"swarthy workmen" lol

[troika]

lol what. do they not know what "swarthy" means or do they assume that most people who'd play this game probably don't?

I mean, I think it's hilarious because it's really ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up. The writing isn't good enough to give it that period feel where casual racism is the norm, so it just stands out like uhhhh what, why are your day laborers all moreno lol.

It's more a fault of the terrible writing than anything else. If it were self-aware it would be one thing, but it takes itself so seriously. I've about died laughing from some of this writing.

[dnrob7]

The guy openly said he saw the population of the town as a meat resource for his satanic rituals, sure but now it turns out he might have also been racist!? D:
Oh my word, I've never been so shocked and outright offended in my life!

[Lu]

What kind of PC-obsessed simpleton would consider the use of the word swarthy (in any context let alone this one) to be casual racism?

[aardvarkpepper]

1) someone posts an opinion different to yours
2) mock and deride poster
3) ??? profit !!11!one!!1!

[Arghaab]

I don't speak english very well and had to look this word up in a dictionnary.

It said that it was a word mostly used to describe a color of the skin, when it becomes a little darker due to spending a lot of time under the sunlight. Doesn't seem racist.

[wckowalski]

Originally posted by Marma:

What kind of PC-obsessed simpleton would consider the use of the word swarthy (in any context let alone this one) to be casual racism?

Because the definition of swarthy is a darker skin color, and making use of that adjective but no others indicates that their skin color was the most important, defining feature of what kind of workmen he hired.

[troika]

haha, look at all the far-right whiners who don't understand the difference between "the writing is inconsistent and clunky" and "OMG RACISM OMG." It's so incredibly easy to trigger these "PC"-obsessed whiners, good god. You'd think they'd be dead of hysterics-induced heart attacks by now, being that they so readily jump at shadows.

jesus christ, you people are so utterly doused in propaganda that your brains are basically pickled. this is even funnier.

[aardvarkpepper]

Originally posted by Scribbles:

haha, look at all the far-right whiners who don't understand the difference between "the writing is inconsistent and really funny" and "OMG RACISM OMG"

jesus christ, you people are so utterly doused in propaganda that your brains are basically pickled. this is even funnier.

pickled brains

git gud at schadenfreude

hey look okay if you have a legitimate point others will just make up stuff to give you **** about so just go with the flow

it's like if you don't like someone's kid, they'll give you **** until the day you die never mind that their kid peed on your lawn and tried to poison your dog "you're such an *** of course my kid had to do those things, you awful person"

lel

[troika]

seriously, how can you not laugh though? whenever you even mention race, right-wing whites flip the ♥♥♥♥ out and basically have seizures. it's hilarious.

[dnrob7]

Originally posted by aardvarkpepper:

git gud at schadenfreude

Schadenfreude should be a possible quirk in DD.

[aardvarkpepper]

i always laff

i'm just a happy person

comics though . . . comics are sad. inside

[Lu]

Originally posted by wckowalski:

Originally posted by Marma:

What kind of PC-obsessed simpleton would consider the use of the word swarthy (in any context let alone this one) to be casual racism?

Because the definition of swarthy is a darker skin color, and making use of that adjective but no others indicates that their skin color was the most important, defining feature of what kind of workmen he hired.

Or, it could simply mean that they're swarthy looking from the work involved. This is what I think of when I hear the term "swarthy workmen"[tummax.com].

And what if the workmen were described as being pale? Would that be considered as casual racism too because it implies that all the workers are white and not a politically correct mixture of races?

I don't think any of you are truly, deeply offended by this. Like all PC-obsessed fruitcakes you're nitpicking over semantics without really understanding what racism is.

[aardvarkpepper]

if you'd read more period literature marma you'd understand

it's okay though someone needs to represent an uninformed opinoin

and it can't always be me you know

thanks for picking up the slack

[dnrob7]

Originally posted by Marma:

I don't think any of you are truly, deeply offended by this.

Well of course they aren't o_0
I didn't think anyone could truly, deeply take one word of this ♥♥♥♥ serious enough to grant it an actual response yet here you are.
Why feed it?

[DuckieMcduck]

Do you know what happens to your skin color once you've done lots of manual labor under the sun? Hint: It doesn't get whiter.

Originally posted by Scribbles:

seriously, how can you not laugh though? whenever you even mention race, right-wing whites flip the ♥♥♥♥ out and basically have seizures. it's hilarious.

And just like that, with people disagreeing with you, you have obtained both the ethnicity and political compass of those who disagree with you, lol. Who's the one flipping anything here, again?

[aardvarkpepper]

Originally posted by dnrob7:

Why feed it?

Mallory is famously quoted as having replied to the question "Why did you want to climb Mount Everest?" with the retort "Because it's there."

why ask why

when I saw the post pop up did I pile on, no. I said we can let this one go boys, it's there, we don't need to talk about it.

but the people demanded a response!

Vox populi, vox Dei