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WCT (Weekly Comic Thread) May 31-June 4, 2010 (1676-1680)
connathan:
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--- Quote from: snubnose on 04 Jun 2010, 03:01 ---Racists are people who have prejudices on other people, based on things like their religion, the amount of melanine in their skin, their gender, and other really stupid outer criteria that say nothing about the person themselves in such a general way.
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No. I sympathise, because I'm ESL too, but not all forms of prejudice are racism. When someone calls me a "sl*pe", "g**k or "ch*nk" because I'm East Asian, they're racist. If someone gets in my face because because I follow the "wrong" religion, they're a religious bigot but not necessarily racist. If someone decides that, because I'm female, I should be excluded from a field of employment, or not promoted, or paid less than a man for the same work, they're sexist and probably male chauvinist, but not necessarily racist. Some people are "package deal" bigots, some restrict it to a selection from the vast menu of things on which people judge, and base discrimination against, other people.
I'm pretty sure a few dark spots of bigotry disfigure even the noblest characters, and worst of all are the prejudices of which we might not be aware because they're ubiquitous in the social sea in which we swim. Marigold's distaste for Alliance WoW players (I don't play MMORPGs so I have no idea what that's about), is more down at the level of sports-team chauvinism, with all the "trash talking" that goes with it. Which is pretty silly. Just like arguing on web-comic forums... :angel:
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I don't see how the fact that snubnose is ESL is problematic in this discussion...he's German, right? It's pretty much the same word in German, and it has just the same meaning as in English: rassistisch. And whilst it might include religion in some cases, since people tend to assume middle-eastern means 'muslim', it definitely doesn't include gender. Yeah some people group their prejudices together and insult black women or something, but it doesn't automatically include your sex.
TAG:
Huh I guess "no tips for Alliance scum" really *was* more than a throw away joke. And somehow Marigold and Dale are managing to timetravel back to 2005 when playing WoW :P
And I love the shirt/apron design. I'm pretty sure I will have to buy one for my gf when it comes out.
DoubleJ:
Could one of you archive-junkies help a guy out? Is Dale a new character that everyone just knows, or did he show up someplace before "no tips"?
Nontoxic:
Forgive me if I missed it, but if dale made a night-elf mohaw- I mean rogue, isn't he horde, then?
TAG:
--- Quote from: DoubleJ on 04 Jun 2010, 08:16 ---Could one of you archive-junkies help a guy out? Is Dale a new character that everyone just knows, or did he show up someplace before "no tips"?
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He was the regular that knew about the secret menu at CoD. http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1640
Except for maybe a background cameo somewhere I'm pretty sure that was his first appearance.
--- Quote from: Nontoxic on 04 Jun 2010, 08:17 ---Forgive me if I missed it, but if dale made a night-elf mohaw- I mean rogue, isn't he horde, then?
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Nope, Night Elves are alliance, Blood Elves are horde. Both are despised ;P
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