherwise I'm not going to make money in life. Also, I am rich, I embody everything that is "the man". I am proud of that.

edit: Also, polosandpearls i like your screenname can we get married soon? haha

lil_sunshine · #**110** 04-13-2006, 12:32 PM

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Originally posted by DSTCHAOS
I'm going to assume you're joking.

Yes I was only kidding.

MysticCat · #**111** 04-13-2006, 12:37 PM

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Originally posted by DSTCHAOS
However, within a larger American context (with the assumption that there's a such thing as American culture that most of us have assimilated into) people usually have a general idea of what things could be insensitive. Sometimes people honestly don't care and are protesting against the social demand for political correctness.

I agree. That's why I refered to his "honest ignorance" -- not being raised in American culture, he honestly didn't know and shouldn't be expected to know. Then there's wilfull igorance and feigned ingorance . . . .

Rudey · #**112** 04-13-2006, 12:43 PM

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Originally posted by lil_sunshine
Yes I was only kidding.

How do you get a dead baby out of a blender? With tostitos.

People laugh at that joke because it's funny. I don't know how you'd fit a baby into a blender and I don't think anyone wants to eat them with tostitos.

I also got your joke and I'm fine with it.

The thing is these girls were joking too.

-Rudey

KSig RC · #**113** 04-13-2006, 12:44 PM

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Originally posted by DSTCHAOS
Many people truly believe that most whites are inherently void of "soul" and are analytical and articulate rather than "hip" and "rhythmic." Whatever the case may be, that is an insult.

Wow - this is an interesting way to parse 'white men can't dance.' I'm not sure, though, that I understand the connection between 'rhythmic' and 'analytical', at least as far as mutual exclusivity (or really at all) . . . it almost seems like a false dilemma, when posed as a 'this or that' equation - are these the only two true options? Or do you mean that these things are played off each other (incorrectly) and this error is essentially the prejudiced part of the equation?

I'm not very well versed in sociology - maybe you can help me understand?

teena · #**114** 04-13-2006, 12:45 PM

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Originally posted by Rudey
How do you get a dead baby out of a blender? With tostitos.

People laugh at that joke because it's funny. I don't know how you'd fit a baby into a blender and I don't think anyone wants to eat them with tostitos.

I also got your joke and I'm fine with it.

The thing is these girls were joking too.

-Rudey

So strange......so very strange

Rudey · #**115** 04-13-2006, 12:48 PM

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Originally posted by teena
So strange......so very strange

The tostito thing or everything else?

-Rudey

MysticCat · #**116** 04-13-2006, 12:49 PM

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Originally posted by ilikehazing
Hey guys lets be sensitive to each others feelings!

It's called being a gentleman, at least for the guys. Seems like something most fraternities profess to value.

But of course, since you claim to prize all things Southern, I would have thought you would have known that already.

teena · #**117** 04-13-2006, 12:54 PM

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Originally posted by Rudey
The tostito thing or everything else?

-Rudey

The tostito thing. I'd never heard anything like that before.

Rudey · #**118** 04-13-2006, 01:02 PM

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Originally posted by teena
The tostito thing. I'd never heard anything like that before.

Seriously? Next you'll say you never heard pirate jokes or pedophile jokes either.

-Rudey

DSTCHAOS · #**119** 04-13-2006, 01:09 PM

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Originally posted by ilikehazing
I can't dance, I don't want to be able to jump and thankfully I am analytical otherwise I'm not going to make money in life. Also, I am rich, I embody everything that is "the man". I am proud of that.

edit: Also, polosandpearls i like your screenname can we get married soon? haha

Are you rich or are your parents rich?

DSTCHAOS · #**120** 04-13-2006, 01:10 PM

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Originally posted by KSig RC
Or do you mean that these things are played off each other (incorrectly) and this error is essentially the prejudiced part of the equation?

That's part of it.