Kid answers gameshow question with racist answer : theCHIVE

Quite possibly the most unintentional example of racism ever. Still I was on the floor.

=THC=Rufio

This has nothing to do with racism or unintentional racism. Your fighting against windmills mate.

McBeastie

Well, actually it does have something to do with racism. And don't go chasing waterfalls.
JRM

Exactly. Chive has proven time and again that they have no grasp on what racism is. Knowing that yellow refers to an Asian, cracker refers to a white person, nigga refers to a black person, etc. does not make one a racist. If the little round eyed kid's response was "a slant eye" then maybe that would be racist. But if knowing a racial slur makes him racist, well, we're all racist.

Wakka Wakka

It's racism that has been instilled in every child in America. Really it would be slander, since I don't go around asking Asians if they are "yellow". I would ask them where they were born.

bobe

Yeah New Zealand!!
Sam K

His guess was as good as mine
kent

Haha stupid ignorant racist American!

Or at least that's what people would say if this kid were American.
Bob

So it's official then? Chive has completely run out of anything resembling original content?

top dog

Yep, they start early don't they? But in all truth, I don't think the kid was be a racist, he was just saying what he taught at home.
Travis

So calling me "white" is being a racist?
Commentor

Exactly … he was not being racist even; it is a term "we" use for the Chinese, we being society on occasion. It's a great point from Travis. If it was "black" the answer would be of African ethnicity. The answer was fine and I think he should complain … the kid was RIGHT.

McBeastie

No…"we" may use the term, but "we" shouldn't. And Travis had no point.
Mr. McDoobie

I think you missed the joke. Its funny because the kid who answered is ASIAN!

cantkillcastro

thats why atlanta had to rename the "yellow" line for the trains. too many asians at the end of the line complained. Now all the Asians kids get to take the "gold" train home.

john dory

unintentional my ass! i bet hes getting payback coz he's a ranga
jack

wait…..how is his answer wrong?
MiddleLane

Oddly enough in the 50's he would have been right……….
moeshere Foxdale

LOL>..
Brah

I thought the answer was jaundice. The kid's guess was better than mine.
Roberta

What exactly was the question? I'm not English-speaking and I don't understand anything except "yellow".
And, since I'm already asking, what was the correct answer? Couldn't understand that neither
Thanks!

cantkillcastro

wow, for a non English speaker you type better English than half the people on this site. The kid gave an innocent answer that those who wear their vagina's on their sleeve might think was racist, referring to "yellow" as meaning Chinese, they were looking for "cowardly" as the answer… which is what the yellow kid answered.

http://www.facebook.com/deathlesspoet Rogen Lobaton

i'm asian and i really it was awesome hahahaha
qwe

would've guessed the same if i was in the same situation
fromSpain

cowardly is the answer