Sure, just don’t say the n word

This is a layered banger of a question lowkey

In college it was just me crawling to the couch to play some far cry 3 and get my brain off the hangover. This defense is strange to say the least.

to the fair, the video does show you calling the tree root the N-word

You are doing blackout drunk correctly. Also, I’m sorry about your ankle

What I also find telling about these stories about racist shit being yelled at Boston sporting events is that yes, racism exists everywhere, but it’s notable that Boston fans feel comfortable enough to shout out the N word in public without worrying that they’re going to get called out for it by the other fans around them. The racists in other big cities don’t feel comfortable enough to just let fly with that shit in a crowd of strangers, but for some reason it keeps happening in Boston.

Have you tried fall asleep? It’s almost as good as find tacos.

Phew, that’s a relief.

Every single dollar beer night this happens. It’s like a magic potion that forces them to scream N……

The big cities in the south are largely black. Most of the explicit racism I’ve heard living here is from visitors

Racism is one of those weird things where you can experience it’s so much it becomes ingrained in your everyday life to the point that you almost didn’t realize that the actions towards you were racist to start with because it’s basically just your everyday normal. 

At least with overt racists you know what you’re dealing with.

When my parents where leaving Detroit and my dad was looking for a new job they he got offers in two cities one in Boston and one in North Carolina they ultimately choose North Carolina because they were worried about raising me in a city as racist as Boston.

I also want to point out my dad grew up in Georgia and remembers a bit of Jim Crow/pre desegregation while my mom’s mom was pregnant with her while participating in the March on Washington. So it’s not like they were just overly sensitive or anything. Boston is pretty bad.

I think angry/racist drunks definitely have underlying issues

If you weren’t mean to anyone you weren’t belligerent

Apparently Mr Ringo is an educated man

Age quod agis

This is a pot and kettle situation for both statements

…ah, the season Brad Stevens ended up checking out as coach and going upstairs when Danny left.

He played 54 games that year so not “a few”

Since 16-17 (78 games) he never played 58 or more

Thats crazy boston is so bad they were calling him the N-Word from the digital fan seats

Crazy times. Everybody was getting a 10-day. I think the Celtics even signed Isaiah Thomas to a 10-day ( i might be making this one up)

Probably because you don’t associate yourself with those type of people.

I say the same thing every thread, but I’ve been to probably almost a hundred Boston sports events combined and I’ve never heard anything racist. Definitely have heard some homophobic stuff tho

Are you black? Maybe that’s why, hard to see the behavior if it isn’t directed towards you.

Are you by any chance black?  Because I’ve never met a black person who spent any appreciable amount of time in Boston and didn’t report back about the racism 

Try visiting any Southie bar after 11pm on a weekend night. Causal racism is common.

It’s surprising how many people think racism is measured by how often you hear the n word. I hear it way too much, but of course never heard it screamed.

Boston and surrounding areas treat black people like they’re criminals. It’s readily apparent to the people experiencing it, so you should ask them, but then again, we all just watched a video of a black person describing their experience yet tons of Bostonians still deny it.

It’s not directed at you, would be a lot more likely if they were getting drunk and targeting you specifically or if you’re there nightly.

Same. Been to probably 100+ Celtics game and 200+ Red Sox games and I’ve never heard anything even approaching this, so these stories always confuse me a bit. I don’t doubt them, but the way its talked about you’d think its constant.

Counterpoint I’ve visited New England like 10 times and heard this type of thing a at least 4 times out of that tiny sample set… my impression has always been that New England historically dealt with race by pretty extreme segregation. So sure as long as you hang out in your neighborhood or friend groups with 90% + white people you rarely hear/see the racism but mix the groups up, give them some alcohol and people start acting emboldened by their lack of exposure and say some racist shit “as a joke.”

That’s my experience anyways. Boston always struck me as a bit of an odd duck compared to that NYC, Philly, Baltimore, DC corridor.

Trust me when I say that most these white redditors in these types of threads do not care about solving racism in Boston just using this opportunity to taunt Boston it’s super bad faith discussion.

I learned that a long time ago as a black Bostonian…

All it is is white people calling other white people racist and bragging about how they or their city is not racist with some holier than thou attitude

Ask him how he was treated by the people where he lived

He didn’t have anyone break into his room and write racial slurs in human shit on his walls when he was on the road.

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Canada hates Tristan Thompson. As an aside, he sounds like Richard Jefferson who is from Arizona. 

I’m sure he can explain that to some Vietnamese man

Marky Mark is so lucky to have come up before the social media age lol

Those two things are not the same at all.

Literally in what way is it not true? The good people I know are still saints even when borderline blacked 

Whole bodies of evidence show this isn’t true, but go ahead, say what you feel lol

All because they didn’t want a black woman in office but the famously most racist city wanted the black woman in office

Only state in the country that never dropped a single county to Trump all 3 times he ran. Also over half of Americans live within 10 miles of where they grew up, all these people pointing their fingers at Boston as if it’s the most racist city in the country is laughable.

This whole “talking about racism leads people to be racist” thing makes exactly zero sense to me.

I don’t think the solution to racism becoming more popular is to talk about it less

I also never hear this criticism directed at conservatives, who have been racebaiting ²⁴⁄₇ since Elon bought Twitter

It’s sadly everywhere. People might not think of it but Miami and the relationship between cubans and other ethnicities hasn’t been a rosy picture either.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/fabiola-santiago/article212319679.html

hell, i don’t even live in the boonies, just a really white suburb in nj, but i still remember adults yelling slurs at us when we protested george floyd’s murder, or my classmates using the n-word or making other super racist jokes on the internet

never really been to boston but i can imagine its about as racist as like, queens in ny or nassau county