lectures? REALLY?
I find it suprising that so many on here can lambast this individual for racism. Sure, racism's bad...How many people on b3ta have made rape jokes? There are more rapes than racist "hate crimes" that happen daily throughout the country, but somehow that's more acceptable? Or paedophile jokes? Either the gloves are off, or they aren't, but don't get up on your fucking high horses and try to lecture people about what is "socially acceptable" or not. Point is this person is admitting they're wrong. None of you are.
(brutal stack Raided the beeves of Apollo on, Tue 31 Aug 2010, 23:06, 3 replies)

Yeah, B3ta's sick jokes...
I won't be cured by the time this QOTW is closed but there's progress.
Thank-you to the people who had the patience to post practical advice. I know where my anger lies but I've let it spill over in the last few years.
I can see that my friend is extremely racist. We set off this morning and were waiting at a light. An Asian/Oriental woman was crossing the road under her umbrella. The sun was blistering in nearly 40C* heat. "That's smart. I should start carrying an umbrella on days like this" I said. My friend said, as we inched through the intersection, "Come on lil' Nipper. Just pretend there's landmines there." It made me feel sick and sad. She's going to notice soon that I'm not participating anymore and it's not a talk I'm looking forward to.
When watching the news or reading the papers, I may still *think* the 'n' and 'p' words about the hardcore criminals and it will still be wrong, I know.
(OGH, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 6:05, closed)

Difference is that a joke about race/rape/paedophillia is very different to putting that into practice
Unsurprisingly people have been lambasted for talk of statutory rape on here, so when someone is being outwardly racist, then yes, they will likely receive abuse - much in the same way as society (or even people on B3TA) may dare to berate a rapist. If Ian Huntley wrote on here that he knew he was wrong but... Would you expect people to say, "Oh it's OK, he knows he's wrong, so anything he says after is all good"?
( @><|= w0nu!) or cunt to my friends, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 9:28, closed)

There's a world of difference between making a joke about rape and going out and doing it
whereas the line between racist jokes and racism is a little blurred.

At any rate, the OP wasn't making a joke, so the comparison you draw between rape jokes and this is pretty irrelevant.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 13:49, closed)

Not entirely
I wouldn't say irrelevant, the OP was making racist jokes with her friend - rather like people make rape/paedo jokes on here - not actually going out throwing burning crosses on lawns and lynching black people.
(brutal stack Raided the beeves of Apollo on, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 23:59, closed)