How are black people treated in the metal scene?

[Carpe Mortem]

I only used music as an example because we were already talking about music and this is of course a music forum.

My overall problem with how you're framing this is that, other people asserting your individuality for you seems to me to be counter to the concept of individuality.

On a deserted island, is someone really an individual? Of course others play a part.

Think we're both bored of this conversation though, cheers. I have a Nanny marathon to watch and pizza to smash.

 

[CiG]

On a deserted island, is someone really an individual? Of course others play a part.

Think we're both bored of this conversation though, cheers. I have a Nanny marathon to watch and pizza to smash.

Sure, on a deserted island you're an individual quite literally.

I wish I had pizza.

 

[tagradh]

^at the risk of sounding ignorant don't people of the different areas in the UK have a similar accent to those around them? That subconscious camaraderie might play a part.

That probably contributes to it. The UK does, for a country less than half the size of Texas, have a ridiculous number of accents, but after their regional nature the most important factor is 'class'. My accent, and the accent of most of the people I went to school with, is significantly different to the accent of most of the people in the hour or so drive around me that went to fee paying schools. Race seems largely irrelevant in this regard.

And people tend to adapt the way they speak to those around them, so. Yeah.

I guess one of the few benefits to the UK's continued fixation on class is that it makes it, compared with much of the rest of the world, somewhat less racist.

If you're on a low income, it doesn't matter two fucks if you're black or white. You're still a subhuman benefits scrounging cunt.

 

[CF87]

I'm subhuman benefits cunt, yeah, it does not matter if you're white,black, or yellow. God created me in his own image.

 

[no country for old wainds]

britain is absolutely rife with racism lol. it's just less focused on blacks and more focused on muslims (and to a lesser extent east europeans).

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Stereotypes are just one of many wonderful skills humans have been endowed with for the purpose of rapidly sorting individuals into mental bins with significant implications in personal safety, time management, and mate-choosing, to name a few.

 

[The Ozzman]

Stereotypes are just one of many wonderful skills humans have been endowed with for the purpose of rapidly sorting individuals into mental bins with significant implications in personal safety, time management, and mate-choosing, to name a few.

I hope you're being serious. We need to hang if you are. Just don't try to have sex with me.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Very serious, I've been an obsessive judge of individuals for as long as I remember. For example, in 6th grade, due to a sickly main teacher, I used to keep a quasi-spreadsheet of all of the various substitute teachers we'd get over the period, and rate them according to various performance metrics while noting their identifiable characteristics, and then attempt to make predictions of their quality according to said characteristics. Being fat was usually a negative, but that will probably help with hanging off of you.

 

[The Ozzman]

Being fat was usually a negative, but that will probably help with hanging out with you.

Harsh

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Did you correct a perceived grammatical/word-choice error in that quote? I've never seen someone correct a person's quote without announcing that they had made an error and drawing attention to it. I was attempting to make a love handles joke. Attempts at sex will be had, sorry man.

 

[The Ozzman]

Did you correct a perceived grammatical/word-choice error in that quote?

Yes because I thought you made a typo. Love you schnookums

 

[no country for old wainds]

Stereotypes are just one of many wonderful skills humans have been endowed with for the purpose of rapidly sorting individuals into mental bins with significant implications in personal safety, time management, and mate-choosing, to name a few.

well, you're still alive i suppose, and you obviously use your time very wisely based on the countless hours you spend arguing about nothing on message boards, but how's the mating situation? are you sure the consistent application of this method isn't conducive to dying a childless virgin?

 

[HamburgerBoy]

So you're telling me that if you see what appears to be one of those chav creatures so common in your homeland, you don't automatically make certain judgments regarding their personality, or perhaps allow it to influence your attraction to them?

 

[no country for old wainds]

chavs are easily the most successful breeders in the UK though, they rival rabbits in this regard. i'd probably be a great grandfather by now if i'd only cast aside my biases and search for the Human Beneath The Chav.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

chavs are easily the most successful breeders in the UK though, they rival rabbits in this regard.

What about those fockin Pakis m8

 

[no country for old wainds]

idk i dated a half-indian girl for 3.5 years and that didn't go too well :/

 

[The Ozzman]

idk i dated a half-indian girl for 3.5 years and that didn't go too well :/

Is that because she ate with her left hand and wiped with her right?

 

[no country for old wainds]

i think it was more that she was an oxford med student and i'm a lazy ass good for nothing slacker tbh

 

[HamburgerBoy]

White people have completely fallen to degeneracy and sloth. Sad.

 

[The Ozzman]

i think it was more that she was an oxford med student and i'm a lazy ass good for nothing slacker tbh

This is like the most racist thread in a while without being overtly racist