[quote name='drmuerto'][quote name='The Campaigner']I bet you don't even know what race i am. Besides most of rap consists of violence, sex, killing, etc. Now if i said something specific to a race which i don't recall, like blacks are lazy or something then ok, but if you say white people can't dance that's probably more dead on then racist, well call me racist and you'll sound dumb, you should go see webster about what the word racist means.[/quote]
First off, forgive me for going off the main topic here, but this needs to get addressed. SO Shaq-fu it here goes.
Here's why JSweeny intially suggested your statement was racist: There is such a thing as implicit or covert racism which often gets a pass in mainstream US culture even though it does at least as much damage if not more than flagrant "KKK-style" overt racism. Covert racism usually takes the form of neutral or at worst "humorous" statements about a racial or ethnic (or any other subaltern) group's presumed cultural, social, psychological or physical characteristics, which are, in truth, underlain by essentializing propositions about said group. While these propositions, as I said, sometimes come off as neutral, funny, and sometimes even complementary, they smuggle in either outrigh degradation of the subject or at the very least a distancing of that group from the speaker's own identification. For example the idea that whites have no business listening to "black music" often implies that there whites should somehow find that music distatesful because it is beneath them. Another example would be the way that people often tend to generalize Asians as "good at the sciences", which of course also implies that they aren't good at the arts or humanities in school. While that seems like a compliment, if you look deeper, such statements cary the implication that there is something about "Asians" (already a suspect category) that makes "them" nerdy or otherwise unable to relate to the European-derived arts and humanities, which of course, suggests that they are somehow incomplete thinkers, unlike whites who can be good at whatever they choose.
Anyway, this is all to say there is a lot of shaq-fuing racist shaq-fus out there who say really ignorant stuff and then get defensive about it when they finally do get called for it. That's my 2 cents + for ya'll.
PS Now that I think of it they very concept of the game "Shaq-Fu" is a bit troublesome, since it presents an African American as a fighting brute, while at the same time tearing apart Chinese language to append the word "Fu" for a quasi-joke. It's a double whammy.[/quote]
wow, i was gonna say something about it, but you already did a great job. i didn't have a problem with campaigner until he said the statement about rap and white people....