Originally posted by PhlabibitWhy then did the advertisers or the director of the commercial deem it important?
I've used the term black here at RHP, this isn't my point. I'm suspicious of the intent of the poster. At Youtube, the comments are rather racist and I wonder if that is the reason this user decided to post this thread.
Also, the youtube title is just Gary Kasparov.
This user has decided the child's color is somehow important to this thread, and I'm not sure why.
That is all.
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Originally posted by PhlabibitI'll admit that the title is a bit misleading (beats "up"...?) I thought it would be a vid of kasparov getting socked in the face 😕
I've used the term black here at RHP, this isn't my point. I'm suspicious of the intent of the poster. At Youtube, the comments are rather racist and I wonder if that is the reason this user decided to post this thread.
Also, the youtube title is just Gary Kasparov.
This user has decided the child's color is somehow important to this thread, and I'm not sure why.
That is all.
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But assuming that we strike the word "up", the title "little black kid beats Kasparov" seems harmless to me. And to say that if it was an asian it would be "little yellow kid" is ridiculous. African Americans are referred to as "black" with no derogatory meaning. Calling asians "yellow" however, is...actually I don't find it any more degrading 😕 (probably because I live in an all asian neighborhood and the term is used jokingly all the time where I live...) Now if the title was "little N-word kid beats Kasparov" then we'd have a problem.
and for the record, most all comments made on youtube are stupid in some way
Originally posted by YUG0slavUm, not sure why you find this term so strange... I'm 1/8 American Indian, I live about 10 minutes from a reservation... and I can also drive to the casino in about 30 minutes in the next state over. For some reason they can't get one in my state. I am not part of the tribe, I come from French American Indian through my grandfather on my mother's side.
Who actually says "American Indian"?
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It's not in any way racist to refer to the child as a black boy.
Presuming, of course, that if the kid in the commercial was white, the OP would have pointed that out in the thread title also.
I'm sure he would have, right?
By the way, even if the answer is no (which it probably is, I think we can all admit), it doesn't make the OP a racist. It just shows a sort of in-group bias (i.e., the child is referred to as black because that's not the 'norm', which would be white).
i think the word "black" was used in the title because, at least in America, nearly all youth chess players are white...duh!
and its youtube...what do you guys expect, compliments? all comments on youtube are derogatory, get used to it.
and black is completely PC because african americans refer to themselves as black all the time, i have yet to meet one person who finds it offensive.
lets not freak out guys
Originally posted by PhlabibitMust be a west coast thing I'm used to? We also have a bunch of Indians (the ones that are really from India) and it's easier to make jokes comparing the two ethnicities by just calling them both "Indians"
Um, not sure why you find this term so strange... I'm 1/8 American Indian, I live about 10 minutes from a reservation... and I can also drive to the casino in about 30 minutes in the next state over. For some reason they can't get one in my state. I am not part of the tribe, I come from French American Indian through my grandfather on my mother's side.
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Originally posted by PhlabibitThen why is the kid the only black person in the entire room?
What makes you think they did? Perhaps they ran a contest, or drew names from a hat and that was the kid.
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The advertisers seemed to try to include a racial message, even a very subtle one
Hey, it might be encouraging black kids to play chess. Nothing's wrong with that!