[insert colour/race here] appreciation thread!!!!

These threads really annoy me, because if someone started a thread called "White women appreciation thread" i would be deemed racist and quite rightly so, so why is it fine to be racist in these other threads. Wether or not that is the intital intention, which is probabaly isnt thats how it comes across to me. The threads are sterotyping and racist. I cant understand why people start them in the first place, i mean fair enough if you have a thing for a girl thats asian, or black fine, great, but if you had a thing for a white girl you wouldnt exactly go broadcasting it across the web like that now would you? It just seems silly and angers me.

Okay im done ranting now.

<-- O_O Am I really that big an asshole?

All signs point to yes.

[Edited on Aug 08, 2005 by Sinistar]

YAAAAAAAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Gods that shit annoys the Hell out of me.
It's like Black Entertainment Television....Make a channel called Entertainment for the White Man, and it would be called racist and sent off the air.
Fucking annoying. If people want equality, they should try practicing it instead of just talking about it.

It would be offensive if it was meant to fetishize a certain skin color, which the occasional idiot does in those threads (which indeed is irritating), but you'll notice the overwhelming majority of posters in those threads are of that color, for one, and use the opportunity to appreciate individuals that fit a certain description, instead of going on and on about any perceived common physical characteristics.
But I can understand how you'd get that impression. It sometimes does open a can of worms, and starts to go in a bad direction.

[Edited on Aug 08, 2005 by pygmy]

I think it would be silly to call a "White Woman Apreciation Thread" racist. As long as the tone of the appreciation is not "only this is attractive" I don't see the problem. I think we've all be conditioned to be too sensitive to admitting differences between people. I do agree that BET seems racist on it's face, but the counterpunch to that is that for decades there were TV shows that everyone knew were "for white people." And that even today a large number of shows have tons of white people and few if any people of other races.

At least BET says what it's all about and isn't insidious in it's racism.

so, i guess showing off my "where da white girls at?" t-shirt wouldn't be p.c.

Where's my "Lanky Black Guy Appreciation Thread," I ask you.

I don't find BET to be racist at all. It's a specialty channel directed at a specific audience that is largely ignored by the mainstream media.

I need some love for the skinny ginger white guys while we're at it

I'm sick of it all. You should be able to say whatever the fuck you want. If someone gets offended, that's their right as well. If someone says something racist, let them look like a moron in front of everybody. It's all just OPINIONS.

Purple mascots drive me wild.

you're black??

So... it is, or it isn't okay to be attracted to a person because of their skin color?

Word, yo. And lanky.

How about White Irish Pilots from Florida? We need love too!

Where's the thread where people can appreciate ME by sending me a couple dollars?!

Sorry, I should have put racism in quotes. I agree with your point.

"Angry teenage British girl appreciation thread"

That's kind of what I figured you meant. I just figured I'd put in my two cents.

Racism in the year 2005 all depends on the context.




I have no idea what i'm talking about.

I'm with George Carlin.

WORD!

hot.

"so I said red m&m, blue m&m, they all wind up the same color in the end."

I don't know what that was supposed to mean.