My life = lie

[seriousfic]

So I just read a racewank post that said the phrase "the pot calling the kettle black" is racist.

Comments

[rap541.livejournal.com]

And rghtly so! The pot should refer to the kettle as a kettle of color!

[tamburlaine.livejournal.com]

Calling-out occasionally has some good pratfalls.

[xtricks.livejournal.com]

I've seen this before. Evidently using the word black, in any context, means you're a racist.

[mcity.livejournal.com]

But I am black. What now, PC Police? Are you going to charge me with being self-loathing? Because I do plenty of that without my race entering into it.

[xtricks.livejournal.com]

I don't know. I guess we're all supposed to pretend we're exactly alike?

[mcity.livejournal.com]

While simultaneously acknowledging that we're all different! Brilliant! That'll be in no way confusing to anyone at all!

[paraxdisepink.livejournal.com]

Wait a minute. I thought the pot called the kettle black, not the pot called the kettle a nigger.

[jlbarnett.livejournal.com]

perhaps it should be changed to the pot calling the kettle silver? There are more of those than black pots and pans these days.

[afro-dyte.livejournal.com]

Was the person making that comment Black? If not, :/