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YES! You cracker-ass mother fucker! 3 27.27%
NO! It's complete hypocrisy! 8 72.73%
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Old 11-23-2006, 04:24 PM
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So...this Kramer thing got me thinking.He get's heckled, and calls someone a "nigger" repeatedly, which lets face it is a stupid, horrible fucking thing to do, but the guy fires back with "cracker-ass motherfucker" and "white-boy". Surely, the dude in the audience is also a racist scumbag? Now, none of this is trying to excuse Michael Richards, the dude was acting the cunt, but is it then ok to fire back a racial slur if your the victim of one?
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Old 11-23-2006, 04:27 PM
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I voted yes because it contained the phrase "cracker-ass motherfucker", but I actually think no, it's not OK. I don't appreciate the hypocritical attitude of a lot of people from ethnic minorities who think it is acceptable to be racist towards white people purely because their ancestors may have been abused by whites hundreds of years ago. Fact is if you're nice to someone, no matter what their race, then they'll (usually) be nice to you back.

Racism in any form is disgusting. Especially coming from those damned niggers!



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Old 11-23-2006, 11:32 PM
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I voted yes because it contained the phrase "cracker-ass motherfucker", but I actually think no, it's not OK. I don't appreciate the hypocritical attitude of a lot of people from ethnic minorities who think it is acceptable to be racist towards white people purely because their ancestors may have been abused by whites hundreds of years ago. Fact is if you're nice to someone, no matter what their race, then they'll (usually) be nice to you back.

Racism in any form is disgusting. Especially coming from those damned niggers!
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I say it's apples to apples. Or something like that. A racial slur is a racial slur no matter how you slice it, so one form is just as stupid as another form.
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Old 11-24-2006, 03:33 AM
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It's just lazy to attack someone's race or ethnicity or whatever. It's so sloppy.

My sister was in town a few weeks ago and local Army cadets were collecting money for the Poppy appeal. She overheard them having a go at this Albanian woman who stands outside Woolworths selling the Big Issue, telling her that she should 'fuck off back to her own country' and bizarrely, calling her a 'paki' (geography in schools is clearly rubbish)

So she had a go at them and tried to get them to apologise which they didn't. So she called the local Army base and complained. They had a go at the entire team, and my sister was allowed to speak to them and explain why she was angry by what had happened. They all had to write letters of apology to the woman and go and say sorry to her face to face. And the specific individuals were made to do additional volunteer work.

MWHAHAHAHAA. OWNED. Serves them right, the ignorant prats.



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Old 11-23-2006, 04:30 PM
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Its like "racism" is all over the place but most people just deal with it. I get called a kilt wearing, caber tossing, haggis munching, tight fisted Scots git all the time by my English work colleagues. But thats OK as it's "white man against white man". I take it in good nature and fire some insults back. It's all good natured fun.

In the video he does act a bit stupid. I dont find him shouting "nigger" at the guy as offensive as his "you'd get strung up with a fork in your ass" "throw him out" and "this is what happens when you interupt the 'white man' nonsense like he's some sort of superior human being... His "apology" looks insincere too...
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Old 11-23-2006, 04:34 PM
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I find North/South divide racism acceptable. The stupid, poncy southern twats deserve insulting.



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Old 11-23-2006, 04:34 PM
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What anyone below the Scottish border? I agree, Southern poofs...
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Old 11-23-2006, 04:36 PM
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Old 11-23-2006, 04:40 PM
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I'm Northern (was born and grew up in Manchester), Southern (have lived here for 7 years), and Irish, so it's pretty easy to insult me for my background. But I don't take racist (creed-ist, whatever) insults seriously, cuz they're like a cheap substitute for a proper insult, not very personal or hard-hitting. I mean because they apply to millions of people, it's like firing a shotgun at someone from 200 yards away instead of a high-velocity sniper rifle such as "your girl told me about your erectile problems" or something.



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Old 11-23-2006, 04:42 PM
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What anyone below the Scottish border? I agree, Southern poofs...
Yeah, even Geordies are southerners to me...it's positively warm down there.
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I have an Irish friend and I call him an alcoholic, a traveller and a pikey, and make jokes about him eating dogs and having sex with his cousins all the time. He doesn't mind because he knows I am his friend and I myself had part-Irish grandparents. I also had part-black grandparents, yet if I made jokes like that to a black person they wouldn't accept it and would probably hurt me or call me a cracker or something.



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I have an Irish friend and I call him an alcoholic, a traveller and a pikey, and make jokes about him eating dogs and having sex with his cousins all the time. He doesn't mind because he knows I am his friend and I myself had part-Irish grandparents. I also had part-black grandparents, yet if I made jokes like that to a black person they wouldn't accept it and would probably hurt me or call me a cracker or something.

Someone at my work was disciplined after she made a similar kind of joke at me within authority ear shot, nearly lost her job. I knew it was a just a joke, though. If anything, sometimes it can be fun. My husband is as English as they come, and his whole work life is based on guffy/colonial/butler/Hyacinth Bucket banter.

When the world cup was on, kids could be suspended on the spot for making anti-English/anything else comments at school.
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Old 11-23-2006, 04:43 PM
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When the world cup was on, kids could be suspended on the spot for making anti-English/anything else comments at school.
They couldn't even call David beckham a useless wanker in the Aberdeenshire area?? That must have been like torture for the poor kids...
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They couldn't even call David beckham a useless wanker in the Aberdeenshire area?? That must have been like torture for the poor kids...

They could if there were no English kids nearby to be mortally offended.
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um if you're joking around then i think its ok as long as the other person knows its a joke too, like at school we call each other beaners & wetbacks cuz everybody here is latino, also my friend dj gets called "nigger" "nigga" a lot or "the black guy" but its always a joke, it doesn't bother him much, but if he gets constantly singled out as "the black guy" in a group full of latinos that would bother me & i'm sure him too



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Old 11-23-2006, 04:34 PM
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To me, arguments are all about being blameless, not giving anyone any ammo.

Plus, if you fire the same back, it makes you the same, revealing it was on the tip of your tongue and the front of your mind anyway.

I'd be more inclined to knock someone's table manners or parking skills, both of which display far more of a person's inner nature.
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