Board 8 > "so what are you?"

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why do so many white people feel the need to ask this question. does it matter? why look at me thru the lens of race? and like what conversation could possibly spring from this question? I think it's gone along these lines every single time:

"So what are you?"
"egyptian"
"Wait really?"
"yeah"
"No you're not"
"yeah i am"
"That's so cool"
"thanks i guess"
"So do you like speak Egyptian?"

like what do you want from me? it's not even like they just wanted to talk about heritage, if i return the question they just go like "yeah im half irish half german half swedish or whatever idk haha lol" and brush it off. im not a fuckin animal at the zoo mate.

And here was me thinking this was brohan's coming out topic.

Maybe next time.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv6tuzHUuuk
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dead ass fuck that song
so many jokes growing up crying emoji

So what are you?
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Was going to say a miserable pile of secrets.

I got similar reactions to Greek.

Though mostly as a kid. I remember they asked me if I believed in Zeus lmao
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pjbasis posted...

I got similar reactions to Greek.

Though mostly as a kid. I remember they asked me if I believed in Zeus lmao

Well, do you?

I also get the Greek one and Zeus and such a lot.

One time I actually got Hercules.

That was strange...

yeah when i was a kid it was always "do you pray to the sun?"
i guess they just got more subtle with the racism as they got older. society and all that

'where are you from' / 'here' / 'no where are you REALLY from'
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Because they want to make conversation and your race being different from theirs is an easy way to initiate it.
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omfg fuck that one. i was born here you dipshit.
i honestly look pretty white too, or at least i think i do. they just have some kind of racial sensors built in i swear to god they just sniff us out

bryans7 posted...

Because they want to make conversation and your race being different from theirs is an easy way to initiate it.

is that the thought process? why do you want to start with race as a gateway into conversation. its like going up to a girl and being like "so whats it like having a juicy lil pussy"

(handing out surveys after Stand up show that say "too racist' "not racist enough' and "exactamundo! Bravo! BElissima! ' with a cartoon Pizza man")

MysticBrohan posted...

bryans7 posted...

Because they want to make conversation and your race being different from theirs is an easy way to initiate it.

is that the thought process? why do you want to start with race as a gateway into conversation. its like going up to a girl and being like "so whats it like having a juicy lil pussy"

These aren't remotlely the same... just throwing that out there...

That line actually works
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yeah thats main the difference

MysticBrohan posted...

bryans7 posted...

Because they want to make conversation and your race being different from theirs is an easy way to initiate it.

is that the thought process? why do you want to start with race as a gateway into conversation. its like going up to a girl and being like "so whats it like having a juicy lil p****"

Because America is obsessed with race
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I used to get that when I was younger but I guess as people got older they switched to "where are you from" which I guess they think is less racist???

Anyways I always take it as an opportunity to pinch their white guilt nerve. Or even better, their white must-always-appear-socially-acceptable-and-fit-in nerve.
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expected topic about halloween
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I usually follow up with "what do you mean" so they have this feeling that I am offended, and they always make the same BRILLIANT, BULLETPROOF clarification "where were you born". To which I can gladly say Virginia and watch them totally dismantle, forced to either accept the least satisfying answer possible, or reveal their dumbass biases by continuing to press for more info.
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foolm0r0n posted...

I used to get that when I was younger but I guess as people got older they switched to "where are you from" which I guess they think is less racist???

Anyways I always take it as an opportunity to pinch their white guilt nerve. Or even better, their white must-always-appear-socially-acceptable-and-fit-in nerve.

that 2nd nerve is easily the most fun.

"hey you see that girl over there?"
"which one"
"next to the black dude"
"..why'd you say his race and not hers?"
"uh no i just meant uhhhh"

Tom Bombadil posted...

expected topic about halloween

no holiday is above the libcuck agenda

Sometimes, I just tell people I'm Caucasian (Middle Easterners fall under Caucasian in the US census), and other more "traditional" Caucasians - say those with Western European roots - just refuse to accept it.
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foolm0r0n posted...

I usually follow up with "what do you mean" so they have this feeling that I am offended, and they always make the same BRILLIANT, BULLETPROOF clarification "where were you born". To which I can gladly say Virginia and watch them totally dismantle, forced to either accept the least satisfying answer possible, or reveal their dumbass biases by continuing to press for more info.

noted

Tom Bombadil posted...

expected topic about halloween

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CaptainOfCrush posted...

Sometimes, I just tell people I'm Caucasian (Middle Easterners fall under Caucasian in the US census), and other more "traditional" Caucasians - say those with Western European roots - just refuse to accept it.

Definitely would do this if I could
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CaptainOfCrush posted...

Sometimes, I just tell people I'm Caucasian (Middle Easterners fall under Caucasian in the US census), and other more "traditional" Caucasians - say those with Western European roots - just refuse to accept it.

this dichotomy has always irritated me. on most "official" forms im expected to consider myself caucasian, but in practice i dont think ive ever been considered caucasian by anyone

I wish I could play that card. "Born in Baghdad" opens up Pandora's Box, though to be fair, I do enjoy watching how excited people get when they hear that. I can see them wrestling with their desire to ask a dozen questions while trying to make sure they don't also offend me.
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foolm0r0n posted...

I used to get that when I was younger but I guess as people got older they switched to "where are you from" which I guess they think is less racist???

Anyways I always take it as an opportunity to pinch their white guilt nerve. Or even better, their white must-always-appear-socially-acceptable-and-fit-in nerve.

Anyone who has any form of white guilt isn't worth talking to in the first place.

anyone who doesnt is a sociopath tbh

MysticBrohan posted...

anyone who doesnt is a sociopath tbh

Nothing to be guilty for as a race personally anymore than any other.

Every race has sucked.
Every race has also had great people.

SeabassDebeste posted...

'where are you from' / 'here' / 'no where are you REALLY from'

augh
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SSJBGenkiDama posted...

Anyone who has any form of white guilt isn't worth talking to in the first place.

I like talking with white people so that isn't a good rule for me. No offense to your racist hermit life though!
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MysticBrohan posted...

anyone who doesnt is a sociopath tbh

agreed

tbh, asking about race isn't inherently a bad thing

it's just the dehumanizing way in which these questions are phrased

"what are you" is clearly dehumanizing and "where are you from" means a different thing to white americans

"what is your race/ethnicity" can feel more callous to people's white guilt, but it's straightforward with its intent, which is strictly better
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foolm0r0n posted...

SSJBGenkiDama posted...

Anyone who has any form of white guilt isn't worth talking to in the first place.

I like talking with white people so that isn't a good rule for me. No offense to your racist hermit life though!

Talk to white people that don't have guilt/not idiots.

Something I want to try which I haven't really had the chance is if someone is pressing for where are you "REALLY" from, respond with something non-white but obviously wrong and see if they are satisfied. Like Nigeria or Hawaii.
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agreed 100%
i dont think white people understand how it feels to be on the receiving end of questions like that. if you want to have a conversation about my culture and its influences on me or my upbringing or something, im open to that. its just so far removed from an actual conversation when its structured as "what are you?" "wow thats weird"

SSJBGenkiDama posted...

Talk to white people that don't have guilt/not idiots.

Can you think of an example?
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foolm0r0n posted...

Something I want to try which I haven't really had the chance is if someone is pressing for where are you "REALLY" from, respond with something non-white but obviously wrong and see if they are satisfied. Like Nigeria or Hawaii.

ive done that one. i think i said vietnam and she was like "are you serious? no way you dont lookn vietnamese? youre not serious are you? thats crazy, i never wouldve guessed".

I always get asked if I'm Polish, causing me to correct people and say I'm Russian

But I heard this kinda thing only happens if you're not white so I'm probably internally exaggerating how often it happens
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This happens everywhere, like if a white person lives in an Asian country they get the same question. Whichever race is the majority are often curious when they see someone who's different.

I don't get why people get offended by this. People ask where other people are from all the time, whether it's a city, state, or country. Like white people ask each other where they're from too, and also what their ancestry is. But when it's a white person asking a minority it's suddenly horrible and racist.
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SeabassDebeste posted...

"what is your race/ethnicity" can feel more callous to people's white guilt, but it's straightforward with its intent, which is strictly better

Yeah I've had people follow up with "what's your ethnicity" when I ask "what do you mean" and that's fine and they get the answer they want.

I've also had brown people really press my origins trying to evoke some sort of nationalist pride or something, and that is FAR worse than what meek white people do.
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SSJBGenkiDama posted...

MysticBrohan posted...

anyone who doesnt is a sociopath tbh

Nothing to be guilty for as a race personally anymore than any other.

Every race has sucked.
Every race has also had great people.

But only whites had slaves and that's pretty much the worst.
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foolm0r0n posted...

SSJBGenkiDama posted...

Talk to white people that don't have guilt/not idiots.

Can you think of an example?

Well, everyone that HAS white guilt is an idiot.

So start with ones that don't and narrow it down from there...

MZero11 posted...

This happens everywhere, like if a white person lives in an Asian country they get the same question. Whichever race is the majority are often curious when they see someone who's different.

I don't get why people get offended by this. People ask where other people are from all the time, whether it's a city, state, or country. Like white people ask each other where they're from too, and also what their ancestry is. But when it's a white person asking a minority it's suddenly horrible and racist.

i mean if you actually read the topic you can plainly see why some people arent too keen on it

TomNook posted...

SSJBGenkiDama posted...

MysticBrohan posted...

anyone who doesnt is a sociopath tbh

Nothing to be guilty for as a race personally anymore than any other.

Every race has sucked.
Every race has also had great people.

But only whites had slaves and that's pretty much the worst.

Let me blow your mind here.

Every race has had slaves..

foolm0r0n posted...

SeabassDebeste posted...

"what is your race/ethnicity" can feel more callous to people's white guilt, but it's straightforward with its intent, which is strictly better

Yeah I've had people follow up with "what's your ethnicity" when I ask "what do you mean" and that's fine and they get the answer they want.

I've also had brown people really press my origins trying to evoke some sort of nationalist pride or something, and that is FAR worse than what meek white people do.

oh god that is the actual worst.
also reminds me of when someone is like "oh do you know sarah" or something. yeah i just got done taling shit about you with her on our private arabic chat

SSJBGenkiDama posted...

TomNook posted...

SSJBGenkiDama posted...

MysticBrohan posted...

anyone who doesnt is a sociopath tbh

Nothing to be guilty for as a race personally anymore than any other.

Every race has sucked.
Every race has also had great people.

But only whites had slaves and that's pretty much the worst.

Let me blow your mind here.

Every race has had slaves..

not sure about every but definitely plenty of non-white races