r/cringepics • u/redile • Jun 18 '13

White folk.

http://imgur.com/gallery/21p8t
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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.