Racist reasoning at its finest!

[Substitute Troll]

Oh. Lord. This is such an easy thing to resolve it's not even worth arguing about.

 

[Colour Scientist]

/thread

And there it is.

And to those who says Steve Hughes doesn't apply here. It does. Your giving fucktards like that woman more power and ability to offend people by even bringing it up. She's a ****, she will be ignored and stigmatized by those around her. That's enough punishment.

You would think so but the amount of people who think that it's an a-okay thing to do are pretty ridiculous.

 

[Alexi089]

Lol. Not the main topic but: Who puts a public swimming pool sign on a private swimming pool gate; but expects everyone to know they need to ask permission to go in? Crazy lady.

In case anyone's curious, i support Mr. Gunn in this case (as in, she should take down this sign). I get she was pissed off at that girl leaving hair dye in her water, but surely she could just say so and ask the girl to help her clean it up, rather than resort to spiteful racial ostracisation tactics.

I'm not a fan of the desperately-search-for-racist-undertones-in-everything-a-white-person-says-or-does mentality some people have; but it's pretty obvious she's deliberately looking to make black people feel uneasy or maybe even sub-human since any stranger passing it could quite reasonably assume that it was a racially segregated public facility.

 

[Jonluw]

The only problem I see with that woman's actions is that she chose to hang the sign at the gate and not as a decoration in the bathhouse or by the poolside or something.

Oh, and the bit about her "white rights".

 

[Zen Toombs]

It's within her rights to put that sign up, but I'll be buggered with a fishfork if I can understand why she'd chose to, or why she didn't anticipate a negative reaction.

Because she's only standing up for her white rights!

OT: As I read that article, I kept trying to side with the lady, give her all benefit of the doubt.... and then she said that the black girl made the pool "cloudy" with "chemicals from her hair".

And then immediately put up a "Public Pool: White Only" sign. To make sure that everyone knows to ask before going in the pool? I...I...i..

Wat?

 

[Helmholtz Watson]

You can collect anything you want, but here's the thing: It does actually reflect on you as a person. Don't hang a "White Only" sign on the gate to your outdoor pool and tell me your not racist. Let me put it this way: That lady is so full of shit, she couldn't use her own pool.

Here's another good one.
http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/11/22/8952917-parents-of-adolf-hitler-campbell-lose-custody-of-newborn-hons

On the article you posted, I think in that case, the state didn't have the right to take away the kids just because they have controversial names. I mean would the state also go after a couple who named their kid Joseph/Losif, Mao, George III, Genghis, or Nero? smh, its been over sixty years. If anything should be done, its that we should ignore these kinds of people because they are just IRL trolls and I think we all know the rule about feeding the troll.....

 

[Helmholtz Watson]

/thread

And there it is.

And to those who says Steve Hughes doesn't apply here. It does. Your giving fucktards like that woman more power and ability to offend people by even bringing it up. She's a ****, she will be ignored and stigmatized by those around her. That's enough punishment.

You would think so but the amount of people who think that it's an a-okay thing to do are pretty ridiculous.

I don't think anybody here actually stated they supported her beliefs &/or actions, they just responded to this the same way most of Escapist (yes I realize I'm making a generalization) would react to a Fox News publication that video games are the reason for all the violence in inner city schools in America.... which is to say they would respond like, "troll is trolling" or "grass is green, birds fly and Fox News is a troll".

 

[Thyunda]

Am I really the only person who noticed that the 'white rights' bit is clearly taken from more of a conversation? It reads like a response to the 'black rights' of having the sign removed. And the amount of people saying 'she's clearly a filthy racist and shouldn't be allowed to live' are truly ignorant. It's a collectors item, she likes the style, she puts it on her own swimming pool (AND STILL ALLOWS BLACK PEOPLE TO SWIM ON THE SAME TERMS AS WHITE PEOPLE), but they still complain because a sign says 'Whites Only'. How childish is that? Bollocks to you, Gunn. It's two freakin' words on a sign. Maybe you can't wear coloured shorts. She lets you use the pool, at least when your daughter isn't leaking hair dye into the thing, so you've only hurt yourself by moving you stupid bastard.

 

[Colour Scientist]

Snip

One:

it's a private pool on private land so the owner is well within her rights to be a bigot.

Two:

Its her pool, he moved out, wheres the problem?

Three:

If someone wants to only allow whites, blacks, asians or whatever onto their property that's fine by me and I couldn't give less of a shit if someone for example made a blacks only swimming pool.

 

[Valanthe]

You can collect anything you want, but here's the thing: It does actually reflect on you as a person. Don't hang a "White Only" sign on the gate to your outdoor pool and tell me your not racist. Let me put it this way: That lady is so full of shit, she couldn't use her own pool.

Here's another good one.
http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/11/22/8952917-parents-of-adolf-hitler-campbell-lose-custody-of-newborn-hons

Something doesn't add up with that one, I can get the state removing the kids after domestic violence complaints, that makes sense and sadly, happens far too often.

However I find myself actually siding with the parents for their newborn, who was removed two years after the initial incident, and was named Hons, which is a very common German name. This leads me to believe that some important details are missing from that article.

 

[SageRuffin]

It's within her rights to put that sign up, but I'll be buggered with a fishfork if I can understand why she'd chose to, or why she didn't anticipate a negative reaction.

Because she's only standing up for her white rights!

OT: As I read that article, I kept trying to side with the lady, give her all benefit of the doubt.... and then she said that the black girl made the pool "cloudy" with "chemicals from her hair".

And then immediately put up a "Public Pool: White Only" sign. To make sure that everyone knows to ask before going in the pool? I...I...i..

Wat?

That's the same thing I caught. That's some really awkward timing with her putting up the sign "as decoration" after the little black girl made the pool water all weird-looking from hair chemicals (dye? shampoo? afro-sheen?). If she put the sign, say, on her bathroom door, that might be a somewhat funny if tasteless joke, but a pool, private or otherwise? No.

Someone should've left a log. I bet that would let her what people thought of her "pool decor".

 

[urahara75]

But she wasn't being a bigot, it's an antique sign, like anything from nazi germany, people collect those too, doesn't make them racist, it makes them a collector. People collect those stuff. Now i would not have put it on a pool gate but no matter where she put it this would have came up.

But that's exactly the point -- historical artifact or not, if there are taboo &/or "unsavory" connotations linked to said object(s), it's generally unwise to use as a public decoration (on private property or not).

 

[viranimus]

I am completely offended by this.

Not because of some over inflated racist undertones. I am an antiques collector and the notion that any antiques collector worth their salt would display their item exposed to the wind/rain/snow other elements is astoundingly offensive. If you would do that your not a collector of antiques, your just decorating your place with useless trash.

 

[userwhoquitthesite]

I just wish this woman's last name was White. That would make this not racist, but HILARIOUS

 

[Timberwolf0924]

So, it's alright for there to be all black colleges, but white people can't have an all white swimming pool.

Welcome to America people, where we're so politically correct we'd shoot ourselves in the foot to not be called racist.

Fck that, I'm Asian and my pool has a sign on the 10ft wooden fence that says "try to jump this fence" and all Mexicans live around my house. Guess what, people laugh. When on the insides.. I'm thinking "if you only knew!"

Racism is a lie people, deal with it, cause no matter what people do or say, someones going to be racist.

Merry Christmas! "Excuse me, I celebrate Kwanzaa"

Happy Kwanzaa! "oh because I'm black I automatically celebrate Kwanzaa?"

Please.. go to hell and burn! "I'm sorry, I'm athiest, I don't believe in heaven or hell.."

FCK!!!!

 

[spartan231490]

Unclear story is unclear. it's a he said/she said at this point. If she is telling the truth, andit was just up as an antique decoration than, while I find it inconsiderate and in poor taste, I have no problem with it. If what he said is correct and she posted it in response to a black girl swimming in the pool than I have a problem with it.

 

[SuperNova221]

Her justification is for having a sign that is racist. Not a justification for racism. She isn't saying "Oh, racism is fine so this sign is fine." She's saying "This sign is fine, despite it being racist."

Lets assume she was racist and didn't actually have a perfectly fine reason for it. Quick edit: That said, the bit about white rights is a bit iffy, the only part with possibly some racist undercurrent.

Unless she was going out of her way to incite arguements and hatred with her views (now that would be unacceptable) I see nothing wrong with her holding onto her views on race, gender, favourite breakfast cereal, haircut or whatever and refusing entry to her privately owned property to people based on that. I certainly won't agree with her reasons, but she has the right to do it and she doesn't need to justify herself to anybody.

 

[Comando96]

The sign has since been stolen.

Good... hopefully its new owner will put it in a cupboard, or frame it... not let the thing degrade in the whether.

/thread

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Steve Hughes.

He's still great
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