Can Compliments be Racist?

[Frankennietzsche]

Here's a query: can honest, straight-up compliments be racist?

Or, more generally, can positive statements about a whole ethnicity/nationality, etc. be racist?

Not condescending, back-handed compliments, and not even if they are not necessarily true...

[oldsmartskunk]

Here's a query: can honest, straight-up compliments be racist?

Or, more generally, can positive statements about a whole ethnicity/nationality, etc. be racist?

Not condescending, back-handed compliments, and not even if they are not necessarily true...

World is filled with self-righteous assholes, so YES, anything you say can be racist, offensive or otherwise unacceptable.

[Frankennietzsche]

Even something like: "they're all so good at math"?

[Badfellow]

I had sex with Ertha Kitt in an airplane bathroom.

[Frankennietzsche]

How about: "They're a simple, musical people" in re.: ze Germans?

[oettinger]

How about: "They're a simple, musical people" in re.: ze Germans?

That is baffling to me but not racist. "Musical"????????
Do you mean all the shitty musicals we produce? You have every right on earth to criticize us in the utmost racist way possible for that!

Btt: I think all this reversed racism, sexism, ismism is dealing with the topic at hand and is discussed to death on the interwebs

[Frankennietzsche]

"they're all so good at math"?

This was, of course, used in reference to the Jururei Indians of Brazil.

[Badfellow]

"Your people have really great teeth".

[Frankennietzsche]

"Your people have really great teeth".

This was about the Carter's of Georgia, wasn't it?

[ThirstyDrunk]

...such lustrous backhair

[Frankennietzsche]

"Hasidic women have such beautiful singing voices." said no one ever-oh snap!

[oettinger]

I really really enjoy your cooking, where are you from?

[Frankennietzsche]

"Your people have such luxurious back hair"

[Badfellow]

"You have a very prominent nose"

[Frankennietzsche]

"You smell fragrant, like your people's food."