are you fucking kidding? umm. ;last time i checked, my fiance is ummm.... black




are you fucking kidding? umm. ;last time i checked, my fiance is ummm.... black
People just like to have excuses and people to blame for things. And unfortunately, sometimes, race and ethnicity are the 'obvious' choices. Very annoying in my opinion.
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I agree, very annoying, pulling the racist card
I agree although dont forget it's very annoying also to be a person of colour or member of a minority and be treated differently in the first place which - the "race card" came from somewhere (-:



Excuses, excuses...
"You won't dance for me because ____"
Forty six years ago the race card was valid.
Nearly half a century later it is a trick by the politically correct who cannot accept rejection.





OK, nothing really. Other than I really like Wikipedia lately.![]()
Playing the race card is an idiomatic phrase, referring to an allegation raised against a person who, the accuser feels, has unnecessarily brought the issue of race or racism into a debate so as to obfuscate the matter. It is a metaphorical reference to card games in which a trump card may be used to gain an advantage. The allegation tends to stir up controversy.
The phrase is used in two contexts. In the first, and more common, context, it alleges that someone has falsely accused another person of being a racist in order to gain some sort of advantage. An example of this use of the term occurred during the O.J. Simpson criminal trial, when the prosecution accused the defense of "playing the race card" [citation needed] in trying to present Mark Fuhrman as a racist and thus not a reliable witness against Simpson. Another example would be a criticism of Georgia Representative Cynthia McKinney's assertion that she was the victim of "racial profiling"[citation needed] after she physically attacked a Capitol policeman who had asked her to show her identification at a security checkpoint.
In the second context, it refers to someone exploiting prejudice against another race for political or some other advantage. The use of the southern strategy by a political candidate is said by some to be a version of "playing the race card", such as when former senator Jesse Helms, during his 1990 North Carolina Senate campaign ran an ad showing a black man taking a white man's job, intended as a criticism of the idea of racial quotas. The ad was interpreted by many people as trying to play to racist fears among white voters.
There is no limit to possible constructions, and similar phrases have also been used, such as "Playing the religion card", or "Playing the anti-Semite card" (or in German: Auschwitzkeule).
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Racism doesnt exist any more? >>Makes note to inform the Nazis I know<<
I have worked with one or two dancers who choose not to dance for various ethnic groups and also lesbians because they have a problem with those people, but it's their loss in the end.
I agree the race card is a tad lame - totally unoriginal also. But if someone used it on me and I wasnt a racist (and Im not incidently being that im black in the first place...) I would have a pretty bloody good come back to shoot them down with. :-D
Oh for crying out loud - how many threads have we had talking about racial profiles of customers? "I won't dance for/approach black/middle eastern/Indian/Mexican customers." This isn't coming out of the air.
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