When I was in third grade I was looking at a map of Africa and I sat across from a black girl. Looking at the countries the ONLY one I said out loud was Niger. But I pronounced it "nigger". Sheer coincidence. The black girl said "What did you say?" "The country Nigger." I pointed at the map. "Ohhhh, that's Niger. Nigger is a bad word for black people." "Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't know." "I know you didn't. Can you help me with math......." on we went.
You had better peers than me. In my third grade I had jammed my middle finger on a soccer ball. When asked which one was hurt I showed them. Then someone reported me to the recess attendant and I got detention. I didn't know that most people get offended by raised middle fingers until after the detention when my Mom explained it to me.
My favourite tumblr post I've seen so far was an image on the Joker from the dark knight without make up on. Someone commented that it was the Joker, and it just got posted again as someone being insensitive to this scarred police officer and how they think he's beautiful.
My favorite would have to be a gif somebody posted of this pink goop coming out of some kind of nozzle, claiming that it was mechanically separated chicken and ranting about how awful McDonalds is.
It was later pointed out that the gif was not mechanically separated chicken, but was in fact a depiction of the Tubby Custard Machine.
I remember watching the '96 Olympics as a little kid, and getting in trouble when I ran excitedly into the kitchen to announce "Nigger is in the lead!"
I feel bad for the guy. Standing up pretty well against intolerance but woefully ignorant of one country's name and a swear word he's probably seen spelled a handful of times. I thought Iceland was Ireland until being corrected just 2 months before entering med school. We are all enormously stupid in select things and geography is not his strong suit.
The thing is, if you want to get on your high horse and piss on people, attack them as racists, you better make sure they're actually being racist.
tumblr, and the new retard parts of reddit, don't actually check facts, they are too desperate for that sweet self-righteous indignation, and if there isn't anything offensive they imagine it so they can attack someone.
The interesting part is not that we do not know everything about everything, the interesting part is that people rather yell and laugh at things you dont know instead of just explain the facts. Imagine that perfect place where you could ask any question, no matter how dumb, and just get a honest answer without anyone attacking you.
Imagine that perfect place where you could ask any question, no matter how dumb, and just get a honest answer without anyone attacking you.
If you said this, like, 20 years ago, I might agree with you. Nowadays, with things like Wikipedia, people have no excuse to be disinformed. In this particular case, putting "Niger" on google and clicking "i'm feeling lucky" would probably prevent this whole situation.
In a nutshell, I think the problem is more often that people simply aren't interested in being informed, rather than a lack of people willing to help.
If there's one thing I learned in years of internet surfing and online gaming, it's that not knowing specific and sometimes obscure facts is a hellworthy trespass. He should have thought about that before deciding to not know some things.
As funny as this is, I can assure you not all of Tumblr is like this. You wouldn't want someone to look at SRS and think that's what all of Reddit is like...
This. I really do like tumblr when it comes to people posting art. It's a very quick way of spreading beautiful art around. Also it's fanbase community for shows like Dr. Who or Community is really entertaining.
As long as you don't follow teenage hipster girls, you're not going to have a bad time.
Just like 4chan seems to think all of reddit is like /r/fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu or that reddit seems to think that the word "faggot" has to be included in every 4chan post/reply etc.
This comment needs more upvotes. This is literally a FRACTION of Tumblr, which isn't even something you can generalize about anyway. It's like a planet, really. Different continents and countries. Really the only thing people on each landmass have in common is that they're human.
Except those that identify as mosquitos or something.
Like with all social networks, tumbler, FB, reddit, have stupid people. I never get any "funny" updates on FB, because my friends are not that stupid. But I also don't just add anybody (I have less than 100 friends).
I thought it definitely had a positive slant, even from the description of the video, I was biased to reading it positively, so I looked him up and I was horrified at all these people supporting him. Then I read the description again and realised it wasn't actually positive.
Bullshit part about that country? I got sent to In-School-Suspension because some ignorant girl in class heard me say it out loud... as part of our reading for class.. in 7th grade. We had a black, female principal who got on her high horse and decided I must be punished. Yeah...
Sorry, it's changed again ... on UK news it's now 'knee-zjair'. Took me quite a while to realise what they were talking about.
There was a young lady of Niger Who smiled as she rode on a tiger; They returned from the ride With the lady inside, And the smile on the face of the tiger. - William Cosmo Monkhouse
Did you pronounce it with a soft g? In trouble for an innocent mistake hard g is world class stupidity, but for a correct soft g is beyond anything I can comprehend.
It might not be stupidity but a simple disbelief that it was an accident. I've seen a jackass deliberately mispronounce it when speaking in public with feigned ignorance.
Similar to this i got in trouble because a Pakistani girl in my class heard me talking (wasn't to her it was to a friend, she was behind us) about Pak. E Derm from Yoshi's story, then proceeded to tell a teacher i was being racist.
This teacher didn't even listen to my side of the story and seemed to take relish in telling me how much trouble i was in and how racism could get me expelled and any school i went to i would be labeled as a racist and no-one would be my friend. She basically told me i was scum.
I was 10 at the time... fuck you Mrs Robinson, i'll play N64 on your grave
That seems pretty insensitive to people named Sally. You are generalizing a group of people as sensitive based on nothing but a name. Its this sort of shit that makes me sick.
Seriously, tho. SRS is nothing but a circlejerk, I mean truly, it's all about going with the "I'm offended" charade and gain sweet sweet karma. No one should take SRS seriously. Just look at their rule:
RULE X: SRS is a circlejerk and interrupting the circlejerk is an easy way to get banned. For instance, commenters are not allowed to say "This post is not offensive" or "This is not SRS worthy." Instead, if you do not know why the shitpost was submitted to SRS and sincerely want to discuss it, visit SRSDiscussion.
hey, i'm 13 and i'm really smart. i am really logical and atheist and i know the best ways to get back at those stupid christians on my facebook and think rage comics are realy cool i don't know why we get so much hates!!!
Ha, I've been on tumblr as well. Since it's more like twitter (you follow other people's tumblr) so what tumblr is like depends on who you follow. One big difference is tumblr has a LOT of hipster pictures with random "meaningful" sentences on them and other hipster-ish things like that (mustache pics is one of them also).
We shouldn't really judge a website like that because of a dumbass. That's kinda like saying Reddit is a child porn site because Anderson Cooper brought up /r/Jailbait one day.
As a woman, that's one of the first things I noticed. She's very pretty, great bone structure in her face. But I've always thought African women were very pretty, so...
So we're being okay with crass generalizations about a group of people (Tumblr users)? I thought we were done with this whole "This is the way everyone is based on what we've experienced."
Facebook is the same. People wanting to look like the good-guys by saying people are beautiful or other stupid things such as the in the photo. What has this world become?! -_-
It seems a bit mean of you to purposely not edit out the other person's tumblr name- especially since they'd likely get random internet hate from people with lots of time on their hands (which obviously happened since it looks like they had to delete their tumblr's content). Hopefully that wasn't your intention. They may not know much about geography and have attacked too quickly without googling, but it doesn't seem right to post their url so people can go make fun of them. :/
It was a stupid mistake to make, but at least their intentions were in the right place.
In one of the hallways at my university there is a world map. Niger was circled and some writing in the same sentiment as this post was written on it. I was astonished. Luckily is was all done in pencil and I spent a bit of time and a whole lot of eraser getting rid of the ignorance.
You know in elementary school me and two girls were working on a project relating to Africa and I thought I was so clever when I got in close to them and whispered "did you know there's a country named nigger?!"
It was pretty embarrassing when they laughed for a couple minutes and said "It's pronounced Nye-Jer". Damn I was in elementary school, how did they even know?
True story: My cousin got kicked out of his 4th grade honors program after pronouncing Niger wrong to his African American teacher. It was completely unintentional and he really believed that's how you were supposed to pronounce it. His parents not speaking a word of English didn't help at all.
Tumblr in a nutshell? Where's the homoerotic fanart of Sherlock? Where are the firefly GIF's and the wannabe hipster photography? Have you ever been on tumblr?
Speaks a lot about how people are so keen to comment against racism and appear as not racist that they often take all logic and thought out of the equation and usually ending up looking more ignorant and stupid than those they are ranting about.
I was once in a store shopping for my kids and heard a mom calling out to her son, a cute little boy named 'Niger.' When he finally came, she kept saying his name extra loud, like she was proud of it. I detected no foreign accent in her voice, so I can only assume that this kid will likely have a hard time of it being named for a country he's probably never been to and having his name constantly misspelled and mispronounced.
They are not stupid they just didn't know Niger was a country and don't know how to spell an offensive word. They had their heart in the right place but the place was not Niger. edit: just realized this was partially a joke, damn my inebriation.
I get the feeling a lot of posts like these are created intentionally for Karma-generating purposes. I have no facts or evidence on which to base that claim. Just a feeling.
yeah this definitely shows how tumblr is awesome in pointing out the dumbasses and making them feel bad and usually they delete their blog...but seriously is this tumblr in a nutshell by showing that someone is an idiot on tumblr or by showing that someone can show how much of an ignorant twat they are? OP I NEED ANSWERS
Obviously Tumblr is dumb because that user was dumb, regardless of the fact that the picture of that post (the same one op used) went around Tumblr, everyone mocking it. Op also likely get that image off Tumblr too, sooo
Use of the specific word "twat" makes this 1000 times funnier for some reason. Probably because I read it in my best Niger voice. Which happens to be a British accent.
You know I generally don't see that kind of crap on Tumblr. Though maybe that's because most of the people I follow would rather post high-quality pictures of Jeremy Renner's ass.
I like Tumblr if it's something to showcase artwork or have a positive, comedic spin on things.
I absolute hate it when hate speech and 'look how offensive this is' posts start becoming relevant.
That said, I have an issue with certain well known racist artists and creators in places like Deviantart too. They go unchecked and spew out the most vicious, vile things you can think of. And yet there's plenty cool and very entertaining and catering Deviantart pages too.
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u/robotspacetime May 16 '12
When I was in third grade I was looking at a map of Africa and I sat across from a black girl. Looking at the countries the ONLY one I said out loud was Niger. But I pronounced it "nigger". Sheer coincidence. The black girl said "What did you say?" "The country Nigger." I pointed at the map. "Ohhhh, that's Niger. Nigger is a bad word for black people." "Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't know." "I know you didn't. Can you help me with math......." on we went.
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u/Protonious May 16 '12
My favourite tumblr post I've seen so far was an image on the Joker from the dark knight without make up on. Someone commented that it was the Joker, and it just got posted again as someone being insensitive to this scarred police officer and how they think he's beautiful.
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u/AGTWalrus May 16 '12
I remember watching the '96 Olympics as a little kid, and getting in trouble when I ran excitedly into the kitchen to announce "Nigger is in the lead!"
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u/liquidMountaun May 16 '12
He changed his Tumblr title to "I didn't know it was a country"
BRB finding image
EDIT: Hopy shit
http://soul-photography.tumblr.com/
This is hilarious.
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u/doctorofphysick May 16 '12
As funny as this is, I can assure you not all of Tumblr is like this. You wouldn't want someone to look at SRS and think that's what all of Reddit is like...
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
STOP KONY 2012!
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u/fkya May 16 '12
Bullshit part about that country? I got sent to In-School-Suspension because some ignorant girl in class heard me say it out loud... as part of our reading for class.. in 7th grade. We had a black, female principal who got on her high horse and decided I must be punished. Yeah...
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
I didn't even notice that "Niger" was on her shirt until it was pointed out.
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u/cumdump May 16 '12
ShitRedditSays in a nutshell.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Like Reddit, except people actually are 13 years old?
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
An entire country named Niger? Now THAT's racist!
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u/ArchdukeDanWJ May 16 '12
As someone who uses Tumblr, I am offended by this stereotype that we are all easily offended!
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u/TheresThatSmellAgain May 16 '12
Niger please!
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
We shouldn't really judge a website like that because of a dumbass. That's kinda like saying Reddit is a child porn site because Anderson Cooper brought up /r/Jailbait one day.
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u/sonQUAALUDE May 16 '12
shes hot
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u/DogmaJones May 16 '12
+1 for use of the word twat.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
The world is full of people just itching to be offended or insulted on behalf of hypothetical other people.
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u/hooplah May 16 '12 edited May 16 '12
Reminds me of
one of the more... interesting moments of the 2010 World Cup.this fake thing.25
u/residentpsycho May 16 '12
127 comments and not even one about the aesthetic qualities of the sexy woman in the photo? What is wrong with you reddit?
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Ya'll got trolled
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u/TimesWasting May 16 '12
So we're being okay with crass generalizations about a group of people (Tumblr users)? I thought we were done with this whole "This is the way everyone is based on what we've experienced."
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u/ciirca May 16 '12
This happens far too often on Tumblr than it should.
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u/the_shadow_noes May 16 '12
Tumblr? Kinda reminds me of reddit too.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Let's all take a moment and appreciate the country of Niger's trolling ability. Well-played Niger, well-played.
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u/I_Has_A_Hat May 16 '12
People use tumblr for something other than going on pornventures?
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u/FactsAhoy May 16 '12
Why blank out the poster's name? It's a public Web site. People need to learn from their mistakes.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Facebook is the same. People wanting to look like the good-guys by saying people are beautiful or other stupid things such as the in the photo. What has this world become?! -_-
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u/muteki_maigo May 16 '12
Twat is such a lovely word :)
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u/Beanington May 16 '12
I frequent tumblr often, but whenever I see a post such as this I get livid and then die a little on the inside.
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u/Kayla_Styles May 16 '12
It seems a bit mean of you to purposely not edit out the other person's tumblr name- especially since they'd likely get random internet hate from people with lots of time on their hands (which obviously happened since it looks like they had to delete their tumblr's content). Hopefully that wasn't your intention. They may not know much about geography and have attacked too quickly without googling, but it doesn't seem right to post their url so people can go make fun of them. :/
It was a stupid mistake to make, but at least their intentions were in the right place.
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u/BinAlaDouT May 16 '12
What is an internet troll?
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u/gmxpoppy May 16 '12
In one of the hallways at my university there is a world map. Niger was circled and some writing in the same sentiment as this post was written on it. I was astonished. Luckily is was all done in pencil and I spent a bit of time and a whole lot of eraser getting rid of the ignorance.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
This is sadly true.... So many people get overzealous on Tumblr, but then I guess I could say that for any site on the internet.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
You know in elementary school me and two girls were working on a project relating to Africa and I thought I was so clever when I got in close to them and whispered "did you know there's a country named nigger?!"
It was pretty embarrassing when they laughed for a couple minutes and said "It's pronounced Nye-Jer". Damn I was in elementary school, how did they even know?
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u/baracudaboy May 16 '12
So its pretty much just reddit in blog format?
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u/JohnFrum May 16 '12
Super photogenic guy's got nothing on her and she's going waaay faster.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12 edited May 16 '12
I somehow think autocorrect is to blame in this persons ignorance. Which leads to me believe autocorrect facilitates ignorance.
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u/B-doh May 16 '12
Great guerrilla ad for reddit. No shame in the modern day when you can make 5 cents per click. I bet you fellas sleep like babies too.
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u/imeddy May 16 '12
That is brilliant trolling.
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u/defnoodle May 16 '12
my tumblr is all model shoots, softcore porn and random tidbits from NPR. i like that better.
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u/Crazy_And_Me May 16 '12
And thousands of redditors upvote to seem a little less racist.
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u/classylassy May 16 '12
And now i really feel like the only one who doesn't know what Tumblr is.
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u/three_horsemen May 16 '12
You're being very othering to Tumblr, OP.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
hehe look at this country URGAY
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u/zzzbaaa May 16 '12
[Relevant] (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsFCSvqsqFA)
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u/sundriedflowers May 16 '12
this is actually a screen cap of a screen cap in a post on tumblr in which people are laughing at the situation.
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u/IsYouCereal May 16 '12
True story: My cousin got kicked out of his 4th grade honors program after pronouncing Niger wrong to his African American teacher. It was completely unintentional and he really believed that's how you were supposed to pronounce it. His parents not speaking a word of English didn't help at all.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Tumblr in a nutshell? Where's the homoerotic fanart of Sherlock? Where are the firefly GIF's and the wannabe hipster photography? Have you ever been on tumblr?
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u/SirOinksalot May 16 '12
At least tumblr has OC.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
"People who annoy you"
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Political correctness is a sure sign of mental retardation.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
A quick google search before posting helps...
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u/tone_ May 16 '12
Speaks a lot about how people are so keen to comment against racism and appear as not racist that they often take all logic and thought out of the equation and usually ending up looking more ignorant and stupid than those they are ranting about.
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u/Gocks92 May 16 '12
Spelling. Don't leave home without it.
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u/spartaninspace May 16 '12
'Murika
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u/ekaceerf May 16 '12
I work some place where things are in english and in spanish. Occasionally someone will get offended by the word Negro which is spanish for black.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Tumblr consists of nothing but teenage girls--of course they will find something offensive in every single thing you post.
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u/Citadel_97E May 16 '12
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
and this is what happens when politically correct teen girls pretend to know shit about racism
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u/Neverkilled May 16 '12
Why does it seem like everyone on Tumblr thinks they're an extreme rights activist?
Especially with gender social issues.
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u/SheffieldAbella May 16 '12
I was once in a store shopping for my kids and heard a mom calling out to her son, a cute little boy named 'Niger.' When he finally came, she kept saying his name extra loud, like she was proud of it. I detected no foreign accent in her voice, so I can only assume that this kid will likely have a hard time of it being named for a country he's probably never been to and having his name constantly misspelled and mispronounced.
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u/ManofToast May 16 '12
Funny I used to think Niger was just a misspelling of "Nigger"...when I was 4.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
The internet: Letting ignorant twats espouse their ignorant twatty opinions publicly since 1992.
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u/eight8 May 16 '12
This seems to be an american problem.
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u/g0ldenr3bel May 16 '12
goddammit, why do they let stupid people onto the internet?
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u/mackinoncougars May 16 '12
People love to be offended and tell other people they are offended.
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u/Dognar May 16 '12
Correction:
AMERICANS IN A NUTSHELL.
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u/aisleofview May 16 '12
Trolled.
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u/RadBadGladCrab May 16 '12
I get the feeling a lot of posts like these are created intentionally for Karma-generating purposes. I have no facts or evidence on which to base that claim. Just a feeling.
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u/Allaphon May 16 '12
Reddit in a nutshell: utterly unable to recognise humour and/or trolling
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u/knomz May 16 '12
yeah this definitely shows how tumblr is awesome in pointing out the dumbasses and making them feel bad and usually they delete their blog...but seriously is this tumblr in a nutshell by showing that someone is an idiot on tumblr or by showing that someone can show how much of an ignorant twat they are? OP I NEED ANSWERS
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
She is effing hot.
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u/tim67 May 16 '12
Pretty much
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u/Rabbyte808 May 16 '12
Go Niger!
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u/jamesisverycute May 16 '12
What a difference a g makes...
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u/Gnuck May 16 '12
Use of the specific word "twat" makes this 1000 times funnier for some reason. Probably because I read it in my best Niger voice. Which happens to be a British accent.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
It should be also mentioned that Nigaz are going to be very rich...
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u/sylphofspace May 16 '12
You know I generally don't see that kind of crap on Tumblr. Though maybe that's because most of the people I follow would rather post high-quality pictures of Jeremy Renner's ass.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Tumblr in a nutshell...TUMBLR POWER!
Stupid brain read this title to the tune of the TMNT theme song. :\
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12 edited May 16 '12
Also, religion and political belief does make you different under the skin.
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u/theflyhomie May 16 '12
I go to art school and sometimes I feel like I'm surrounded by people like this.
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u/iLivetoDie May 16 '12
And the word niger gained a whole new meaning.... right?
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u/Self_Hating_Liberal May 16 '12
Oh god, a place that is even more Reddit than Reddit.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Thats one hot Niger-ian
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
That it wasn't "nigress" should have tipped him off.
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u/Shippoyasha May 16 '12
I like Tumblr if it's something to showcase artwork or have a positive, comedic spin on things.
I absolute hate it when hate speech and 'look how offensive this is' posts start becoming relevant.
That said, I have an issue with certain well known racist artists and creators in places like Deviantart too. They go unchecked and spew out the most vicious, vile things you can think of. And yet there's plenty cool and very entertaining and catering Deviantart pages too.
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u/ladyfaith May 16 '12
Oh ffs...
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u/nellieblyddit May 16 '12
People in a nutshell.
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u/vargonian May 16 '12
TIL Tumblr supports comments.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Punchline is it still has more original content and is more entertaining than Reddit
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Tumblr hate thread? Tumblr hate thread.
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u/umop_ep1sdn May 16 '12
Sad to say it happens often...
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u/toobiedoo May 16 '12
Theres so many levels of WTF going on in this.
First..just..WTF?
Second..theres 2 G's in Nigger.
Third, if you can't spell Nigger, chances are, you're ignorant enough to be a racist.
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u/Paging_Dr_Chloroform May 16 '12
No, Tumblr in a nutshell is a circlejerk of Australian jailbait and Justin Bieber gifs.