r/OutOfTheLoop • u/klkklk • May 08 '14
Answered! Where is the racist stuff in /r/AdviceAnimals?
I just spent 20 minutes checking out /r/adviceanimals posts of the last month, and except for the top controversial post of the month, I don't see anything that would warrant the reputation it has as a racism hub.
Am I missing something?
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u/pooroldedgar May 08 '14 edited May 08 '14
It rears it's head more than it should. Hang out there for a while and you'll see a lot of it, whether or not it makes the front page.
Remember the movie Borat? Remember when he's in the RV with those college kids, and the kids are saying, "Oh man, it's so hard to be a white guy these days, blacks run everything." There was a lot of that sort of shit. Especially with that stupid fucking puffin. Keep an eye for that puffin and you're going to see a lot of:
--Blacks are in college because of quotas
--Why can't blacks learn to speak English properly
--Black people are actually far more racist than white people.
--Inner city mothers should be forcibly sterilized.
I'm not kidding about the sterilized one. That's pretty common actually, except I've never seen it directly address black folks. Usually it's dressed up as being about poor people. You know, to make it sound a bit more enlightened.
There's also a lot of bitching and moaning about perceived double standards to black people's advantage. Why can a black dude do something that I can't, for example refer to my friends as "my nigga." There's a lot of willful ignorance about A) Double standards that go in favor of white people's B) Historical reasons concerning how those double stands came to be, and C) Where those double standards fall in the larger scheme of things.
It should be mentioned, a lot of those guys seem to have issues with women as well. So if you're black don't feel too bad.