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Post by Meshakhad on Nov 19, 2011 2:06:42 GMT -5
I do have a very close friend who is a very religious Christian and a strong conservative. Fortunately, she's not crazy. I have enjoyed a few good-natured verbal sparring matches with her and her family.
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Post by tolpuddlemartyr on Nov 19, 2011 2:54:33 GMT -5
My little sister got stalked by a crazy Nazi dude, she had an African-Australian boyfriend who lived in the same rooming house as the Nazi guy. The guy had done time for manslaughter (he'd killed another skinhead for not being right-wing enough) and my sisters ex decided to start stirring him leaving stickers around the flat that said things like "Nazis dress funny".
Of course the Nazi guy responded by threatening to murder the crap out of my sisters ex, he tried appealing to the charity running the rooming houses to try and get him evicted. The charity social worker lady suggested they all get together for a barbecue and be friends. Needless to say this satisfied neither party and my sisters ex left. Crazy Nazi man left shortly afterwards.
Recently he hassled my sis snarling at her that she was a "police informing race traitor whore" etc. My old man had a word with him, he hasn't hassled her since.
The thing was, she never informed on him at all and not to the police by a long stretch. She wanted as little to do with the drama as possible as-while she was sympathetic to her ex's plight it also has to be taken into account that the lad had put stickers on the guys door saying things like "bad aim Fuhrer" and "Nazis dress funny". It IS funny, just not...advisable if you are a skinny runt like sis's ex and living in the same building as a paranoid white supremacist who went to the big house for stabbing someone!
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Post by Dragon Zachski on Nov 19, 2011 4:33:19 GMT -5
There's a trope for that. Called "Bullying a Dragon".
So, apparently, the truth is stranger than fiction...
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Post by sadhuman on Nov 19, 2011 5:54:27 GMT -5
I know I wouldn't have tried to be a funny guy in that situation I would have been aiming to get out right away. And wow on the social worker, suggesting that...I in their place would have been trying to get one of them moved to somewhere else. Having a fight/death in my charity house would be something I would try and never allow happen.
I have never lived next to a fanatical right winger, then again I live in Australia and politics is not as big a deal. At least to no one I have ever met, I have lived with people who vote on the opposite side to me, people who vote for smaller parties and never had any trouble with any of them.
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queenofhearts
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Post by queenofhearts on Nov 19, 2011 6:51:52 GMT -5
While it is not advisable to find humor in that situation, you have to give your Sis' ex respect. Its not often you can call someone a sociopathic, paranoid, nazi, knife-murderer and not be hyperbolic. However, to take the whole thing in stride and have fun at that guy's expense is a definite +1.
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Post by Armand Tanzarian on Nov 19, 2011 9:01:07 GMT -5
While it is not advisable to find humor in that situation, you have to give your Sis' ex respect. Its not often you can call someone a sociopathic, paranoid, nazi, knife-murderer and not be hyperbolic. However, to take the whole thing in stride and have fun at that guy's expense is a definite +1. Well, the guy's either extremely brave or extremely stupid. No offense to your sister but I'm veering toward the latter with this. |
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Post by Mlle Antéchrist on Nov 19, 2011 9:04:23 GMT -5
The charity social worker lady suggested they all get together for a barbecue and be friends. Yeah, that's going to sort everything out. All the world's problems would just go away if we could all get together for a BBQ. |
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Post by Meshakhad on Nov 19, 2011 13:43:43 GMT -5
Not unless everyone we hate is on the menu...
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Post by Wykked Wytch on Nov 19, 2011 17:30:32 GMT -5
I live in Redmond, Washington, also known as Greater Microsoft. So, no. I also live in Western Washington, and the most conservative neighbor I ever had would spend all day smoking on her porch while blasting Rush Limbaugh loud enough for the entire neighborhood to hear. Does that count? |
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Post by Thejebusfire on Nov 19, 2011 18:09:14 GMT -5
My father has a job repairing coinstar machines. He was working on a machine in some grocery somewhere when an old man came up to him and started a racist rant over some interracial couple at the check out line. The old man kept asking what white women see in those "n*****s?"
My father said he wanted to yell at the old man about how this isn't the 1940's anymore and he should just shut up. But he didn't want to lose his job, so he just fixed his machine and left.
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Post by tolpuddlemartyr on Nov 19, 2011 18:16:47 GMT -5
While it is not advisable to find humor in that situation, you have to give your Sis' ex respect. Its not often you can call someone a sociopathic, paranoid, nazi, knife-murderer and not be hyperbolic. However, to take the whole thing in stride and have fun at that guy's expense is a definite +1. Well, the guy's either extremely brave or extremely stupid. No offense to your sister but I'm veering toward the latter with this. He was definitely in my sisters ex as opposed to my sisters boyfriend territory at the time and she thought he was being thick as two short planks. She was still friends with him though and wanted to give him moral support. |
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Post by tolpuddlemartyr on Nov 19, 2011 18:49:45 GMT -5
My grandmother was actually one of the most racist old farts I've ever met. She was also incredibly class conscious, she hated poor people and called them "common" but also hated rich people and called them "snobs". She particularly loathed Vietnamese and Chinese people because they reminded her of the Japanese, she was in Darwin when it got bombed in WWII and this had a deep loathing of all things Asian. When I told her that the Vietnamese and Chinese actually had just as much reason to dislike the Japanese because of that whole world war two thing she'd fly into a rage and tell me to shut up because I wasn't there.
She'd literally shudder when she saw Vietnamese people walk down the street and mutter about them being "weird", "slant eyed" and "odd bods". She despised aboriginals, feared Africans, and held Mediterranean people in contempt. She thought all Indian people were "queer". She didn't even like Catholics and was constantly pissed off that my dad had married one. As was her entire family who, aside from grandma, refused to have anything to do with us after dad and mum tied the knot.
Once I came around with dad to visit and she was literally spitting with rage. Apparently a Chinese man had accidentally bumped into her in the supermarket.
"Do you know what that damned chink said to me, do you know what he said" snarled gran, flecks of spit flying. "No gran, what did he say" I replied, "sorry" she said, "the little yellow bastard said sorry!"
Gran was one of those people that always grumbled about Labor governments for their "waste", while using government public transport to go to the shops, the government medical center down the road and getting cheap pharmaceuticals on her government pensioner card!
It annoyed her that one of my mates in school was aboriginal, it annoyed her that my dad's best friend was Italian, it particularly vexed her that my sister was going out with an African Australian from a "common" suburb. The fact that dad had married a "kafferlick" never ceased to enrage her, though she never bothered to go to church she used to stick her chest out and proudly proclaim her religion as "C of E!"
You could not take the woman out to any restaurant anywhere, not even McDonald's. Everything was "furren", "oily" and "weird". Dad insisted on taking her to my 21'st birthday so we settled on an all-you can eat smorgasbord place. She complained about that too.
Funny thing, when she actually met my sisters ex the two got on rather well. Both were dour, gloomy, chain smoking individuals who liked looking dour over cups of tea. Despite him being of "inferior stock" and all that she always made him a cup of tea and muttered about the evils of the world with him through a thick fog of carcinogenic smoke.
When gran finally passed away my old man was really frustrated and angry, he had always deferred to his mum despite her being a constant pain in the backside and he regretted never telling her where to go.
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Post by mechtaur on Nov 19, 2011 18:57:17 GMT -5
Sounds pleasant.
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Post by Wykked Wytch on Nov 19, 2011 19:41:18 GMT -5
My step-grandmother calls black people "shvartze", which is basically the Yiddish equivalent of the n-word. Other people have told her to stop because 1) it's incredibly rude and 2) just because it's in Yiddish doesn't mean that non-Jews won't be able to understand her.
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Khris
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Post by Khris on Nov 19, 2011 20:32:25 GMT -5
My uncle Rocko is like this he is very much racist towards Caucasians a huge homophone and one of the few who have tried to convert me back into a christian. What made this really annoying is that he was my special ed teacher so I would have to see him every single day.
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