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Terryt88
Skeptic Friend
USA
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 Posted - 06/28/2004 : 02:05:41
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Ok, so I came across this web site while surfing tonight and I had to get some second opinions.
(Note: Please read my post before you click if you are easily offended.)
http://www.blackpeopleloveus.com
After some reflection, I have to say wow. I have never really seen anything like it before.
When I first saw it I was like "Oh ok, this is a joke." I mean who hasn't seen all the (really funny) George W sites out there, and I figured this was just someone trying to make a joke. I mean the "Hanging Out" page seemed pretty funny. It seems like they were just making fun of themselves.
Then I kept reading and I was, hmm I dunno. I mean it really walks that line between "are they kidding, or are they just plain rude."
Then I started to read the "Your Letters" tab, which seem to be actual letters from people that have been to their site and there seems to be (or at least they publish) a good mix of reviews. Some people (including some that claim to be African American) seem to get it, some are a little cautious, and some are flat out pissed.
Personally I would like to believe that the website is an artistic statement. What it is exactly, I dunno. Maybe it's trying to point out that racism is still alive in society even when it is subtle racism, as in the stereotypes that are portrayed. I guess that is up to the readers to take for themselves.
I post this to start a discussion on the use of the website and peoples views on it, most certainly not as a way to make fun or discriminate on any particular race.
Disclaimers aside, what are you views?
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Terryt88
Skeptic Friend
USA
120 Posts |
Posted - 06/28/2004 : 02:24:32 [Permalink]
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Well it appears I am behind the times. This site came out about a year and a half ago.
ABC News did a story about it where they interviewed the creators.
What do you think? |
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Ricky
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 07/07/2004 : 08:49:18 [Permalink]
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Its like if you knock over a guy on the wheel chair (by accident of course). You obviously can't start laughing but its perfectly alright for the guy in the wheel chair to say "Haha, thats ok, I needed to wake up anyways" or something of that sort.
I'd laugh.... |
Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
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The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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Maverick
Skeptic Friend
Sweden
385 Posts |
Posted - 07/08/2004 : 01:23:38 [Permalink]
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| Offended? Not at all - I laughed out loud :) Obviously it's a satire and a wellmade one too, in my opinion. Making fun of stereotypes and racism is also good. |
"Life is but a momentary glimpse of the wonder of this astonishing universe, and it is sad to see so many dreaming it away on spiritual fantasy." -- Carl Sagan |
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
13477 Posts |
Posted - 07/08/2004 : 06:53:23 [Permalink]
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| Very funny site. |
Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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Ricky
SFN Die Hard
USA
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