Graham Hick wrote:Randall when you were at my house in Oregon and I said you were the first black person I had seen in months you didn't take that as a racist statement did you? Because the butt of that joke was whitebred Oregon.

It's just something I've seriously worried about from time to time since then. This seemed like a good place to ask.

Rick Reuben wrote:I will say that her remark is not indicative of racism against all Mexicans.

Derek Monypeny wrote:Hey- I started this particular thread. I have not read any of the posts on it, except for warmowski's and noise&light's, which were forwarded to me (noise&light's response makes this thread's existence worthwhile, no matter what else has been written in it).

I've been reading EA off and on almost since its inception. I've seen racial/ethnic slurs in the context of jokes, good and bad, and I've seen them written by fake-o board characters or by people affecting an Internet persona.

Amanda/Mandroid's post was the first time I could remember reading a blatant, unambiguous ethnic slur on the boards, without any it's-a-joke context or my-funny-Internet-character-says-this-stuff context that I could discern. It looked weird and ugly to me, sitting there for days by the time I came across it, casually, indifferently.

I'm sure I am naive both about the prevalence of casual racial/ethnic/sexist/homophobic slurs that people utter in "real life" (because nobody I deal with personally on any type of regular basis would ever consider saying shit like that) and about the overall indifference with which those in the company of the utterer usually react to them.

So I got really upset by this, and wrote a threatening post to Amanda/Mandroid in that thread. That was really lame and totally out of line on my part. Pretty much anything said or done in anger ends up being a dumb mistake, you know?

Anyway, I then started this thread. I did so neither to accuse anyone of anything, nor to spark a "debate" on race/racism (on Electrical Audio? Fuck's sake.). I was upset by a blatant, unambiguous ethnic slur on what is, overall, a message board wherein one does not enounter such things. I wanted the EA take on such matters from Steve and/or mods. And I wanted to say that this kind of crap was not acceptable to me personally, as an individual member of the boards, not speaking for anyone else. That's pretty much it.

I will close by saying that if you're a person who thinks that there is some aspect of being a "piece of shit" that is Mexican in nature and needs to be highlighted as such: day-to-day grown-up life has some lessons for you. And these lessons will eventually be bestowed upon you. They won't be bestowed by me, and at the time you probably won't recognize them as such, but they will be bestowed as a gift upon you. When these lessons are bestowed upon you it may be painful for you, but, speaking as someone who cares about you, I hope you're ready to learn.

steve wrote:You know you don't need to make a new account every time you want to post, right?

Marsupialized wrote:Blow it out your ass, dickwad.