so who is the racist?

[shadow_otm]

Racism is bad, mkay

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[zesty_pinto]

...and all his writing made me wonder if the player really thought all black people were really like that or if he was just trolling.

Living in New York has taught me that, sadly, there are people who live really closeted lives from other ethnicities. That sounds like a really bad parody, right down to the Fifty Cent name.

[sagelylegs]

The 50 Cent parallel just kind of convinced me it was an ill-fated parody. At least I hope it was just poorly received/delivered joke.

[oceandezignz]

*twitch* Dear lord that hurts to read. It really does.

[paperclipchains]

I don't even understand the second part but there isn't really enough information to go on.

[shadow_otm]

Prospective player wants everything explained to them. Prospective player does not understand or retain any knowledge. Prospective player is turned away from the game and proceeds to declare everyone a racist for it.

[dave_littler]

I've seen situations similar to the second one you describe. There was a forum where there was this teenaged kid who, apparently deliberately, mis-spelled virtually every word in obnoxious and evidently fashionable ways. After a while, I took to responding to every post of his by re-writing them with proper spelling and grammar.

He was, astonishingly, deeply insulted by this, and accused me of being a racist.

I honestly hadn't thought about his race, and responded thus: "I hadn't considered the idea that you might be a member of a different race than me; certainly there are ample illiterates to be found among the caucasian population. If it's any comfort to you, to the extent that I gave your appearance any thought, I suppose I pictured you as a slack-jawed, stoop-shouldered white kid with a slightly distant look in his eyes."

This, bizarrely, seemed to pacify him.

[shadow_otm]

Well... is there some racial cliche with some group of bad language skills on the internet? Because I haven't heard of that one. I know one episode of Becker went through a list of racial cliches, I can't remember what the grilling on the sidewalk one was... Usually when I find someone with bad english it's either because it's not their first language or they're a lazy american, and usually the latter is the worst.

[zesty_pinto]

The closest I can think of are the people who seem obsessed with the "azn" lifestyle and will try to type out asiatic languages in english typetext. This is the only instance I can think of, and it's a relatively poor one, imo.

[sixteenbynine]

"Dude, why is he named 'One Dollar'?"

"Inflation."