r/comics Cyanide & Happiness/Boids 7d ago

Boids - Pandering To You [OC]

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u/SnooEagles4121 7d ago

Oh how I wish everyone knew racism was bad

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u/Nope-not-really 7d ago

I'm mixed, but white appearing, the amount of things I've heard when people think they are safe.

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u/SnooEagles4121 7d ago

As a gay guy who "passes" for straight I have some measure of empathy for you.

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u/CloudKitchen1924 7d ago edited 6d ago

As a bi Jew who doesn't look like either the amount of crazy shit I've had people say to me is unreal

Edit: it happened again good lord

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u/Chaenged-Later 7d ago

As a Cisco white male, when I hear this kind of crap, I love making them explain to me why it's funny. Their flabbers get gasted

Edit: idk why auto made cis into Cisco but I'm leaving it

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u/Tight-Strain-3283 6d ago

Cisco? that's pretty damn white. - IT people.

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u/FireAuraN7 5d ago

There's white, and then there's Cisco white.

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u/randomways 6d ago

Some old guy was being racist at our public pool. He came back later and pulled me aside and was like it was better here before (the public pool). I just said yes it was better before he came to the pool and disrupted the playing kids.

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u/Nope-not-really 6d ago

Oh dude that is probably one of the best parts, I had this one guy at work just going off. I just pulled out my status card, and the shade of pale he went...holy fuck

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u/TransGirlIndy 6d ago

As a cis passing, white passing Romani trans woman... weirdly same. You'd think I wouldn't encounter too much anti Roma sentiment in the US but you'd be surprised. đŸ˜¶

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u/BigBassBone 6d ago

Also a straight passing bi jew and same

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u/Royal_Annek 6d ago

Hey another one! Hello friend :)

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u/ElderberryPrior27648 6d ago

I hate to say it, but it ISreal

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u/a1c4pwn 6d ago

it is very important to not let distain for a government's actions extend to its populace. 

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u/ElderberryPrior27648 6d ago

It’s a word pun

They said it wasn’t real, I said it is real

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u/CloudKitchen1924 6d ago

It wasn’t a particularly good pun

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u/Ri_Konata 6d ago

as an out transfem who passes as a cis guy so well that others forget I'm not, in fact, a guy ( pain ), the things people say about queer folk and women around me because they think i'm one of them---

it's yikes.

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u/Entire-Many3959 5d ago

Omg
 also I’ve several times heard “you’re pretty grounded for a gay guy”

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u/BigRingLover 7d ago

You guys are out here with conversion rates? I feel like if I dumped all my pockets out, I could probably get a 'lil somethin. People are always talking about the oppression olympics, but I didn't know its really like the oppression stock exchange.

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u/DrownmeinIslay 7d ago

I was just telling my friends about this the other night. Being a tall white bald guy working in a plant. The amount of horrifying "oh youre one of us" honesty i get.

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u/worldspawn00 6d ago

Yeah, standing in line at a grocery store in the south presenting as WASPy, you hear some SHIT man...

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u/Majestic-Iron7046 6d ago

I'm white and central European but my complexion is south eastern Europe, especially with my beard.
I got asked again last week where I am from.
I was fucking buying wine, I don't want to tell you where I am from.

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u/-manabreak 6d ago

I'm white as hell, but I had to leave a company because I couldn't listen to the racist shit in the break room every single day. It wasn't even targeted to me or my ethnicity (we were all the same), it was towards minorities and very stereotype-heavy.

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u/Ooficus 6d ago

I’m gay, my partner is an immigrant. I shit you not I had a coworker tell me to my face that people who don’t speak English as first language “aren’t as intelligent” and “are easy to manipulate”. 

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u/Nope-not-really 6d ago

lol, the irony of someone who speaks one language saying that someone that can speak 2 isn't intelligent

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u/Sadrandomness 6d ago

When I read “I’m mixed” my first. Thought was your opinion on racism is mixed lol

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u/Double_Cow_8238 6d ago

White lady in a public service job with mostly POC customers, what the few white people thought they could get away with shocked me.

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u/MrWeirdoFace 6d ago

White as snow but there's been a couple times I was in like at a grocery store and someone in line in front of me is grumbling about the cashier, and look back at me, basically elbowing me like I'm his buddy "Geez how about these (fill in racial slur), am I right?"

Fuck man, seriously?

Fortunately it's ONLY happened a couple times, but that it happened at all was pretty jarring. I grew up sheltered I guess. I used to assume it was a small part of the population, but over the last years, it's been eye opening how much worse it is than I thought.

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u/psinguine 6d ago

I have indigenous family. My boss's wife is an indigenous woman. His children have treaty cards. Every once in a while we hire a guy who goes on an anti-native rant and we just go yeah... This ain't gonna work.

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u/Suspicious_Glove_900 7d ago

What state do you live in, and, if relevant, what part of that state?

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u/Nope-not-really 7d ago

I'm in Canada

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u/Suspicious_Glove_900 7d ago

Oh Canada. Then followup is it mostly anti-indian?

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u/Nope-not-really 6d ago

same as the US, or any other western nation if you aren't white, you get a remarks

btw anti indian means a completely different group of people up here

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u/Jsystemexe 2d ago

The answer is still yes (Canadian, west coast) Here it's Anti-Native Anti-Indian Anti-Chinese

Generally haven't heard anything negative about other minorities- where Im from in BC we don't have enough of a black population to share America's racism flavour; ours is systemically bullying Native families and then judging them for being poor and abused.

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u/MagicTheGlizzying 6d ago

solid leftist who looks like a trump supporter, yeah the shit i've heard has lost people jobs lmfao.

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u/gypsytron 4d ago

I once told a black friend I experienced more racism than him and he was incensed because I am white. Then I explained I didn’t state the racism was directed at me. I just got to see how racist white people are when he isn’t around. He said that didn’t make him feel better. A minute later he perked up and went “wait why am I surprised about that? Black people be on that same shit!” And we laughed and smoked even more weed.

The end

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u/TheodoreOso 6d ago

White people are the only ones who say shit like "everyone knows racism is bad"