12-15-2019, 05:32 PM
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Football Players & Eye Black: Racist?
Given the propensity of every single thread to degrade into a talk about Trudeau and his Arabian costume and how a very vocal part of CP is starkly against it, I wanted to do a bit of a poll to see what is and isn't acceptable in 2019.
First up: eye black.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_black
There is no evidence that wearing black stripes under your eyes helps you see/reduce glare. As such, it seems to have become a kind of 'war paint'; that is, wearing black on your face makes you look more intimidating or focused. Is that racist?
Emoticons.
Many mediums allow the user to choose the skin color of their emoticon. See:
If I'm white and use black emoticons regularly, is that racist?
Finally, costumes.
It's pretty clear between Trudeau and Aliu that we can't dress up as a person of color. That's racist. But what about dressing up in a costume without blackface? Is that racist? If I want to go as black panther for Halloween even though I'm white, can I?
Along that line, what about 'alternative' colors. Example:
Is this costume offensive to other species?
Any other examples of these sorts of things?
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12-15-2019, 05:40 PM
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There is no way the lifespan of thinking this was clever lasted longer than the time it took to type it out.
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12-15-2019, 05:42 PM
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Stop it.
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12-15-2019, 05:44 PM
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This is the dumbest thing I've read all day, yet strangely enough I had a light chuckle about it.
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12-15-2019, 05:46 PM
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Not a casual user
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Location: A simple man leading a complicated life....
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12-15-2019, 05:54 PM
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What if you're white and get punched by another white guy and you get a black eye? Is the punchee racist? Or the puncher? Is it ok if the puncher is a black guy? Or is that worse?
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12-15-2019, 05:58 PM
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That Crazy Guy at the Bus Stop
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I own a black cat. She grew up on the streets and I rescued her. Do I have a white saviour complex? Is this really just modern slavery?
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12-15-2019, 06:02 PM
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#8
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Does doing muddy events, like Tough Mudder make you racist after the race?
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12-15-2019, 06:07 PM
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What if you use one of those white power emojis (second row) but in brown?
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12-15-2019, 06:12 PM
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Norm!
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This is dumb, like really dumb, like I feel that the average collective IQ of this community plummeted with this topic.
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12-15-2019, 06:19 PM
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Uncle Chester
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Hoo boy. Props to the OP for the effort but, man....
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12-15-2019, 06:34 PM
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12-15-2019, 06:41 PM
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I think we have officially found CP's all time biggest moron.
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12-15-2019, 06:50 PM
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evil of fart
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I'm gonna need to make some time to read through your old posts. How have I never realized you were a complete lunatic until now? Were there signs that I missed? I'm genuinely curious.
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12-15-2019, 06:54 PM
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Well this didn't go the way you expected did it?
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12-15-2019, 06:55 PM
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I thought I would open up this thread and be upset, and surprisingly I'm even more upset.
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12-15-2019, 06:56 PM
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Pent-up
Join Date: Mar 2018
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Quote:
Originally Posted by PepsiFree
This thread might somehow be more racist than any of the things mentioned.
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Yeah let’s trivialize this whole thing. Holy crap.
Edit: was i not clearly talking about the op trivializing it? I guess not. Best to leave it to Niks reply.
Last edited by Scroopy Noopers; 12-15-2019 at 06:58 PM.
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12-15-2019, 06:57 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Scroopy Noopers
Yeah let’s trivialize this whole thing. Holy crap.
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Hahaha the OP has trolled successfully I see.
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12-15-2019, 07:47 PM
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First Line Centre
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I'm not sure why the response is what it is.
I would have never guessed that an Aladdin costume would be deemed so racist. So consider this me getting ahead of the way social norms are progressing. That way I won't be caught in 10 years from now and ostracized.
Quote:
Originally Posted by PepsiFree
This thread might somehow be more racist than any of the things mentioned.
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I'm not sure how that would be.
Hoping we can sort through this odd initial reaction to actually arrive at some educated conclusions.
Another one to try to fuel discussion: I have a coworker who, when discussing the Peters incident, says the N word in full when referring to what Peters had said. Everyone around at the time was white. Is that racist?
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