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Sat, 10 Feb 2024 01:10:02 -0800
Andy from
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🙋🏻‍♂️Welcome Moo_Sharpton and Giuseppe
@Moo_SharptonTest, is your handle a reference to the Reverend Al
Sharpton? That's why I assigned you the password I did...perennial candidates
like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson can be hilarious, or sad, or both.
@GiuseppeTest, are you really Italian or is that just a joke?
Depending on your ethnic background, I think you and @zerosugarTest
will get along great! Haha.
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Sat, 10 Feb 2024 01:14:19 -0800
Andy from
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Moo's avatar depends on the answer to my question. The current one is Al
Sharpton riding a cow...lol. Giuseppe's avatar is Mario, which turned out
perfectly on the first try, in my opinion.
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Sat, 10 Feb 2024 04:59:40 -0800
zerosugar
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Oh it’s likely one of those two posters who created the handle to further make
jokes of Italians. If I did the same and made jokes about their ethnicity, I
would be considered a racist though. Italians are such easy targets for cowards
to attack because sadly there are no consequences.
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Sat, 10 Feb 2024 05:02:53 -0800
zerosugar
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Even Mario is a wrong avatar. It sends the message like the one poster said that
we are all blue collared. Indians fought to get Apu removed from the Simpsons,
but the fact that Mario is still allowed to exist is problematic. Also why
doesn’t this person just come out and say what they need to say to me. No need
to hide behind handles. I am still proud of who I am.
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Sat, 10 Feb 2024 05:03:06 -0800
Andy from
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You're right-- turns out Giuseppe registered from a Tor exit node with a
disposable email. I'll drop them for now. Thanks for looking out.
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Sat, 10 Feb 2024 05:04:00 -0800
zerosugar
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The fact that Fat Tony still exists on the Simpsons is so problematic. Also
while I consider myself Caucasian, it’s obvious other whites do not consider
me white. Hence, society should consider their insults against people of Italian
origin, the same as they would consider insults towards other groups.
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Sat, 10 Feb 2024 05:08:38 -0800
Andy from
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I don't normally make fun of any ethnic groups except the #Irish for their heavy drinking and
imperviousness to psychoanalysis. Why shouldn't #Italians be the subject of similar
jokes?
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Sat, 10 Feb 2024 05:19:23 -0800
zerosugar
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The thing is Irish are rarely made fun of in the USA. In fact, America is the
only place they can pose as aristocrats. Richard Nixon made some off color jokes
about them, but that’s about it. Nobody ever questions the race of the Irish
or makes insinuations they are another race. Not that there is anything wrong
with being African, but DNA tests done by a large number of pure Italians has
proven that theory is just not true. Benjamin Franklin once even called Germans
and Swedes “sons of Africa,” simply because they were new immigrants to
places such as Pennsylvania and because they didn’t have a Fitzpatrick 1 skin
tone.
Even cultured Americans and other people think Italy is just olive oil, pasta,
pizza, and mafia. I’m sick of hearing about vacations to Lake Como or the
Amalfi Coast. I’m sick of always being asked if I’m Sicilian by Americans,
like if Sicilian is the only Italian identity they know. Then if I mention
another southern region, they try to say those regions were the Kingdom of
Sicily too. Well guess what? Many northern regions were part of Kingdom of
Sardinia. Today, those regions have zero to do with Sardinia and even
historically, it was a trivial name ultimately because all regions have their
own history. There is even a large difference in identity from coastal areas
versus mountainous areas. My mom was born in a mountain town which was isolated
from the rest of the region.
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