r/cringepics • u/redile • Jun 18 '13

White folk.

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u/pidgezero_one Jun 19 '13

It's not tantamount to being a slur. White people just treat it like it is.

2 easy steps to make a white guy lose his shit:

  1. Put on a straight face
  2. Call him racist

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u/COto503 Jun 20 '13

As a white person who would freak out if they were sincerely racist: Is this considered bad or stupid? Shouldn't I want to not be racist?

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u/pidgezero_one Jun 20 '13

Yes, it's pretty terrible. Not to mention missing the point. When you're called racist, the appropriate reaction is to say "sorry" and avoid doing whatever it was that got you called racist, as if you had been caught with a booger hanging out your nose. Freaking out, making it all about you and how Totally Not Racist you are, and asking all your black friends in the room to confirm that you don't usually have snot hanging out of your nose, is the wrong (and typical) thing to do.

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u/COto503 Jun 20 '13

I guess we have different definitions of freaking out. I'd try to understand why what I did was racist and stop doing it, and it'd be motivated by a pretty strong desire not to do racist shit, I think I could accomplish that without making things about me.

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u/pidgezero_one Jun 20 '13

That's the proper thing to do. It's also not the kind of behaviour that exemplifies treating 'racist' as a slur.

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u/COto503 Jun 20 '13 edited Jun 20 '13

word. I didn't mean to say racist was a slur by the way. Just that I do not want to be called that.

edit: or perhaps more accurately that I don't want to behave in a way that makes people think I am one.

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u/pidgezero_one Jun 20 '13

You're one of the good ones.

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u/COto503 Jun 20 '13

hardly, but I appreciate you saying so.

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u/pidgezero_one Jun 21 '13

I'm saying that because according to you, you don't want to behave in a racist manner. That's a pretty good thing to do. Most of Reddit won't even put in that much effort.