Yay!! Racism is alive and well!

So I've finally gotten into playing online games after years of saying that I would and discovered a rather interesting revelation about the online "community": They're are a LOT of bigoted people that play these games.

I encountered this first hand while playing some shoot 'em up game and listening to the people on the other end casually talke about random shit and all that when suddenly one of them goes on about how ALL black people love fried chicken.
This took me a little off guard because he obviously did not know that I was in fact black. I guess I don't sound "black" since I don't butcher the english language like so many hip hop and sports "icons" who are the only reference material little white kids like this have in life.

Instead of calling this little idiot out, I decided to keep quiet and let the dumbass continue his converation with his idiot friends. He goes on to say that he deduced this "fact" because he saw a family of black people eating friend chicken at Disney world. (oh my gawd!)
He also has "a black friend" whom he nearly got in a fight with because he came too close to his chicken and compared him to a wild animal.

Well it didn't take long for everyone to start cracking black jokes and spew outright racist views on the entire race in general, no surprise there, but what was surprising was that I continued to stay silent. I knew I had a rare view of human behavior when they believe they are with their own "kind". All poitical correctness goes right out the window and their true colors come right out (forgive the pun) when they think they are safe.
of course I've always known this, but to hear it first hand was just..... fascinating.


Well after awhile I finally decided to reveal my little "secret". After about a minute of stunned silence and another 5 minutes of them asking me if I was really black, I got the same old cliched excuses like "my best friend is black" and "I know a lot of black people" and other classic gems like those.

All I could do is laugh at them. It just wasn't worth cussing them out or threatening them, especially since they live thousands of miles away from me... of course it would be a different story if I could actually get my hands around their little throats, but one of them asked me on last time if I was indeed "african american" before I logged off.

This isn't just relegated to while gamers though. I had a similar experience with mexican gamers (I don't know why, I sound nothing like a mexican) as they spouted off a bunch of crap about asians.
However homophobia seems to unite all the races since there is a constant stream of anti-gay statements and insults spewing from everybody.

Anyway, I started playing online games to brutally kill alien monsters and such, but I think they're a much better tool at studying the darkside of human nature.

I feel like Jane Goodall studying the chimps except I have a penis.