Oh god....hwo dumb am I....Jeeeeesh....I just realized that a bunch of loud-mouthed hyporcrites on WebDip are about to solve the problem of racism that has existed since Grok first beat down Krog with a stick because he thought he was a little too dark...

Fuck...I may have just screwed up world peace...

How about this, collective fools...call each individual what he or she wants to be called...and this will be different for each individual --- so ASK them. Stop treating people differently based upon their flesh tone and plumbing. Stop acting like you are superior to others and think that because you are a "privileged white guy" that you "owe it to those other people" to use your influence to fix their lives...because that is insulting and condescending.

oscar....oscar oscar oscar....tsk tsk....telling little lies now, are we? You offense at assclown was instantaneous and obvious...and now that you have been called out for your hillarious over-reaction, you are going to back off and wipe away your tears and pretend your childish outburst never happened.

lol

It's OK oscarbaby...it's OK to cry when you get hurt a wittle bit....

@steephie -- Congrats on a *beautiful* troll thread with an utterly ridiculous and obvious troll premise. You have sucked in the holier-than-thou race baiters en masse, and they truly think you were trying to solve a real problem, rather than mocking it so obviously.

Well done...I'm a little bit jealous.

Just because I enjoy pointing out the moronic nature of your posts now and then doesn't mean I care about their content, let alone take offense at them. Apparently you are incapable of judging when someone has taken offense. Not surprising since you are also incapable of saying anything coherent at all.

The way you write makes me think you're into drugs. Seriously.

oscar oscar oscar.....if my posts make no coherent sense at all...then you are a bit of a chowderhead to comment/reply to them. Thus, my dear assclown, your sad and pathetic backpedaling here is simply *delicious*. You've been smacked-down by the krellster, called out and in public...and now you're like that retarded kid that ran his bike in to a tree and springs to his feet and announces, "I meant to do that!"

it's OK oscar...they'll stop laughing at you as soon as another 'tard raises his blundering head for me to shoot at.

Vaddix - no kidding? I think oscar must be high as a kite, right?

It was meant to you, but whatever. A couple centuries ago you'd have been a very good king's fool. You have the personallity for it.

@Invictus: I'm trying to learn something, sort of playing devil's advocate. I don't mind you thinking I'm a moron, just note that I'm working on it, wether true or not.

@Putin33: If your point is merely that they have strong(er) ties to Africa/slave trade, sure. But that's origin (I don't want to get to the technical part of that word, you know what I mean).

The problem with that to me is that by directly associating colour to race, people start, for example, bleaching their skins, to change their race. I think talking about race rather than colour is in fact discrimination, not as much in the offensive way, but more in the sneaky way making it normal, provoking people to hide their 'race'. It's indeed a social construction, meaning we can change it (well, in this context). It has to be accepted as just a social construction though, not an actual, definable difference. What I'm talking about is that if you want to judge race by colour, what are you going to call (native) Africans who are more white than me? Black? Can you imagine not everyone would agree to calling white people black? Could you imagine that people who don't want to be associated with the black 'race' become white just because we call the 'race' 'black'?

I know I'm rambling a bit here but I'm sure it serves the purpose.

Krellin: When I posted the thread I was trolling, but I got more serious with every post. It's the kind of format I found to work best here. If you start out serious, you'll meet the trolls...

There has been little trolling here.

I'm just trolling you for my own entertainment, krellin. I realize it's not fair since you're about the easiest target for it on these forums, but hey, as long as I'm enjoying myself I really don't care. So please, do drop me another one of those silly posts where you tell me how awesome you are at smacking me down. I promise I'll not use it to wipe my ass with this time.

and the krellster is king! The troll thread is admitted as pure trollery...and I righteously mock all the indignant fools that pretended it was real. <Mock!! Mock mock!!!>

Oscar....sad little oscar....You are the monkiest of the dance monkeys today. Tin Cup Award for you.

You talk about monkeys so much, krellin. It's obvious that you fancy them. It's okay that you want them to stroke your private parts, but I'd advise that you not to show this fetish of yours so publicly all the time.

<embarassed for oscar> Oscar, please PM me for some guidance on your trolling. While we appreciate your attempts at trolling humor, the collective has determined that you fall laughably short of the humor you attempt. Two bit hookers would leave a twenty for you in sympathy and pity. Crack whores would give you a free gum job just to see smile once, so certain are they of your sadness.

But we fear, no matter what, you'll not cease to hear the organ grinder and dance your dance...

...and so we'll grimace and smile for you, pat you on the head. It's OK, little oscar....it's ok...

Yeah, I got a twenty from a two bit hooker today. She said she was your mom. Did you put her up to that? That's really considerate of you krellin. Thank you for being such a sweet little cute boy. Or maybe she just took it out of your allowance as she knows you would just spend it on dope anyway.

This is some terrific self moderation, guys. Kudos.

I don't think we need a forum ombudsman anymore, abge. These guys just put you out of a job.

Don't worry. I'll soon get bored with him and fall back to ignoring.

Don't worry. I'll soon get bored too and when I lock down the Forum, this will be one of the many threads I show Kestas to justify my decision.

Ewwww.....scary.....

It's like jmo has mind-melded with....

Oh never mind...

@krellin

Please do not make mind-melding accusations on the Forum.

So do tell, Mr. Tuvok, are you actually recommending the entire forum be locked down, eh?

No. I'm recommending people remember that self moderation does not mean no moderation and if they aren't able to handle that, a new approach may need to be considered.

But Mr. Vulcan, some of us of a more...er...."expressive" breed oft get confused on what....uh...."moderation" means. Bo stopped posting naked selfies, and YJ no longer links to his homemade porn...so are we back again to trying to figure out some obscure grey line upon which we shall not tread?

krellin, one advice thread on the forum is plenty at the moment.

The term was introduced to emphasize the common experience of oppression shared by all non-white people. Why don't you just google it instead making an ass out of yourself in public.

Euphemism treadmill

"The term was introduced to emphasize the common experience of oppression shared by all non-white people. Why don't you just google it instead making an ass out of yourself in public."

You all missed the point.

I learned something from this I wouldn't learn from googling. I'm sure you don't understand. If my method makes an ass out of me in public, then ... well, it worked as expected.

@Steephie - if you think that 'people of colour' is a term invented by dumbasses, could I ask what term you would use. And please don't say their names. If I was compiling a report about the allocation of social housing and said that Mr R Jones, Mr C Patel, Mr T Smith, etc, etc were allocated housing in section A whilst Mr M Brown, Ms P Clark, etc were allocated housing in section B it would be meaningless. If I said people of colour were allocated housing in section A; people of eastern European background were allocated housing in Section B and indigenious white people were allocated housing in section C, it wold convey meaning. How would you take out 'People of colour' and what would you replace it with?