Ive just moved into private student accommodation and none of my housemates have been home.
Having spoken to the neighbours apparently one of my new housemates is a big black man who likes beating his girlfriend at 2am and they have had to call the police on him.
Lads they could be messing with me but its shit me up and I don't know what to do. My immediate plan is to pop into my accommodation agents office and move but I can't afford it having just put down a large deposit and my finance is still in process - does 'I don't feel like getting stabbed' count as a valid reason of getting out of this contract?
I've just been playing Hitman: Bloody Money, so I would advise dressing up as the postie, letting him give you access to his flat, then poisoning his donuts.
Someone I know house shared with an African when they were at uni. He stabbed his ex-girlfriend and murdered her new boyfriend before going back to the house and playing cards with my friend. To balance it out, there were a number of white nutters at uni too.
Good post. it is important that you mentioned the white people at the end. Otherwise it sounded like you might be demonising that African (presumably black) man for Murdering someone, and I just don't know how my white guilt would deal with that kind of cultural imperalism.
>>5959 I thought it was the whole 'beating his girlfriend and having to have the police called on him' aspect of the housemate rather than the blackness that OP had issue with.
That's specious reasoning and part of the reason we have this bizarre insecure guilt culture at the moment, just because someone includes a descriptive quality about someone who is acting pejoratively, doesn't mean they are trying to make some kind of crypt-association. Is OP also fat shaming or 'heightest' for saying they are big? or sexist for pointing out they are a man or is it OK to associate those descriptions with violence?
Perhaps he is also trying to make women look pathetic by pointing out it was a woman? is there also something sinister about the mentioning that it was 2 am, I mean he clearly thinks it makes him even scarier or he'd not have mentioned it right? Or maybe a description of reality is just a description, and you can't throw English literature over analysis at it like it is a creative decision.
>>5962 He pointed out he was big because that often makes a person more physically intimidating. All other things being equal, that's an uncontroversial fact. Is the same true of skin tone, apologistm8?
>uncontroversial fact
So your emotive subjective reaction to someone being big is a fact is it. Are all of your gut reactions to someone's appearance 'uncontroversial facts',
>Is the same true of skin tone
You tell me, you seem to have made the immediate connection that mentioning skin tone, must be because they find it intimidating. So I can only presume it must be another one of your 'uncontroversial facts' or maybe you are just a closet racist who is over compensating to try atone for their nasty thoughts by policing normal conversation. Because I certainly don't immediately make associations like that or presume other people are, if they had been a gay couple, would you also be implying OP was homophobic if he had mentioned that point, or would that be an acceptable detail to mention?
>>5968 Heavies aren't intimidating, gotcha. And it's wrong to shout "crayfish!" unless you're the one doing it. I wonder if your dick-riding friend still thinks you so smart.
>>5962 >That's specious reasoning and part of the reason we have this bizarre insecure guilt culture at the moment, just because someone includes a descriptive quality about someone who is acting pejoratively, doesn't mean they are trying to make some kind of crypt-association.
Possibly not. Do you think he would have made the distinction if the bloke was white though? e.g.
>Having spoken to the neighbours apparently one of my new housemates is a big white man who likes beating his girlfriend at 2am and they have had to call the police on him.
Also the fact that this same thread has been cross posted on a few other boards makes it all a bit of an obvious troll thread intended to incite just this kind of inane tedious conversation.
>>5970 >And it's wrong to shout "crayfish!" unless you're the one doing it.
People can only shout it if they are me or anyone else who uses the correct definition. Which is why I am correcting you the same way you would correct someone who called a table a chair.
Describing someone as being a skin colour is not in its self racist, I think you are overcompensating because you are unsure of your place in the world, do you have black friends and do you make a point of having black friends or feel ashamed that you don't?
>I wonder if your dick-riding friend still thinks you so smart.
I hope they do and they will. I haven't been laid in months.
>Do you think he would have made the distinction if the bloke was white though? e.g.
Probably not no, because being white isn't considered a distinguishing feature in a country where 90% of the country is white, the same way you wouldn't mention someone had 2 eyes in a short description of them but you would mention if they had only one.
>>5975 >the same way you wouldn't mention someone had 2 eyes in a short description of them but you would mention if they had only one.
Feels like a bit of a false equivalence.
Maybe the OP was using it entirely innocently, there's no real way either of us can truly speak for his motives, but the fact that it's been posted on numerous chans/imageboards tends to lead me to think it's just a shit another stirring thread.
Maybe I'm wrong.
Anyway I can't be arsed to continue with this. Have fun.
I cringe a lot when I read the papers or turn the radio on. You never hear, "A white paedophile was apprehended," but you sure as hell will hear, "A eskimo paedophile was apprehended."
Never, "An armed white man held up a bank," but "A black man bottled a woman." In Canada, when some eskimo guy murdered his whole family and then killed himself, people were discussing honour-culture and other finer parts of Asian cultures. When a white man does it, he is simply psychotic.
White is benign and the average, so it can't really be used nefariously. While other terms like black, and eskimo, are loaded and have negative connotations. They are used negatively, to "otherise" and dehumanise. The more I think about it, I realise to a degree that the everyday language of our society, and by extension all the media we consume is at worst racist, and at best, just ignorant and xenophobic. While that can be overlooked if we were a near homogeneous nation like Japan, and shielded from globalisation, I don't think it can be applied here in Britain, or anywhere in the western world.
Now I'm not fighting for one corner or another. I speak three languages, and out of all of them, English seems most inclusive, and all tribal hostilities/xenophobia seem like they are covert. You would have to stop and think about certain things to realise what they truly mean.
Maybe technology, economy, and civilisation are progressing faster than our languages and inner-selves.
What the fuck, lads. I posted this thread last week and got caught up with other nonsense but I feel I need to clear some things up.
1) The reference to him being a big black man was a quote from the neighbours. I thought it was fairly obvious I was repeating what I had been told unless you're suggesting I have a black person spider sense.
2) I have never nor will I ever post on /R9K/. I did cross post on krautchan as I felt I needed some quick advice - no need to be a dickhead about it.
3) As it turns out I'm living with 2 black women with a boyfriend staying over a few days a week. He seems tame enough perhaps even a little intimidated as I forgot I have about 5 years on these kids. Then again he seems the jealous type so we'll see how it goes.
I haven't mentioned what the neighbours have said because I would rather avoid an argument. One of them made one of those indirect complaints about my smoking on the balcony though so fuck 'em.