Tuesday, May 17, 2011

If we're gonna have racism, let's try to make it even stupider

I'm starting to think that arbitrary stereotypes, to the point of blatant absurdity, is the way to go. I mean the whole "You know how x loves to y" when race = x and y = some dumb thing everyone does anyway is indeed blatantly absurd, yes, but I say we do it to a higher degree of arbitrariness.

  • Have you noticed how black people, when they're doing more than one load of laundry, take the clothes out of the dryer and put the clothes from the washer into the dryer and the dirty clothes in the washer only to realize that they only brought 7 quarters and have to go back to their apartment to get another quarter to run the wash? That's just so like black people.
  • Have you noticed how Asians always find out they don't have any milk at 2am? Like, they could have looked in the refrigerator at 11:59pm and had time to go to the store to get more but, like all Asians, they wait until the middle of the night to run out of milk.
  • White people always hang plastic grocery bags from the handles of drawers in their kitchens when they're cooking. Kooky white people.
  • Jews always put the caps back on plastic bottles before they go to recycling. Typical Jewish behavior. 
  • You ever try to get a Puerto Rican to hang a picture without using a bubble level? You tell 'em to just "eye it" but they won't do it. Those Puerto Ricans and their bubble levels!
  • Have you ever seen a Laplander who didn't have at least two coffee cups filled with half-working pens and pencils? That's just so typically Laplander. Just ask anyone "Hey, you got a pencil with an old, hard, eraser in a cup?" If they say "yes", Laplander for sure.
  • South Africans won't use tabs in browsers. Those South Africans! They just hate tabs. Nobody knows why! It must be a South African thing.
Feel free to make up your own new and arbitrary stereotype. Good luck to the Flemish (who will clearly need it.)

UPDATE: clearly none of this is working. Except for the tabs thing these are just stupid things I do. At one time or another I have done every one of them. How could they actually be racial stereotypes? But all I'm hearing is "Oh yeah, white people totally do that with bags..."

Ya just can't win...

UPDATE UPDATE: Yeah, I'm getting some people who actually agree with these stereotypes. Or, they're arguing that I put the right stereotype with the wrong ethnic group. No, no, no. These are just stupid stereotypes arbitrarily assigned. Who hasn't brought enough quarters to the laundry? Gimme a break.
That, and arguments about whether you should put the tops back on plastic bottles before they go to recycling. Hmm... but those arguments were made by Sri Lankans...

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