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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: dutch508 on September 24, 2015, 10:08:44 PM
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i tried to come up with some funny title for this but couldn't beat the OP's version
Star Member gollygee (18,724 posts) http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027201165
How White People Subtly Reinforce White Supremacy When They Laugh at Black Names
I haven't heard anyone make a joke like this for quite a while, so either it's not as common as it used to be, or I'm better about choosing who I hang out with than I was when I was young. Have you heard this kind of thing? Recently?
http://everydayfeminism.com/2015/09/white-people-black-names/
Make no mistake. This is racist behavior. We are emphasizing the otherness of an entire group of people to put ourselves over and above them.
It’s bigoted, discriminatory, prejudicial, and just plain not cool.
What’s wrong with black names anyway? What about them is so unacceptable?
We act as if only European and Anglicized names are reasonable. But I don’t have to go far down my rosters to find white kids with names like Braelyn, Declyn, Jaydon, Jaxon, Gunner, or Hunter. I’ve never heard white folks yucking it up over those names.
La-Sha. (la-DASH-sha)
I rest my case.
Scootaloo (19,990 posts)
1. You've never heard a white person laugh at a white kid getting saddled with "Aeshlynne"?
Maybe you don't know us as well as you presume to
gollygee (18,724 posts)
3. I didn't write this but I know the unusual spelling name trend you're talking about.
Edit: I also recall a few threads making fun of Sarah Palin's kids' names.
nice attempt at dodge.
gollygee (18,724 posts)
8. I agree that people make fun of white kids' names too
but only ones that are just plain unusual. Fairly common African American names get made fun of. Names as common as Skyler certainly, but Skyler isn't a more "normal" or common name than DeShaun. It's just more white sounding.
So I guess I agree with both of your points. Yes, people do make fun of some white kids' names too. But I agree also that the way black kids' names are made fun of is different, as you said "an air of otherness or outright racism."
They are about as African as Wicca is to ancient Druidic religion.
gollygee (18,724 posts)
10. Well that's a kind of class based discrimination
so it's really the same thing, but just a different type of oppression - classism rather than racism.
::)
Spider Jerusalem (19,182 posts)
14. I find stupid white-person names to be hilarious
Jayden, Brayden, etc, they all make me think of Raiden (a character from the "Mortal Kombat" video game) for some reason; creative spellings of existing names are kind of hilarious as well, honestly--my favourite is all of the godawful illiterate idiot butcherings of "Michaela", which is a perfectly fine name, but, NO, we have to spell it "Mikayla" or "Makayla" or "McKayla" or something, apparently. Protip: don't give your kids a name you don't know how to spell. "Skyler" is pretty bad, too; it's "Schuyler", and it's a Dutch surname. Whenever I see someone called "Skyler" I can only think "oh, you poor unfortunate child, I'm so sorry your parents were morons". (And don't get me started on "Neveah".)
ugh... you people are boring tonight.
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Maybe these white guilt addled primitives should just off themselves already. It might help atone for the rest of us.
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Ok, I'll bite. Try not to laugh:
http://herald-review.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/shitavious-cook-gets-years-in-shooting-pleas/article_280e78cd-3b32-510b-a980-6ea4f33b9a49.html
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Ok, I'll bite. Try not to laugh:
http://herald-review.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/shitavious-cook-gets-years-in-shooting-pleas/article_280e78cd-3b32-510b-a980-6ea4f33b9a49.html
:rofl:
This link belongs in that DU thread...may be time to burn a mole
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:rofl:
This link belongs in that DU thread...may be time to burn a mole
I'm tempted to post the whole bracket over there:
(http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--u273SHSa--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/sszs7jcaizddfrkmfjjj.png)
Although Shamus Beaglehole is absolutely hilarious, I really felt that Shitavious got robbed.
http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/name-of-the-year-2014-final-shamus-beaglehole-vs-chil-1562192899
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gollygee (18,724 posts) http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027201165
How White People Subtly Reinforce White Supremacy When They Laugh at Black Names
If an American of average intelligence can't pronounce your given name, your name is retarded and your mama needs to be slapped for being a dumbass.
Good news, the intelligence of the average American seems to be dropping. You might just get a job some day.
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Golly, I wonder if the DUmp ever ridiculed a Palin's or a Romney's first name...
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My favorite was a school girl named Le-a.
Her mother was angry that teachers repeatedly mispronounced it.
She insisted the girl's name is pronounced Ledasha because "the dash don't be silent".
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Maybe these white guilt addled primitives should just off themselves already. It might help atone for the rest of us.
Yeah, as I recall, we were just recently chided in a (D)Ummiespew for getting all worked up about shit and that we should just go get ourselves lives and avoid what makes us angry.....
Or something...... ::)
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Ok, I'll bite. Try not to laugh:
http://herald-review.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/shitavious-cook-gets-years-in-shooting-pleas/article_280e78cd-3b32-510b-a980-6ea4f33b9a49.html
Damn, that's my local paper and yet I missed that one. What a shitty name to give a child.
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My favorite was a school girl named Le-a.
Her mother was angry that teachers repeatedly mispronounced it.
She insisted the girl's name is pronounced Ledasha because "the dash don't be silent".
Bhahahahahahahaha :lmao:
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i tried to come up with some funny title for this but couldn't beat the OP's version
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ugh... you people are boring tonight.
These folks have too much time on their hands.
I wonder how many of these faux-raged DU-folk have had a laugh or two at "typical" German names, like (Big) Bertha? Or "typical" Italian names, like Luigi? Or "Southern" US nicknames, like "Bubba"?
A year ago I might have pointed out Bill Cosby's past mockery of "black" first names, but I guess that wouldn't work too well nowadays.
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Golly, I wonder if the DUmp ever ridiculed a Palin's or a Romney's first name...
H-5 earned and given, and I gave myself a :thatsright: why-didn't-I-think-of-that frontal Gibbs-slap.
BTW, in re "Big Bertha" in my previous post, my Aunt's name was Bertha (though she was on the tiny side). My Dad's family was German (he learned English when he went to school, with help from his older sister and brother).
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If Proglodytes are to be believed...
...black people are the biggest pussies.
Fortunately, Proglodytes are not to be believed.
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La-Sha. (la-DASH-sha) The dash don't be silent
I rest my case.
Let's not forget Shithead (pronounced Shi Teed)
or
Ashole (pronounced Ash ole')
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Ok, I'll bite. Try not to laugh:
http://herald-review.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/shitavious-cook-gets-years-in-shooting-pleas/article_280e78cd-3b32-510b-a980-6ea4f33b9a49.html
:rotf: THAT made my day, and totally beats the offering I am going to make:
From an article in my local paper:
PORTSMOUTH
City Manager Lydia Pettis Patton named Marketing, Entertainment and Tourism Department leader LaVoris Pace acting deputy city manager on Friday.
This is made all the better if you know that this city has been embroiled in controversy due to the Mayor systematically forcing out most of the white people on City Council and in various positions of authority, and replacing them with his African American cronies. Especially the recently appointed City Auditor, who has completed almost zero audits of anything, while enjoying a huge salary. I had to make this comment under the article:
Oh come on! Where are all the quips about the Citizens of Portsmouth now being able to wash the bad taste out of their mouths?
Only 2 thumbs up.
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From an article in my local paper:
This is made all the better if you know that this city has been embroiled in controversy due to the Mayor systematically forcing out most of the white people on City Council and in various positions of authority, and replacing them with his African American cronies. Especially the recently appointed City Auditor, who has completed almost zero audits of anything, while enjoying a huge salary. I had to make this comment under the article:
Oh come on! Where are all the quips about the Citizens of Portsmouth now being able to wash the bad taste out of their mouths?
From all of the years I spent in Hampton Roads, I can say without fear of contradiction that if the Seven Cities were to ever need an enema, Portsmouth is where they'd stick the tube.
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My favorite was a school girl named Le-a.
Her mother was angry that teachers repeatedly mispronounced it.
She insisted the girl's name is pronounced Ledasha because "the dash don't be silent".
I would have pronounced it Le Minus A. :lmao:
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We wouldn't laugh at the names if they weren't so damn hilarity inducing. Seriously, unless you are a flaming liberal twat like Gwenyth Paltrow, who daughter Apple won't ever need a job, name your child something that won't convulse people, especially those wielding the almighty paycheck, into fits of mirth. It's NOT white people's fault you idiots insist on naming your little innocent babies ridiculous things like Shewanna or Jablon or whatever diarrhea of the mind spills out onto the birth certificate. BTW, Africans laugh at your stupid names that aren't at all black or African or well, let's just say I'd never ask one of you idiots to name a pet of mine, be it ever so humble. Maybe if I were inclined to keep a pet cockroach. Seriously, life is already hard enough on the young, why do you insist on burdening him or her with some made up crap name that will make your child a subject of mockery among anyone not similarly afflicted with equally dimwitted parents? :bawl: The only roots you are invoking are the ones my cats might uncover while digging a shit hole for their latest offering to Mother Earth.
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I have a confession. My real name is one of those "funny" names.
You can't imagine the pain of growing up with everyone laughing, or trying to hide their snickers, whenever I said my name.
Just think about it- moving to a new town, a new school, and a new church. Being a 16 year old kid at the DMV, 100 people in line behind me, having to say my name out loud to an old lady behind the counter. It was awful.
Parents, please. Think before you name your babies. Do it for the children.
- Haywood Jablome
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- Haywood Jablome
[youtube]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cieFmcOqiUY[/youtube]
:-)
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I'd pronounce that SHIT-tay-V-us.....how close am I?
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I'd pronounce that SHIT-tay-V-us.....how close am I?
I'm guessing your SHIT needs to be a SHY and you're probably right.
SHY-tay-V-us :-)
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Ok, I'll bite. Try not to laugh:
http://herald-review.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/shitavious-cook-gets-years-in-shooting-pleas/article_280e78cd-3b32-510b-a980-6ea4f33b9a49.html
Shitavious Cook
Pronunciation guide for DUmmies. The name is based on the German name: Octavius.
Shit-tay-vee-us emphasis on the first syllable: Shit
Yes black names are FUNNY. Laughing at them is not racist, but normal reactions to stupid names.
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In Naval Aviation the culture encouraged the "2 Tacan Rule".
When on "Det" our squadron name tags were often replaced with our Detachment name tag was worn.
Some of the best "Det" names on display...
Emmerson Bigguns
Pat McGroyne
Tug McGroyne
Ricardo Cabesa
Richard Gozinya
Hugh Geerekshun
Phil Asheeyo
Coy Tuss
But seriously folks.
Lets call black exclusion for what it is.
It's just like Jeremiah(I won't call him Reverand) Wright's black liberation theology.
It's voluntary segregation.
It's refusal to integrate.
It's refusal to assimilate into American culture and society.
It's a prideful and rebellious attempt to name their kids the most outrageously un American names as possible so that the kids can't blend in with their contemporaries.
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But seriously folks.
Lets call black exclusion for what it is.
It's just like Jeremiah(I won't call him Reverand) Wright's black liberation theology.
It's voluntary segregation.
It's refusal to integrate.
It's refusal to assimilate into American culture and society.
It's a prideful and rebellious attempt to name their kids the most outrageously un American names as possible so that the kids can't blend in with their contemporaries.
Roger this. You want to deal with "white supremacy?" Don't give white people things to laugh at.
SHIRLEY Chisholm
BARBARA Jordan
HARRIET Tubman
ELLA Fitzgerald
LENA Horne
MARIAN Anderson
WILMA Rudolph
BILLIE Holliday
It isn't like they don't have fine examples from their own history.
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My sister knew of a woman who had twins, a boy and a girl. She thought the hospital named the babies. She called them, as pronounced: "Fe-Molly" and "Mali"
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[youtube]https://youtu.be/77FqeR7QGQk[/youtube]
Hummm.......no whitey's
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Response to gollygee (Original post)Fri Sep 25, 2015, 02:22 AM
Star Member Zorra (26,338 posts)
82. We bear our children at home, and name our children after natural occurences
that occur during births. We believe these things that occur during birth have meaning.
I'm really glad I don't have a European name.
Dances with Wolves? Stands with a Fist? Wipes with Leaves?
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Zorra (26,338 posts)
82. We bear our children at home, and name our children after natural occurences
that occur during births. We believe these things that occur during birth have meaning.
Well, that explains Queef Olbermann.
:rimshot:
Women may pass a small amount of stool during childbirth, and of course the afterbirth comes.... well, after. Both are "natural occurrences".
I bet her children hate her.
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We have a new general help/ floor sweeper at work. His full name is Quayshawn, pronounced KShawn. He prefers to be called Shawn and hates his name.
I can only guess some of the nick names he was called in school.
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We have a new general help/ floor sweeper at work. His full name is Quayshawn, pronounced KShawn. He prefers to be called Shawn and hates his name.
I can only guess some of the nick names he was called in school.
Poor guy.
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We have a new general help/ floor sweeper at work. His full name is Quayshawn, pronounced KShawn. He prefers to be called Shawn and hates his name.
I can only guess some of the nick names he was called in school.
Will this generation of pretentiously named black youth and young adults create a hip-hop or rap version of
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOHPuY88Ry4[/youtube]
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This trend started some time in the late '80s with people making up pseudo-African names - and since then it has spun out of control.
Honestly though - I don't think I could care less. If one likes their given name, good. If one doesn't, then one can have it changed. No big deal.
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This trend started some time in the late '80s with people making up pseudo-African names - and since then it has spun out of control.
Honestly though - I don't think I could care less. If one likes their given name, good. If one doesn't, then one can have it changed. No big deal.
I think your time estimate is about right, maybe 5 or 10 years earlier.
"Unusual" names don't bother me either. I've worked with lots of people from east and south Asia. Some take "English" names, some don't. With the ones who don't, I try to learn how to say their name, and they have patience with people who do so imperfectly (try pronouncing "Thiagarajan") and/or suggest shortened nicknames (e.g. "Raj").
Two things do bother me about giving kids faux-frican names. First is the separatist attitude that demonstrates. Trying to maintain fortress-like separatism in a larger society turns out badly, for all concerned. Second, in the real world, especially among children, giving bullies easy pretexts for bullying is poor parenting, at best. I realize bullies will bully, but why make your children easy targets?
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But seriously folks.
Lets call black exclusion for what it is.
It's just like Jeremiah(I won't call him Reverand) Wright's black liberation theology.
It's voluntary segregation.
It's refusal to integrate.
It's refusal to assimilate into American culture and society.
It's a prideful and rebellious attempt to name their kids the most outrageously un American names as possible so that the kids can't blend in with their contemporaries.
I will never forget my freshman year at University of Florida, hearing a representative of the Black Student Union say "We need segregation".
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My sister knew of a woman who had twins, a boy and a girl. She thought the hospital named the babies. She called them, as pronounced: "Fe-Molly" and "Mali"
HI5 for highlighting the reason these twin babies will become the next loser generation in the black inner city ghetto. Unfortunately, people like that exist and are truly that stupid. That's how we got stuck with Barry Soetero.
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We have a new general help/ floor sweeper at work. His full name is Quayshawn, pronounced KShawn. He prefers to be called Shawn and hates his name.
I can only guess some of the nick names he was called in school.
This poor s.o.b. needs a court ordered name change as soon as he's legally an adult. Bet, if he can't afford the fees, youall would fund it. Sounds like a good kid who needs a little bit of a break. And how nice he's actually working instead of dealing or pimping!
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This poor s.o.b. needs a court ordered name change as soon as he's legally an adult. Bet, if he can't afford the fees, youall would fund it. Sounds like a good kid who needs a little bit of a break. And how nice he's actually working instead of dealing or pimping!
I haven't seen her, but I heard he has a hot girlfriend, so the name thing might be working for him.
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I need to save this thread for the next primitive petition. Gloria Hole now has friends.
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I cannot believe we made it this far without a link to THIS now classic:
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd7FixvoKBw[/youtube]
Balacke!
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I cannot believe we made it this far without a link to THIS now classic:
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd7FixvoKBw[/youtube]
Balacke!
:rotf:
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Zorra (26,338 posts)
82. We bear our children at home, and name our children after natural occurences
that occur during births. We believe these things that occur during birth have meaning.
Two Native Americans
Young Brave: "Father, why is my brother called Eagle's Shadow?
Old Brave: "When he was born the 1st thing I saw when I left the tepee was the shadow of a soaring eagle on the ground."
Young Brave: "So, the first thing you saw outside the tepee when my sister was born was a running red fox?"
Old Brave: "Yes, that is how your sister Red Fox Running was named. Do you want to know anything else Dog Licking Balls?"
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I cannot believe we made it this far without a link to THIS now classic:
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd7FixvoKBw[/youtube]
Balacke!
So I guess my "name" would be Pete' as in Pete' de fois gras?
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Speaking as a white person I look upon a black person who decides they need to adopt an african name as a sign they really do not support America. I am not big on hyphenated names as well. I am an American not a white-american. I have even seen those who parade around in african garb. What this tells me is I had better be extra careful I do not offend them by treating them as ordinary americans but somehow special.
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I cannot believe we made it this far without a link to THIS now classic:
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd7FixvoKBw[/youtube]
Balacke!
OMG :rotf: :rotf: :rotf:
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Zorra (26,338 posts)
82. We bear our children at home, and name our children after natural occurences
that occur during births. We believe these things that occur during birth have meaning.
Don't tell me, she has twin girls named Placenta & After-Birth and a sons named Push & Breach.
Cindie
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This is an appropriate thread to use this in . . .
To the OP . . .
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-L9YiBgT_DWc/U3ZCFoNVDSI/AAAAAAAABLw/nAxzUGGqT9I/s1600/4+Facepalm+meme.jpg)
EOM
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Speaking as a white person I look upon a black person who decides they need to adopt an african name as a sign they really do not support America. I am not big on hyphenated names as well. I am an American not a white-american. I have even seen those who parade around in african garb. What this tells me is I had better be extra careful I do not offend them by treating them as ordinary americans but somehow special.
If it really was an African name I could respect that. 99% of the silly names are pulled outa someone's a$$. People laugh because these names are ridiculous.
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Don't tell me, she has twin girls named Placenta & After-Birth and a sons named Push & Breach.
Cindie
Twins:
Denise
DeNephew
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Twin retards, Poke and Plunder. Let the incest begin. Dark humor indeed,
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If it really was an African name I could respect that. 99% of the silly names are pulled outa someone's a$$. People laugh because these names are ridiculous.
I have to agree