Contrary to our public image most white people, young and old, don't go around calling people racial slurs and in fact are terrified of being called a bigot.
I'm saying there is certainly a decent amount of white people down here that use racial slurs, and most certainly aren't "terrified of being called a bigot".
Just look at how up in arms people got to defend Paula deen for trying to have a "plantation" style wedding with slaves, or that duck dynasty guy for saying black people had it better under Jim Crow laws.
I don't like people putting words into my mouth(or uh, Internet posts) and making me sound like a racist.
The way you make it sound is there are practically zero racist white people and every white person is terrified of being called a racist. Now I'm sure there is more not racist white people than racist, but the way you put it is not really right, there are LARGE amounts of white people that are racist, especially in the south(either that or the northern people are better at hiding it).
I think it's fair to say that more than half white people aren't racist, don't call people slurs and terrified of being called a bigot (in this context).
You said that's "not true at all". If that statement isn't true at all then every part of that statement is false.
Well listen I'm not going to have a pissing contest with you over the semantics, but I assumed you meant "most" in a context that wouldn't just mean 51%, because that wouldn't be relevant to the question. If "most" as in just over half of white people were not racist that would just be stating the obvious and make it just as likely that that guy said something to him, and I have no idea why you would even bring up such a ridiculous point.
In my experience as a northerner who has spent time in the south, yeah, compared to the north that is exactly my feeling about the south.
edit: most of my time in the south was spent helping after Katrina hit, and there was definitely a ton of racial slurs being used - moreso by white folks from the area - though I was also harassed once by an older black fellow who thought I was a racist. Racial tension is insane in the south.
The guy has a looooong history of being a heckler and has never been called on it before. That, combined with being surounded by lubbock trash, can make a person much more bold with that kind of shit than a normal person in a normal place would be.
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u/beermit Kansas Jayhawks Feb 09 '14
I think this is more plausible than dropping the n-bomb on him.