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If it's true that she's zero percent Native, then she might not have a grievance, but every other Native American might.

Remember the white woman who worked for the NAACP? Rachel Dolezal? She was white, right? So what if I start mockingly calling her Oprah? How does Oprah take that? How do other African Americans?

 

Oprah, being alive, would have standing there. How others might take it isn't that big of a deal.

Humor is always subjective, but that one strikes me as funny and inbounds.

 

Put he's selling it accurately. I don't get the phenomenon.

 

I would vote for "that's super fucking racist" there.

 

We have a handful of posters on here who lost friends in the Sept. 11 attacks. Would love to hear what they think of this equivalency.

Gov: Removing Confederate statues like losing 9/11 memorial

 

Exactly. So why is this any different? I'm confused.

 

Humour is subjective, of course, and jokes, almost by definition, often push the bounds of good taste. I did an entire standup routine once about fucking Ted Nugent. ("Fucking," the verb.) Can we at least agree that the president of the United States should not be calling a U.S. Senator, who might or might not have Native blood, Pocahontas?

 

Sorry man, I can't agree. It's funny. The fact she's a senator is what puts it inbounds. If she was just a professor or other private citizen, then he'd be picking on her without warrant.

 

It's not any different, I don't think. I'm also confused.

 

But haven't you experienced, in your life, people overreacting over emotional topics? I sure as hell have.

Because you don't feel you're an expert on racism as a white person doesn't mean you can't have an opinion on it.

This is the whole problem I have with the "privilege" nonsense. People don't want to talk things out. They want to be heard only, because they know they are right and any challenge is from a position that is unlike they're own, so the challenge must be from a position of misunderstanding, because obviously they are in the right.

 

Did nobody post this? Virginia governor set the tone Trump should have set ...

 

OK, this is slightly off-topic right now, but still, so weird: Remember the coffee tangent a few pages ago? Well, I'm watching "The Wall," and what's one of the questions about? Yep, Starbucks and what size is a venti?

(The contestant in isolation got it right)