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ZDL
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A friend has an eastern European neighbor move in. He says he’s glad they are that instead of American white.
Have you ever been in a gathering with just plain, white-as-in-bread Americans (especially the middle class on up, but not exclusively so)? They are boring as all fuck! They eat boring food, have boring conversations and are in general just tedious to be around when that's all that's present. (Part of this is, naturally, contempt for the familiar, but the other part is that yes they really are that boring!).
I'd much rather live in a neighbourhood that has a dozen different cultures (note: I'm not saying "races" here because "races" are nonsense) than a bunch of middle-class, white-as-in-bread Americans. So if I'm living in a neighbourhood that is mostly just plain-as-pancakes (minus the syrup) white folk, I'll celebrate an Eastern European family moving in too!
Feeling they are individually responsible for what their ancestors and/or rich and politically affluent white people did in the past.
If they genuinely feel individually responsible, that's just idiocy. The kind of idiocy that the privileged can express because there's no real cost to them, in fact.
If they are, however, just acknowledging that they have privilege based on their artificial elevation over others (c.f. "redlining") through systematic racism, and you're interpreting this as feeling individually responsible, you likely need to have an awareness adjustment.
Acting as if white people anything is bad.
This is just stupid with no qualifiers like the previous one.
Making jokes at their own expense but won’t dare say the same thing to another ethnicity.
Well fucking duh! Self-aware, self-directed humour is the high road. Punching down on someone else for their differences is the low road. (Punching up is the middle road.) I'll take it from my angle:
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German jokes: I'm half-German ethnically, and spent some of the most important formative years of my life living in Germany. When I'm making jokes about Germans, it comes from an informed position with at least a degree of sympathy for the targets of my jokes. When some American dude from the middle of Montana does the same, they come at it from a position of ignorance and stereotype that is usually a) ignorant, and b) hostile, rather than sympathetic.
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Chinese jokes: Where Americans (not of German descent, and even many who are) make German jokes have at least some cultural warrants in common, there are almost zero cultural warrants in common with Chinese people. White Americans are so incredibly ignorant of Chinese culture, society, behaviour, and beliefs that they think "Ching Chong" sounds like Chinese (protip: not even fucking close!) and they think "Confucius say" jokes¹ are a) plausibly real, and b) funny (protip: neither is true). Use either of these in my presence and you're going to get the stink-eye and a confrontation you will not enjoy. Yet ... I can tell jokes about Chinese people because, again, I'm ethnically half-Chinese, I've lived in China for almost a quarter of a century now, and my jokes will actually a) be based on knowledge, and b) be based on sympathetic sharing of values while poking fun at idiosyncrasies.
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Jokes about white folk: Here's where you're going to probably find it "unfair", but the fact is that white folk are the dominant folk in Europe and North America. All y'all's culture is everywhere, overriding everybody else's. And all y'all're the culture with the greatest proportion of money. And here's the thing: minorities punching up is fine. Indeed laudable. Every king needs his jester to prick his ego and make fun of his excesses. The jester making fun of the king is laudable and brave. The king beating down the jester is not. So like it or not, not only is it bad for white folk to be making fun of minorities, it's cowardly. And the reverse, however, is fine (and brave). I already know from the nature of your question that you're absolutely going to hate that I said that, but it's true nonetheless. Punching down is mean-spirited. Punching up is not.
¹ Consider how typical Americans would react to someone making "Yeshua ben Yusuf" jokes about Christ's purported sayings that are as offensive as these "Confucius say" jokes are. Now flip the script. Yeah. That.
No it is absolutely not theft. It is not theft by law. (There's a reason why we have both "theft" and "infringement" in the lawbooks: they're different things!) It is not theft morally. (Theft removes the owner's ability to use something. Infringement does not. Infringement is a lesser moral crime if it is a crime at all.)
Please do not fall into the trap the IP holders like to lay by equating theft and infringement in your mind. You can have your opinions on whether infringement is bad or not (and the facts are … complicated with both sides being largely full of shit on this), but it is a matter of fact that theft and infringement are entirely different things.
Use the right term for the offence. Don't let IP holders' deliberate conflation to confuse the issue get to you.
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Pick up a new language. A whole language in the course of a normal hospital stage is not really plausible, so narrow the goals. Like only learn how to swear in another language, say. Or learn how to say all the sexual acts you can think of in another language fluently.