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My dad just got done calling everyone in Shang Chi orientals

Holy shit at you guys family members

TheoryzC posted...

Holy shit at you guys family members

It's boomers man

My boomer mom complained about black people in survivor "I can't tell them apart!"

once, when my uncle was drunk, he started going off about Jewish people.

I was surprised since no one in my family, from my experience, is racist...at least, not until then.

my family are casual racists against certain groups. They'll just casually bring up x group are like this and look down on them without realizing it, and claim they aren't racist.

Njolk posted...

It's boomers man

My boomer mom complained about black people in survivor "I can't tell them apart!"

Yeah, boomers and only boomers

daynlokki posted...

My dad just got done calling everyone in Shang Chi orientals

I remember my mother using that term, but it was over 30 years ago and was embarrassingly considered acceptable at the time (like I remember filling out personal information forms as a kid and "Oriental" was on them as the Asian race option). I actually remember when that was changed and I thought "hmm... 'Oriental' must not be an acceptable term anymore."

My friend's boss was telling us about her trip to North Carolina and she was literally like, oh there was a lot of black people, but you know most of them actually looked respectable

OrangeShirt posted...

Yeah, boomers and only boomers

Nope, a decent amount of young people are too behind closed doors. At least from my background

Njolk posted...

My boomer mom complained about black people in survivor "I can't tell them apart!"

OVERGOATED posted...

Oh gosh, I had to stop watching Survivor with my family this season...they were REALLY salty about some of the councils.

I'm subscribed to Russel Hantz's youtube channel but I haven't and probably never will watch his videos on S41. He made one after the premiere bitching about Survivor being "woke" and I was thinking "dude... Jeff and production always gimmick-hypes shit in the first episode and then it fades into the background. Calm the fuck down." Sure enough, things blew over and the season played out fine. The excessive twists and shorter length hurt it to an extent. The cast diversity was a good thing. The change of "come on in, guys" to "come on in" was... I mean, bitching about something so trivial as that is going full mask off to begin with, but it was good that opinions on both sides of that matter (both from LGBTQ+ people for that matter) were aired and discussed. Of all the things to complain about, people have a problem with one word being dropped from a familiar phrase for the sake of being more inclusive? Fuck that. Have a problem with a million idols and advantages. Have a problem with people having to out themselves as advantage holders by having to say a weird-ass phrase that won't even do anything unless people on every tribe have found the clue. Have a problem with sacrificing your vote for a safety dice roll. Have a problem with that annoying hourglass twist (and I am not knocking Erika at all for using it or for winning. She played an amazing stealth game and will go down in history as an unfortunately underrated winner). A friend of mine from a community board was annoyed by the season and plans to avoid the next one and I was almost distraught to learn this because we had gotten out of touch during the pandemic and I knew he tended to be politically a bit of a both-sides-er so when he expressed early disapproval, I was like "fuck... I hope this doesn't lead me to stop talking to this dude. That would be unfortunate." His grievances did turn out to be about the structural and gameplay changes to the show though. He's a purist. I don't blame him. I mostly am too. He did have issues with the racial nature of this past Big Brother season, but they were about individual players hurting their individual chances of winning for the sake of a collective goal, which to me is understandable though I did agree with him. I'm not one to jump into things or believe in things bigger than myself, but I can make exceptions at times. He tends to think in a bit more binary (win or lose) way in games like Survivor and Big Brother (and in fact we have both played in many forum-hosted games based on both shows, including several of the same ones and in fact have both won more than once and in some cases were in the same games together and allied with each other. In fact he once solo voted me out at final 3 because he knew he would lose if we were final 2 but that he had a good chance at winning against the other final 3 player, and he did win and had my vote and support as a juror because I knew he made the right decision. When I make it to the end, I win. I've never been a runner up. Put me in front of the final jury and I will win. When I lose, it's because I get voted out before that point, and final juror has been a very common placement for me >_> so I have the history to back that up).

damn lol that post textwalled in a hurry lol

Yeah I have uncle and aunts that are super racists towards Black people.
My mom likes to call White women "Cookies" >_>

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lmao this sounds like an absolute flood of insecurity for both of them. Tell them to grow the fuck up imo

daynlokki posted...

My dad just got done calling everyone in Shang Chi orientals

I know people from that generation. Where it was ok to say oritental and negro. They will be phased out pretty soon tho.

Machete posted...

I remember my mother using that term, but it was over 30 years ago and was embarrassingly considered acceptable at the time (like I remember filling out personal information forms as a kid and "Oriental" was on them as the Asian race option). I actually remember when that was changed and I thought "hmm... 'Oriental' must not be an acceptable term anymore."

I never understood why Oriental was considered to no longer be acceptable anyway. Unless I missed something I didn't think it was used as a racial slur really. Plus don't Indians get pissed that being Asian means only the people in Eastern Asia and no one considers them Asian? I honestly don't even know what race Indians are called since Asian is only applied to China/Japan/Southeast Asia/etc.

I'm glad I never experienced any racism coming from members of my family.

Don't get me wrong, I'm sure it was there, it just never happened around me.

SauI_Goodman posted...

I know people from that generation. Where it was ok to say oritental and negro. They will be phased out pretty soon tho.

Could be worse. Should have seen my Grandma meet my friend who is black. Couldnt believe I let him in my room alone lol.

Im in Michigan. So, you kind of just learn to maneuver around the racists and find the circles that are open minded. I only ever lived here. There's only so long you can be surprised at racist shit being said. Eventually you just pick up your drink and go walk over to other people. I use to get drunk and go off on people, but all that did was create an awkward room that I had to walk away from so people could talk about what just happened without my presence. Id usually just come back a little drunker and just act like I never went off lol. Im a skinny dude. No one was actually intimidated. If they thought I was crazy enough to do more, I never read into it. Id just blackout during those moments. So, there wasn't really anything to hang onto outside of knowing it happened

Njolk posted...

It's boomers man

Dey were all peace and love when dey were dropping acid and burning der bras and draft cards. Who'd have guessed they'd turn into Trumpeting racists?

You probably loudly said "ew woooo"

Gamerguymass posted...

I never understood why Oriental was considered to no longer be acceptable anyway. Unless I missed something I didn't think it was used as a racial slur really. Plus don't Indians get pissed that being Asian means only the people in Eastern Asia and no one considers them Asian? I honestly don't even know what race Indians are called since Asian is only applied to China/Japan/Southeast Asia/etc.

"Oriental" being a slur dates back to the hippies in America as it was largely used exclusively to refer to someone disparagingly during that era and has stayed that way to some extent ever sense.

And "Asian" refers to Indians as well. "Oriental" is what you are looking for when talking about only East Asians. In some ways that is a somewhat self-aware mistake considering the post.

Arcanine2009 posted...

Nope, a decent amount of young people are too behind closed doors. At least from my background

That was, the joke.

Good Lord this place is stale and annoying