No I wouldn't vote for him Wow cognitive dissonance preventing you from believing someone who has a contrary opinion is black.
Okay, dumbass, socialism is not universal health care. For whom did you vote against who promised government control of the means of production?
How douchey. At least here when someone violates the rules they take their vehicles on a public highway where the only risk is to them. Your riders' example is like robbing Girl Scouts instead of a liquor store.
We’ve always had that sorta thing. Someone came up to my wife in Target to let her know a “strange man” was talking to her kids an aisle over where she left them and the cart. Medium skin tone for a South Asian/black hair + A = kids with dark brown hair who could pass as S. Italian/Greek/Persian/Lebanese. My Aryan ass is A lady. Or the time when a patient’s mother went out of her way to compliment her English. My wife...born in New Jersey, raised in Chicago, went to a fancy liberal arts school where she studied English Literature. If her English isn’t better than 99% of the white parents that walk in the hospital door, then I’d say my in-laws wasted a lot of money on their kid’s education. That stuff happens. Like when my wife called one of the Star Wars characters from the later releases “Lando Calrissian”. She’s not a Star Wars fan, and I’m not sure she even knows who played the Lando character, but I gave her grief for it and it spawned a new verb in our house: to calrissian someone is to assume the token non-white person of the group is the same person as a more commonly known token non-white person of the same or similar group. The stuff that is grinding my gears these days is the Jesuslandia freak who tries to tell me I’m some sort of race traitor and God hates me for selling out. Jesus made us different for a reason and I’ve ruined that. Or the one who used the phrase “dune coon”. Which admittedly, is a new one for me, so credit for that.
Think that's technically an A-rab. But you know how 'Mericans are with geography. "Dot head" is the smear I used to hear more often.
Yeah. The slow folks get confused sometimes. And when they get really confused, they go and do something like gun down a couple of Indian engineers in a restaurant in KS. Don't get me wrong: killing anyone for hateful reasons related to race/religion/sexual orientation/etc is about as low as it gets. But the guy couldn't even get that part right. Back in the days America was great, we could use servant/slave. Now we're stuck using "Alabamian PC" terms like "that colored fella over there".
Even as a lighter skinned Hispanic that is something I inevitably run into. The bolded part and the "where are you from" question really are tiring. Because people really aren't interested where I was born....it's an ethnic-related question. Humans are an overrated species. EDIT - I haven't followed this thread too closely so I am surprised this is in the Al Frank thread and not the Racism thread. Going to have to go back a few pages to see how it progressed.
Were you born elsewhere, so that you speak with an accent? If so, I don't see why that question is wrong. It's my go-to with cabbies, then we talk about their country. If you don't have an accent, well then yeah of course, that question is ridiculous.
I'm an immigrant with no accent and no tell tale signs of being a foreigner, and I still get asked often. When I answer with a country 90% of them have never heard of, it's funny to see the confused disappointment on their face. "Oh ... well isn't that just special ..."
I have no accent. I made a conscious choice of getting away from a Kentucky accent and sound like a TV weatherman. My skin tone is also more Marco Rubio than George Lopez. Sometimes I draw it out North America. Western Hemisphere. Earth. Solar System. Milky Way.
I'm from Romania, but ethnically Hungarian ... When I want to mess with people, I say Transylvania. They laugh awkwardly because they're thinking I'm making a weird joke. Many people don't realize that's a real place. I was born very close to Sighisoara (Segesvar/Schaßburg) where Vlad the Impaler was born. This angle worked with women from time to time.
Anyone who's played EU4 knows damn well how hard to pacify Transylvania is...I don't blame you for wanting to mess with them.
If Moore wins...Franken should announce his resignation is effective immediately after Roy Moore is expelled from the Senate
It's wrong when it's followed up like this: "You have a lovely accent, where are you from?" "Argentina" (Looking confused) "But...you don't look Mexican". This happens in enlightened California.
Try living week in, week out having people ask you that question. As if you were the only person with an accent and it was unique to hear an accent of a Spanish speaker.