Part of the beauty of the internet is that it gives rise to concepts and communities that probably wouldn’t exist if the internet wasn’t a thing. And it can get so niche that it would make you wonder very hard as to how it got there in the first place.
One of the more interesting communities online is the r/AccidentalRacism subreddit—a portion of Reddit dedicated to pointing out times when innocent things appear to be racist, though it's totally unintentional and, while some some of it may seem offensive, the community makes it clear that racism is not cool.
We’ve collected some of the most upvoted posts from the subreddit that today has a bit over 450,000 members. Scroll down to check it all out, and why not leave a comment and an upvote on the ones you found most “oof” worthy.
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A Perspective They Didn't Imagine Would Happen
Except the people pissing and moaning about it WANTED the Indian removed.
Load More Replies...A Native American artist designed the Land O Lakes gal, and they destroyed his work in order to fight pretend racism.
especially since the Native American woman used in the art work was a Native American woman and the artist who drew it was Native American. To be PC they literally got rid of a Native American's art work starring a Native American (BTW the Washington Football team, while the old name was raicst the logo they got ride of was also designed by a Native American Artist and the model used was a known Native American Chief, basically the one thing they should have kept)
While it was designed by a native it was still racist and even if u get rid of the offensive, inaccurate name, u still have an entire racial identity as a mascot?🤨so no they should not have kept it
Load More Replies...Native American... Honestly, one guy said the wrong thing and no one has gotten it straight since! That's like if someone at a conference suggested that Pluto isn't a planet and suddenly they started to rewrite the dictionaries!
Never understood the reasoning behind this. What in the world is wrong with depicting a native American a package of butter? Same with Aunt Jemima.
imagine someone mistreated you, and then used your image to sell your family a product...would your family take it lying down?
Load More Replies...Keeps the native : racist scandal. Remove the native : racist scandal. A black woman steps on a lego : Denmark is racist.
Read up how that region was stolen. It’s a pretty obscure history, no big cavalry operations or major battles.
Does This Count?
Oh God, I come back at my girlfriend with that all the time. She says something like "this show is too long and boring" I reply with "you're too long and boring". The less sense it makes, the better.
You make less, and through this, better sense! I know this is stupid but I couldn't resist..
Load More Replies...Good thing she apologized, is genuinely sorry and made an honest mistake.
Honestly, if it is coming from people i know well enough, i would be laughing :p If i didn't i probably say something like: 'so how about you then ? you evil nazi !' People really need to take a break.
I did the exact same thing to one of my ex's. He was talking about how his mother uses either walnuts or chestnuts has black dye for yarn because they're black inside. And I responded with "you're black inside" and we both looked at each other and laughed. He was a very positive spirit. Definitely not black inside lol
I am black, and while I would be offended for a minute, I would instantly laugh because I'm sorry, to me its a bit funny.
I can so see myself accidently saying something like this. Because "you're [fill in the blank]" is my total go to response. Lol
Some Muslins Are Good IMO
When you are always looking for an excuse to be woker than everyone and to be mad at something to show how superior you are, that's the kind of things which happen... And you will make a fool of yourself even more than usual.
I'll agree that this lad needed to read carefully before reacting but I don't think his reaction came from a desire to "show superiority", more like he might be on the defensive because he's experienced discrimination due to maybe being Muslim himself.
Load More Replies...Well hello there fellow fiber artist! Knitter/embroiderer here ☺️
Load More Replies...I had to reread it to, and I know what muslin is... Then I laughed way harder than I should have. I'm just glad the reply wasn't someone agreeing!
How can something this wrong seem so....white ... Sorry inappropriate dad joke lol
I was driving in rural US many years ago where there was only AM radio and was listening to this guy I had heard about called Rush Limbaugh and in the first minute of listening he said "We're always talking about Muslim this and Muslim that. I remember when Muslim just meant a type of cloth." It took less than a minute to understand the man was an idiot.
I think we need to iron out a few things here - black muslins are OK, white muslins are also OK; but green muslins are not good.
Especially those Scheele's Green Muslins. Downright murderous!
Load More Replies...If its a black bear, make yourself seem big and make a lot of noise to scare it away. If it's a brown bear (grizzly), lay down and play dead. It may investigate you, but will probably lose interest. If it's a polar bear, you're going to die.
That's true! Although a little-known fact: not all brown bears are grizzlies. I just learned that recently from a National Geographic talk. Also, if it's a polar bear, there's a chance you can distract it by throwing you bag. The have very short attention spans.
Load More Replies...If it’s black AND white (aka: panda); just give them their space & you should be alright. 🐼 If it’s little & grey (aka: koala); watch out for chlamydia, okay? 🐨 Sorry, but I just couldn’t resist! 😂
If it's black and white, comment on their website?
Load More Replies...If they get hostile you’re supposed to fight them, as running is basically not an option.
Load More Replies...I know bears can kill you but why are they friend shaped? My life’s dream is to a hug a (tame, I’m rather attached to my limbs) bear
“Friend shaped” is something I have never heard until now.. I am oddly intrigued by this lmao
Load More Replies...I went to school with a lot of friends who ended up as Park Rangers - our school had a program in Alpine and Arctic Zoology. One of them was stationed in Alaska and I was present one time when she gave her campfire educational session with people visiting Denali for the first time. She taught to always carry bear mace spray and wear bells on your shoes. Bears hear the bells and move if necessary so there's no chance to get between momma and cub on accident. However, they emphasized to not do that if going into polar bear country (many people traveled farther north after Denali). The bells become dinner bells and the pepper spray is just seasoning yourself.
Come on, you can't leave us suspended like this. Our lives might depend on this. What kind of bells - little tinkly Christmas tree size, great big 5kg cow bells, does the recorded sound work too? or is it size and you whack 'em over the head with the bell/ what - we need to know.
Load More Replies...Unless you're dumb enough to get between a mom and her cubs, or challenge an adult male, you don't need to attack a black bear. Just make a loud, sudden noise, and they'll likely run away.
Springtime can be touchy if they have a food source close. I'm from the backwoods of New England (US) and hike a lot. If you find yourself in a position where you're getting sized up for and attack make yourself big and throw stuff. I've never had a bad black bear encounter, but my neighbor has a den in his back lot and that's what he told me works in case I find myself in their path. They are wild animals and they can be unpredictable. It's good info to know.
Load More Replies...Maybe they should have mentioned the bears in the post. TheYoungWolf0 saved the post. Think before you post.
Stereotypes, Amiright?
Are we just making up definitions for racists now, that’s not racist 😂 he even thought it was funny.
How is that racist? The dude reminded him of a food from his country that he likes. I see a Texan and be all steakhouse!
It is not racist. This is an unfortunate mistake. I don't think the person posting this on twitter thought it was racist.
Load More Replies...loooool, my bad, I always think of her Rougail saucisse when I see my Reunion friend
I used to live in a neighbourhood with heaps of Sikhs. They were so chill and good humoured, I can 100% hear their voice saying this response 😆
bruh im south-central asian and i don't find this racist at all.
Rosa Barks
That's easy... black is what blind people "see" all the time.
Load More Replies...*gasp* How dare someone tell that goodest doggo they can't be a guide dog
Yep, three questions: what is colour? does a dog know what colour it is? what colour are you?
Load More Replies...Guide Dogs can be horses if they want to be! https://youtu.be/CCmHsBpins8
I love the idea of guide dogs deciding they want to become horses! Nope - I no longer wish to be a dog, call me Black Beauty! Ahem, yes you do get guide horses though!
Load More Replies...Imagine telling a blind woman her dog is the wrong colour to be her guide dog.
Context: Agitator didn't believe it was a guide dog, thought all guide dogs are "yellow Labradors"
Load More Replies...He Learned A Language, But Alas, The Wrong One...
That seems like the kind of thing to check before you learn a new language lol
I hope he checked if she speaks Cantonese or Mandarin before learning another language
Or if she speaks the language of her ethnic homeland at all.
Load More Replies...This is exactly why i want to learn Japanese (other than its awesome)
Load More Replies...Man, she must have been so torn between "what a racist" and "that's the sweetest thing ever" that she would just freeze up and need a reboot!
How is the kid a racist? Do hou know what tge word means? Or are you just another ignorant troll?
Load More Replies...Ya, but then again, when I saw a picture of my nephew's future wife, who was in US on a work visa I asked where she was from, totally assuming it was a country in Asia. Nope. Peru. Didn't mean it in a racist way at all. Just thought it was somewhere in Asia. Had no idea that Peru has an extremely large population of Asian immigrant decendants. I learned something.
A good portion of people we call Asian aren't even in Asia. As well a lot of people from the countries we call Asian live in South America.
Load More Replies...This is just a sweet misunderstanding and not racist. I can't tell the difference between a German and a Frenchman either.
Well try making amorous advances to a French woman in German and see how far you get.
Load More Replies...It isn't. People just want to be offended now. They want to be offended upon other's behalf. It's ludicrous.
Load More Replies...And only about 5000 variations of 'Chinese' languages to make it real a real challenge.
It Looks Like Your Mouth Is Open
At least you get the option to say you still want to use the photo. I bet they get some interesting comments in the box - like "my mouth is closed you racist gits".
Is this actually because of the lips or because of the goatee that surrounds his mouth and could be mistaken for an open mouth?
Wow. Just WOW. Seriously racist programming. I wonder what happens when those lip filler fanatics use this app.
The computer just gives up and implodes.
Load More Replies...Well the program asking why is the part I don't get. You should just have to say yes I want to use it.
These Plates Are Color Coded
It's just a coincidence. The people in the kitchen have no idea who orders what. They also just take a plate from the top of the stack and go with it. No racism, just a freak chance.
Apple Strikes Again
This is a massive issue with technology that has been developed by white people for white people. When I want to take a picture of my family, my phone generally can't even recognize that there are faces on the screen (they are black). Never mind being able to differentiate between non-white people. There is a lot of work needing to be done by technologists of all nations to get this problem fixed.
I don't know why you're getting downvoted when what you're saying is 110% true
Load More Replies...But that is racism and not a mistake like the pencil example. This happened because the programmers are subconsciously teaching the programs more european like faces than east asian ones. Same as why google translate is sexist in their translations. Its not intentional but it is a product of real racism.
Its created by european descent people... thats not racism... i wouldnt expect anything like that from china to work for myself... and the genealities in language are now being viewed as sexist... if thats the case i should be upset about being called human because it has man as a base... lmao
Load More Replies...Y'all it doesn't look at color at all. It's based on measurements between facial features. Eyes to bridge of nose. Nose to mouth. Triangle between eyes and mouth. Etc. Mathematically they must have a enough similar features to fool the algorithm. It doesn't even use an actual photo. So it can't see color. It uses an infrared dot matrix. I don't think they look the same. But a computer might because it looks for different things. I see the whole picture. A computer sees a list of numbers and compares them. Hope this helps.
Race isn't just color, Noah. Everything you listed can be impacted by your race. The AI wasn't trained with enough Chinese faces if it can't differentiate between the two women.
Load More Replies...They don't look at all alike, though. Face shape, features, brow ridge...all different.
Both my son and my nephew are the same age and half white/half brown. iPhone thinks they are the same child. Except for the colour and curly hair they look nothing like each other.
Google pictures has identified the little black BOY next door as my child on more than one occasion. SHE is also black.
The Sight Right As You Enter My Local Grocery Store
The Krusty Komedy Klub... That's precisely what I reminded me of.
Load More Replies...Never noticed it looks like a headless person wearing a red jumpsuit zipped down a bit with a white undershirt.
Unfortunately, well maybe fortunately, most people in the working force currently are some younger gen x and millennials they don't remember.
Officials Are Führious
ok but to be fair who was playing pokemon go in the holocaust museum
Looking from the phrasing, it seems like the staff are those playing
Load More Replies...Yeah, you can find most pokemon in most places. And when you can't, it's broken down in much larger geographical chunks than a single museum.
Load More Replies...yeah... maybe museums, churches, etc are not the best places to even allow Niantic games to work in the first place... Niantic can absolutely geofence areas to be unavailable
There was some talk among their ceo's about removing pocemons from cemetaries and such, but i dont think it happened.
Load More Replies...Crikey....I'm sure it's jsut a stupid accident, but, holy crap, what an accident...
That’s really f****d up surely the creators could have exclusion zones for specific Pokémon, it would be just as bad to have a Voltorb that is known for self destruction in the form of an explosion at the memorial site for a major bombing
I saw a plush koffing at a toy store in the mall and I told my friend I wanted it because it looked like it would be fun for my nieces. She said it looks like a coronavirus and I was like...yuh he's even named Koffing.
Well, yes. Koffing appears to be designed after viruses.
Load More Replies...It almost certainly was. There are hundreds of pokemon and you can find most of them in most places. If you're not seeing one, wait a few weeks and try again. It's not really broken down by small geographical areas like a single museum.
Load More Replies...The '90s Were Wild
My dumb ass is just realizing this while reading it. And I adored power rangers
Load More Replies...I gotta say, and I don’t care about the backlash, I loved this show as a kid and didn’t look too much into that because it was dumb 😆 I loved that yellow ranger, she could of been any race or ethnicity and it wouldn’t have mattered to 4 yr old me. The gay bashing was the real issue in their casting set. And I kind of always took it more as, when you watch a lot of Asian culture and shows, yellow is their colour of power and royalty. I never saw it as a skin thing
Well the yellow ranger in the costume is a man because Power rangers was spliced together from several different Japanese shows. So I doubt it was intentional.
Wait, so you're telling me that the slice-of-life adventures at the juice bar aren't even from the same show as Megazord fighting Goldar?
Load More Replies...It might be a coincidence, but saw that today, Zordon is a Racist!
Load More Replies...No. Three of the original six rangers left due to a pay dispute, a fourth left due to wanting to persue other acting gigs, and the fifth left after being harrassed for being gay. The sixth stuck it out for longer and has kept going back intermittently.
Load More Replies...I thought they were cosplaying exactly that, with his suit and the shape he made his hair. Their race is irrelevant.
Yeah I thought that with his hair buns and jacket but her dress should be yellow
Load More Replies...Including this in this article is actually racist since this post has nothing do to with race.
And his hair buns that give the impression of ears from a distance.
Load More Replies...In thumbnail size I guess it’s possible 😂 I love that look though, like Busta rhymes in break ya neck video 💕 his pigtails were so hot
I mean, I do too but not because the guy is black but because of the hairstyle. I'd be just as quick if not quicker to same the same about a white guy that looked like that
Segregation At Its Finest
As a former teacher, I understand which one of these will massacre a color pencil's softer 'lead'. This is the only segregation I will get behind.
I had the same experience telling a new African American hire at a newspaper how "colored" ads were handled differently from the "black and white" ads and saw out of the corner of my eye him having these outraged expressions and sounding increasingly brittle...I mean, c'mon it's because we have to add different layers for the different inks. But he was clearly had stopped listening to the actual explanation after the first few words I said.
I had a similar experience. We were out eating and talking about roux color for gumbo. It kinda heated and I said, a little loudly, "it can't be black". And the people around us gave me really disgusted looks. I just slammed my head on the table while my husband sighed and told them we were talking about roux. I was so embarrassed lol
Load More Replies...For technical people, the sharpener on the right has a single helical blade and a metal bar which supports the side of the pencil opposite the blade. The sharpener on the left has a pair of counter-rotating helical blades which cut more aggressively and put extra stress on the core of the pencil.
I used colored pencils every day at my job, and we never trusted any but hand sharpeners; colored pencils are too expensive to waste, and I think the best point comes from hand sharpening them, but yes, we had one electric sharpener that was OK to use on soft lead without destroying them.
Actually they don't sharpen the tip to the same shape because the pencils are different. This is like saying separatimg whites and colours in laundry is racist.
Yes.... but in this case, it's hard black lead pencils, vs soft coloured pencils. Kinda throws the wrench in the 'poor me' argument.
Ouch...
I THINK I remembr this one to be staged for the lols back in the days...
I can see the humor in it. I've got two black nephews, and our humor occasionally freaks people out. Like when they loudly call me Uncle Tom in front of people who don't know us...I do work for their band, and it gets us around all kinds of crowds.
Load More Replies...My high school English teacher once showed us a stop-motion animation some of her past students had made with Lego. They'd been two brown guys and a white guy so for the movie they called themselves 'Oreo Productions'.
"Alone in the dark" is a series of adventure video games that came out in the 90s. This guy in the photo is therefore supposed to be racist by wearing this t-shirt when it has absolutely nothing to do with it.
Load More Replies...I Love Shoe Boxes
f**k people in general humanity sucks. REJECT HUMANITY RETURN RO MONKE 🦧
Hmmm
People need to calm down. People in the comments saying how wrong this is. It's a kid getting a cute picture taken with Disney characters. That's all. Does anyone seriously think this was intentionally done in bad taste? I'm sure, that like the rest of these posts, it was afterward that they were like, 'oh, wait, that looks bad, doesn't it?" Sheesh. Chill out.
That kid is so cute, any picture would be cute.
Load More Replies...I would wanna know the context etc, maybe the kid really wanted to be abu and it’s his fave character, kids can be weird sometimes in their perceived unconventional choices too
The little kid looks adorable (not anything to do with what's going on in the photo)
He's super-cute! And thankfully too young to understand. I hope he didn't remember this photo when he got older.
Load More Replies...If I remember correctly these people got some unfair backlash, so I feel bad for them. People should be able to have their accidental insensitivity pointed out then everyone laughs and moves on instead of pitchforks being brought out.
Suspicious Salt Shaker...
Party in the front.. a different kind of party at the back..
Load More Replies...Its not offensive, but it is questionable design.
Load More Replies...Put the holes where his eyes would be! This is just terrible design. Damn holes in the back of his head
This Bot Refusing This Guy’s Actual Name
And some people whose surname is O need to lie and add more letters because "I need the entire surname, not just an initial" even though "it is my actual entire surname, you idiot!"
I work at a travel agency and we have a client whose last name is O. The airlines won't accept only one letter as a name so, it has to be ticketed as Oo each time.
Load More Replies...🤣Does BP try to point this out as racist and then censors the name?? For real?
Load More Replies...oh look out tricky dicky nixon, BP has you censored
Load More Replies...It's ironic that even bored panda is censoring comments that have "W a n g" in it (put spaces to avoid being censored)
Did Someone Blink?
My thoughts exactly. I know many Asian people and they all look different (unless these are clones or some insanely rare identical deca- triplets or whatever. JK.) So I call shenanigans on this.
Load More Replies...Shashonie is absolutely right, stop downvoting. This is the same face photoshopped. Angle of light is different on hands and necks, but the same at the face. And rotation angle of all heads is slightly different, but for face it's only tilt angle that changes. That's apart from the fact that Asian people are not, in fact, all look alike, and don't keep the same expression.
Actually, one guy's eyes are different. Only the eyes though
Load More Replies...I don't get the point of this post. What is racist about it? Someone has photoshopped the same face onto all the different people. Presumably it's some in joke? What is the "Did someone blink?" referring to? I don't get it.
I’m assuming if someone blinks it sends an alert so they know and can do an immediate retake.
Load More Replies...I Has A Black Baby
No missing parts, I presume. He may not be racist, but he's certainly ableist.
Load More Replies...I was having an online chat with someone once and found myself thinking wow, out of context me talking about how "my new little black girl" is adapting to the cage sounds incredibly messed up. (Said "black girl" was a new pet rat I had just adopted!).
OK, that's it. These are f*cking dumb. It's no wonder the world is confused about what racism actually is.
"looking for a kitten fresh off the press. Original packaging, untampered with, a must" 🤣
Spice Level: White
I know a local thai place that has spice ranges from "mild" to "extreme" to "authentic thai"
I ordered a shrimp salad at a Thai restaurant once, nobody warned me that it would be 'authentic'
Load More Replies...Omg Eddie Griffin flashback, Undercover Brother's hot sauce watch to combat mayonnaise 🤣
Load More Replies...Uncle Roger: Use the right amount of spice, not the white amount. :))))) As a whitey, I think those jabs are hilarious
eheheeh they did this in my local Mexican restaurant and it was kinda funny until they had to remove it for the reason everyone would expect.
I used to go to a Thai place that had a 1 to 5 scale on the menu, but if you were Thai you could ask for the hidden level called "Thai hot." I've day I asked about it and was told that if I ordered it, they would say okay and then give me a 5 because they know I can't handke it. TBF, I ordered a 3 regularly and once I tried a 4 and it was way too hot! -- Then there was the Mexican place by my college and I went there with my Indian friend. He asked for "the green sauce" and was handed a bottle from under the counter. Like a hidden sauce that's too hot for white people! So I tried a tiny drop on my finger. I downed my entire soda and then refilled it and drank that too. -- So what I'm saying is that I am not at all offended by the "white" here, in fact, I'm proud that I can handle a step above most people in my race!
Green sauce is typically habanero and delicious (if you can take the heat). Pro tip - if you think you're dying, eat some salt.
Load More Replies...So That's What Clean Hands Look Like Huh
After a long day of gardening, Joe was happy to wash off the dirt covering his whole arms
have you seen coal miners or oil field workers arms at the end of the day? If they are White, this is literally how it changes.
Load More Replies...Panel one was not shown. It might have someone with a more olive or Asian complexion. The idea might have been to be inclusive showing different skintones in each panel but the execution of the idea went bottoms up due to the panel order. Seems someone was trying to NOT be racist and failed hard.
This is only two panels of a poster that has about ten steps. Notice this is steps 2 and 3. Each panel alternates hand color. I saw the whole poster just today in a nursing home restroom.
omg so all this time we blac people could have been white just by washing our hands o.o woow the things ya learn
A Very Interesting Adjective For Describing The Colour Of A Car
You missed an opportunity to say “It must be a KKK-Car”
Load More Replies...It couldn’t have just been something like “Blinding White”? “Snowfall White”? “Starlight White”? Or something along those lines? Think, people, THINK before putting anything before the public.
I thought it meant it was whiter than other 'shades/tones' of white? Anyway, weird choice of wording, nonetheless
Just A Tad Worse Than “Redskins”
It had to be inside joke of the players themselves like "shiz There is like 90% Black in our team, lets make a joke out of it!"
most probably a southern school that "is proud of it's history"
Load More Replies...I don't even want to know what their mascot looks like...
Load More Replies...Robstown, Texas. Unintentional racism, they go by " The Pickers" it's the largest producing area of cotton in Texas....but still not sure why they chose that as the mascot.
I Never Knew This Product Existed!
It might not be good for the fabric, nor for your skin.
Load More Replies...Substitute the word "White" with any other ethnicity/creed/skin color, and see if people are still laughing.
Black people in Mzansi sometimes call white people "umlungu", which just means 'white', but some people think it means the scum that gets left on the beach after the waves go out. So this pic made me LOL thinking of that.
Sign Me Up!
Nah, I’d bet my money on stupid. Plain ol’ stupid.
Load More Replies...i have ADHD and i'm not even mad, this is the funniest s**t i've ever seen.
Torn between this cant be real and you cant make this shot up
The hubcap is also an hilarious ADHD symptom. (But only us ADHD folks can laugh at it, you monsters).
Bad Name Placement
this remenbers me of brickleberry we was saying to jimmy black that people suck.
Open Yer Damn Eyes
The most frustrating thing with IA is you can't yell at them to explain they are wrong.
The US State Department rejected the first photo I submitted with my passport application, saying that my eyes needed to be open enough to see their color. I explained to them that if I forced my eyes open that much, it would not be a neutral facial expression (also a State Department requirement). The official said it didn't matter, they had to be able to see my eye color, so I had the photos retaken with my eyes WIDE open. Now when I travel abroad, I have to pass through passport control with a very surprised expression on my face.
That last sentence made me chuckle a little bit. My mom had the same thing happen when she went to get her updated license. She's Vietnamese. She has a shocked look on her face in it and it made me laugh so hard. It's seriously pathetic how overlooked minorities are in AI and facial recognition. Sorry you have to deal with that!!
Load More Replies...I am white but have small eyes. I am required to take my picture at work at least once a week. It always tells me it can't see my eyes.
When we used polaroid cameras for this it was never a problem. Isn't technology wonderful?
I think the failure here is also the eyeglasses that should be in the passport photo..
Glasses are ok as long as there isn't glare or obscure your face. These are actually the best example of super acceptable glasses. No reflection on the lenses, thin wire frames. But I've had to take mine off at the DMV because reflected back the flash really bad.
Load More Replies...Thank You Bing! Perfect Translation
Bing really is the wild one of the search engines lol
Load More Replies...@Jolly Rancher bruh... that's a website debunking your claim and showing why slavery was bad. You are a racist moron and honestly, you deserve to die.
Anyone, if you have the time, report Jolly Rancher? https://www.boredpanda.com/contact-us/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic
Load More Replies...I’m Sure Adolf Would’ve Agreed
The “accidental racism” is the out of context statement.
Load More Replies...pretty sure every letter there is capitalized...
Load More Replies...It's a proper noun. This is stupid. Catholic is also not a valid word
Uppercase C on Catholic means the church led by the Pope. Lowercase c means "universal" or "broad based", so it is a valid scrabble word.
Load More Replies...From the word game dictionary Word Fact: The word Jew was asked to be removed from the Official Scrabble Dictionary by a woman named Judith Grad. During a game of scrabble her opponent played the word and she challenged it because it was a proper noun. When she looked it up in the dictionary the definition variants of Jew was Jewed, Jewing, Jews which was defined as "to bargain with" which offended her. Merriam-Webster and Milton Bradley who she contacted to have the word removed, declined her first attempt.
Knew It
I'm sorry I'm confused as to what peta did. Please tell me
Load More Replies...Co-Worker Asked For A Snickers. She's Jewish
In the UK they use the expression to denote excitement so maybe this is a UK snickers bar?
Load More Replies...As a person of Jewish origin, if somebody gave me that at work, I'd be straight to HR. Most of my Jewish family died in the camps. The ones that escaped were never the same. TGenocide is never going to be funny.
I was assuming that she had purchased the snickers on her way into work. If she asked her co-worker to get her a snickers then they can't be held accountable for what snickers put on their wrappers and who's to say they even knew this womans religion.
Load More Replies...Okay, forget about the religious implications here for a moment. That's just a really poor choice for the Snickers company to come up with! I mean, I wouldn't buy it because it makes me think about passing gas. Maybe the idea is that it puts you off your food so you don't need to eat!
It’s got the NFL logo on it so I assume that gassed means excited in this context.
Load More Replies...The advertising campaign is about what happens to you when you're hungry. So the words on the cover are supposed to be bad things that you will keep away by eating the candy bar. Other wrapper examples include grouchy, sleepy, hangry, and forgetful. Gassed can also mean too exhausted or burnt out to be functional. Like being out of gas figuratively, I guess? But it shows that the ad people never thought what it would be like to see that as a Jew.
My Friend Thought The Picture Was Going To Have Both Of Us Chilling On The Couch
Switch it up, rich boy just got some room service from his hotel after a work convention and his stoner friend is just crashing on the sofa 😂
For those of you not keeping up, the theme is "accidental racism", things that can look bad out of context. Most of these made their origin laugh, no one is offended, we're just noticing things that could look questionable.
Theres a dibert comic where thw editor picked a bad time to add racial diversity to the cast and made the night janitor black
Looks like she won the bet and now her husband has to serve and cook the meals for the next whole week.
Which One Is The Correct Side?
Hitler made it infamous but at the end of the day Adolf by itself is surely just a name? I feel sorry for the few Adolfs still out there
Adolf is a normal name actually - it just got a bad name to it by Hitler. I mean, we don't automatically associate the name "Josef" with something bad, or?
Lost In Translation
That is the name of a mushroom. A tasty one. Not a mistranslation. Its scientific name translates to "Judas' ear", a reference to Judas hanging himself from a tree, and used to be the mushroom's common name that got corrupted over time. You may also know it as wood ear or black fungus.
What's next physilium husk juice? Now weigh extra grit! (If you get that joke, you need to go eat an entire pizza right now)
Load More Replies...Israel's Consul-General in Shanghai Jackie Eldan stressed that this was not a case of anti-Semitism, as Judaism is considered in China a synonym of success.
Judaism being a synonym of success isn't something I'm comfy with as a Jew. That's still stereotyping. Of course, if the word was developed separately from Judaism and Jews, that'd be okay, but if it dveloped from Judaism and Jews, that's still stereotyping and that's still bad.
Load More Replies...It actually says "black fungus juice" 木耳 (mu'er) is chinese for "edible fungus".
This Chair With “Sailboats”
This could be interpreted in so many ways that I'm in about six different minds right now. The obvious: KKK or three yachts. Then there's three candles or three people squinting whilst wearing tall hats or three upside down alien faces, or - whilst we're upside down - Munch's The Scream x 3? I think I need less coffee.
Smash Immigrants... Welcome Racism
Doesn't everyone know how you read signs like that though? I've seen many examples like this, but I know you read the big words first then the little ones.
Now that's just funny right there! Haha. Thinking things through isn't in everyone's wheelhouse
Hol Up
I once asked a beautiful woman I hadn't seen in a couple years when her baby was due. She told me she wasn't pregnant. Sometimes you just wish you could take things back after you said them, and here for yourself what it sounded like.
Why would you ask anyone that? I don't know, shouldn't it be common knowledge to never assume that someone's pregnant without them saying it explicitly?
Load More Replies...As the thread title states, they're racial coincidences
Load More Replies...They are a band if that helps anyone get the situation, their band name is - black kids, rock/ alternative music theme.
Lol. Also, Party Traumatic is a fun song. (On a different album then the one shown.)
Nobody notices the SS, or was that intentional as well, and so obvious I should not have bothered pointing it out?
Its definitely a bunch of Ss. I think the album had a nostolgic theme for growing up in the late 90s/early 00s. I meant to listen to it when I saw the new release, because I like them, but actually forgot about it until this post.
Load More Replies...This AI With A Little Bit Of Bias
the AI is correct, the skin tone is the same, on this photo (I checked with Paint)
It's not the skin colour that's the issue here... it made his facial features more Caucasian looking, so... Caucasian features are still used as the golden standard.
Load More Replies...Well it's exactly the same tone. Obama has a fairly light skin tone
Load More Replies...So they used a very pale image of Obama, and AI thought it was a white guy?
It's a fact that different media outlets alter the skin tone in photos of people of colour to make them appear more or less appealing (in their racist opinions). Classic examples were of OJ Simpson before/during/after his trial. Even today, you will see lightening of Obama's skin in outlets that support him. It's disgusting. I'm not surprised this is the result when AI tries to decipher.
I'm an old fat white lady. i matched with a young, slender black woman.
What do you expect? You cannot extract information on a pixel graphic, that has been erased due to pixelation. Any AI trying to "restore" the lost information basically only paints an image from their imagination that is still cohesive with the pixelated version. In this instance the AI was probably fed too many images of white people to learn from but if I had no idea who Obama is and was given the task to paint a detailed version of the pixelated image, I'd probably end up with a Hispanic person and it would still be cohesive with the input. Pixel-Obama just is very difficult to be recognized as black person if you don't know who he is; his skin colour is fairly bright and the facial features that make him recognizable as a black person were erased by pixelation.
Fun fact one of the scientists that disgustingly proclaimed that white men have bigger brains than others and were "more intelligent" had a quite small brain himself.
All things aside, where can I get this? I just really want it. It's so cute
Sheesh why is the smaller plant racist? If people did not focus so much on getting offended then a lot of this so called racism would be seen as what it is: just a stinking plant in a stinking skull. All bone is white after bleaching no matter what race you are. Medically speaking, skulls of different ethnicities have different genetic markers but these skulls are not anatomically correct AND from the same mold so they would technically be the same ethnicity if representative of any. People need to stop getting their knickers in a wad over a silly stuff like novelty planters. The point was a brain cactus in a skull planter. Come on people grow up and just enjoy the macabre comedy instead of raging over nothing. We become more racist the more we focus on our differences. If you go looking for something hard enough you will find it, even if it is not truly there. Instead of differences, add up what we all have in common. That is how to be equal not divided. Love, Math
It Meant To Say “Glitter”
I do see glitter, but then I've lost my reading glasses.
Load More Replies...Glitter... Hitter . Jlitter.... sorry if you are going tor Hitler that is too much of a stretch. Look hard enough for something and you will see it even if it is not there. My issue as an artist is that glitter is not a color.
Poor design. Nothing more. The lowercase g should have been placed further down
It’s supposed to say glitter, but at first glance it can look like Hitler.
Load More Replies...When You Like The Food But Not The People
There are some Vietnamese restaurants near me called "Pho King". And of course, "pho" is properly pronounced "fuh"...
We had in the neighbourhood (until it closed down) a Vietnamese restaurant called "Pho King Fabulous " 😂
Load More Replies...Some restaurants do this on purpose. I used to live by a legit Thai restaurant called "Pho King" ("Pho" is pronouced "fuh", btw)
so the folks who have sailer language can know as well! that it's fu**ing chinese.
I See Where This Is Going...
Don't bring Sesame Street into this, it's a beautiful show, and always has been, just look at how they explained BLM to kids last year.
Damnit, The Title Was Actually “How To Create Your Own Jewelry Line”
Step one : marry a jewish woman. Step two : have sex with her. Step three : wait for nine months.
now, class, let us do a simple math problem! if you had christianity, and i took away jesus, what would you be left with?
Load More Replies...Now if it was written by Ben Shapiro it would be a parody book. But nope. Just an unfortunate sticker. Poor, racially targeted sticker.
Clutching At Straws A Bit Here But I Still Had A Good Chuckle
I remember this store I came across in Quebec where the name was fully spelled out, "F&CK LA MODE" (which means Fxxx fashion!). Turns out that using the F word in Quebec French is actually quite common and doesn't have nearly the same degree of rudeness as it does in English.
The left is clutching at straws a lot; e.g. claiming it's immoral to find butch looking trans women unattractive.
This Is Getting Really Annoying
Their little arms are doing the ‘hail hitler’ thing. It’s so stupidly funny and cringe 😆 I don’t know why that sign is even a thing 😆
Load More Replies...Thats a sign in South Africa, still boggles the mind that they haven't learned from the constant complaints
it's meant to show a teacher pointing at the blackboard / chalkboard, and the kids have hteir hands on the desks. Most people in SA are not aware of nazi symbolism except the image of hitler himself and the swastika logo. It's only the jewish and probably middle class people here who would spot the problem
Load More Replies...You know my cousin in Germany told me you can get arrested for doing the Hail Hitler sign. Even Germany hates Hitler. So it is surprising this would be a real thing. Just grab a sharpie and fix it.
Damn
The gate is open. The black llama is a free llama! If it wants to hang out on the other side of the pasture, it is its sacred right!
Assuming the white llamas don't have him arrested for going through the gate...
Load More Replies...I genuinely laughed at this picture- I'm going to hell for laughing at it
F**k me, some people are stupid. The black llama will be MALE and it's separate from the FEMALES to keep stock levels manageable.
I think the brown llama proves this is just a little llama family. Sheesh every parent needs alone time.
Oh [Crud]
And beside these hand towels, they also have Black superior, green superior and frigging rainbow s**t superior. Stop making out that anything with the word 'white' is racist, how else should they describe the colour, bright cream?.
Well let's be honest, I'm not a racist, but I don't really want to see black hand towels!
We got black hand towels, they're great and you don't have to use anywhere as much soap to clean your hands.
Load More Replies...Superior is the brand. White is the color. Superior refers to quality of brand, not color. If the towels were blue it would be Blue Superior. Everyone just calm down. It is a towel! Unless it comes with a servant to wipe your snowflake butt-cheeks then calm down, grow up and wipe yourself.
Most of them are pretty far-fetched, if you want my opinion. Funny, but very far-fetched
Yeah, some of these have to be taken out of context to be racist. Some were just funny, like the lowest spice level being "white".
Load More Replies...Most of these are very silly and funny. I'm hyper sensitive to racism, but I don't necessarily think everything is racist!
But you can take almost anything and make it racist if you try hard enough.
Load More Replies...My friends mom was a dog breeder. The dogs she bred came in red, black, tri I think. One day in the restaurant after the show she exclaims loudly how the black b***h isn't performing right and how she can't be working with her anymore. Place went silent. Omg bet she never made that mistake again.
the oversensitivity in some of the comments can be funnier than the actual post sometimes.
oh my, most of these were very funny. my black co worker and i make fun of me being white and him being black all the time. i asked him if i could ride with him and he said he didn't want to get pulled over and shot. it's a sad truth but joking about it is a way to discuss it without getting into a big depression.
My mum had a "I want to die" moment similar to those. She is a heavy smoker and she prefers the type of tobacco that in spain is called black (idk about how it would be called in english). Once a black man approached her on the street and asked her if she had more tobacco. She answered "Yes, black". The guy of course did not get mad but she felt horrible xD
I came from a country that had almost exclusively white people so racism against black people wasn't really a thing, therefore it's not that ingrained in our brains. When I lived in the UK I got a care package from my parents and I took multiple food items to work to share with customers. I already poured a pack of candy into a bowl when I looked at it with "English" eyes and suddenly felt like not sharing... It's a candy that's been around for decades and it's black so its name is the Latin word for black. You do not want to whip that out in an English speaking country... As a child I never thought twice about it because to me it really just meant "black". We did share it eventually with a few friends, explaining at length before actually showing them the "racist candy".
Load More Replies...It's no wonder the younger generation is confused about what racism actually is. The majority of these are not racism, just a bunch a cry babies looking for confrontation.
There are differences between black people and white people. Noticing the differences is not necessarily racist. A group of black people complained to the media a few years back because they were offended when the picture of suspected felons was broadcast. They said this was racist. No, it was not. The pictures of suspected felons of the all different races were put up, not just black people. The justification is that when a criminal is on the loose, the community needs to be warned and be on the lookout for dangerous, well-armed, violent felons who are on the run from the law. You don't want this person showing up on your front door and asking if they can come inside and use your phone. This bogus complaint was not respected by the media for reasons of community safety. Who keeps making this sort of bogus complaint?
Most of them are pretty far-fetched, if you want my opinion. Funny, but very far-fetched
Yeah, some of these have to be taken out of context to be racist. Some were just funny, like the lowest spice level being "white".
Load More Replies...Most of these are very silly and funny. I'm hyper sensitive to racism, but I don't necessarily think everything is racist!
But you can take almost anything and make it racist if you try hard enough.
Load More Replies...My friends mom was a dog breeder. The dogs she bred came in red, black, tri I think. One day in the restaurant after the show she exclaims loudly how the black b***h isn't performing right and how she can't be working with her anymore. Place went silent. Omg bet she never made that mistake again.
the oversensitivity in some of the comments can be funnier than the actual post sometimes.
oh my, most of these were very funny. my black co worker and i make fun of me being white and him being black all the time. i asked him if i could ride with him and he said he didn't want to get pulled over and shot. it's a sad truth but joking about it is a way to discuss it without getting into a big depression.
My mum had a "I want to die" moment similar to those. She is a heavy smoker and she prefers the type of tobacco that in spain is called black (idk about how it would be called in english). Once a black man approached her on the street and asked her if she had more tobacco. She answered "Yes, black". The guy of course did not get mad but she felt horrible xD
I came from a country that had almost exclusively white people so racism against black people wasn't really a thing, therefore it's not that ingrained in our brains. When I lived in the UK I got a care package from my parents and I took multiple food items to work to share with customers. I already poured a pack of candy into a bowl when I looked at it with "English" eyes and suddenly felt like not sharing... It's a candy that's been around for decades and it's black so its name is the Latin word for black. You do not want to whip that out in an English speaking country... As a child I never thought twice about it because to me it really just meant "black". We did share it eventually with a few friends, explaining at length before actually showing them the "racist candy".
Load More Replies...It's no wonder the younger generation is confused about what racism actually is. The majority of these are not racism, just a bunch a cry babies looking for confrontation.
There are differences between black people and white people. Noticing the differences is not necessarily racist. A group of black people complained to the media a few years back because they were offended when the picture of suspected felons was broadcast. They said this was racist. No, it was not. The pictures of suspected felons of the all different races were put up, not just black people. The justification is that when a criminal is on the loose, the community needs to be warned and be on the lookout for dangerous, well-armed, violent felons who are on the run from the law. You don't want this person showing up on your front door and asking if they can come inside and use your phone. This bogus complaint was not respected by the media for reasons of community safety. Who keeps making this sort of bogus complaint?
