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Is tinychat dead?

Aragorn said
He's kidding. The IRC is dead. They are too busy circle jerking in that skype group.

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American, not African American?

Rare said
Of course it's an issue in our country, but not a major one to America. They need to fix the economy, the Elections are coming as well, and many other issues that was served to America. I'm against racism towards everyone, but you can't get raid of it forever. People are going to be who they want to be or are not matter what you do to fix it. That's including being racism.Of course we can decrease the number of racism, but we can't wipe it all forever. It's like smoking, you can't make it disappear no matter what you do.

The fact there's city-wide riots happening in St. Louis and Ferguson as we speak because two black teenagers got shot by cops kind of implies that America still has problems with race relations. I'd say that qualifies as a major issue.

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Chia LaBeef is going to be in that rather awesome looking Fury mobie next weekend. I'll let you know if he manages to out Nazi the Nazis in bringing discomfort to the protagonists.

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Happy old man day, my favorite fake Canadian!

American, not African American?

Yog Sothoth said
I am black, but I refer to myself as a Louisiana Creole since that's where my family is from. I'm more French than African since my family is heavily mixed. In my opinion black is almost as flawed of a term as people of color, the skin color variation from dark to light makes that term just dumb.

By that argument, calling somebody Asian is dumb because of the slight feature variance and skin tone between nationalities. Likewise, a Mediterranean white person typically has a more olive complexion and darker hair and eyes while a Nordic white person tends to have lighter eyes and hair with a paler complexion. Or heck, a Native American can range anywhere from a South American Incan to an Arctic Inuit, but you still consider them Native American. If I saw you and were asked to describe you, I'd just say black. I'm not going to know where your family is from any more than you know where mine is from. Plus, I'm pretty sure most government forms that ask for your ethnicity aren't going to accept Louisiana Creole as a response. If everyone nitpicked and enforced what people called their ethnicity, we'd have to memorized literally thousands of different ethnic permutations when a simple generalization works a lot more efficiently without being racially insensitive in the slightest.

Kidd said
I feel mixed on the term "people of color." On one hand, I agree with you two. It gives the impression that white is normal / default and everyone else can just be grouped together as a general whole. On the other, I think it's useful when referring to the marginalized racial groups as a whole. "People of color" are denied many opportunities, "people of color" have to deal with their culture being attacked and erased daily. "People of color" (in western society) most certainly deal with struggles white people do not have to deal with. Maybe some feedback/advice on this would help. I personally don't use the term because of my mixed opinion, but I see it very often and kinda just stay quiet because I'm not sure what to say, lol

Simple, "ethnic minority" works fine as a catch-all phrase, because it works for any society. If I lived in China, I'd be the ethnic minority there. Of course, it helps to look into a particular situation closely before jumping to the conclusion that everyone who happens to be a different race than the majority is suffering the same slights and inequities as another just because they're not a majority group. As with anything, knowledge is key and while it's good to champion the rights of the under represented, it's good to keep in mind that not all struggles are created equal. For example, an Asian isn't going to be effected by native land disputes or demanding compensation for residential schools, a black person isn't going to be suffering from the same discrimination as an Arab in a post 9/11 world, and so on. It's part of why I'm not a fan of using a "catch all" term for non-whites because I kind of feel like if you start to lump everything into one, the lines start to blur a bit and that leads some people to adopt an "us verses them" mentality, which is awful.

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idlehands said
You clever bastard.

I'm glad of all the people who caught on, it was you. ;D

I Am Literary Trash

ImANargleHunter said
I refuse to believe there is any establishment that has wine glasses in freaking Drayton.

You're probably right.

I just pulled this picture off the internet.

The suspect gets around, if you know what I mean.

Let's B!tch. I feel it's a healthy release for our roleplay annoyances 2.0

Cynder said
I really hate fandom Roleplays that butcher what the actual fandom or series is based on. I mean, I understand that playing a canon character is at times, extremely difficult and people have a hard time portraying them correctly. But there's a massive difference between having a difficulty portraying them opposed to totally butchering them for the sake of story (I especially hate this as pairing-based).

This is part of the reason that when I do fandom based RPs, I have a semi-solid no-canon character clause. I much prefer original characters using an established setting. People seldom ever get the feel or mannerisms down for a canon character, and I gotta agree; using them for a romance vehicle is eye roll worthy at best, projectile vomit inducing at worst. More often than not, the use of canon characters is for little more than to indulge in a personal fantasy, I find, which isn't really a problem in fanfics as much as it is in roleplays.

What if :The RP Guild was a wizard guild?

Teoinsanity said
Well,it's still am intrest check

It's still am?

I haven't seen or heard grammar that impressive since this song:

I Am Literary Trash

The Nexerus said
My guess is 'may'.

This just in, we have a photograph of the suspect: