ngl I don’t even like using them. I only go to them if there is no cubicles 
@Castiel you love a bit of green text
I do, I’ve seen that one before but it definitely gets a smirk out of me. A good green text is a rare gem.
Tonnes of funny green texts (even if some are racist but whatever) all though some are just fucking weird and nasty don’t even know how some people come up with this stuff. Honestly some really sick people out there.
4chan walks a very thin line between funny and self aware and outright cringe neckbeard abominations.
Yeah, I’m not one to get offended easily, so I don’t really care when I see some green texts with n word or whatever, (seems like that’s a bigger deal to Americans than it is anywhere else) but then there is some really racist or homophobic or rape stuff which is just disgusting and isn’t meant to be funny (if that makes sense) but just derogatory and purposely insulting. I just skip those ones.
Despite that I have genuinely laughed out loud at some of the text I’ve seen, which for me is rare.
I’m reading a book at the minute, written in 1997, where one of the main protagonists is a KKK gun nut and is flippantly throwing around the n word etc, I’m very uncomfortable reading it but presuming he will get his comeuppance in the end so want to see it through.
Just listened to 4 or 5 James Ellroy audio books (Black Dahlia, LA Confidential etc) and the racial epithets are just fucking constant.
I mean, it’s in keeping with the times and attitudes of LA law enforcement back then, so it’s justified, but it’s really fucking jarring.
I don’t know if it’s super woke of me, but my main objection is that none of these four books contain a single, fully fleshed out black character. I don’t think that the author is at all racist or condoning any of the awful things his characters say, but it did really stand out that all these books all have multiple protagonists the story follows in very close detail and none of them are black characters. I feel it might have helped remove the bad taste from all the slurs if at some point he’d bothered to actually create a black character worth a shit. Instead, the black characters only ever exist in relation to the white characters, and when they are included in the story it’s as criminals, which to some small degree seems to play into the ugly things the white characters often say about black people (again, not casting aspersions about the author or anything)
Don’t get me wrong, it’s not a major issue for me, I still listened to 5 of the books in quite quick succession, it’s just something that stood out to me. I think the books were all written like 30-35 years ago, I have a sneaking suspicion that if they were written in the modern era the author would have likely made a conscious effort to create a fully fleshed out black character to provide a counter point to the almost non stop epithets that are strewn through every book.
Whatever you do don’t look up the name of HP Lovecraft’s cat.
Retired fan of Nepal in two years time.
