Anon writes;
Last night on First Dates Ireland there was a comment passed along the lines of “I’m sweating like a dog in a Chinese restaurant” Racist or not?
Pic: RTÉ
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Anon writes;
Last night on First Dates Ireland there was a comment passed along the lines of “I’m sweating like a dog in a Chinese restaurant” Racist or not?
Pic: RTÉ
It made me chuckle. (reading about it here just now that is, I don’t watch RTE shows )
If you’re an absolute spoon of a human, yes.
+1
I must be a ‘spoon of a human’ then. Of course it’s racist. It presents a stereotype which functions to homogenise and disparage a group (identified specifically by their race and cultural identity), all for the sake of a bit of a chuckle. It’s not the worst thing in the world of course, but it is racist.
A joke that dog is used as meat in Chinese meals no some how racist.
Chinese meals is now somehow racist**
Anybody who watches RTE is a tool.
Think you’re barking up the wrong tree here.
As so’s
My sister lives in China. I’m reliably informed that dogs are still eaten over there and it is only now and in very recent years that there is a shift away from it. It is now rarely eaten in places like Beijing and more westernised regions. In rural China it is still eaten regularly.
I wouldn’t call it racist. Poor taste maybe.
Are they particular breeds of dog or just any old yokes?
I would imagine it tastes poor :)
Tastes ruff I heard.
and Spaghetti Hoop takes the win!
Ha! Boom for the Hoopie.
that’s not fair using a pic of those two, makes it look like one of them said it. Either put up the pic of the guy who said it or highlight that it wasn’t them.
Also, it was funny that the guy who DID say that line had just before that gone on about how incredibly woke he is.
Snowflake
stop sayin american things
*sigh* sure why not? Who’s getting fired now?
Totes racist, but moreover it’s hideously unclassy.
Special quarantine centres required for people who are offended by this. The snap back (when it happens – and it will) from this nonsense is not gonna be pretty. I wouldn’t want to be on the receiving end.
Nobody’s offended by this. It either is racist or it isn’t. At worst it’s an embarrassing faux pas. Your foreboding of dark and violent repression is disproportionate but is also typical the of wounded fragility of people who think that talking about casual racism is worse than casual racism.
“Your foreboding of dark and violent repression”
Not really what I meant but if that’s what you’re envisioning yourself then so be it! Maybe you’re being accidentally incisive?
Oh good, maybe you mean everybody will sit down at a big tea party and sort it out amidst laughter and the tinkling of spoons. That would be nice.
Now now girls!
Explain what you mean then, because it sounds like gibberish. What is this not-pretty “snapback” you are imagining?
Stay Anon, Anon. The powers of trying to stir up s**t so you can get attention elude you.
how exactly does one gain attention if one remains anonymous?
Reminds me of this…
https://curb-your-enthusiasm.fandom.com/wiki/The_Anonymous_Donor
We eat rabbits and birds, the Chinese eat dogs. I don’t see a problem or a racist slur here.
Infers that Chinese restaurants in Ireland serve dog. Racist.
I do not think the word infer means what you think it means.
Eating dogs is such a taboo here, though, that the connotations are heavily negative. ‘Here’s that thing foreign people do we regard as utterly horrible and weird.’ Frogs and snails and horses are all part of French cuisine, but have, at least in the past, perhaps less so now, been regarded with disgust or at least amazement in Ireland and the UK, to the extent that one of them is a mildly derogatory term for French people. To be clear, this is just cringeworthy, and the worst result is that the person responsible will get slagged for the rest of their life for saying it on national television, and also I am hungry now.
You have to imagine you are a Chinese person. Then think how this comment would make you feel. It is called empathy.
If you have any doubt, ask yourself if you would say this to a Chinese person?
What about the dog….. who is thinking of the dog!
So racist against dogs I can’t believe RTE aired this. Hideous….
Yea, every dog on the street know that dogs don’t sweat.
So you’re satirising me by comparing a Chinese person to a dog? Nice.
https://www.internations.org/china-expats/guide/29460-safety-security/discrimination-and-racism-in-china-17752
conversely, if you were black or japanese living in China, what would a chinese person say to you?
So if a Chinese person is racist in China, it’s ok to be racist against the Chinese in Ireland?
Racism is an *enormous* problem in China (not least the current genocide against Uigher Muslims) but that doesn’t mean “lol da Chinese eat dags” jokes are big and clever either.
no, it’s not ok. racism is though, unfortunately a two-way street,
There are a lot of Chinese people living in China you’ll have to be more specific about which one is speaking.
i lolled
So you’re making the 2 wrongs make a right arguement?
No, he’s saying two Wong’s don’t make the rice.
But but but …
dogs don’t sweat, they have practically no sweat glands and have to cool themselves by panting.
so the corrct expression is
“panting like a dog in a Chinese restaurant”
or even better
“panting like a dog in a Korean restaurant”
I’ve never been to China, but I could image they have puppies in restaurant windows and you can pick out which one you want to eat, a bit like lobster and crab in restaurants.
It shows how out of the woke loop I am that I though the racist part of this was equating Chinese people with Korean people who do eat dogs
I’ve just checked. They eat dogs in certain parts of China.
They have a Dog eating Festivals every year in China. Where they specialize in torturing the poor caged dogs because they think it makes the meat more tender. Its sick, and they should be mocked and ridiculed for it. Horrible, sick cruelty and total lack of empathy.
well that’s just won ton animal abuse..
*gets coat
They deleted our hilarious posts above.
Oh. I’m wrong. They deleted mine. I’m just too edgy for this place, you know?
That’s (won ton) actually a shipping managers favourite soup.
I think there is confusion here between the fact that Koreans consider dog a delicacy and that it is often implied that some dodgey Chinese restaurants (speaking in terms of quality of food) capture and use local dogs as a cheap substitute for other meats in their dishes.
Just bad taste or racist, that ‘joke’ should have been edited out of the program. Irish people of Chinese origin have enough to be dealing with, without such being broadcast on national TV.
As for the moron who said it, the fact he thought it was funny is probably a clue as to why he is still single.
yeah, that joke was too close to the bone.
close to the bone
see what i did there?
No?
he’s like a dog with a bone?
he is a bone-head?
he has the bone?
And now it’s time for a problematic explainer opinion piece.
I thought the dog was sweating because it wasn’t used to eating spicy food
Contrary to all above; dogs do sweat; but not through their skin, rather through the pads on their paws, nose and tongue.
Just some useless information.
Well there it is… the stupidest fricking thing I have seen all day…