so did you properly verbally trash him there and then?
Racist fuckwit in my Spanish class
madashell wrote:
JDMF wrote:
so did you properly verbally trash him there and then?No, I sat perfectly still and chewed on my knuckles, like the big liberal wuss I am.
maybe he should join a message board you frequent to get a trashing 
I have been in the recieving end of your trash talk - you can do it for sure!
just stab him in the eye next time to get rid of your liberal image.
But seriously, vast majority of the cases when this has happened to me after some arguments and discussions they either start changing their minds (majority) or are just deeply racist no matter what (minority).
I hate it when I'm too wussy to stand up to people when they're out of order. I met up with an old mate a while ago, and her new mates came to the pub and I was amazed as to how they managed to find so many opportunities to complain about "pakis". Literally every line of conversation managed to be turned into some "amusing" anecdote about "pakis", the best one being -
"I called up to ask about train times the other day, and it was some paki in India (!) so I put the phone down - what would they know about our train times, I bet they don't even have trains in India!"
I couldn't even begin to formulate a response. It was completely relentless. It shocks me going into the "real" world sometimes, where not everyone is an anarchist or a dyke or an anthropology student, I'm so naive...
zobag wrote:
It shocks me going into the "real" world sometimes, where not everyone is an anarchist or a dyke or an anthropology student, I'm so naive...
Your self-awareness saves you from a verbal shredding here. 
The real world's pretty scary, it's hard work trying to figure out whether you're being overly PC or whether comments are blatantly out of order. Madashell's examples clearly fall into the latter camp, but a lot of the jokes cracked in a couple of my non-uni cliques are pretty borderline, but then that's part of the joke itself. I actually prefer them to some of the comments made in my uni cliques though, which display a liberal, "informed" sort of insiduous racism (ie advice to stay away from certain areas of New Cross cos "you don't see a single white face", or how seemingly every single near miss mugging story is premised on said aggressor being "big and black"). Otherness is a bitch, yo.
That was the funniest thing about going to Goldsmiths - I always heard people talking about how the area was "well dodgy" etc, even though nothing had ever happened to them or anyone they knew there, and the unspoken subtext was "everyone's black, it's well dodgy".
Well I actually know quite a few people who've been mugged and attacked and hospitalised in New Cross (obviously), but then you'd expect that in an area polarised between rich bitches from the Home Counties and 1st/2nd generation immigrants from West Africa. What pisses me off is the fact that encountering a large group of black kids on the short walk to my house from the tube constitutes a story about how you were almost attacked.
last week it was horrid at work cause a big row broke out in the office when the guy who does reception started saying dodgy daily mail stuff. you can imagine how this goes down in a citizens advice bureau. it was horrid cause he was really angry and upset. i did challenge him with a few facts about asylum, immigration, benefits and the like but mostly i just felt tired and sad and not really up to joining in the fight partly cause i like the guy. he reminds me of working class grandads when i was a kid. i know what he said was fucked up but i just didn't want to deal with it cause it was so unexpected and he was nearly crying and my not dealing with it made me feel tense and upset too.
come the revolution i'll be fine as long as no 1960s era grandads start on me...
guydebordisdead wrote:
Alan wrote:
Woah, you're like totally hardcore. Are you trying to get laid or something?No, I just think anarchists could maybe have the courage to confront racism in their workplace instead of moaning about it to their online community.
Errm too right.
Jesus all you have to say is "Cop the fuck on, don't be such a racist prick". Or "Err listen thats kind of out of order". But you REALLY should say something.
Not much point in this thread, but I needed a good rant.
I was just sitting there waiting for the teacher to arrive, and this dickhead starts wibbling on about immigrants and how "The pakis are alright, because they help the economy with their little shops, but I can't stand these poles", he actually used the words "England for the English".
Our teacher is from Peru, for Christ's sake.