Is this racist...

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:...as a joke someone says: all the missing strays in our neighborhood must be getting cooked up at the local Asian place.

It's just a joke. We all know they cook dogs in Asia...

It's a joke - folks should lighten up. It's like saying dogs shouldn't bark at the Chinese food delivery man -- might be a career limiting move for the dog.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, if you feel like you have to ask if something is racist, then chances are good that it's racist.

and funny.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I ate dogs in Thailand, tasted like chicken. Not too bad really.

You are a shame to the human race.

Why? Your viewpoint is not the rest of humanity's viewpoint. How ignorant of you.

yeah, I didn't understand that comment either. I ate guinea pigs in Peru. Who cares? meat is meat. Why is a dog more important than a fish or a cow? Either be vegan or shut up.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I ate dogs in Thailand, tasted like chicken. Not too bad really.

You are a shame to the human race.

Why? Your viewpoint is not the rest of humanity's viewpoint. How ignorant of you.

yeah, I didn't understand that comment either. I ate guinea pigs in Peru. Who cares? meat is meat. Why is a dog more important than a fish or a cow? Either be vegan or shut up.

I see rabbits in my backyard and am soo tempted to catch and cook it. Yum.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This was a common joke I heard (and said) growing up in SE, DC. To be quite honest, the texture of some chicken/beef in Chinese "carryouts" is repugnant to me and doesn't seem to be chicken/beef. I steer clear of the places in low-income areas, because I think the standards are lower. In general, I find that Chinese workers in these sort of carryouts are unsanitary and gross. Once, a worker even spit on the floor while cooking.

Have you been to the Chinatown in NYC. It is one of the nastiest places I've ever had the displeasure to visit. And I love NYC. My father is from Argentina and we often visit our family there and they feel the same about the Chinese, dirty. You don't eat Chinese food thinking it will be all chicken because it probably wont.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP, if you feel like you have to ask if something is racist, then chances are good that it's racist.

+1

OP here, I didn't think the joke was racist (otherwise why would I say it?!). But someone called me racist for the joke. Maybe they got it after I explained it's a real phenomenon. Of course they could have also just thought the same of me. I won't be making that joke again. Unless of course someone does determine one of the local places is in fact cooking up the cats.

DNA tests for Chinese food! Could blow open a new scandal like the horse meat one...

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This was a common joke I heard (and said) growing up in SE, DC. To be quite honest, the texture of some chicken/beef in Chinese "carryouts" is repugnant to me and doesn't seem to be chicken/beef. I steer clear of the places in low-income areas, because I think the standards are lower. In general, I find that Chinese workers in these sort of carryouts are unsanitary and gross. Once, a worker even spit on the floor while cooking.

Have you been to the Chinatown in NYC. It is one of the nastiest places I've ever had the displeasure to visit. And I love NYC. My father is from Argentina and we often visit our family there and they feel the same about the Chinese, dirty. You don't eat Chinese food thinking it will be all chicken because it probably wont.

While I don't want to condemn all Chinese people, the ones who work in food service are usually horrid. I would NEVER eat from a Chinese carryout in New York.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This was a common joke I heard (and said) growing up in SE, DC. To be quite honest, the texture of some chicken/beef in Chinese "carryouts" is repugnant to me and doesn't seem to be chicken/beef. I steer clear of the places in low-income areas, because I think the standards are lower. In general, I find that Chinese workers in these sort of carryouts are unsanitary and gross. Once, a worker even spit on the floor while cooking.

Have you been to the Chinatown in NYC. It is one of the nastiest places I've ever had the displeasure to visit. And I love NYC. My father is from Argentina and we often visit our family there and they feel the same about the Chinese, dirty. You don't eat Chinese food thinking it will be all chicken because it probably wont.

While I don't want to condemn all Chinese people, the ones who work in food service are usually horrid. I would NEVER eat from a Chinese carryout in New York.

Lord! Now I will never be able to go to a Chinese restaurant without thinking about this.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm OP and I've lived in several parts of Asia since I was born. I made the joke and was called a racist. It's a well known fact where I lived that people ate dogs and cats. Totally off-limits topic in the US, clearly. I didn't specify a nationality because several nationalities (Korean, Chinese, Vietnamese, etc) eat strays.

Sad, sad, I had no idea that people in Asia eat dogs. I knew about horses but not dogs. It's awful. To answer your question: I have no idea if it's racist????

Of course they had to eat cats and dogs. And anything else that moved. Do you have any idea how many people died under Mao during the Cultural Revolution? From starvation? More than Stalin killed and more than Hitler killed. Good Lord. Take a history lesson. When I lived in China in 1979 there was no living or most beast including pests because everything had been eaten or killed off by pesticides.

Sure, are all Asians starving right now? They are still eating those poor cats and dogs. It seems like it's a delicatessen.

Still starving in N. Korea, now, read "The Orphan Master's Son". It's fiction, but the author was one of the few that got in to N. Korea.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm OP and I've lived in several parts of Asia since I was born. I made the joke and was called a racist. It's a well known fact where I lived that people ate dogs and cats. Totally off-limits topic in the US, clearly. I didn't specify a nationality because several nationalities (Korean, Chinese, Vietnamese, etc) eat strays.

Sad, sad, I had no idea that people in Asia eat dogs. I knew about horses but not dogs. It's awful. To answer your question: I have no idea if it's racist????

Of course they had to eat cats and dogs. And anything else that moved. Do you have any idea how many people died under Mao during the Cultural Revolution? From starvation? More than Stalin killed and more than Hitler killed. Good Lord. Take a history lesson. When I lived in China in 1979 there was no living or most beast including pests because everything had been eaten or killed off by pesticides.

Sure, are all Asians starving right now? They are still eating those poor cats and dogs. It seems like it's a delicatessen.

Still starving in N. Korea, now, read "The Orphan Master's Son". It's fiction, but the author was one of the few that got in to N. Korea.

There are pockets within an Asian country that are starving. Not all of China is seeing a boom. And the Philippines is still a very poor country. There are probably others, too.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I ate dogs in Thailand, tasted like chicken. Not too bad really.

You are a shame to the human race.

Why? Your viewpoint is not the rest of humanity's viewpoint. How ignorant of you.

yeah, I didn't understand that comment either. I ate guinea pigs in Peru. Who cares? meat is meat. Why is a dog more important than a fish or a cow? Either be vegan or shut up.

+1

Some people find eating pork to be disgusting, others beef, others shellfish. Your worldview is not global, it only colors you.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I ate dogs in Thailand, tasted like chicken. Not too bad really.

You are a shame to the human race.

Why? Your viewpoint is not the rest of humanity's viewpoint. How ignorant of you.

yeah, I didn't understand that comment either. I ate guinea pigs in Peru. Who cares? meat is meat. Why is a dog more important than a fish or a cow? Either be vegan or shut up.

You can't compare a dog or cat to a cow!!! I am vegetarian and make the difference. Eating guinea pigs, rabbits or squirrels is different from eating a DOG!
Leave the dogs alone!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I ate dogs in Thailand, tasted like chicken. Not too bad really.

You are a shame to the human race.

Why? Your viewpoint is not the rest of humanity's viewpoint. How ignorant of you.

yeah, I didn't understand that comment either. I ate guinea pigs in Peru. Who cares? meat is meat. Why is a dog more important than a fish or a cow? Either be vegan or shut up.

You can't compare a dog or cat to a cow!!! I am vegetarian and make the difference. Eating guinea pigs, rabbits or squirrels is different from eating a DOG!
Leave the dogs alone!

Why is it different? Why does the practices of the US=civility, while we label others who do things differently as barbaric and inhumane?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm OP and I've lived in several parts of Asia since I was born. I made the joke and was called a racist. It's a well known fact where I lived that people ate dogs and cats. Totally off-limits topic in the US, clearly. I didn't specify a nationality because several nationalities (Korean, Chinese, Vietnamese, etc) eat strays.

Sad, sad, I had no idea that people in Asia eat dogs. I knew about horses but not dogs. It's awful. To answer your question: I have no idea if it's racist????

Of course they had to eat cats and dogs. And anything else that moved. Do you have any idea how many people died under Mao during the Cultural Revolution? From starvation? More than Stalin killed and more than Hitler killed. Good Lord. Take a history lesson. When I lived in China in 1979 there was no living or most beast including pests because everything had been eaten or killed off by pesticides.

Sure, are all Asians starving right now? They are still eating those poor cats and dogs. It seems like it's a delicatessen.

Still starving in N. Korea, now, read "The Orphan Master's Son". It's fiction, but the author was one of the few that got in to N. Korea.

So it's ok to start eating dogs and rats? Next step is cannibalism?

There are pockets within an Asian country that are starving. Not all of China is seeing a boom. And the Philippines is still a very poor country. There are probably others, too.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm OP and I've lived in several parts of Asia since I was born. I made the joke and was called a racist. It's a well known fact where I lived that people ate dogs and cats. Totally off-limits topic in the US, clearly. I didn't specify a nationality because several nationalities (Korean, Chinese, Vietnamese, etc) eat strays.

Sad, sad, I had no idea that people in Asia eat dogs. I knew about horses but not dogs. It's awful. To answer your question: I have no idea if it's racist????

Of course they had to eat cats and dogs. And anything else that moved. Do you have any idea how many people died under Mao during the Cultural Revolution? From starvation? More than Stalin killed and more than Hitler killed. Good Lord. Take a history lesson. When I lived in China in 1979 there was no living or most beast including pests because everything had been eaten or killed off by pesticides.

Sure, are all Asians starving right now? They are still eating those poor cats and dogs. It seems like it's a delicatessen.

Still starving in N. Korea, now, read "The Orphan Master's Son". It's fiction, but the author was one of the few that got in to N. Korea.

So it's ok to start eating dogs and rats? Next step is cannibalism?

There are pockets within an Asian country that are starving. Not all of China is seeing a boom. And the Philippines is still a very poor country. There are probably others, too.

I didn't know dogs were that close in the evolutionary chain to humans. I always that monkeys were closer. How do you leap from dogs to humans? Because you are a dog-lover? But other people aren't. No one said we should start eating dogs/rats/cats here. But to judge people from other countries where that could be their only source of protein is pretty ignorant.