Can someone please explain to me why it's ok for other races to say shit like "that's some white people shit"(this comes out of a black chick I know constantly) or "that's a white people haircut" and it's not racist but bet your ass if I (a white woman) said "that's some black people shit" I'd be shown on CNN being berated for it 🤔

The scene where Ben Stiller disguises himself - the sight gag is that him 'disguised' is an African American actor. Ben is not wearing blackface, except, is he? What do we think about that? The punchline of the joke is not a comedy black man, but how good a makeup artist Derek is, but.. I don't know?

I live in Germany and I am not German, I’m from America.

In my first year of living here, I met another American girl. She worked at a kindergarten here and was telling me her experience that she says it’s racist but I would not think so. ( BTW: We are both POC. ) On Mardis Gras, the German kindergartens often celebrate by dressing up in costumes, like they do on Halloween.

She said this mother’s child was racist for putting black face on her child. But his outfit was Shaun the sheep, as in those sheep that have a black face. He had on black face with a puffy white outfit. He wasn’t dressed as another race or ethnicity.

I’m not very assertive and I just let her rant on about that but it has been bothering me. She’d claim things are racist but weren’t entirely at all. She’d often contradict herself. She herself would say prejudice things about Germans.

Any ways, I digress. What do you respond in situations where someone says it’s racist but it wasn’t at all? Like the example with the child dressed up as a Sheep?

I feel like a lot of people call out racism but in wrong contexts. How should you respond?

If we are in a world where there are cyborgs, is it racist to sing the song "Mr. Roboto" by Styx about a cyborg. Like can cyborg be considered a race?

I (M23) just got my hair braided. Top of my head only, shaved sides. When I went to my office job today a coworker looks at me and says “oh what’s up cornrows? You going to a rap concert?”

At the time I wasn’t offended but now that I think about it....

1. They aren’t “cornrows”

2. Why is a “rap concert” the only place that’s okay, that’s oddly specific

I generally don't like blonde hair. I think it can look decent on fairer-skinned people, but the contrast with any other skin color is offputting to say the least. It just feels wrong to me. I don't think blonde hair looks good anywhere else, and it BARELY looks good on white people most of the time!

Saw a pretty clever costume called "Han Cholo" where a guy combined the looks of Han Solo and a "Cholo."

I'm a DJ at an upscale style bar in Texas. The owner of the bar/lounge has specifically told me not to play anything hip hop or even country. I need to stick to pop music or house remixes of pop music.

I had a black woman come up to me and ask if I could play some hip hop and I said I couldn't, so she asks for R&B. I say, "I can play R&B" and "what would you like me to play?" She then asks for Lil Keke "Southside" and my immediate response is "That's straight up Houston Rap, I can't play that". She gets a bewildered look on her face and says, "You know that's racist, right?". I reply with, "I don't think so, but I'm not going to get chewed out by the owner over a request." She turned around and left angry and kept giving me dirty looks which i ignored, obviously.

Was it racist?

I really don't think it is because a lot of pop music has black artists and with that as logic, white people like rap and hip hop as well.

If you're a white person.