Is this post racially insensitive?

[Хahar 🤔]

My roommate and I are pretty much polar opposites (he’s a gangsta-type jock from some hood in Charleston, SC whereas I’m the quiet, spiritual type with pictures of Jesus all over my part of the dorm), but we get along great and trust each other, so I really can’t complain (even though I do get annoyed when I hear the n-word being used in every sentence when he has his buddies over).

[PiMp DaDdy FitzGerald]

lol (Yes)

[Ban my account ffs!]

Yes.

Classic white guy being insensitive by trying too hard.

[angus]

no, since he never said that the roomie was articulate.

[Ban my account ffs!]

If xahar were my roommate:

...while my roommate is a little brown munchkin who smells like cloves and burnt rice and was probably born with a mustache.  

WHAT!? HE JUST HAPPENS TO BE BENGALI I AM JUST DESCRIBING HIS PERSONALITY NOT HIS RACE

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

I'm more disturbed by Scott's walls being Jesus-land.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

I didn't catch that his roommate was black the first time I read that. Plenty of gangsta white jocks in the South that like to use the n-word.

[memphis]

I'm more disturbed by Scott's walls being Jesus-land.

^^^^^
Not really insensitive, though the Odd Couple dynamic has to be hilarious. If roomie acts ghetto, how is one to express this without saying it? Or are we supposed to just pretend like we don't notice for fear of offending the white people on Atlas Forum?

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Yes, and he should have quit while he was only behind a little.

[Miles]

No; I would have finessed the wording a bit, but I've seen much worse.

[Goldwater]

Why would anyone even bother being offended by that post? Surely they would have better things they could be spending their time doing?

[Lief 🗽]

Surely they would have better things they could be spending their time doing?

dude you've made over eight thousand posts on an internet forum

[Goldwater]

Surely they would have better things they could be spending their time doing?

dude you've made over eight thousand posts on an internet forum

And exactly how many of those posts were spent complaining about how offended I was at someone's harmless post?

[Sopranos Republican]

I'd put it in the Comedy Goldmine as: "White Boy of the Month" before I'd label it offensive.

But yes.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Surely they would have better things they could be spending their time doing?

dude you've made over eight thousand posts on an internet forum

You've made 32,000.

[Lief 🗽]

Surely they would have better things they could be spending their time doing?

dude you've made over eight thousand posts on an internet forum

You've made 32,000.

well yeah but I don't go around criticizing how other people spend their time, now do I?

[Frodo]

Not really -though I am (apparently) not the type who gets offended easily. 

[Paul Kemp]

Scott, how was your roommate selected? Was there a questionnaire?

[ilikeverin]

Yes.  But I have faith that his time in college will help him to see it eventually

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

In other news, I keep reading the partial thread title as "Is this post-racially..." and thinking it's a different thread about our post-racial world.

[Antonio the Sixth]

It most definitely is, yes - though I'm sure Scott didn't intend it to be.

[dead0man]

Only to the types that find racial insensitivity everywhere.

[afleitch]

No. He was so overcautious in trying not to be insensitive, that he in fact was. We all do it.

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

I'd put it in the Comedy Goldmine as: "White Boy of the Month" before I'd label it offensive.

But yes.

This

[Torie]

Since they know each other and get along, not really. Sure, it could have been more "diplomatically" phrased.