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Originally Posted by Lockjaw
Maybe it's just the WASPs that need some extra loving.
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yeah, because the catholics definitely have nothing to do with things....
WASP, another socially acceptable derision of a population segment. Gotta love how things like that are allowed to denigrate certain white people without cause for someone to pause and take a second thought about what they're saying.
simply put, as a white southerner at a conservative university, the ability to be racist is more easily labeled for my: a) region of the country, b) peers at university, c) gender and d) skin tone.
Example: I work at the local country bar. The demographic runs a little like this: 80% caucasian, 15% hispanic, 5% black with a mean age of 28+. Two nights ago, I'm at work (swamper/barback/bouncer) and my GM comes and gets me as we're supposed to throw some guy out that had cussed out one of our female bartenders (who is also the assistant bar manager). She tells us, "it's the black guy with the hat over there" and points at the man. Just so happens there are
two black men wearing ballcaps in the specific area she pointed, and the GM mistakenly picked the wrong guy and started grilling him. The bartender lets us know we got the wrong one (the right one was standing 5 feet behind him and was over his shoulder from the tender's point of view) so we end up buying the guy a drink to apologize for our mistake. Then we go and throw out the proper guy and get on with the night. At the end of the night, the bartender tells us the guy we bought a drink for after mistakenly accusing him of cussing her out was bitching about "all you white people discriminating against black people." We had apologized, explained why the mistake was made, and gave him a free drink of his choice. But we were racist because she pointed to an area with two people matching the description we were given and we mistakenly approached the wrong one at first. If anything, the bartender should have given a more detailed description rather than pointing, but she had 10 people in line waiting on drinks and was trying to get things done in the most expedient fashion. But rather than being a simple mistake to the first guy, we were "racially profiling." Our bartender is half-mexican, and damn near whooped his ass on her own for being such a whiny ass and not accepting the apology (though he did take the drink).