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[Graknorke]

Guy I was talking to: Do you ever think where human diease and stuff came from? Like AIDS and all that? Who got it first, were they born with it or what?
Some guy: IT'S ALL COME FROM THE GAYS!

I know that he was from an Islamic background so his parent's views on any deviancy are probably more in line with Texas and Carolina than with what we would expect on the other side of the Atlantic, so I should be more patient because of the things he'll have been told growing up.
But really? I don't even know how sexuality factored into that discussion at all. Not to mention than if STDs are God's punishment to gays, then he must really love lesbians.

[Flying Dice]

You'd think that fundies would be more comfortable around Homeric explanations of the natural world, though.

"The plague among the invaders was caused when a priest's daughter was enslaved and he prayed to Apollo for vengeance, so Apollo came down with his bow and started picking people off. Certainly not because disease is inevitable in sieges with little medical or biological knowledge."

"The plague happened because God hates the Jews, Muslims, paganists, and assorted other heretics. Despite most of them believing in the same God. Certainly not because nobody bathes and plaguebearing creatures are all over the place."

[Mlamlah]

"i want to go on vacation in scotland, do you soeak scottish?"

[Mephansteras]

"i want to go on vacation in scotland, do you soeak scottish?"

Oddly, that's not quite as dumb as it should be. Although I'm sure the speaker used it in the much dumber sense.

[SealyStar]

Speaking of British subnational confusion, my mother in Wales:

"I want to go out to eat, so... do you know any place near here that serves Welsh food?"

Or something to that effect.
Implying that a). Welsh food is any good and b). Any place near where tourists/travelers roam still has Welsh food for less than 200 pounds/plate.

[kaenneth]

Hard to beat government committee work.

"Knowingly providing hyperlinks on websites to terrorist content must be defined by law as illegal just like the terrorist content itself"
"Governments must disseminate lists of illegal, terrorist websites"

[Zrk2]

Oh, thank God. A necro.

Another quip from my maybe-racist friend to get this rolling:

"I'm gonna beat you like a slave! It's not racist, a black guy told it to me!"

Oh, thank God. A necro.

Another quip from my maybe-racist friend to get this rolling:

"I'm gonna beat you like a slave! It's not racist, a black guy told it to me!"

In that vein I once heard (to a black guy) "I'ma betchoo li

Oh, thank God. A necro.

Another quip from my maybe-racist friend to get this rolling:

"I'm gonna beat you like a slave! It's not racist, a black guy told it to me!"

In the same vein I heard this the other day (said to a black guy): "I'ma beatchoo like mah fo-daddies beatcho fo-daddies!"

[Sirus]

...how on Earth did you do that? O_o

[Scelly9]

Derp of epic proportions.

[bombzero]

Today somebody at my school said "Hey, I'm proud that I'm black!" nobody batted an eyelash, I replied "Hey! I'm proud that I'm white!", everyone flipped out on me until I pointed out the utter and complete hypocrisy of their actions, at which point they fell back onto ridiculous justifications.

tl;dr I enjoy pissing off hypocrites.

[Karnewarrior]

Yeah. It's sad reverse discrimination is mainly used by racist assholes to justify their racism since it's actually a real thing. Hence why every TV show on American television has a black guy as a main character, even though logically the guy living in 14th century britian in a small town far away from anywhere anyone with money would keep a slave, or anything that might attract a freed slave, or a immigrant from Africa, any of that, there's a black guy inexplicably friends with the MC.

Then they kill him off quickly and hope people don't look too hard at why.

[SealyStar]

Yeah. It's sad reverse discrimination is mainly used by racist assholes to justify their racism since it's actually a real thing. Hence why every TV show on American television has a black guy as a main character, even though logically the guy living in 14th century britian in a small town far away from anywhere anyone with money would keep a slave, or anything that might attract a freed slave, or a immigrant from Africa, any of that, there's a black guy inexplicably friends with the MC.

Then they kill him off quickly and hope people don't look too hard at why.

Yeah, reverse discrimination is just as bad as regular discrimination, but no one takes it seriously because it's taken to extremes by uptight racist assholes who use it to whine about how they're mistreated. No one bats an eye if people talk about "Black history month", say "proud to be black", or add historically out-of-place black people to media for PC cred. But if you say "White history month", "proud to be white", or add out-of-place white people to a history series about Africa, it's some grievous offense.

Same thing as the whole "men's rights" thing. Should just be a counterpoint about how insane, extremist feminists should temper its goals to support actual gender equality, as opposed to female dominance, but instead it's been adopted by misogynists who just think it's a counterpoint to feminism in general.

[penguinofhonor]

The phrase "white history month is 12 months long" comes to mind.

Being proud of being white should probably be less problematic, but its history of being arm-in-arm with white supremacy has made a lot of people uneasy about it. Personally I'm wary of anyone who's proud of being white, but fine with anyone proud of being Irish/German/insert specific European heritage here.

[Sirus]

Sucks for me, then. I have no idea what my specific heritage is; I refer to myself as a "European Mutt"

[Descan]

I wonder what Bay12 demographics are...